Top 15 Music Albums of 1981 by 
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My Top 10 songs of 1981:
10. This Heat - Paper Hats (Deceit)
9. This Heat - Sleep (Deceit)
8. Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)
7. This Heat - Makeshift Swahili (Deceit)
6. Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver (Signals, Calls, And Marches)
5. Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)
4. Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Single)
3. Kraftwerk - Computer Love (Computer World)
2. The Specials - Ghost Town (Single)
1. New Order - Ceremony (Single)
- Chart updated: 04/13/2020 21:15
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:42).
- Chart size: 15 albums.
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"She says you're only as good as the words you understand, and you, you don't understand a word."
Favourite Tracks: Makeshift Swahili, Sleep, Paper Hats, A New Kind Of Water [First added to this chart: 09/30/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Makeshift Swahili, Sleep, Paper Hats, A New Kind Of Water [First added to this chart: 09/30/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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Rank Score:
1,958
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"And I shook at my bench, and I cried and I cried, and my hands went on working, and the work hurried by."
Favourite Tracks: Freedom, The Song of Investment Capital Overseas, Democracy, The Song of the Martyrs
Favourite Tracks: Freedom, The Song of Investment Capital Overseas, Democracy, The Song of the Martyrs
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"Poor little fucker, poor little kid, never asked for life, no, she never did, poor little baby, poor little mite crying out for food as her parents fight."
Favourite Tracks: Berkertex Bribe, Bata Motel, Poison in a Pretty Pill, Systemic Death [First added to this chart: 04/13/2020]
Favourite Tracks: Berkertex Bribe, Bata Motel, Poison in a Pretty Pill, Systemic Death [First added to this chart: 04/13/2020]
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"A friend of mine once told me his one and only aim, to build a giant castle and live inside his name."
Favourite Tracks: That's When I Reach For My Revolver, Fame And Fortune, All World Cowboy Romance [First added to this chart: 03/23/2018]
Favourite Tracks: That's When I Reach For My Revolver, Fame And Fortune, All World Cowboy Romance [First added to this chart: 03/23/2018]
Year of Release:
1981
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Rank Score:
637
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"Another lonely night, another lonely night. Stare at the TV screen, stare at the TV screen."
Favourite Tracks: Computer Love, Computer World [First added to this chart: 11/19/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Computer Love, Computer World [First added to this chart: 11/19/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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Rank Score:
3,473
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"Talk, it's only talk. Arguments, agreements, advice, answers articulate announcements. It's only talk."
Favourite Tracks: Frame By Frame, Elephant Talk, Indiscipline [First added to this chart: 04/01/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Frame By Frame, Elephant Talk, Indiscipline [First added to this chart: 04/01/2018]
Year of Release:
1981
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3,233
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"I'm so tired of endless art, love stories, I'm beginning to not give a damn, I wish I could reach right out for the untouchable, film starring Bruce, John Wayne, Elvis Presley, experiment with cocaine, LSD and set a bad bad example."
Favourite Tracks: Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Frustration, Tainted Love, Sex Dwarf [First added to this chart: 06/15/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Frustration, Tainted Love, Sex Dwarf [First added to this chart: 06/15/2019]
Year of Release:
1981
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Rank Score:
880
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"Take a piece of our lives? Didn't think that we would care?"
Favourite Tracks: When It's Over, Youth Of America, No Fair [First added to this chart: 09/30/2017]
Favourite Tracks: When It's Over, Youth Of America, No Fair [First added to this chart: 09/30/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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1,915
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Favourite Tracks: The Spectacular Commodity, Light Field (In Consonance), The Ascension
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Year of Release:
1981
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1,659
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"I'll break them down, no mercy shown, heaven knows, it's got to be this time."
Favourite Tracks: Ceremony, Disorder, Dead Souls, Exercise One, The Only Mistake
Favourite Tracks: Ceremony, Disorder, Dead Souls, Exercise One, The Only Mistake
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Top 15 Music Albums of 1981 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| King Crimson | 1 | 7% | |
| Soft Cell | 1 | 7% | |
| Wipers | 1 | 7% | |
| Glenn Branca | 1 | 7% | |
| Joy Division | 1 | 7% | |
| Black Flag | 1 | 7% | |
| This Heat | 1 | 7% | |
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Top 15 Music Albums of 1981 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
 Up 2 from 6th to 4thSignals, Calls, And Marches by Mission Of Burma |
| Up 1 from 12th to 11th Damaged by Black Flag |
| Up 1 from 7th to 6th Discipline by King Crimson |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 4 from 10th to 14th Moving Pictures by Rush |
| Down 3 from 4th to 7th Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret by Soft Cell |
| Down 3 from 5th to 8th Youth Of America by Wipers |
| New entries |
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 The World As It Is Todayby Art Bears |
| Still by Joy Division |
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