Top 15 Music Albums of 1981 by Onater

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).
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Deceit 

 This Heat

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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]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

255 charts

Rank Score:

1,924

Rank in 1981:

10

Rank in 1980s:

140

Overall Rank:

909

Average Rating:

 78 (258 votes)

Comments:

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The World As It Is Today 

 Art Bears

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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

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

19 charts

Rank Score:

51

Rank in 1981:

291

Rank in 1980s:

2,676

Overall Rank:

20,095

Average Rating:

 75 (18 votes)

Comments:

1

3. (2) 1

Penis Envy 

 Crass

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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]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

40 charts

Rank Score:

124

Rank in 1981:

157

Rank in 1980s:

1,406

Overall Rank:

9,585

Average Rating:

 69 (50 votes)

Comments:

1

4. (6) 2

Signals, Calls, And Marches 

 Mission Of Burma

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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]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

119 charts

Rank Score:

633

Rank in 1981:

43

Rank in 1980s:

382

Overall Rank:

2,499

Average Rating:

 77 (144 votes)

Comments:

4

5. (3) 2

Computerwelt 

 Kraftwerk

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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]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

480 charts

Rank Score:

3,560

Rank in 1981:

2

Rank in 1980s:

72

Overall Rank:

492

Average Rating:

 80 (541 votes)

Comments:

33

6. (7) 1

Discipline 

 King Crimson

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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]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

443 charts

Rank Score:

3,121

Rank in 1981:

3

Rank in 1980s:

86

Overall Rank:

563

Average Rating:

 80 (611 votes)

Comments:

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7. (4) 3

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret 

 Soft Cell

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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]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

199 charts

Rank Score:

916

Rank in 1981:

24

Rank in 1980s:

287

Overall Rank:

1,840

Average Rating:

 74 (199 votes)

Comments:

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Youth Of America 

 Wipers

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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]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

253 charts

Rank Score:

1,830

Rank in 1981:

12

Rank in 1980s:

148

Overall Rank:

969

Average Rating:

 81 (240 votes)

Comments:

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9. (8) 1

The Ascension 

 Glenn Branca

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Favourite Tracks: The Spectacular Commodity, Light Field (In Consonance), The Ascension [First added to this chart: 02/16/2018]

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

210 charts

Rank Score:

1,608

Rank in 1981:

15

Rank in 1980s:

170

Overall Rank:

1,092

Average Rating:

 79 (208 votes)

Comments:

14

10.

Still 

 Joy Division

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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

Year of Release:

1981

Appears in:

96 charts

Rank Score:

415

Rank in 1981:

63

Rank in 1980s:

540

Overall Rank:

3,545

Average Rating:

 77 (159 votes)

Comments:

5

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Top 15 Music Albums of 1981 composition

Artist	Albums	%
Mission Of Burma	1	7%
Iron Maiden	1	7%
Kraftwerk	1	7%
King Crimson	1	7%
Soft Cell	1	7%
Wipers	1	7%
Glenn Branca	1	7%
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Country	Albums	%
	7	47%
	4	27%
	2	13%
	1	7%
	1	7%

Top 15 Music Albums of 1981 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 2 from 6th to 4th Signals, 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
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
The World As It Is Today by Art Bears
Still by Joy Division

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