Top 16 Music Albums of 1985 by 
Onater 
My Top 10 songs of 1985:
10. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Descent Into The Inferno (Nail)
9. The Replacements - Bastards Of Young (Tim)
8. Tom Waits - Clap Hands (Rain Dogs_
7. Tom Waits - Hang Down Your Head (Rain Dogs)
6. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (Hounds Of Love)
5. Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Songs From The Big Chair)
4. The Smiths - Asleep (Single)
3. Tom Waits - Downtown Train (Rain Dogs)
2. Tom Waits - Anywhere I Lay My Head (Rain Dogs)
1. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (Hounds Of Love)
- Chart updated: 06/15/2019 23:15
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:47).
- Chart size: 16 albums.
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"And all the rooms, they smell like diesel, you take on the dreams of the ones who have slept there."
Favourite Tracks: Anywhere I Lay My Head, Downtown Train, Hang Down Your Head, Clap Hands, Tango 'Til They're Sore, Singapore [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Anywhere I Lay My Head, Downtown Train, Hang Down Your Head, Clap Hands, Tango 'Til They're Sore, Singapore [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
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1985
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"But every time it rains, you're here in my head."
Favourite Tracks: Cloudbusting, Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), Hello Earth, Waking The Witch, Hounds Of Love [First added to this chart: 09/04/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Cloudbusting, Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), Hello Earth, Waking The Witch, Hounds Of Love [First added to this chart: 09/04/2017]
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1985
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19,249
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"When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne, and you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone, Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid, and you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids."
Favourite Tracks: The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn, Sally MacLenanne, A Pair Of Brown Eyes, Dirty Old Town, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda [First added to this chart: 06/09/2018]
Favourite Tracks: The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn, Sally MacLenanne, A Pair Of Brown Eyes, Dirty Old Town, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda [First added to this chart: 06/09/2018]
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1985
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2,981
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"Kneeling alongside old Sad Eyes, he says, opportunity knocks once, then the door slams shut. All I know is I'm sick of everything that my money can buy, the fool who wastes his life, God rest his guts."
Favourite Tracks: Bastards Of Young, Here Comes A Regular, Left Of The Dial, Swingin Party, Hold My Life [First added to this chart: 11/24/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Bastards Of Young, Here Comes A Regular, Left Of The Dial, Swingin Party, Hold My Life [First added to this chart: 11/24/2017]
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1985
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4,043
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"I recognize thee Satan, and I spit in thine face. Whatever happened to the human race?"
Makes me want to build a secret lair inside a volcano with my lovably quirky yet incompetent henchmen and sinisterly stroke my goatee while plotting the construction of my super laser to destroy the moon.
Favourite Tracks: Descent Into The Inferno, The Throne Of Agony, Anything (Viva) [First added to this chart: 11/04/2018]
Makes me want to build a secret lair inside a volcano with my lovably quirky yet incompetent henchmen and sinisterly stroke my goatee while plotting the construction of my super laser to destroy the moon.
Favourite Tracks: Descent Into The Inferno, The Throne Of Agony, Anything (Viva) [First added to this chart: 11/04/2018]
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1985
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698
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"An der stelle meiner seele, meine seele brennt."
Favourite Tracks: Seele brennt, Yü-Gung (Fütter mein Ego), Z.N.S. [First added to this chart: 01/22/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Seele brennt, Yü-Gung (Fütter mein Ego), Z.N.S. [First added to this chart: 01/22/2019]
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1985
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565
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"Help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever."
Favourite Tracks: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Shout, Head Over Heels, The Working Hour [First added to this chart: 10/28/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Shout, Head Over Heels, The Working Hour [First added to this chart: 10/28/2018]
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1985
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5,359
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"I've seen this happen in other people's lives, and now it's happening in mine."
Favourite Tracks: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Well I Wonder, I Want The One I Can't Have, Barbarism Begins At Home, Meat Is Murder [First added to this chart: 05/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Well I Wonder, I Want The One I Can't Have, Barbarism Begins At Home, Meat Is Murder [First added to this chart: 05/07/2017]
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1985
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"You can tell yourself you're dreaming, buddy, but no sleep runs this deep."
Favourite Tracks: Tupelo, Knockin' On Joe, Say Goodbye To The Little Tree Girl [First added to this chart: 12/26/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Tupelo, Knockin' On Joe, Say Goodbye To The Little Tree Girl [First added to this chart: 12/26/2017]
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1985
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420
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"All those whose mind entitles themselves, and whose main entitle is themselves, shall feel the wrath of my bombast!"
Favourite Tracks: I Am Damo Suzuki, Barmy, Bombast, L.A. [First added to this chart: 06/23/2018]
Favourite Tracks: I Am Damo Suzuki, Barmy, Bombast, L.A. [First added to this chart: 06/23/2018]
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1985
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Top 16 Music Albums of 1985 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Einstürzende Neubauten | 1 | 6% | |
| Tears For Fears | 1 | 6% | |
| The Smiths | 1 | 6% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 1 | 6% | |
| The Fall | 1 | 6% | |
| R.E.M. | 1 | 6% | |
| Tom Waits | 1 | 6% | |
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