Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s by lleon79

Favorite songs from the 80's:

1. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
2. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
3. Blue Monday - New Order
4. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
5. Pictures of You - The Cure
6. Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
7. Temptation - New Order
8. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
9. Take On Me - a-ha
10. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
11. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
12. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth
13. Where Is My Mind? - Pixies
14. I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses

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"I'll never lose this pain / Never dream of you again"

Favorite tracks: "Plainsong", "Pictures of You", "Lovesong", "Lullaby", "Fascination Street", "Disintegration", "Untitled"
[First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1989
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26,829
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"Two pale figures ache in silence / Timeless in the quiet ground"

Favorite tracks: "The Holy Hour", "All Cats Are Grey", "The Funeral Party", "The Drowning Man", "Faith"
[First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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2,127
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"Your trust the most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world"

Favorite tracks: "Inbetween Days", "Push", "Close to Me", "A Night Like This", "Sinking"
[First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
Year of Release:
1985
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4,551
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"Your name like ice into my heart"

Favorite tracks: "One Hundred Years", "The Hanging Garden", "A Strange Day", "Cold"
[First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
Year of Release:
1982
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5,986
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Favorite tracks: "Catch", "Why Can't I Be You?", "Just Like Heaven", "All I Want", "Hot Hot Hot!!!" [First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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2,718
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[First added to this chart: 07/10/2017]
Year of Release:
1980
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2,723
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[First added to this chart: 07/08/2023]
Year of Release:
1983
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344
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[First added to this chart: 07/10/2017]
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1984
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333
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s composition

Year Albums %


1980 10 10%
1981 11 11%
1982 7 7%
1983 13 13%
1984 10 10%
1985 8 8%
1986 10 10%
1987 11 11%
1988 10 10%
1989 10 10%
Artist Albums %


The Cure 8 8%
New Order 6 6%
David Bowie 5 5%
Charly García 5 5%
Bauhaus 4 4%
The Smiths 4 4%
Soda Stereo 4 4%
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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 51 51%
Argentina 20 20%
United States 20 20%
Mexico 2 2%
Mixed Nationality 2 2%
Germany 2 2%
Australia 1 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 95 95%
Yes 5 5%
Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%

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