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
- Chart updated: 06/02/2024 15:45
- (Created: 04/08/2017 20:23).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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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]
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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26,114
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"She'll be the first, she'll be the last / To describe the way I feel"
Favorite tracks: "I Wanna Be Adored", "She Bangs the Drums", "Waterfall", "Made of Stone", "I Am The Resurrection" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Favorite tracks: "I Wanna Be Adored", "She Bangs the Drums", "Waterfall", "Made of Stone", "I Am The Resurrection" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1989
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23,122
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"The world moves on a woman's hips / The world moves, and it swivels and bops"
I've never had a change of heart so radical for an album as I had with Remain In Light. First time I heard it like 2 years I ago I hated it and couldn't understand why so many people loved it. I tried listening to it again and I can't believe it's one of my favorite albums ever. It's a masterpiece and I'm seriously debating if to give this a 100 or not and break my 'One 100 per decade'.
Favorite tracks: "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)", "Crosseyed and Painless", "The Great Curve", "Once In A Lifetime", "Houses In Motion", "Listening Wind" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
I've never had a change of heart so radical for an album as I had with Remain In Light. First time I heard it like 2 years I ago I hated it and couldn't understand why so many people loved it. I tried listening to it again and I can't believe it's one of my favorite albums ever. It's a masterpiece and I'm seriously debating if to give this a 100 or not and break my 'One 100 per decade'.
Favorite tracks: "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)", "Crosseyed and Painless", "The Great Curve", "Once In A Lifetime", "Houses In Motion", "Listening Wind" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1980
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27,627
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"Existence well what does it matter? / I exist on the best terms I can"
Favorite tracks: "Isolation", "Heart and Soul", "Twenty Four Hours", "The Eternal", "Decades" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Favorite tracks: "Isolation", "Heart and Soul", "Twenty Four Hours", "The Eternal", "Decades" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1980
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15,216
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"To die by your side, it's such a heavenly way to die"
Favorite tracks: "The Queen Is Dead", "Bigmouth Strikes Again", "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side", "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Favorite tracks: "The Queen Is Dead", "Bigmouth Strikes Again", "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side", "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1986
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34,040
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Favoritas: "Nos siguen pegando abajo", "Nuevos trapos", "Los dinosaurios", "Ojos de videotape"
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2023]
Year of Release:
1983
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2,108
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"Bolts from above hurt the people down below / People in this world, we have no place to go"
New Order's best material was released throughout their carreer as mainly singles that didn't make it into albums. That's why I'm counting this as this band's best record. And I'm only really counting the LP 12 song version (although the second disc features some great b-sides such as "Procession" and "1963").
Favorite tracks: "Ceremony", "Temptation", "Blue Monday", "Thieves Like Us", "True Faith" [First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
New Order's best material was released throughout their carreer as mainly singles that didn't make it into albums. That's why I'm counting this as this band's best record. And I'm only really counting the LP 12 song version (although the second disc features some great b-sides such as "Procession" and "1963").
Favorite tracks: "Ceremony", "Temptation", "Blue Monday", "Thieves Like Us", "True Faith" [First added to this chart: 07/08/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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2,856
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[First added to this chart: 11/20/2023]
Year of Release:
1982
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6,314
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Favorite tracks: "The Rainbow", "Eden"
[First added to this chart: 09/02/2018]
Year of Release:
1988
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10,246
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Favorite tracks: "Tom Sawyer", "Red Barchetta", "YYZ", "Limelight", "The Camera Eye"
[First added to this chart: 09/29/2018]
Year of Release:
1981
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8,917
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 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% |
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| 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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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 2 from 14th to 12th Kamikaze by Luis Alberto Spinetta |
| Up 1 from 18th to 17th Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson |
| Up 1 from 17th to 16th Substance by Joy Division |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 6 from 12th to 18th Time by Electric Light Orchestra |
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