Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s by Purplepash

My favourite decade of music is 86-95 so the last half of this decade dominates this chart

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Surfer Rosa 

 Pixies

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"With your feet in the air and your head on the ground"

My desert island disc. If I had only one album I could listen to ever again I would choose this. After over 25 years of listening to this album I still regularly play it and love it every time with no sign of ever tiring of it. My favourite band ever...I even have a Pixies tattoo.
Vamos is my beloved track, closely followed by Where Is My Mind?. Gigantic is a classic, Cactus is a favourite, and the 1-2 punch of Bone Machine and Break My Body is an awesome start to the album. [First added to this chart: 06/04/2017]

Year of Release:

1988

Appears in:

1,289 charts

Rank Score:

13,558

Rank in 1988:

2

Rank in 1980s:

12

Overall Rank:

98

Average Rating:

 85 (1,822 votes)

Comments:

112

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Doolittle 

 Pixies

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"Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girlie so groovy
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia"

Quality album from beginning to end. I remember the summer of 89/90 my mate copied this album and Surfer Rosa on each side of a tape. I hardly listened to anything else that summer and played to everyone who would listen.

10/10"songs: A third of the album! Hey, Debaser, Wave of Mutilation, Tame, and Monkey Gone To Heaven [First added to this chart: 06/04/2017]

Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

2,491 charts

Rank Score:

37,451

Rank in 1989:

1

Rank in 1980s:

2

Overall Rank:

18

Average Rating:

 88 (2,870 votes)

Comments:

289

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Come On Pilgrim 

 Pixies

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[First added to this chart: 08/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

297 charts

Rank Score:

2,105

Rank in 1987:

16

Rank in 1980s:

131

Overall Rank:

846

Average Rating:

 80 (540 votes)

Comments:

21

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Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim 
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[First added to this chart: 08/18/2018]

Year of Release:

1988

Appears in:

91 charts

Rank Score:

998

Rank in 1988:

27

Rank in 1980s:

264

Overall Rank:

1,703

Average Rating:

 84 (309 votes)

Comments:

10

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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s composition

Year	Albums	%
1980	10	10%
1981	5	5%
1982	3	3%
1983	6	6%
1984	9	9%
1985	6	6%
1986	17	17%
1987	15	15%
1988	19	19%
1989	10	10%

Artist	Albums	%
The Smiths	8	8%
The Cure	4	4%
Pixies	4	4%
R.E.M.	3	3%
Dead Kennedys	3	3%
The Birthday Party	3	3%
Spacemen 3	3	3%
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Country	Albums	%
	50	50%
	40	40%
	5	5%
	4	4%
	1	1%

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