Top 100 Music Albums of 1980
by 
Repo 
Films
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1. Ordinary People
2. The Long Good Friday
3. Friday The 13th
Punk EPS
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1. The Vopo's - The Vopo's
2. Vice Squad - Last rockers
3. Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain
4. Minutemen - Paranoid Time
5. Black Flag - Jealous Again
6. The Misfits - Beware
6. Mars - EP
- Chart updated: 03/24/2025 00:15
- (Created: 06/21/2018 16:43).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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'80:9 Heatlemania
Aka What If
Then we played like 10 of our own songs and people didn’t know the difference. We all just looked at each other, and go, ‘[Forget] this, we’re gonna do our own songs. I think this is gonna work.’” - Ken Deans, drummer of The Heats
The Setting: It all started at a school dance. They were just going to play some basic rock covers. BUT, they got that itch... "What if?", they thought. So they played one original. And then another. And the teens couldn’t get enough. After a cover story in the local rag, Heatlemania unofficially broke out across Seattle and The Heaters, as they were then called, became the hottest band in town.
But, “We [weren’t] punk enough for the punk crowd, and we [weren’t] pop enough for the Top 40 crowd,” states drummer Ken Deans. Not able to score a major recording contract they were stuck as a regional wonder kind. And a different "What If?" emerged. “What if” they had been based in LA, New York, or London? Could they have competed with the big boys?
The Listen: You had better believe it! These boys could play. Simply one of the best power pop albums of the 80s, this is a true and blue lost classic. If you dig early Beatles, The Posies, and The Figgs, you may just fall in love all over again.
The Verdict. Don’t you just love hidden gems? Sure it’s a little dusty, but give it a spit & shine and a chance, and this little record will make you dance!
Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil [First added to this chart: 05/28/2021]
Aka What If
Then we played like 10 of our own songs and people didn’t know the difference. We all just looked at each other, and go, ‘[Forget] this, we’re gonna do our own songs. I think this is gonna work.’” - Ken Deans, drummer of The Heats
The Setting: It all started at a school dance. They were just going to play some basic rock covers. BUT, they got that itch... "What if?", they thought. So they played one original. And then another. And the teens couldn’t get enough. After a cover story in the local rag, Heatlemania unofficially broke out across Seattle and The Heaters, as they were then called, became the hottest band in town.
But, “We [weren’t] punk enough for the punk crowd, and we [weren’t] pop enough for the Top 40 crowd,” states drummer Ken Deans. Not able to score a major recording contract they were stuck as a regional wonder kind. And a different "What If?" emerged. “What if” they had been based in LA, New York, or London? Could they have competed with the big boys?
The Listen: You had better believe it! These boys could play. Simply one of the best power pop albums of the 80s, this is a true and blue lost classic. If you dig early Beatles, The Posies, and The Figgs, you may just fall in love all over again.
The Verdict. Don’t you just love hidden gems? Sure it’s a little dusty, but give it a spit & shine and a chance, and this little record will make you dance!
Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil [First added to this chart: 05/28/2021]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 composition
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| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | 2 | 2% | |
| The Clash | 2 | 2% | |
| The Cure | 2 | 2% | |
| Merle Haggard | 1 | 1% | |
| Dead Kennedys | 1 | 1% | |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 1 | 1% | |
| Black Sabbath | 1 | 1% | |
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44 | 44% | |
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39 | 39% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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 Up 14 from 39th to 25thA-Z by Colin Newman |
| Up 3 from 15th to 12th Kaleidoscope by Siouxsie And The Banshees |
| Up 3 from 8th to 5th Seventeen Seconds by The Cure |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 24 from 53rd to 77th Go To Heaven by Grateful Dead |
| Down 5 from 5th to 10th Sacred Songs by Daryl Hall |
| Down 5 from 6th to 11th Voices by Daryl Hall & John Oates |
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