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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I was not prepared for this result either. That AutoAmerican would reign supreme. As I mentioned earlier, I figured it would be either their self-titled debut or Parallel Lines. But, it turns out that Blondie has THREE essential albums. Each one perfectly captures a phase of their career - Punk, New Wave and Art Pop.
Blondie's debut is one of the most important Punk albums from the first wave. Right up there with The Ramones' debut, Nevermind The Bollocks and Marquee Moon. Somehow Punk became shoehorned in the mid-90s with Pop Punk, and a lot of people no longer think of Blondie as punk. Let me state this clearly - those people are idiots. Coming in with this vision in 1976, Blondie was one of the bands that invented Punk. Along with The Ramones, Blondie made the past new again. Fresh. And in the process re-breathed life into an art that had become bloated and stale. In short, Blondie are punk as fuck, thank you very much.
Then with Parallel Lines, Blondie trail blazed New Wave along with Devo, The Cars and Magazine. It's intentionally colder and more robotic than their debut. Processed. Less flesh. More fantasy. Synthesizers spearheading the way. Just incredible that two years after jumpstarting punk they were once again out front.
For their third phase, they had no peer. They were alone. With Siouxsie and her Banshees up front furiously taking notes in long hand. Epic, sweeping, lush and cinematic. Ambitious AND accessible. It’s larger than life. After this, Blondie had nothing more to prove and so *POOF* they disappeared into the firmament of 80s college radio.
Both Plastic Letters and Eat To The Beat are good (but not great) albums that have their requisite essential singles and then stuff that feels like B-sides. Very listenable but decidedly NOT statement albums.
And then there's my love for Debbie Harry's Kookoo (with Blondie co-founder and boyfriend Chris Stein in tow). While not a perfect execution, teaming up with the funk masters of Chic was an inspired idea that works way better than the critics give it credit. It's aged well and gives a fun, funky twist to the Blondie oeuvre. I include it here because it feels more like a Blondie album than anything that would come afterwards (when they were either listlessly fulfilling contractual obligations with The Hunter or becoming a nostalgia act in the 90s). There have been times over the past month that this album has really hit the spot. Not much else like it (either before or since), and thus a very welcome addition to the Blondie experience.
Rank 'Em: Blondie
Essential
1. AutoAmerican
2. Blondie
3. Parallel Lines
Highly Recommended
1. Debbie Harry - Kookoo
Recommended
1. Plastic Letters
2. Eat To The Beat
For Super Fans Only
1. The Hunter [First added to this chart: 11/28/2020]
I was not prepared for this result either. That AutoAmerican would reign supreme. As I mentioned earlier, I figured it would be either their self-titled debut or Parallel Lines. But, it turns out that Blondie has THREE essential albums. Each one perfectly captures a phase of their career - Punk, New Wave and Art Pop.
Blondie's debut is one of the most important Punk albums from the first wave. Right up there with The Ramones' debut, Nevermind The Bollocks and Marquee Moon. Somehow Punk became shoehorned in the mid-90s with Pop Punk, and a lot of people no longer think of Blondie as punk. Let me state this clearly - those people are idiots. Coming in with this vision in 1976, Blondie was one of the bands that invented Punk. Along with The Ramones, Blondie made the past new again. Fresh. And in the process re-breathed life into an art that had become bloated and stale. In short, Blondie are punk as fuck, thank you very much.
Then with Parallel Lines, Blondie trail blazed New Wave along with Devo, The Cars and Magazine. It's intentionally colder and more robotic than their debut. Processed. Less flesh. More fantasy. Synthesizers spearheading the way. Just incredible that two years after jumpstarting punk they were once again out front.
For their third phase, they had no peer. They were alone. With Siouxsie and her Banshees up front furiously taking notes in long hand. Epic, sweeping, lush and cinematic. Ambitious AND accessible. It’s larger than life. After this, Blondie had nothing more to prove and so *POOF* they disappeared into the firmament of 80s college radio.
Both Plastic Letters and Eat To The Beat are good (but not great) albums that have their requisite essential singles and then stuff that feels like B-sides. Very listenable but decidedly NOT statement albums.
And then there's my love for Debbie Harry's Kookoo (with Blondie co-founder and boyfriend Chris Stein in tow). While not a perfect execution, teaming up with the funk masters of Chic was an inspired idea that works way better than the critics give it credit. It's aged well and gives a fun, funky twist to the Blondie oeuvre. I include it here because it feels more like a Blondie album than anything that would come afterwards (when they were either listlessly fulfilling contractual obligations with The Hunter or becoming a nostalgia act in the 90s). There have been times over the past month that this album has really hit the spot. Not much else like it (either before or since), and thus a very welcome addition to the Blondie experience.
Rank 'Em: Blondie
Essential
1. AutoAmerican
2. Blondie
3. Parallel Lines
Highly Recommended
1. Debbie Harry - Kookoo
Recommended
1. Plastic Letters
2. Eat To The Beat
For Super Fans Only
1. The Hunter [First added to this chart: 11/28/2020]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | 2 | 2% | |
| The Clash | 2 | 2% | |
| The Cure | 2 | 2% | |
| Blondie | 1 | 1% | |
| The Cramps | 1 | 1% | |
| The Durutti Column | 1 | 1% | |
| Kurtis Blow | 1 | 1% | |
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44 | 44% | |
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39 | 39% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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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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