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: 05/02/2023 11:15
• (Created: 06/21/2018 16:43).
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Coffin For Head Of State 

 Fela Kuti & Africa 70

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'80:16 Waka Waka Waka (Amen Amen Amen)

Through Jesus Christ our Lord
By the grace of Almighty Lord
Through Jesus Christ our Lord
By the grace of Almighty Lord
In Spiritus Christus…
Allah Wakubar Mohammed Salamalekum...

Waka, waka, waka! (Coffin for Head of State)

The Setting: Fed up with Fela pointing a bright light on their hypocrisy and corruption, Nigeria’s military government was hell bent on teaching Fela a lesson. A thousand soldiers descended. Left right. Left right. They marched. Raping women as they went. Left right. Left right. They attacked. Left right. Left right. His mother was thown from a window out onto the street below. Left right. Left right. “Them killed my Momma!” That’s my Momma that you killed! She’s the only mother of Nigeria!” Fela cried on his 1979 heartbreaking and epic single “Unknown Soldier.” Few songs made you feel a man’s (and a country’s!) pain more thoroughly. And Fela was just getting started.

Listen: Wake up! This is a man who’s been wronged. A man who lost his mother. Due to the very state that was supposed to protect him. Sound familiar? What we have here in the United States is not unique. The powerful hurt the powerless. How do we fix this? More police? Less police? It does not matter, brothers & sisters. Those are human answers. And human answers will not fix this problem. The last four years have proved that. But, there is a way. Fela knows this. A path to peace. The spiritual path. Through Jesus. Through Mohammed. Amen.

Verdict: A psalm as much as it is a song, Fela’s eulogy to his mother ascends beyond the human world to the spiritual world beyond. And that’s where all true answers lie. As moving an EP as you will ever hear, it deserves to be known as one of Fela’s essential works.

Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil [First added to this chart: 07/05/2021]

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

31 charts

Rank Score:

159

Rank in 1980:

133

Rank in 1980s:

1,156

Overall Rank:

7,813

Average Rating:

 77 (33 votes)

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Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 composition

Artist	Albums	%
The Cure	2	2%
The Clash	2	2%
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark	2	2%
The Durutti Column	1	1%
David Bowie	1	1%
Black Sabbath	1	1%
Redd Kross	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%
	45	45%
	38	38%
	6	6%
	2	2%
	2	2%
	2	2%
	1	1%
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 34 from 47th to 13th AutoAmerican by Blondie
Up 15 from 26th to 11th Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants
Up 1 from 100th to 99th Red Cross by Redd Kross

Biggest fallers
Down 3 from 11th to 14th More Specials by The Specials
Down 2 from 13th to 15th Inside My Brain by Angry Samoans
Down 2 from 14th to 16th Making Movies by Dire Straits

New entries
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels by Dexys Midnight Runners

Leavers
Cycle Of Life by Sarcofagus

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