Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s by New Music Express (1990)

New Musical Express is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. These are their best albums of 1980s.
(Official website: www.nme.com)

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1989
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26,005
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1986
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39,262
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1985
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6,142
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1984
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6,843
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Year of Release:
1980
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16,878
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Year of Release:
1980
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1,871
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Year of Release:
1985
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2,952
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Year of Release:
1980
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1,552
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Year of Release:
1988
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370
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1982
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1,439
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Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s composition

Year Albums %


1980 6 12%
1981 3 6%
1982 7 14%
1983 1 2%
1984 3 6%
1985 7 14%
1986 6 12%
1987 5 10%
1988 8 16%
1989 4 8%
Country Albums %


United Kingdom 28 56%
United States 19 38%
Mixed Nationality 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Australia 1 2%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 49 98%
Yes 1 2%

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[New Music Express was founded in 1952.]

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From 11/30/2021 21:59
It's a shame so many charts I see these days insist on being trendy and cool. For example, U2 are not considered a cool band these days. But is it really fair to say all the albums in this list are better than Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree?
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From 07/09/2019 21:56
Pretty good but clearly missing Pixies and Metallica.
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Although this is better than NME’s later lists – reflecting their origins as a leftist promoter of punk and post-punk music – it still very much hints at later flaws that would ruin the magazine’s effectiveness in later decades.

No metal – at a time when that genre was transforming Enriched World culture in exactly the direction NME’s original editors stood for – is the worst of these blindnesses. There are too many mediocre new wave pop bands, too.
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