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

New Musical Express is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. These are their best albums of 1980s.
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1981
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Year of Release:
1981
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Year of Release:
1981
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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%
Australia 1 2%
Mixed Nationality 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 49 98%
Yes 1 2%
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A total of 25 charts from recognised sources are available for 1980s, with the 3 most prominent highlighted below. Additionally, there are 803 user submitted charts covering this period.
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The 100 Best Albums of the 1980sFACT1980s decade chart2013United Kingdom
Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980sNew Music Express1980s decade chart1990United Kingdom
The 500 Greatest Albums Of The 1980sUncut1980s decade chart2024United Kingdom
A total of 61 charts from New Music Express are available; the 3 most recent of this type are highlighted below.
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NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010sNew Music Express2010s decade chart2019United Kingdom
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From 07/09/2019 21:56 | #239230
Pretty good but clearly missing Pixies and Metallica.
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From 04/04/2019 10:26 | #234490
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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