Top 46 Music Albums of 1980
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lancashirearab 
In 1980 I was still in secondary school. I was the prick who thought anything I didn't listen to was just uncool. I was an avid reader of the NME and treated it almost as a bible. I bought so much crap because of their propaganda. Not all of their advice was bad, though. This chart contains many bands I discovered in the pages of NME.
- Chart updated: 06/04/2012 11:14
- (Created: 05/10/2012 23:18).
- Chart size: 46 albums.
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This album sounded so strange when I first heard it. It seemed to come from the future.
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I love the Way In Curtis whispers the lyrics in one channel. Listen on headphones and be amazed.
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1980
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I can remember sitting down at my desk in Geography one day to see Young Marble Giants written on the desk. I added the title of this LP. A week later the list had the Testcard EP added to it. I have no idea who wrote this. Niether of us left our names.
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1980
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1,258
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I can remember all of my school mates getting excited about seeing the video to Once in a Lifetime on Top of the Pops. We were all trying to do his moves in the school yard at break time.
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1980
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26,308
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The Swell Maps were just great. Loads of ideas and willing to use any sounds they liked.
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I bought this album because the sleeve was embossed and silvery. I had heard a track on Peel and decided to give it a try as the album looked so good. A great decision was made that day.
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My wonderful wife bought me a t shirt with lyrics from one of their songs on it.
"I am angry I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin ..." [First added to this chart: 05/11/2012]
"I am angry I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin ..." [First added to this chart: 05/11/2012]
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1980
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I didn't discover this band until after this album was released. How could that happen? They were from Dundee!
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It is not as good as their first album, but then not many albums are.
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1980
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398
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This album contains Misery Goats which features in a different version on the NME C81 cassette.
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Total albums: 46. Page 1 of 5
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Top 46 Music Albums of 1980 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Cure | 2 | 4% | |
| The Monochrome Set | 2 | 4% | |
| The Fall | 2 | 4% | |
| Bauhaus | 1 | 2% | |
| The Cramps | 1 | 2% | |
| Lou Reed | 1 | 2% | |
| Suicide | 1 | 2% | |
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