Top 49 Music Albums of 1981
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- Chart updated: 03/19/2025 13:45
- (Created: 11/27/2024 13:03).
- Chart size: 49 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 11/27/2024]
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1981
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The last 5-star album on the list.
[First added to this chart: 11/27/2024]
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1981
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2,929
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1981 is a really hard year to rank for me. Lots of fairly strong 4.5-star albums, and some good 4-stars as well. This album is ***only*** atop the 4.5s for this year on the basis of containing my single favorite track of the '80s, "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic." Without that, it's a low four stars. I like some of the other tracks, but several are throwaways, and "Invisible Sun," which a lot of Police fans swear by, is the single worst track on their five studio albums. Think about some of the competition there, and let what I'm saying there sink in.
[First added to this chart: 11/27/2024]
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1981
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1,751
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This, on the other hand, is outright as good as 4.5s get. I just can't put it ahead of Ghost because of that one superlative track on the latter. But this is a classic.
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1981
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871
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More uneven than Underwater Moonlight, but several essential Hitchcock tracks here.
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Uneven, but its best tracks are classics.
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1981
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1,164
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I know everyone loves "The Unguarded Moment," but "Chrome Injury" and "Fighter Pilot/Korean War" are better. I love their guitar sounds.
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Such a solid album, unlike their next two.
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1981
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787
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Track for track, this is the weakest of their first four albums, but the high points - "All My Colours," "Over the Wall," and "Show of Strength," among others, are brilliant.
[First added to this chart: 11/27/2024]
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1981
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Total albums: 49. Page 1 of 5
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Top 49 Music Albums of 1981 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Emmylou Harris | 2 | 4% | |
| Van Halen | 1 | 2% | |
| Japan | 1 | 2% | |
| The Cars | 1 | 2% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 1 | 2% | |
| Rush | 1 | 2% | |
| Pretenders | 1 | 2% | |
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Top 49 Music Albums of 1981 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 4 from 36th to 32ndFair Warning by Van Halen |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 32nd to 33rdCimarron by Emmylou Harris |
| Down 1 from 33rd to 34thWha'ppen? by The Beat (UK) |
| Down 1 from 34th to 35thAbacab by Genesis |
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