Best Albums of 1983

Listed below are the best albums of 1983 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 5 hours ago).
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1983 year summaryThe best artists of 1983 were R.E.M., Violent Femmes, New Order, U2, The Police, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Metallica, David Bowie and Pink Floyd.
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"This album has a much less direct sound than was present on the albums with "Fast" Eddie Clark. This time around, former Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson took up the reigns and, with Lemmy and Phil Taylor, delivered a more melodic sounding album with a very resonant production. Is this a bad ..."  [+]  Reply
- Killerviolin | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1983
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"Have to say I've always enjoyed this album a great deal, and find it better and more unique than his debut. Even like the dorky cover. Thanks Christgau, you weirdo!"  Reply
- RioBravo | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"I owned this before Business As Usual and although the strongest tracks are maybe not quite as strong as the ones on BAU, overall IMO, it is more consistent. BAU had two tracks I thought weakened it, this doesn't have any, therfore this just shades it for me (although they both get 8.5/10)."  Reply
- Rich150 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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