Best Albums of 1985

Listed below are the best albums of 1985 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 5 hours ago).
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1985 year summaryThe best artists of 1985 were Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Dire Straits, The Smiths, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Tears For Fears, The Cure, The Replacements, Prefab Sprout and The Pogues.
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1985
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140
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"The Divinyls best album period More like a best of rather than studio album , so many killer tracks: "Pleasure And Pain" , "Don't You Go Walking" , "Good Die Young" , "Sleeping Beauty" , "Heart Telegraph" And to think the album was a difficult conception with the band going through multiple produ..."  [+]  Reply
- Brad1770 | 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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"A somewhat neglected album that I would rate (slightly) higher than "The Last In Line" (their prior album). Tracks 1/4/5/7 are great. Everything else is pretty good too. The weakest for me are 3/9 but they are alright. There's a little bit of that cheese you will find in most mid-80's metal, but ..."  [+]  Reply
- culwin | 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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1985
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118.
Legacy Of Brutality 
Compilation
"Is this redundant now that the actual Static Age has been released?Not actually.I think of this as an alternate version of Static Age with different production which benefits some songs(come back).Besides currently this is the only place to get American Nightmare and Who Killed Marilyn"  Reply
- newbands1 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 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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"This is a fantastic compilation album. I used to have the cassette version in the eighties and even though the CD release has more tracks, it strangely omits, honesty, which was on the tape version. Oh well, it's an excellent record. All the masterpieces are here; piano man, new york state of min..."  [+]  Reply
- garycottier | 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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