Best Albums of 1984

Listed below are the best albums of 1984 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 19 minutes ago).
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1984 year summaryThe best artists of 1984 were Prince, Prince And The Revolution, The Smiths, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, The Replacements, Minutemen, Talking Heads, Hüsker Dü and Cocteau Twins.
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1984
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"Pivotal eighties album. If you are a keyboard player you will recognise what Howard was doing with the fairly rudimentary syncing of his kit, albeit he was fortunate to have some great synths in his arsenal, most notably the Jupier 8. He was and still is a clever musician. Pearl in the shell is a..."  [+]  Reply
- Junomoogmello | 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 truly solid album which reached No.2 in the charts, with half of the songs being top 20 smash hits, "Only When You Leave"(3), "I'll Fly For You"(9), Highly Strung"(15) & "Round And Round"(18), although my favourite is "Nature Of The Beast". Tony Hadley's mesmeric vocals paired perfectly on all ..."  [+]  Reply
- LammyTS1 | 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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144.
Concert 
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"Not long before Simon Gallup rejoined, The Cure made this live album showcasing songs from Three Imaginary Boys to The Top, it captures a broad range of their music up to 1984."  Reply
- | 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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"I had a complete 180 with this album. It was by far my least favourite Haustor album, I thought the songs were too long and just dragged out any good moments they had. Now I can't stop listening to it. I still find the opening and closing track to be guilty of the exact things I mentioned, but ev..."  [+]  Reply
- 19loveless91 | 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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"If this was just a regular album I wouldn't give it a particularly good rating, but as a parody of all the tired cliches in 70s and 80s rock music it works brilliantly (especially with how hilariously stupid some of the lyrics are) You'd need to watch the film first though before listening to thi..."  [+]  Reply
- SD100852 | 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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"One of the more underrated songwriters in hard rock is Blackie Lawless. People often looked at W.A.S.P.'s controversial image over the fact Blackie and the boys have put out a ton of good albums. Their debut is a good listen."  Reply
- Rockmyfriends | 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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