Best Albums of the 1980s
Listed below are the best albums of the 1980s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
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"This is a great album. The production is excellent and the choice of material is great. Joe Jackson is at the top of his form on this record." Reply
"My favourite Crüe album. It oozes sunset strip sleaze with a musically imperfect band doing their absolute best. It's garage rock/metal with a smattering of punk. Cowbells, razor-like guitar tone, imploring vocals, sparse production. The songs are consistently solid which is rare for the band. I ..." [+] Reply
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Ozdalek | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"It's a decent debut album, obviously it pales in comparison to the later albums, but everybody has to start somewhere! It's got a stone cold pop classic hit single "Talk Talk" and a couple of really good tunes - "Today" & "Mirror Man" which are worthy of a place on a compilation. It's also got so..." [+] Reply
"This was the first Cocteau Twins album I heard, so I heard this, not as a greatest hits album but as a studio album...it really changed my idea of what pop/rock could be in the way that "Velvet Underground and Nico" did..When I heard "Spangle Maker", I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I think..." [+] Reply
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ffudnebbuh | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"I love Japan. As someone who cut his musical teeth in the period from 1979-1984, Japan stood out for me as being exactly what I was looking for in a band: they were extremely talented musicians, they (mostly) ploughed their own furrow, and they looked gorgeous! They got a lot of criticism at the ..." [+] Reply
"Very weak ELO-album, but I bought the CD in 86, the re-release in the 00s and in 2014 the LP second hand! I'm paranoid ? Heaven only knows!" Reply
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Leonard | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"If you are CCR dan you will enjoy this, this is the big comeback of John Foggerty after years and years of legal problems with his record label of CCR" Reply
"Simply put, Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. sounds like it was recorded by psychotics in a derelict asylum — expect a lot of screaming, scraping, metallic sounds, rhythms that sound more primal and scary than anything, lyrics which are like nightmares (one of them literally is the recollection of ..." [+] Reply
"Widely acclaimed as one of the best hip hop albums released, this record has influenced a huge number of hip hop artists since it's release in 1988 and set many trends, particularly the structure and patterns of Kool Keith's lyrics which have been unintentionally replicated (sometimes intentional..." [+] Reply
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1988
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321
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Best Albums of the 1980s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1980 | 119 | 12% | |
| 1981 | 119 | 12% | |
| 1982 | 107 | 11% | |
| 1983 | 96 | 10% | |
| 1984 | 100 | 10% | |
| 1985 | 87 | 9% | |
| 1986 | 92 | 9% | |
| 1987 | 87 | 9% | |
| 1988 | 98 | 10% | |
| 1989 | 96 | 10% |
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| The Cure | 10 | 1% | |
| Iron Maiden | 8 | 1% | |
| Depeche Mode | 8 | 1% | |
| The Smiths | 8 | 1% | |
| Rush | 8 | 1% | |
| U2 | 7 | 1% | |
| The Fall | 7 | 1% | |
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414 | 41% | |
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392 | 39% | |
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40 | 4% | |
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27 | 3% | |
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22 | 2% | |
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20 | 2% | |
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12 | 1% | |
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