Best Albums of 1983
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"I moved down to London from Birmingham in 1982 and was fortunate enough to fall in with a great bunch of people, some of whom are still friends over 40 years later. Amongst those folks was a guy called Terry who is a couple of years older than the rest of us and who, even back then, had an awesom..." Reply
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1983
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"I cannot believe this album isn't rated higher." Reply
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"As much as I love Joy Division, Power, Corruption And Lies is so good that it almost justifies Ian Curtis' death." Reply
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1983
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"The best of U2's early albums. The songs on War are held together with a theme about struggle. They take the universal concepts about War and strife in their homeland and relate them to the inner struggle going on within each of us to be something better." Reply
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1983
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"More like "Sting-chronicity", am I right? Huh?! Huh?! Anyone...?" Reply
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1983
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"Not as good as Remain In Light but still a great Talking Heads release" Reply
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1983
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"An intoxicating Voodoo cabaret from a man whose voice alone is enough to get you drunk." Reply
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1983
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"This album isn't for everyone. For die hard metal fans though you can't go wrong. I would say they had better albums that came after this but that doesn't mean this wasn't great. This is a classic as well. Seek & Destroy is the song that changed my life and introduced me to metal & music in general." Reply
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1983
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"One of the best Bowie's records, should be rated higher than "Space Oddity" or "The Man who sold the world". This shows Bowie's artistry and versatility. People tend to be allergic to pop music, but it's not easy or lazy being likeable or make good music and still be popular, Bowie accomplished i..." Reply
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1983
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"There are two albums that don’t seem to fit the Pink Floyd formula of their post early 70’s output. This album and Animals. The difference is I think Animals is absolutely brilliant whereas this is a Roger Waters solo album and only Pink Floyd in name. I don’t hate this album, I like it, but I ju..." Reply
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 1 of 100
Best Albums of 1983 composition
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| Various Artists | 23 | 2% | |
| Nocturnal Emissions | 4 | 0% | |
| Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra | 3 | 0% | |
| Daniel Johnston | 3 | 0% | |
| Frank Zappa | 3 | 0% | |
| Minutemen | 2 | 0% | |
| Lombard | 2 | 0% | |
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331 | 33% | |
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292 | 29% | |
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48 | 5% | |
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42 | 4% | |
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28 | 3% | |
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26 | 3% | |
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25 | 2% | |
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Best Albums of 1983 chart changes
| Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month |
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Up 21 from 98th to 77th |
Up 4 from 66th to 62nd |
Up 2 from 85th to 83rd |
| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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Down 3 from 44th to 47th |
Down 2 from 82nd to 84th |
Down 2 from 83rd to 85th |
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