The Best Albums Of 1982

Top 50

1. The gift - THE JAM
2. The days of wine and roses - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
3. Hex enduction hour / Room to live - THE FALL
4. A kiss in the dreamhouse - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
5. Pornography - THE CURE
6. Miami - THE GUN CLUB
7. Garlands - COCTEAU TWINS
8. After the snow - MODERN ENGLISH
9. Vs - MISSION OF BURMA
10. Junkyard - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
11. Under the big black sun - X
12. Sonic Youth - SONIC YOUTH
13. The sky’s gone out - BAUHAUS
14. The curse of Zounds! - ZOUNDS
15. English settlement - XTC
16. Imperial bedroom - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
17. Combat rock - THE CLASH
18. Peter Gabriel 4 - PETER GABRIEL
19. The rise and fall - MADNESS
20. Too-Rye-Ay - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
21. Upstairs at Eric’s - YAZOO
22. Forever now - PSYCHEDELIC FURS
23. Sense and sensuality - THE AU PAIRS
24. Oh no! It’s Devo - DEVO
25. How could hell be any worse - BAD RELIGION
26. Forever came today - THE FLESH EATERS
27. Revelations - KILLING JOKE
28. Tragic figures - SAVAGE REPUBLIC
29. New gold dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS
30. Message - GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
31. Bad Brains - BAD BRAINS
32. Stink - THE REPLACEMENTS
33. What makes a man start fires? - MINUTEMEN
34. Back from Samoa - ANGRY SAMOANS
35. Born innocent - REDD KROSS
36. Meat Puppets - MEAT PUPPETS
37. Everything falls apart - HUSKER DU
38. Plastic surgery disasters - DEAD KENNEDYS
39. Millions of dead cops - M.D.C.
40. Beneath the shadows - T.S.O.L.
41. Walk among us - MISFITS
42. Milo goes to college - DESCENDENTS
43. Mommy you’re not watching me / They could have been bigger than the Beatles - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
44. Waiting on Egypt - NIKKI SUDDEN
45. 13.13 / In limbo - LYDIA LUNCH
46. If I die, I die - VIRGIN PRUNES
47. Tin drum - JAPAN
48. Big science - LAURIE ANDERSON
49. Songs of the free - GANG OF 4
50. Nebraska - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Also recommended:

Words from the front - TOM VERLAINE, Rip it up / You can’t hide your love forever - ORANGE JUICE, 2x45 - CABARET VOLTAIRE, The tunes of two cities - RESIDENTS, Song of the bailing man - PERE UBU, Wild in the streets - CIRCLE JERKS, Call of the west - WALL OF VOODOO, Mesopotamia - THE B-52'S, Epic garden music - SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS, Drumming the beating heart - EYELESS IN GAZA, Force the hand of chance - PSYCHIC TV, Eligible bachelors - THE MONOCHROME SET, Swimming - THE NAMES, The lexicon of love - ABC, Night and day - JOE JACKSON, Avalon - ROXY MUSIC, Mr. Uddich-Schmuddich goes to town - LAUGHING CLOWNS, Not to - COLIN NEWMAN, 7 songs - 23 SKIDOO, Sulk - ASSOCIATES, The greatest hit (Money mountain) - BLUE ORCHIDS, The gas chair - THE CRAWLING CHAOS, Mecano - MECANO, Pedigree charm - LORA LOGIC, Liliput - LILIPUT, All by myself - RIKK AGNEW, Only theatre of pain - CHRISTIAN DEATH, Westworld - THEATRE OF HATE, Groovy decay - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Destiny street - RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS, Zombie birdhouse - IGGY POP, Music for a new society - JOHN CALE, The blue mask - LOU REED, North by northwest - TOM ROBINSON, Homosapien - PETE SHELLEY, Benefactor - ROMEO VOID, Action battlefield - THE NEW AGE STEPPERS, Change of heart - POSITIVE NOISE, The key of dreams - SECTION 25, Sextet - A CERTAIN RATIO, A broken frame - DEPECHE MODE, A distant shore - TRACEY THORN, The Fun Boy Three - FUN BOY THREE, Computer games - GEORGE CLINTON, Drop the bomb - TROUBLE FUNK, I want candy - BOW WOW WOW, Songs to remember - SCRITTI POLITTI, All fall down - THE SOUND, Frustration - PLAN 9, The record - FEAR, Hunters & Collectors - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, Pigs on purpose - THE NIGHTINGALES, Fiction - THE COMSAT ANGELS, The gates of lunch - THE DEEP FREEZE MICE, Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing - DISCHARGE, Christ - The Album - CRASS, Strive to survive causing least suffering possible - FLUX OF PINK INDIANS, Blurt - BLURT, Station MXJY - MAXIMUM JOY, One by one - MINIMAL COMPACT, Seduction - THE DANSE SOCIETY, Harmony - THE WAKE, Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive - PIGBAG, I am cold - RIP RIG + PANIC, Für immer - D.A.F., Oceans - ARTERY, Sundown - RANK & FILE, Spring session M - MISSING PERSONS, ...The big dentist - LEMON KITTENS, Nothing can stop us - ROBERT WYATT, The nightfly - DONALD FAGEN, Marshall Crenshaw - MARSHALL CRENSHAW, Shoot out the lights - RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON, Enter K - PETER HAMMILL, Casablanca - THE SAINTS, Strawberries - THE DAMNED, Women and captains first - CAPTAIN SENSIBLE, 1999 - PRINCE, Midnight love - MARVIN GAYE, Night nurse - GREGORY ISAACS, Juju music - KING SUNNY ADE, UB44 - UB40, Vacation - GO-GO’S, Love over gold - DIRE STRAITS, American fool - JOHN COUGAR, The blurred crusade - THE CHURCH, Repercussion - THE DB'S, Split LP - THE FAITH / VOID, Sound & fury - YOUTH BRIGADE, Blaze of glory - GAME THEORY, Special Beat service - THE BEAT, The poet - BOBBY WOMACK, Moving targets - GIL SCOTT-HERON, Thermo-nuclear sweat - DEFUNKT, Nothing to fear - OINGO BOINGO, Geography - FRONT 242, Beat it down - Y PANTS, Kill for Christ - THE F.U.'S, The kids will have their say - SS DECONTROL, Vicious circle - ZERO BOYS, Drop out - THE BARRACUDAS