The Best Albums Of 1984

Top 50

1. Zen Arcade - HUSKER DU
2. The wonderful and frightening world of... - THE FALL
3. The Smiths - THE SMITHS
4. Atom drum bop - THE THREE JOHNS
5. Tocsin - X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND
6. From her to eternity - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
7. Medicine show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
8. Meat Puppets II - MEAT PUPPETS
9. Native sons - THE LONG RYDERS
10. Hallowed ground - VIOLENT FEMMES
11. Let it be - THE REPLACEMENTS
12. Double nickels on the dime - MINUTEMEN
13. The Las Vegas story - THE GUN CLUB
14. Reckoning - R.E.M.
15. World shut your mouth / Fried - JULIAN COPE
16. Learning to crawl - THE PRETENDERS
17. Sparkle in the rain - SIMPLE MINDS
18. Vengeance - NEW MODEL ARMY
19. Joined up writing - ANNE CLARK
20. Micro-phonies - CABARET VOLTAIRE
21. Ricochet days - MODERN ENGLISH
22. Ocean rain - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
23. Natural history - THE MARCH VIOLETS
24. Brilliant trees - DAVID SYLVIAN
25. The waking hour - DALIS CAR
26. A word to the wise guy - THE MIGHTY WAH!
27. Treasure - COCTEAU TWINS
28. Cover - TOM VERLAINE
29. Born in the USA - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
30. Purple rain - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
31. Raining pleasure - THE TRIFFIDS
32. Spring hill fair - THE GO-BETWEENS
33. The axeman's jazz - THE BEASTS OF BOURBON
34. Good tidings - YO
35. On fyre - LYRES
36. Explosions in the glass palace - RAIN PARADE
37. Time stands still - CHRIS D & DIVINE HORSEMAN
38. Drifters - TRUE WEST
39. Goodbye cruel world - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
40. Cafe blue - THE STYLE COUNCIL
41. Body and soul - JOE JACKSON
42. Instincts - ROMEO VOID
43. Fervor - JASON AND THE SCORCHERS
44. Hole - SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL
45. This is what you want...this is what you get - P.I.L.
46. The top - THE CURE
47. Mirror moves - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
48. Keep moving - MADNESS
49. Hysteria - HUMAN LEAGUE
50. How men are - HEAVEN 17

Also recommended:

Urban gamelan - 23 SKIDOO, Knowledge, power, truth and sex / Jam science - SHRIEKBACK, (Who’s afraid of ?) The Art Of Noise! - THE ART OF NOISE, Slow to fade - RED GUITARS, Law of nature - LAUGHING CLOWNS, I often dream of trains - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Jesus egg that wept - DANIELLE DAX, It’ll end in tears - THIS MORTAL COIL, Jedda by the sea - 17 PYGMIES, November's heat - CERTAIN GENERAL, The longest day - DEL FUEGOS, Frontier days - DEL LORDS, Way down blue highway - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Naked Prey - NAKED PREY, Head down hand out - CRIPPLED PILGRIMS, Color appreciation / Plasticland - PLASTICLAND, Plan 9 - PLAN 9, Stoneage Romeos - HOODOO GURUS, Rainy Day - RAINY DAY, Colored heaven - THE THINGS, Psychic...Powerless...Another man's sac - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Slip it in - BLACK FLAG, Too tough to die - RAMONES, Teen babes from Monsanto - REDD KROSS, Gone fishin' - FLIPPER, Cop - SWANS, Throb throb - NAKED RAYGUN, The Celibate Rifles - THE CELIBATE RIFLES, Outta the nest! - THE VIPERS, It's about time - THE PANDORAS, Cemetery - DEJA VOODOO, Action reaction - GET SMART!, Change today? - T.S.O.L., Cypress - LET’S ACTIVE, Blood On The Saddle - BLOOD ON THE SADDLE, The fabulous sounds of the Pacific Northwest - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Painting smiles on a dead man - THE LAST, Moving - THE RAINCOATS, Hyaena - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Red roses for me - THE POGUES, Brewing up with Billy Bragg - BILLY BRAGG, The painted word - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Pop - TONES ON TAILS, Run DMC - RUN DMC, Escape - WHODINI, In the studio - SPECIAL A.K.A., Love wars - WOMACK AND WOMACK, Poet 2 - BOBBY WOMACK, Shango funk theology - SHANGO, No motive - 3 TEENS KILL 4, Soul possession - ANNIE ANXIETY, If I kissed her, I’d have to kill her first - 400 BLOWS, Mister Heartbreak - LAURIE ANDERSON, The big express - XTC, Pacific street - THE PALE FOUNTAINS, The Orange Juice / Texas fever - ORANGE JUICE, Splendor of fear / The strange idols pattern and other short stories - FELT, Dreamtime - THE CULT, The unforgettable fire - U2, A pagan place - THE WATERBOYS, Everybody is fantastic - MICRODISNEY, Eden - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, All over the place - BANGLES, Rattlesnakes - LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS, Walking in the shadow of the big man - GUADALCANAL DIARY, How will the wolf survive? - LOS LOBOS, Stampede - THE METEORS, The bushes scream while my daddy prunes - THE VERY THINGS, Bullets for you - BLURT, Deadly weapons - MINIMAL COMPACT, Night air - BLAINE L. REININGER, This last night in Sodom - SOFT CELL, Dead Can Dance - DEAD CAN DANCE, Some great reward - DEPECHE MODE, Welcome to the pleasuredome - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, The age of consent - BRONSKI BEAT, The Icicle Works - THE ICICLE WORKS, In limbo - LYDIA LUNCH, Diamanda Galas - DIAMANDA GALAS, Catastrophe ballet - CHRISTIAN DEATH, Scatology - COIL, And Also The Trees - AND ALSO THE TREES, Gardens - NEW MATH, The lovers / The tower - THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, From the hip - SECTION 25, The jaws of life - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, Like this - THE DB'S, Die Kreuzen - DIE KREUZEN, A scandal in Bohemia - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, Beating the retreat - TEST DEPT., The fucking cunts treat us like pricks - FLUX OF PINK INDIANS, From the cradle to the grave - SUBHUMANS, Crawfish for the notary - THE VIETNAM VETERANS, Rhyme & reason - MISSING PERSONS, Knife - AZTEC CAMERA, Swoon - PREFAB SPROUT, A walk across the rooftops - THE BLUE NILE, Red sails in the sunset - MIDNIGHT OIL, Climate of the hunter - SCOTT WALKER, George and James - THE RESIDENTS, The love songs - PETER HAMILL, Caribbean sunset - JOHN CALE, New sensations - LOU REED, The magazine - RICKIE LEE JONES, Diamond life - SADE, Bananarama - BANANARAMA, Into the gap - THOMPSON TWINS, The Treacherous Three - THE TREACHEROUS THREE, Hatful of hollow - THE SMITHS, Ten bloody marys and ten how’s your fathers - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS, Exorcising ghosts - JAPAN, At the Palace - GANG OF 4