The Best Albums Of The '80s

Top 100

1. Daydream nation - SONIC YOUTH
2. Perverted by language - THE FALL
3. Surfer Rosa - PIXIES
4. It takes a nation of millions to hold us back - PUBLIC ENEMY
5. Songs about fucking - BIG BLACK
6. Zen arcade - HUSKER DU
7. Document - R.E.M.
8. Meat is murder - THE SMITHS
9. The gift - THE JAM
10. Remain in light - TALKING HEADS
11. Closer - JOY DIVISION
12. Psychocandy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
13. This nation’s saving grace - THE FALL
14. Sister - SONIC YOUTH
15. Fire dances - KILLING JOKE
16. Juju - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
17. Blood and chocolate - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
18. Life’s too good - THE SUGARCUBES
19. Bug - DINOSAUR JR.
20. Automatic - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
21. The Smiths - THE SMITHS
22. The days of wine and roses - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
23. Over the edge - WIPERS
24. Violent Femmes - VIOLENT FEMMES
25. Sound affects - THE JAM
26. Crocodiles - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
27. Playing with a different sex - THE AU PAIRS
28. The fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
29. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
30. Meat Puppets II - MEAT PUPPETS
31. Before Hollywood - THE GO-BETWEENS
32. From her to eternity - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
33. Gas, food, lodging - GREEN ON RED
34. Murmur - R.E.M.
35. The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
36. Bummed - HAPPY MONDAYS
37. The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
38. Valley of rain - GIANT SAND
39. In the Spanish cave - THIN WHITE ROPE
40. My invisible lantern - SCREAMING TREES
41. Isn’t anything - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
42. Raising hell - RUN DMC
43. I - A.R. KANE
44. Our favourite shop - THE STYLE COUNCIL
45. 3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
46. Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
47. Atom drum bop - THE THREE JOHNS
48. The wonderful and frightening world of... - THE FALL
49. Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables - DEAD KENNEDYS
50. Los Angeles - X
51. Pornography - THE CURE
52. Power, corruption and lies - NEW ORDER
53. Doolittle - PIXIES
54. House tornado - THROWING MUSES
55. Warehouse: songs and stories - HUSKER DU
56. Mirage - MEAT PUPPETS
57. Yo! Bum rush the show - PUBLIC ENEMY
58. Criminal minded - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
59. Hex enduction hour - THE FALL
60. The Queen is dead - THE SMITHS
61. The flowers of romance - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
62. Burning from the inside - BAUHAUS
63. Crazy rhythms - THE FEELIES
64. Is this real? - WIPERS
65. Damaged - BLACK FLAG
66. Double nickels on the dime - MINUTEMEN
67. Mommy’s little monster - SOCIAL DISTORTION
68. Let it be - THE REPLACEMENTS
69. Green - R.E.M.
70. Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
71. Bleach - NIRVANA
72. Atomizer - BIG BLACK
73. New day rising - HUSKER DU
74. Living in darkness - AGENT ORANGE
75. Psychedelic jungle - THE CRAMPS
76. Miami - THE GUN CLUB
77. Tallulah - THE GO-BETWEENS
78. Calenture - THE TRIFFIDS
79. The firstborn is dead - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
80. Evol - SONIC YOUTH
81. Grotesque (after the Gramme) - THE FALL
82. Kilimanjaro - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
83. Charm world - YO
84. Life’s rich pageant - R.E.M.
85. A kiss in the dreamhouse - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
86. The Psychedelic Furs - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
87. The Pretenders - THE PRETENDERS
88. Saturday night! The Album - SCHOOLLY D
89. Paid in full - ERIC B & RAKIM
90. Monsters - MEAT PUPPETS
91. Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
92. Desperate fires - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
93. Babble - THAT PETROL EMOTION
94. Garlands - COCTEAU TWINS
95. After the snow - MODERN ENGLISH
96. Wild weed - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
97. Native sons - THE LONG RYDERS
98. Bedtime for democracy - DEAD KENNEDYS
99. Vs - MISSION OF BURMA
100. Hex breaker - THE FLESHTONES

The 2nd hundred:

Desire - TUXEEDO MOON, Dare - HUMAN LEAGUE, World shut your mouth - JULIAN COPE, Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE, Youth of America - WIPERS, You’re living all over me - DINOSAUR JR., Even if and especially when - SCREAMING TREES, Treeless plain - THE TRIFFIDS, Get happy - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS, Underwater moonlight - THE SOFT BOYS, Solid gold - GANG OF 4, Bend sinister - THE FALL, 17 seconds - THE CURE, Kaleidoscope - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, Tocsin - X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND, First and last and always - THE SISTERS OF MERCY, Junkyard - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, Lysergic emanations - THE FUZZTONES, Exploring the axis - THIN WHITE ROPE, Medicine show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE, Hallowed ground - VIOLENT FEMMES, Sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash - THE REPLACEMENTS, Up on the sun - MEAT PUPPETS, Fables of the reconstruction - R.E.M., Low life - NEW ORDER, The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE, Around the world in a day - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION, Black sea - XTC, Once in a blue moon - YO, Hunkpapa - THROWING MUSES, Frequency and urgency - SALEM 66, Mother Juno - THE GUN CLUB, Inky bloaters - DANIELLE DAX, George Best - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Hup - THE WONDER STUFF, The Young Gods - THE YOUNG GODS, Locust abortion technician - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Your funeral, my trial - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Frenz experiment - THE FALL, I am kurious oranj - THE FALL, By all means necessary - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, The love songs - GIANT SAND, Hope against hope - BAND OF SUSANS, Tender prey - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Our beloved revolutionary sweetheart - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Prairie school freakout - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM, Lick - THE LEMONHEADS, Let’s play domination - WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES, Power - ICE T, Licensed to ill - BEASTIE BOYS, Nothing’s shocking - JANE’S ADDICTION, Before our time - 13 ENGINES, Gravity talks - GREEN ON RED, Ghost stories - THE DREAM SYNDICATE, Buzz factory - SCREAMING TREES, Ragin’ full on - FIREHOSE, Huevos - MEAT PUPPETS, Born sandy devotional - THE TRIFFIDS, Heaven up here - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, Fried - JULIAN COPE, Headache rhetoric - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS, Sittin’ pretty - THE PASTELS, Bizzaro - THE WEDDING PRESENT, The eight legged groove machine - THE WONDER STUFF, In the flat field - BAUHAUS, Songs the lord taught us - THE CRAMPS, The covenant, the sword and the arm of the lord - CABARET VOLTAIRE, Strangeways, here we come - THE SMITHS, 69 - A.R. KANE, Slates - THE FALL, Superfuzz bigmuff - MUDHONEY, The Las Vegas story - THE GUN CLUB, Reckoning - R.E.M., The world by storm - THE THREE JOHNS, Neither Washington nor Moscow - REDSKINS, Land of the lost - WIPERS, Under a blue marlin - NAKED PREY, Ballad of a thin line man - GIANT SAND, Manic pop thrill - THAT PETROL EMOTION, Jane from occupied Europe - SWELL MAPS, Freedom of choice - DEVO, Porcupine - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, High land hard rain - AZTEC CAMERA, War - U2, My life in the bush of ghosts - DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO, What’s this for…! - KILLING JOKE, Talk talk talk - PSYCHEDELIC FURS, Wild gift - X, Living eyes - RADIO BIRDMAN, Sandinista - THE CLASH, Trust - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS, Free dirt - DIED PRETTY, Devil’s river - DIVINE HORSEMAN, Ride the tiger - YO LA TENGO, Sons and fascination - SIMPLE MINDS, Frankenchrist - DEAD KENNEDYS, Flip your wig - HUSKER DU, Generic - FLIPPER, Sonic Youth - SONIC YOUTH