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

The Best Albums Of 1981

Top 50

1. Juju - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
2. Playing with a different sex - THE AU PAIRS
3. The flowers of romance - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
4. The fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
5. Youth of America - WIPERS
6. Damaged - BLACK FLAG
7. Living in darkness - AGENT ORANGE
8. Sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash - THE REPLACEMENTS
9. Psychedelic jungle - THE CRAMPS
10. Heaven up here - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
11. Desire - TUXEEDOMOON
12. Dare - HUMAN LEAGUE
13. My life in the bush of ghosts - DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO
14. Solid gold - GANG OF 4
15. Slates - THE FALL
16. What’s this for…! - KILLING JOKE
17. Talk talk talk - PSYCHEDELIC FURS
18. Wild gift - X
19. Living eyes - RADIO BIRDMAN
20. Sandinista - THE CLASH
21. Faith - THE CURE
22. Movement - NEW ORDER
23. Mesh and lace - MODERN ENGLISH
24. Wilder - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
25. Trust / Almost blue - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
26. Sons and fascination / Sister feelings call - SIMPLE MINDS
27. Alles ist gut - D.A.F.
28. Generic - FLIPPER
29. Send me a lullaby - THE GO-BETWEENS
30. Prayers on fire - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
31. A minute to pray a second to die - THE FLESH EATERS
32. Adolescents - ADOLESCENTS
33. Return of the giant Slits - THE SLITS
34. Computer world - KRAFTWERK
35. Red Mecca - CABARET VOLTAIRE
36. Penthouse and pavement - HEAVEN 17
37. Collision drive - ALAN VEGA
38. Roman Gods - THE FLESHTONES
39. It’s a condition - ROMEO VOID
40. Nah = Poo. The art of bluff - WAH!
41. The only fun in town - JOSEF K
42. The Pretenders II - THE PRETENDERS
43. Pleasant dreams - RAMONES
44. Teaching you the fear - REALLY RED
45. The punch line - MINUTEMEN
46. In God we trust - DEAD KENNEDYS
47. The Scientists - THE SCIENTISTS
48. Mask - BAUHAUS
49. Tin drum - JAPAN
50. Odyshape - THE RAINCOATS

Also recommended:

Still - JOY DIVISION, The first and the last - NEW RACE, Magic murder and the weather - MAGAZINE, From the lions mouth - THE SOUND, Second sentence - STEVE MIRO & THE EYES, And don’t the kids just love it - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Black snake diamond role - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, October - U2, Art of walking - PERE UBU, Land speed record - HUSKER DU, Dance with me - T.S.O.L., Hardcore ’81 - D.O.A., Kollaps - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Thirst - CLOCK DVA, Sunnyboys - SUNNYBOYS, Two halves for the price of one - THE SOFT BOYS, Dreamtime - TOM VERLAINE, New traditionalists - DEVO, 7 - MADNESS, East side story - SQUEEZE, Positive touch - UNDERTONES, See the whirl - DELTA 5, Glitterhouse - MEDIUM MEDIUM, Photographs as memories - EYELESS IN GAZA, LC - DURUTTI COLUMN, Entitled - MECANO, Non stop erotic cabaret - SOFT CELL, Crumbling the antiseptic beauty - FELT, Heart of darkness - POSITIVE NOISE, Sleep no more - THE COMSAT ANGELS, Pleasure - GIRLS AT OUR BEST, Beauty and the beat - GO-GO’S, Wha'ppen? - THE BEAT, Nightclubbing - GRACE JONES, Controversy - PRINCE, Street songs - RICK JAMES, Red - BLACK UHURU, Present arms - UB40, See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy! - BOW WOW WOW, Happy birthday - ALTERED IMAGES, Speak and spell - DEPECHE MODE, Journeys to glory - SPANDAU BALLET, Architecture and morality - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK, To each - A CERTAIN RATIO, Deceit - THIS HEAT, God - RIP RIG & PANIC, Penis envy - CRASS, Wild and wandering - WASTED YOUTH, No cause for concern - VICE SQUAD, He who dares wins - THEATRE OF HATE, Teenage head in my refrigerator - THE DEEP FREEZE MICE, Stands for decibels - THE dB’s, The Blasters - THE BLASTERS, Peter Pan hits the suburbs - THE ASTRONAUTS, Suburban Lawns - SUBURBAN LAWNS, Go for it - STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, Animal now - RUTS DC, Sitting targets - PETER HAMMILL, Nothing can stop us - ROBERT WYATT, Tom Tom Club - TOM TOM CLUB, The Catherine Wheel - DAVID BYRNE, Ghost in the machine - THE POLICE, Tattoo you - THE ROLLING STONES, I love rock & roll - JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, Private eyes - DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, Was (Not Was) - WAS (NOT WAS), Bella Donna - STEVIE NICKS, Hard promises - TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, For those about to rock (we salute you) - AC/DC, 4 - FOREIGNER, Arc of a diver - STEVE WINWOOD, Pirates - RICKIE LEE JONES, The poet - BOBBY WOMACK, Black president - FELA KUTI, The electric spanking of war babies - FUNKADELIC, Memory serves - MATERIAL, Claro que si - YELLO, Klaus Nomi - KLAUS NOMI, Fourth drawer down - THE ASSOCIATES, Of skins and heart - THE CHURCH, My Houdini - TACTICS, Only a lad - OINGO BOINGO, Always now - SECTION 25

The Best Albums Of 1980

Top 50

1. Remain in light - TALKING HEADS
2. Closer - JOY DIVISION
3. Sound affects - THE JAM
4. Crocodiles - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
5. Grotesque (after the gramme) - THE FALL
6. Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables - DEAD KENNEDYS
7. Is this real? - WIPERS
8. Los Angeles - X
9. Crazy rhythms - THE FEELIES
10. Kilimanjaro - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
11. Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE
12. Kaleidoscope - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
13. 17 seconds - THE CURE
14. The Psychedelic Furs - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
15. The Pretenders - THE PRETENDERS
16. Get happy - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
17. Underwater moonlight - THE SOFT BOYS
18. Black sea - XTC
19. In the flat field - BAUHAUS
20. Songs the lord taught us - THE CRAMPS
21. Jane from occupied Europe - SWELL MAPS
22. The Birthday Party - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
23. No questions asked - THE FLESH EATERS
24. Freedom of choice - DEVO
25. The correct use of soap - MAGAZINE
26. Boy - U2
27. Empires and dance - SIMPLE MINDS
28. Travelogue - HUMAN LEAGUE
29. Wild planet - THE B-52’s
30. End of the century - RAMONES
31. Rude intrusions - STEVE MIRO & THE EYES
32. Further ellipses - SPHERICAL OBJECTS
33. Searching for the young soul rebels - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
34. Scary monsters (and super creeps) - DAVID BOWIE
35. Peter Gabriel III - PETER GABRIEL
36. The river - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
37. Absolutely - MADNESS
38. Autoamerican - BLONDIE
39. Gentlemen take polaroids - JAPAN
40. Queen of Siam - LYDIA LUNCH
41. Do animals believe in God? - PINK MILITARY
42. For how much longer do we tolerate mass murder? - THE POP GROUP
43. Group sex - CIRCLE JERKS
44. Alan Vega - ALAN VEGA
45. Jeopardy - THE SOUND
46. Sinsemilla - BLACK UHURU
47. Signing off - UB 40
48. More Specials - THE SPECIALS
49. I just can’t stop it - THE BEAT
50. Kings of the wild frontier - ADAM AND THE ANTS

Also recommended:

The art of walking - PERE UBU, Gyrate - PYLON, Something better change - D.O.A., The black album - THE DAMNED, Nobody’s heroes - STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, Baby's got a gun - THE ONLY ONES, Strange boutique / Love zombies - THE MONOCHROME SET, Lubricate your living room - FIRE ENGINES, A-Z - COLIN NEWMAN, Half-Mute - TUXEDOMOON, Voice of America - CABARET VOLTAIRE, The return of The Durutti Column - THE DURUTTI COLUMN, Organisation / Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK, Die kleinen und die bosen - D.A.F., Solid pleasure - YELLO, Waiting for a miracle - COMSAT ANGELS, A black box - PETER HAMILL, Never forever - KATE BUSH, Zennyata mondatta - THE POLICE, Flesh and blood - ROXY MUSIC, Argybargy - SQUEEZE, Hypnotized - UNDERTONES, Big smash - WRECKLESS ERIC, The absolute game - SKIDS, Vienna - ULTRAVOX, Commercial album - THE RESIDENTS, Heartattack and vine - TOM WAITS, Double fantasy - JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO, Uprising - BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS, Bass culture - LINTON KWESI JOHNSON, Hotter than July - STEVIE WONDER, Warm leatherette - GRACE JONES, Dirty mind - PRINCE, Kurtis Blow - KURTIS BLOW, Too much pressure - SELECTER, Laughter - IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS, Snap crackle & bop - JOHN COOPER CLARKE, Heathen earth - THROBBING GRISTLE, Half machine lip moves - CHROME, Half gentlemen/not beasts - HALF JAPANESE, Devils, rats and piggies: A special message from Godzilla - MEKONS, Soldier - IGGY POP, Disconnected - STIV BATORS, Metro music - MARTHA & THE MUFFINS, Making movies - DIRE STRAITS, Ace of spades - MOTORHEAD, Back in black - AC/DC, New clear days - THE VAPORS, The age of plastic - BUGGLES, The affectionate punch - THE ASSOCIATES, The Nuns - THE NUNS, American music - THE BLASTERS, Out of the tunnel - MX-80 SOUND, We buy a hammer for daddy - LEMON KITTENS, New Age Steppers - THE NEW AGE STEPPERS, Negativland - NEGATIVLAND, Black market - THE CLASH

The Best Albums of 1985 - 1989

Top 60

1. Daydream nation - SONIC YOUTH
2. Surfer Rosa - PIXIES
3. This nation’s saving grace - THE FALL
4. It takes a nation of millions to hold us back - PUBLIC ENEMY
5. Songs about fucking - BIG BLACK
6. Psychocandy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
7. Meat is murder - THE SMITHS
8. Document - R.E.M.
9. Bug - DINOSAUR JR.
10. Warehouse: Songs and stories - HUSKER DU
11. Mirage - MEAT PUPPETS
12. House tornado - THROWING MUSES
13. Life’s too good - THE SUGARCUBES
14. Blood and chocolate - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
15. Gas, food, lodging - GREEN ON RED
16. Valley of rain - GIANT SAND
17. My invisible lantern - SCREAMING TREES
18. In the Spanish cave - THIN WHITE ROPE
19. The firstborn is dead - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
20. Isn’t anything - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
21. I - A.R. KANE
22. The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
23. Bummed - HAPPY MONDAYS
24. Raising hell - RUN DMC
25. Criminal minded - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
26. The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
27. Tallulah - THE GO-BETWEENS
28. Calenture - THE TRIFFIDS
29. Wild weed - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
30. Charm world - YO
31. Bedtime for democracy - DEAD KENNEDYS
32. Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
33. Bleach - NIRVANA
34. Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
35. Babble - THAT PETROL EMOTION
36. Paid in full - ERIC B & RAKIM
37. 3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
38. Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
39. Saturday night! The album - SCHOOLY D
40. Our favourite shop - THE STYLE COUNCIL
41. George Best - THE WEDDING PRESENT
42. The eight legged groove machine - THE WONDER STUFF
43. Desperate fires - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
44. Hope against hope - BAND OF SUSANS
45. Frequency and urgency - SALEM 66
46. Lysergic emanations - THE FUZZTONES
47. First and last and always - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
48. Low life - NEW ORDER
49. Around the world in a day - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
50. Our beloved revolutionary sweetheart - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
51. Mother Juno - THE GUN CLUB
52. Inky bloaters - DANIELLE DAX
53. Lick - THE LEMONHEADS
54. Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM
55. The world by storm - THE THREE JOHNS
56. Let’s play domination - WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES
57. Power - ICE T
58. Locust abortion technician - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
59. Land of the lost - WIPERS
60. The Young Gods - THE YOUNG GODS

The Best Albums of 1980 - 1984

Top 60

1. Perverted by language - THE FALL
2. Remain in light - TALKING HEADS
3. Closer - JOY DIVISION
4. The Smiths - THE SMITHS
5. Sound affects - THE JAM
6. Zen arcade - HUSKER DU
7. Fire dances - KILLING JOKE
8. Juju - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
9. Crocodiles - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
10. Murmur - R.E.M.
11. The days of wine and roses - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
12. From her to eternity - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
13. Over the edge - WIPERS
14. The fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
15. Violent Femmes - VIOLENT FEMMES
16. Before Hollywood - THE GO-BETWEENS
17. Playing with a different sex - THE AU PAIRS
18. Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables - DEAD KENNEDYS
19. Meat Puppets II - MEAT PUPPETS
20. Los Angeles - X
21. Pornography - THE CURE
22. Power, corruption and lies - NEW ORDER
23. Burning from the inside - BAUHAUS
24. Garlands - COCTEAU TWINS
25. The flowers of romance - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
26. Crazy rhythms - THE FEELIES
27. Damaged - BLACK FLAG
28. Double nickels on the dime - MINUTEMEN
29. Mommy’s little monster - SOCIAL DISTORTION
30. Let it be - THE REPLACEMENTS
31. Living in darkness - AGENT ORANGE
32. Atom drum bop - THE THREE JOHNS
33. Kilimanjaro - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
34. The Pretenders - THE PRETENDERS
35. Psychedelic jungle - THE CRAMPS
36. Vs - MISSION OF BURMA
37. Hex breaker - THE FLESHTONES
38. Native sons - THE LONG RYDERS
39. Treeless plain - THE TRIFFIDS
40. Desire - TUXEDO MOON
41. Dare - HUMAN LEAGUE
42. After the snow - MODERN ENGLISH
43. The Psychedelic Furs - THE PSYCHEDELIC FUR
44. Get happy - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
45. World shut your mouth - JULIAN COPE
46. Underwater moonlight - THE SOFT BOYS
47. Solid gold - GANG OF 4
48. Junkyard - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
49. Tocsin - X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND
50. The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE
51. My life in the bush of ghosts - DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO
52. Sonic Youth - SONIC YOUTH
53. Sandinista - THE CLASH
54. Black sea - XTC
55. Computer world - KRAFTWERK
56. Sons and fascination - SIMPLE MINDS
57. War - U2
58. High land hard rain - AZTEC CAMERA
59. Gravity talks - GREEN ON RED
60. Curse of Zounds - ZOUNDS