Top Ten Albums of 1980s


1989 Albums
1. Pixies - Doolittle
2. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
3. The Wedding Present - Bizarro
4. The Blue Nile - Hats
5. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
6. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
7. Robyn Hitchcock - Queen Elvis
8. Faith No More - The Real Thing
9. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
10. New Order - Technique


1988 Albums
1. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
2. Janes Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
3. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
5. Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
6. Robyn Hitchcock - Globe of Frogs
7. The Feelies - Only Life
8. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
9. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
10. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

1987 Albums
1. Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
2. The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
3. REM - Document
4. Sonic Youth - Sister
5. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
6 The Wedding Present - George Best
7. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
8. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
9. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
10. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

1986 Albums
1. REM - Life's Rich Pageant
2. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
3. Paul Simon - Graceland
4. The Feelies - The Good Earth
5. Billy Bragg - Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
6. They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
7. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
8. Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians- Element of Light
9. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral … My Trial
10. New Order - Brotherhood

1985 Albums
1. The Replacements - Tim
2. Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians - Fegmania!
3. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
4. Talking Heads - Little Creatures
5. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
6. Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
7. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
8. The Cure - Head on the Door
9. Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
10. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

1984 Albums
1. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
2. The Replacements - Let It Be
3. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
4. The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
5. The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
6. Billy Bragg - Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
7. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
8. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
9. The Smiths - The Smiths
10. REM - Reckoning

1983 Albums
1. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
2. Billy Bragg - Life's A Riot with Spy vs. Spy
3. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
4. Meat Puppets - II
5. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
6. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
7. David Bowie - Let's Dance
8. REM - Murmur
9. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
10. Echo and the Bunnymen - Porcupine

1982 Albums
1. The Clash - Combat Rock
2. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Dexy's Midnight Runner - Too Rye-ay
5. Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
6. Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
7. Roxy Music - Avalon
8. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
9. The Cure - Pornography
10. Mission of Burma - Vs.

1981 Albums
1. The Human League - Dare!
2. Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime
3. King Tubby & Roots Radics - Dangerous Dub
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
5. Black Flag - Damaged
6. David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel
7. Elvis Costello - Trust
8. Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
9. The Cars - Shake It Up
10. Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches

1980 Albums
1. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
2. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
3. Michael Hurley - Snockgrass
4. The Sound - Jeopardy
5. Jim Carroll - Catholic Boy
6. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
7. Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
8. Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Get Happy!!!
9. Pretenders - Pretenders
10. Joy Division - Closer