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

The Best Albums Of 1989

Top 50

1. Automatic - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
2. I - A.R. KANE
3. Monsters - MEAT PUPPETS
4. 3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
5. The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
6. Doolittle - PIXIES
7. Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
8. Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
9. Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
10. Hup - THE WONDER STUFF
11. Lick - THE LEMONHEADS
12. Hunkpapa - THROWING MUSES
13. Buzz factory - SCREAMING TREES
14. Bleach - NIRVANA
15. Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM
16. Headache rhetoric - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS
17. Bizzaro - THE WEDDING PRESENT
18. Sittin’ pretty - THE PASTELS
19. Love is hell - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION
20. Don’t stop the night - MOMUS
21. Technique - NEW ORDER
22. Dubrovnik blues - THE DUBROVNIKS
23. Love agenda - BAND OF SUSANS
24. L’eau rouge - THE YOUNG GODS
25. Spike - ELVIS COSTELLO
26. Key lime pie - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
27. Cataract - THE WALKABOUTS
28. Scar - LUSH
29. When in Rome, kill me - CUD
30. Sell me a god - EAT
31. Up - THE PERFECT DISASTER
32. Rock’n’roll - THE MEKONS
33. The whitey album - CICCONE YOUTH
34. The Iceberg / Freedom of speech...just watch what you say - ICE T
35. Talking to God - PORCELAIN BUS
36. Distemper - THE NEW CHRISTS
37. Intolerance - GRANT HART
38. One of our girls (has gone missing) - A.C. MARIAS
39. Oranges and lemons - XTC
40. Black swan - THE TRIFFIDS
41. Blind ear - THE CELIBATE RIFLES
42. Fromohio - FIREHOSE
43. More songs about love and hate - THE GODFATHERS
44. Lincoln - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
45. Tranzophobia - MEGA CITY 4
46. Brain drain - RAMONES
47. This is the day...this is the hour...this is this - POP WILL EAT ITSELF
48. Workbook - BOB MOULD
49. Candleland - IAN McCULLOCH
50. Groove - NICKY SUDDEN & THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Also recommended:

Dum-Dum - THE VASELINES, Margin walker - FUGAZI, Go the hack - COSMIC PSYCHOS, A warning to the curious - I, LUDICROUS, Tell ’em we ’re surfin’ - THE FAMILY CAT, Fade out - LOOP, Playing with fire - SPACEMEN 3, Taste - THE TELESCOPES, Free - CONCRETE BLONDE, Queen Elvis - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS, Boomerang - THE CREATURES, Blind man’s zoo - 10000 MANIACS, Sonic Temple and the court of Babylon - BRIAN RITCHIE, Lately I keep scissors - BARBARA MANNING, The taller you are, the shorter you get - MY DAD IS DEAD, 3 - VIOLENT FEMMES, Pop said - DARLING BUDS, Snowball - FIELD MICE, Meglamania - BIRDHOUSE, The circle - WIPERS, Transportation D. Vices - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Awakening - THE LAST, Chris Cacavas - CHRIS CACAVAS & JUNKYARD LOVE, I pass for human - STONE BY STONE, Beelzebubba - THE DEAD MILKMEN, Primal Scream - PRIMAL SCREAM, The Acid House album - BIFF BANG POW!, It’s beginning to and back again - WIRE, Here today, tomorrow next week - THE SUGARCUBES, Paul's boutique - BEASTIE BOYS, Am I black enough for you? - SCHOOLLY D, Ghetto music: The blueprint of hip hop - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, Unfinished business - EPMD, Friendly as a hand grenade - TACKHEAD, Disintegration - THE CURE, Tweez - SLINT, United Kingdom - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, On fire - GALAXIE 500, In heat - FUZZTONES, Unknown passage - DEAD MOON, Dial M for Motherfucker - PUSSY GALORE, Positraction - LIVE SKULL, Wrong - NOMEANSNO, Thermos - BAILTER SPACE, The law of things - THE BATS, Labyrinth - THE MOFFS, Some disenchanted evening - THE VERLAINES, Hail - STRAITJACKET FITS, The size of food - JPS EXPERIENCE, Lyceum - THE ORCHIDS, The honey tangle - ADULT NET, Earwig - BLAKE BABIES, Black candy - BEAT HAPPENING, President Yo La Tengo - YO LA TENGO, Telepathic surgery - THE FLAMING LIPS, The freed man - SEBADOH, Too much sleep - BONGWATER, Financially dissatisfied, philosophically trying - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Hard volume - ROLLINS BAND, God's balls - TAD, Umber - BITCH MAGNET, Understand? - NAKED RAYGUN, Roadmouth - FLUID, Witch doctor - SIDEWINTERS, Failure - THE POSIES, Against nature - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, We shoot for the moon - SLOVENLY, Rock 'n' roll - THE CYNICS, Ego tripping at the gates of hell - LOUIS TILLETT, Moss side story - BARRY ADAMSON, Hope and despair - EDWYN COLLINS, Floating into the night - JULEE CRUISE, Haus der luge - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, The king and eye - RESIDENTS, The burning world - SWANS, Mother's milk - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, The real thing - FAITH NO MORE, Pretty hate machine - NINE INCH NAILS, The mind is a terrible thing to taste - MINISTRY, No control - BAD RELIGION, Love is a battlefield of wounded hearts - THE HARD-ONS, Mystery road - DRIVIN' N CRYIN', Just because you can't see it... doesn't mean it isn't there... - KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS, Enquire within - THE STEPPES, Scenes from the dreams of angels - OUTSKIRTS OF INFINITY, Headcoats down! - THEE HEADCOATS, Live'r than God - THEE HYPNOTICS, Griller - UT, Tantilla - HOUSE OF FREAKS, Manic, magic, majestic - THE BAND OF HOLY JOY, End of the century party - GARY CLAIL, As nasty as they wanna be - 2 LIVE CREW, No one can do it better - THE D.O.C., Road to the riches - KOOL G RAP & DJ POLO, Grip It! On that other level - GETO BOYS, It's a Big Daddy thing - BIG DADDY KANE, Club classics Vol.1 - SOUL II SOUL, 33 45 78 - STEREO MC’S, Liquidizer - JESUS JONES, What's that noise? - COLDCUT, Mind bomb - THE THE, The enraged will inherit the earth - McCARTHY, This one's for the ladies - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Magnum cum louder - HOODOO GURUS, Don't tell a soul - THE REPLACEMENTS, Cloudland - PERE UBU, New York - LOU REED, Freedom - NEIL YOUNG, Oh mercy - BOB DYLAN, Full moon fever - TOM PETTY, Avalon sunset - VAN MORRISON, Yellow moon - NEVILLE BROTHERS, Indigo Girls - INDIGO GIRLS, Raw like sushi - NENEH CHERRY, Maria McKee - MARIA McKEE, The sensual world - KATE BUSH, Each man kills the thing he loves - GAVIN FRIDAY, Customs - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Εν πλω - ΕΝ ΠΛΩ, Laying down law - THE WRECKERY, Blow - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, Scratch the surface - THE JASMINE MINKS, The singular adventures of the Style Council - THE STYLE COUNCIL, Once round the fair - THE LOFT, Giant Sandwich - GIANT SAND, Seminal live - THE FALL