Wednesday, November 9, 2011

60 Albums 1980

Mixing it up a little... I'm jumping from the 60s to 1980. This was also another year where I couldn't stop at 60 at ended up with a list of my 100 favorites for the year.






  1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
  2. Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
  3. The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
  4. The Clash - Sandinista!
  5. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeeps)
  6. U2 - Boy
  7. Pretenders - Pretenders
  8. Split Enz - True Colours
  9. Prince - Dirty Mind
  10. Squeeze Argybargy
  11. Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure
  12. Dirty Looks - Dirty Looks
  13. Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
  14. Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
  15. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure
  16. XTC - Black Sea
  17. Bruce Springsteen - The River
  18. Joy Division - Closer
  19. Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
  20. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
  21. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
  22. Hall & Oates - Voices
  23. The Only Ones - Baby's Got a Gun
  24. Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
  25. X - Los Angeles
  26. Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
  27. The Jam - Sound Affects
  28. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
  29. Elvis Costello - Taking Liberties
  30. Fischer-Z - Going Deaf For a Living
  31. Martha & The Muffins - Metro Music
  32. 999 - The Biggest Prize in Sport
  33. Joan Armatrading - Me, Myself and I
  34. Roxy Music - Flesh + Blood
  35. Defunkt - Defunkt
  36. John Hiatt - Two Bit Monsters
  37. Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla
  38. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
  39. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
  40. Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
  41. T Bone Burnett - Truth Decay
  42. Devo - Freedom of Choice
  43. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
  44. The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
  45. The B-52's - Wild Planet
  46. The Undertones - Hypnotised
  47. Ramones - End of the Century
  48. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Uprising
  49. The Kinks - One For The Road
  50. Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy
  51. Kate Bush - Never For Ever
  52. The Vapors - New Clear Days
  53. The Specials - More Specials
  54. The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
  55. Joan Jett - Joan Jett
  56. Bootsy Collins - Ultra Wave
  57. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
  58. The Roches - Nurds
  59. Teenage Head - Frantic City
  60. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
  61. The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column
  62. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
  63. Ultravox - Vienna
  64. Blondie - Autoamerican
  65. Billy Burnette - Billy Burnette
  66. The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
  67. The Inmates - Shot in the Dark
  68. UB40 - Signing Off
  69. Robert Gordon - Bad Boy
  70. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
  71. Steely Dan - Gaucho
  72. Link Wray - Live at the Paradiso
  73. AC/DC - Back in Black
  74. Pylon - Gyrate
  75. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
  76. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  77. Linton Kwesi Johnson - LKJ in Dub
  78. Roky Erickson & The Aliens - Roky Erickson & The Aliens (5 Symbols)
  79. Emmylou Harris - Roses in the Snow
  80. Mink DeVille - Le Chat Bleu
  81. Van Morrison - Common One
  82. The Human League - Travelogue
  83. The Birthday Party - The Birthday Party
  84. Bruce Cockburn - Humans
  85. Willie Nile - Willie Nile
  86. Visage - Visage
  87. Jim Carroll - Catholic Boy
  88. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
  89. Wreckless Eric - Big Smash
  90. Swell Maps - In Jane From Occupied Europe
  91. Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
  92. Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver
  93. Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
  94. Paul McCartney - Paul McCartney II
  95. Roseanne Cash - Right or Wrong
  96. Buggles - The Age of Plastic
  97. Orchestral Nanoeuvres in the Dark - Organization
  98. Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
  99. Various Artists - No Nukes
  100. BB Gabor - BB Gabor

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