60 Albums 1984

Another good year for music but there is a significant drop-off in the quality of albums on the list. Not so many great albums but lots of good ones. I also just didn't have another album that stood out above the rest as in so many other years.

I would usually put a live album in a different list but this Talking Heads album was so very special. I also saw them performing these songs on this tour.

1. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
2. R.E.M. - Reckoning 
3. Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive?
4. Prince - Purple Rain
5. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
6. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains
7. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
8. Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire
9. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
10. Lou Reed - New Sensations
11. The Pretenders - Learning To Crawl
12. The Cure - The Top
13. This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
14. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hyaena
15. The Replacements - Let It Be
16. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
17. The Green Pajamas - Summer Of Lust
18. Let's Active - Cypress
19. The Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
20. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather
21. Elvis Costello - Goodbye Cruel World
22. The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
23. Lyres - On Fyre
24. Van Morrison - Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast
25. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
26. Greg Brown - The Iowa Waltz
27. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
28. XTC - The Big Express
29. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
30. The Art of Noise - Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise
31. David Bowie - Tonight
32. Guadalcanal Diary - Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man
33. Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
34. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
35. The Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show
36. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
37. Tones On Tail - Pop
38. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
39. General Public - All The Rage
40. The Long Ryders - Native Sons
41. Beat Rodeo - Staying Out Late With The Beat Rodeo
42. Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
43. Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak
44. The Cure - The Head On The Door
45. Rainy Day - Rainy Day
46. The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture
47. Shriekback - The Infinite
48. Japan - Exorcising Ghosts
49. The Long Ryders - Native Sons
50. Joe Ely - Hi-Res
51. Van Morrison - Live At The Grand Opera House Belfast
52. Chris Hillman - Desert Rose
53. Sade - Diamond Life
54. Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
55. The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
56. The Everly Brothers - EB 84
57. Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life
58. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome
59. Thompson Twins - Into The Gap
60. Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap