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Pitchfork - The top 100 albums of the 1980s (2002)

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Albums in List

Pos Album Artist
1 Daydream nation Sonic youth
2 Remain in light Talking heads
3 Paul's boutique Beastie boys
4 Doolittle Pixies
5 Murmur R.E.M.
6 The queen is dead The Smiths
7 Surfer Rosa Pixies
8 Rain dogs Tom Waits
9 It takes a nation of millions to hold us back Public enemy
10 Closer Joy division
11 Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits
12 Purple rain Prince
13 This nation's saving grace The Fall
14 Sister Sonic youth
15 Skylarking XTC
16 On fire Galaxie 500
17 Double nickels on the dime Minutemen
18 3 feet high and rising De la soul
19 Second edition Public Image Ltd
20 Deceit This heat
21 My life in the bush of ghosts Brian Eno & David Byrne
22 Isn't anything My bloody Valentine
23 Psychocandy The Jesus and Mary chain
24 Solid gold Gang of four
25 Damaged Black flag
26 Get happy! Elvis Costello
27 Thriller Michael Jackson
28 Power, corruption and lies New order
29 Let it be Replacements
30 The Joshua tree U2
31 EVOL Sonic youth
32 Zen arcade Hüsker dü
33 Hex enduction hour The Fall
34 Spirit of Eden Talk talk
35 Straight outta Compton N.W.A.
36 Violent femmes Violent femmes
37 Tim Replacements
38 Disintegration The Cure
39 The Stone roses The Stone roses
40 You're living all over me Dinosaur jr.
41 Licensed to ill Beastie boys
42 The Trinity sessions Cowboy junkies
43 Raising hell Run DMC
44 Computer world Kraftwerk
45 Sign o the times Prince
46 English settlement XTC
47 Naked city John Zorn
48 Document R.E.M.
49 Vs. Mission of Burma
50 The perfect prescription Spacemen 3
51 I'm your man Leonard Cohen
52 Paid in full Eric B & Rakim
53 Signals, calls and marches Mission of Burma
54 Songs about fucking Big black
55 Synchronicity The Police
56 Discipline King Crimson
57 Come on pilgrim Pixies
58 Imperial bedroom Elvis Costello
59 Appetite for destruction Guns n' roses
60 Nebraska Bruce Springsteen
61 Homotopy to Marie Nurse with wound
62 Reckoning R.E.M.
63 Colossal youth Young marble giants
64 And don't the kids just love it Television personalities
65 Underwater moonlight The Soft boys
66 Psonic psunpot The Dukes of stratosphear
67 Rum, sodomy & the lash Pogues
68 Stop making sense Talking heads
69 Crazy rhythms The Feelies
70 Trust Elvis Costello
71 Pleased to meet you Replacements
72 Up on the sun Meat puppets
73 Horse rotorvator Coil
74 Fear and whiskey Mekons
75 Criminal minded Boogie down productions
76 Stands for Decibels DB's
77 Strangeways, here we come The Smiths
78 Lincoln They might be giants
79 E2-E4 Manuel Göttsching
80 New day rising Hüsker dü
81 Blue bell knob Cocteau twins
82 Perverted by language The Fall
83 The colour of spring Talk talk
84 Come away with ESG ESG
85 Graceland Paul Simon
86 Ghost in the machine The Police
87 Dirty mind Prince
88 Playing with fire Spacemen 3
89 Soul discharge Boredoms
90 Nothing's shocking Jane's addiction
91 Los Angeles X
92 Hounds of love Kate Bush
93 Scary monsters & super creeps David Bowie
94 Meat puppets II Meat puppets
95 Rio Duran duran
96 Rites of spring Rites of spring
97 The Mekons rock 'n' roll Mekons
98 Treasure Cocteau twins
99 Songs of the free Gang of four
100 Out of step Minor threat