Ultimate Record Collection - the 500 greatest albums of the 1980s (2024)

Albums in lijst

	Pos	Album	Artiest
	1	Hounds of love	Kate Bush
	2	Remain in light	Talking heads
	3	Closer	Joy division
	4	Computer world	Kraftwerk
	5	3 feet high and rising	De la soul
	6	Sign o the times	Prince
No Img	7	The queen is dead	The Smiths
	8	Isn't anything	My bloody Valentine
	9	Spirit of Eden	Talk talk
No Img	10	Hatful of hollow	The Smiths
	11	Murmur	R.E.M.
	12	Disintegration	The Cure
	13	Daydream nation	Sonic youth
	14	Dare	The Human league
	15	Nebraska	Bruce Springsteen
	16	The Stone roses	The Stone roses
	17	Doolittle	Pixies
	18	It takes a nation of millions to hold us back	Public enemy
	19	Purple rain	Prince
	20	Rattlesnakes	Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
	21	Surfer Rosa	Pixies
	22	Psychocandy	The Jesus and Mary chain
	23	Avalon	Roxy music
	24	Steve McQueen	Prefab sprout
	25	My life in the bush of ghosts	Brian Eno & David Byrne
	26	The lexicon of love	ABC
	27	Thriller	Michael Jackson
	28	Parade	Prince
	29	Paul's boutique	Beastie boys
	30	Technique	New order
	31	Graceland	Paul Simon
	32	Scary monsters & super creeps	David Bowie
	33	I'm your man	Leonard Cohen
No Img	34	The head on the door	The Cure
	35	Cupid & psyche 85	Scritti politti
No Img	36	Searching for the young soul rebels	Dexy's midnight runners
	37	Rain dogs	Tom Waits
	38	The nightfly	Donald Fagen
	39	Treasure	Cocteau twins
	40	Power, corruption and lies	New order
	41	Blood & chocolate	Elvis Costello
	42	Bummed	Happy mondays
	43	Juju	Siouxsie and the Banshees
No Img	44	King of America	Elvis Costello
	45	Swordfishtrombones	Tom Waits
No Img	46	Darklands	The Jesus and Mary chain
	47	New York	Lou Reed
	48	Imperial bedroom	Elvis Costello
	49	Hex enduction hour	The Fall
	50	Around the world in a day	Prince
	51	Hats	The Blue Nile
No Img	52	The Smiths	The Smiths
	53	Ocean rain	Echo & the Bunnymen
No Img	54	This nation's saving grace	The Fall
	55	Floodland	The Sisters of mercy
	56	The dreaming	Kate Bush
	57	Crocodiles	Echo & the Bunnymen
	58	Back in black	AC/DC
	59	High land, hard rain	Aztec camera
No Img	60	First and last and always	The Sisters of mercy
	61	You can't hide your love forever	Orange juice
	62	Non-stop erotic cabaret	Soft cell
	63	So	Peter Gabriel
	64	Secrets of the beehive	David Sylvian
	65	Sandinista!	The Clash
No Img	66	Apollo : atmospheres & soundtracks	Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno
	67	Faith	The Cure
	68	Kilimanjaro	The Teardrop explodes
	69	Strangeways, here we come	The Smiths
	70	The House of love	House of Love
	71	Miss America	Mary Margaret O'Hara
	72	Songs the Lord taught us	The Cramps
	73	More Specials	The Specials
	74	Skylarking	XTC
No Img	75	Sulk	The Associates
	76	A secret wish	Propaganda
	77	Life's rich pageant	R.E.M.
	78	Low-life	New order
	79	Playing with fire	Spacemen 3
	80	Crazy rhythms	The Feelies
	81	Underwater moonlight	The Soft boys
	82	Gaucho	Steely dan
	83	Sound affects	The Jam
	84	The river	Bruce Springsteen
	85	Please	Pet shop boys
	86	Soul mining	The The
	87	Peter Gabriel (3)	Peter Gabriel
	88	Songs from the big chair	Tears for fears
	89	Odyshape	The Raincoats
No Img	90	Seventeen seconds	The Cure
	91	Born in the USA	Bruce Springsteen
	92	Rum, sodomy & the lash	Pogues
	93	Control	Janet Jackson
	94	Pornography	The Cure
	95	Forever breathes the lonely word	Felt
	96	Infected	The The
No Img	97	Meat is murder	The Smiths
	98	The colour of spring	Talk talk
	99	Reckoning	R.E.M.
No Img	100	Compact disc	Public Image Ltd
	101	Junkyard	The Birthday party
	102	Pleased to meet you	Replacements
	103	Shoot out the lights	Richard & Linda Thompson
	104	Architecture & morality	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
No Img	105	Fables of the reconstruction/Reconstruction of the fables	R.E.M.
	106	Lucinda Williams	Lucinda Williams
	107	East side story	Squeeze
	108	Zen arcade	Hüsker dü
	109	Pelican West	Haircut One Hundred
No Img	110	Don't stand me down	Dexy's midnight runners
	111	Green	R.E.M.
	112	Time	Electric Light Orchestra
	113	From gardens where we feel secure	Virginia Astley
	114	Born sandy devotional	Triffids
	115	Document	R.E.M.
	116	Songs to remember	Scritti politti
	117	Let it be	Replacements
No Img	118	From her to eternity	Nick Cave and the Bad seeds
	119	Happy nightmare baby	Opal
No Img	120	You're living all over me	Dinosaur jr.
	121	Bug	Dinosaur jr.
	122	Heaven up here	Echo & the Bunnymen
	123	If I should fall from grace with God	Pogues
	124	Rapture	Anita Baker
	125	Up for a bit with the Pastels	Pastels
	126	The days of wine and roses	The Dream syndicate
	127	The hurting	Tears for fears
	128	1999	Prince
	129	Come away with ESG	ESG
	130	Music for a new society	John Cale
	131	Talking with the taxman about poetry	Billy Bragg
	132	Vs.	Mission of Burma
	133	Colossal youth	Young marble giants
	134	Warehouse : songs and stories	Hüsker dü
	135	Duke	Genesis
	136	Blue bell knob	Cocteau twins
	137	Diamond life	Sade
	138	Eliminator	ZZ top
	139	Old rotten hat	Robert Wyatt
	140	George Best	Wedding present
	141	Liberty Belle and the black diamond express	The Go-betweens
	142	Absolutely	Madness
	143	Fear and whiskey	Mekons
	144	Metamatic	John Foxx
	145	A little man and a house and the whole world window	Cardiacs
	146	Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables	Dead Kennedys
	147	Ride the lightning	Metallica
No Img	148	Too-rye-ay	Dexy's midnight runners
	149	Double nickels on the dime	Minutemen
	150	Journey to the one	Pharoah Sanders
	151	The last FourFathers	Prisoners
	152	On fire	Galaxie 500
	153	Our favourite shop	The Style council
	154	Pirates	Rickie Lee Jones
	155	Saint Julian	Julian Cope
	156	Five good evils	Playn Jayn
	157	Stoneage Romeos	Hoodoo gurus
	158	Tales of the unexpected	Red guitars
	159	The Joshua tree	U2
	160	Oh mercy	Bob Dylan
No Img	161	Paris, Texas (soundtrack)	Ry Cooder
	162	Red	Black uhuru
	163	Discipline	King Crimson
	164	Dreamtime	Tom Verlaine
	165	E2-E4	Manuel Göttsching
	166	Early recordings	Opal
	167	Get happy!	Elvis Costello
	168	I just can't stop it	The Beat
No Img	169	The white album	Diamond head
	170	Nightclubbing	Grace Jones
	171	Punch the clock	Elvis Costello
	172	The correct use of soap	Magazine
	173	1984	Van Halen
No Img	174	Café bleu	The Style council
	175	Electric	The Cult
	176	Hotter than july	Stevie Wonder
	177	Kite	Kirsty MacColl
	178	Master of puppets	Metallica
	179	Music for the masses	Depeche mode
No Img	180	Robespierre's velvet basement	Jacobites
	181	This is the sea	Waterboys
	182	Bizarro	Wedding present
	183	Blizzard of Ozz	Ozzy Osbourne
	184	Boomerang	The Creatures
	185	Combat rock	The Clash
	186	Black sea	XTC
	187	The painted word	Television personalities
No Img	188	What's this for ... !	Killing joke
	189	In the flat field	Bauhaus
	190	Bring the family	John Hiatt
	191	Flip your wing	Hüsker dü
	192	Stop making sense	Talking heads
	193	This is Big audio dynamite	Big audio dynamite
	194	Copperhead road	Steve Earle
	195	Explosions in the glass palace	Rain parade
	196	Giant	Woodentops
	197	Hypnotised	The Undertones
	198	Royal trux	Royal trux
	199	The Lilac time	Lilac time
	200	Waiting	Fun boy three
	201	Substance 1987	New order
	202	If I die, I die	Virgin prunes
	203	16 lovers lane	The Go-betweens
	204	Big science	Laurie Anderson
	205	The eight legged groove machine	The Wonder stuff
	206	Gyrate	Pylon
	207	Hallowed ground	Violent femmes
	208	Let's dance	David Bowie
	209	Swoon	Prefab sprout
	210	The return of the Durutti column	The Durutti column
	211	The walking	Jane Siberry
	212	Tunnel of love	Bruce Springsteen
No Img	213	Acnalbasac Noom	Slapp happy
	214	Crumbling the antiseptic beauty	Felt
	215	Franks wild years	Tom Waits
No Img	216	Kins	Griot Galaxy
	217	Miami	Gun club
No Img	218	Paradise circus	Lilac time
	219	Perverted by language	The Fall
	220	Playing with a different sex	Au pairs
	221	Talk is cheap	Keith Richards
No Img	222	Watash-dake?	Keiji Haino
	223	39 minutes	Microdisney
No Img	224	Heartbeat city	The Cars
No Img	225	Tallulah	The Go-betweens
	226	The Trinity sessions	Cowboy junkies
	227	This is the story	Proclaimers
	228	Before Hollywood	The Go-betweens
	229	Black snake diamond role	Robyn Hitchcock
	230	Boat to Bolivia	Martin Stephenson and the Daintees
	231	Heaven & the sea	Pete Shelley
	232	Nothing can stop us	Robert Wyatt
	233	One of our gilrs (has gone missing)	A.C Marias
	234	Welcome to the club	Ian Hunter
	235	Black metal	Venom
	236	Emergency third rail power trip	Rain parade
	237	False accusations	Robert Cray band
	238	Let the snakes crinkle their heads to death	Felt
	239	Making movies	Dire straits
	240	Never for ever	Kate Bush
	241	Peepshow	Siouxsie and the Banshees
	242	Peter Gabriel (4)	Peter Gabriel
	243	She's so unusual	Cyndi Lauper
	244	The lion and the cobra	Sinéad O'Connor
No Img	245	The Plimsouls	The Plimsouls
	246	The Psychedelic furs	The Psychedelic furs
	247	Tug of war	Paul McCartney
	248	101	Depeche mode
	249	Actually	Pet shop boys
	250	Bitter funeral beer	Bengt Berger
	251	New clear day	The Vapors
	252	Trust	Elvis Costello
	253	69	A.R. Kane
	254	Beat boys in the jet age	The Lambrettas
	255	Climate of hunter	Scott Walker
	256	Common one	Van Morrison
No Img	257	Forever now	The Psychedelic furs
No Img	258	Human frailty	Hunters + Collectors
No Img	259	Introducing the hardline according to	Terence Trent D'Arby
	260	Paid in full	Eric B & Rakim
	261	Automatic	The Jesus and Mary chain
	262	A walk across the rooftops	The Blue Nile
	263	Duck rock	Malcolm McLaren
	264	EVOL	Sonic youth
	265	Fisherman's blues	Waterboys
	266	Locust abortion technician	Butthole surfers
No Img	267	Throwing muses (1986)	Throwing muses
	268	What makes a man start fires	Minutemen
	269	Nothing's shocking	Jane's addiction
	270	Porcupine	Echo & the Bunnymen
No Img	271	Spring hill fair	The Go-betweens
	272	Tinderbox	Siouxsie and the Banshees
	273	Tonight	David Bowie
No Img	274	Under the sun	Paul Kelly & the Coloured girls
	275	Bend sinister	The Fall
	276	Brilliant trees	David Sylvian
	277	Dum-Dum	Vaselines
	278	Love	The Cult
No Img	279	Life is a grand…	Henry Badowski
No Img	280	On land (ambient 4)	Brian Eno
	281	Flesh + blood	Roxy music
	282	Special Beat service	The Beat
	282	Freedom	Neil Young
	283	Brotherhood	New order
	284	Guitar town	Steve Earle
	285	Into the pandemonium	Celtic frost
No Img	286	Kangaroo?	Red crayola
	287	Kill 'em all	Metallica
	288	Mark of the Mole	The Residents
	289	Stronger than pride	Sade
	290	Tin drum	Japan
	291	Appetite for destruction	Guns n' roses
	293	Love buzz	Hummingbirds
	294	Off the bone	The Cramps
	295	Rio	Duran duran
	296	Rip it up	Orange juice
	297	Slow turning	John Hiatt
	298	Songs of the free	Gang of four
	299	A taste of pink!	Prisoners
No Img	300	Tattoo you	The Rolling stones
	301	English settlement	XTC
	302	Fire of love	Gun club
	303	McCartney II	Paul McCartney
	304	Sextet	A Certain ratio
	305	So far away	The Chords
No Img	306	The moon and the melodies	Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Frazer
	307	The perfect prescription	Spacemen 3
	308	War	U2
	309	A kiss in the dreamhouse	Siouxsie and the Banshees
	310	Animal magic	The Blow monkeys
	311	Atomizer	Big black
	312	Birth school work death	Godfathers
	313	Don't break the oath	Mercyful fate
	314	Don't tell a soul	Replacements
	315	Lazy ways	Marine girls
	316	Let's play domination	World domination enterprises
	317	Reckless	Bryan Adams
	318	Tender prey	Nick Cave and the Bad seeds
	319	Sister	Sonic youth
	320	Songs to learn and sing	Echo & the Bunnymen
	321	Tom tom club	Tom tom club
	322	Victorialand	Cocteau twins
	323	World of echo	Arthur Russell
	324	Beautiful vision	Van Morrison
	325	Duran duran	Duran duran
	326	Gravity talks	Green on red
	327	Jonathan sings!	Jonathan Richman and the Modern lovers
No Img	328	Magnetic fields	Jean-Michel Jarre
	329	Meat puppets II	Meat puppets
	330	Strange boutique	The Monochrome set
	331	The pictorial Jackson review	Felt
	332	TheWiserMiserDemelza	Prisoners
	333	TP	Teddy Pendergrass
	334	Welcome to the Pleasure dome	Frankie goes to Hollywood
	335	Complete discography	Minor threat
	336	Face value	Phil Collins
	337	Glassworks	Philip Glass
No Img	338	La varieté by Weekend	Weekend
	339	Sentimental hygiene	Warren Zevon
	340	Songs about fucking	Big black
	341	LC	The Durutti column
No Img	342	Pacific street	The Pale fountains
	343	Bad brains	Bad brains
No Img	344	Heyday	The Church
	345	King of the dead	Cirith ungol
	346	Mr Uddich-Schmuddich goes to town	Laughing clowns
No Img	347	Steel wheels	The Rolling stones
	348	Stray cats	Stray cats
	349	Boy	U2
	350	Club classics : vol. one	Soul II Soul
No Img	351	Emotional rescue	The Rolling stones
	352	Eye for an eye	Corrosion of conformity
	353	Fried	Julian Cope
	354	Le Mystère des voix Bulgares : vol. 1	Mystère des voix Bulgares
	355	Electrical storm	Ed Kuepper
	356	The guitar and other machines	The Durutti column
No Img	357	The wonderful and frightening world of	The Fall
	358	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman
	359	As Falls Wichita, So falls Wichita falls	Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays
	360	Empires and dance	Simple minds
	361	Idlewild	Everything but the girl
	362	Sex	The Necks
	363	Roaring days	Weddings Parties Anything
	364	Sound of confusion	Spacemen 3
	365	Red roses for me	Pogues
	366	Bird dog	Verlaines
	367	Brothers in arms	Dire straits
	368	Damaged	Black flag
No Img	369	Gold mine trash	Felt
	370	Long live the Kane	Big Daddy Kane
No Img	371	Pretenders II	The Pretenders
	372	Speaking in tongues	Talking heads
	373	The serpent's egg	Dead can dance
	374	The Colorblind James experience	Colorblind James experience
	375	Rooms of the magnificent	Ed Kuepper
	376	Honi soit	John Cale
	377	Introspective	Pet shop boys
	378	Like a prayer	Madonna
	379	Manic, magic, majestic	Band of Holy joy
No Img	380	Music for stowaways	British Electric Foundation
	381	Nobody's heroes	Stiff little fingers
	382	Old friends	Guy Clark
	383	Spike	Elvis Costello
	384	The world as it is today	Art bears
	385	Dirty mind	Prince
No Img	386	Grotesque (after the Gramme)	The Fall
	387	Listen like thieves	Inxs
	388	Manual of errors	Snakefinger
	389	My war	Black flag
No Img	390	Rank	The Smiths
	391	Synchro system	King Sunny Adé
	392	Tango in the night	Fleetwood mac
	393	The final cut	Pink floyd
	394	The splendour of fear	Felt
	395	Today	Galaxie 500
No Img	396	Baby's got a gun	The Only ones
	397	Diesel and dust	Midnight oil
	398	Floating into the night	Julee Cruise
	399	Love is hell	Kitchens of distinction
	400	Over the edge	Wipers
	401	Seven year ache	Rosanne Cash
	402	Tim	Replacements
	403	Violent femmes	Violent femmes
	404	Madness 7	Madness
	405	Candy apple grey	Hüsker dü
No Img	406	In from the cold	Prisoners
	407	Mask	Bauhaus
	408	Minor threat	Minor threat
	409	Pontiac	Lyle Lovett
	410	The sensual world	Kate Bush
	411	Kick	Inxs
No Img	412	London 0 Hull 4	The Housemartins
	413	Private eyes	Hall & Oates
	414	Radio K.A.O.S.	Roger Waters
	415	Teddy boys don't knit	Vivian Stanshall
	416	The burning world	Swans
No Img	417	The house sound of Chicago	#
	418	The number of the beast	Iron maiden
	419	Dolmen music	Meredith Monk
No Img	420	Dome	Dome
	421	Genesis	Genesis
	422	Louder than love	Soundgarden
	423	Penthouse and pavement	Heaven 17
	424	Reign in blood	Slayer
	425	Bleach	Nirvana
	426	Hunkpapa	Throwing muses
	427	I feel for you	Chaka Khan
	428	Into the gap	Thompson twins
	429	Licensed to ill	Beastie boys
	430	Me and a monkey on the moon	Felt
	431	Strawberries	The Damned
	432	Women and children first	Van Halen
	433	Ace of spades	Motörhead
	434	Bad moon rising	Sonic youth
	435	Double fantasy	John Lennon & Yoko Ono
	436	Kings of the wild frontier	Adam and the Ants
	437	Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me	The Cure
	438	Lone star state of mind	Nanci Griffith
	439	Rockin' and romance	Jonathan Richman and the Modern lovers
	440	Script for a jester's tear	Marillion
	441	Straight from the heart	Patrice Rushen
	442	The world won't listen	The Smiths
No Img	443	Virgins and Philistines	The Colourfield
	444	Wild planet	B-52's
	445	And don't the kids just love it	Television personalities
	446	13 songs	Fugazi
No Img	447	Suicide	Alan Vega & Martin Rev
No Img	448	Beauty and the beat	The Go-Go's
	449	British steel	Judas priest
	450	Cadaquéz	Marden hill
	451	California	American music club
	452	Construction time again	Depeche mode
	453	Critical beatdown	UltraMagnetic MC's
	454	Deceit	This heat
No Img	455	Doc at the radar station	Captain Beefheart and the Magic band
	456	Eye in the sky	Alan Parsons project
	457	Fernwarme	Michael Rother
	458	Hup	The Wonder stuff
No Img	459	I often dream of trains in New York	Robyn Hitchcock
	460	It'll end in tears	This mortal coil
No Img	461	Jane from occupied Europe	Swell maps
	462	The party's over	Talk talk
	463	Lincoln	They might be giants
	464	Night and day	Joe Jackson
	465	Private revolution	World party
	466	For a reason	Lifetones
	467	Scientist rids the world of the evil curse of the vampires	Scientist
	468	Royal bastard	King of Luxembourg
	469	Scar	Lush
	470	Slave to the rhythm	Grace Jones
	471	Stands for Decibels	DB's
	472	Straight out the jungle	Jungle brothers
	473	Streetcleaner	Godflesh
	474	Superfuzz bigmuff	Mudhoney
	475	Kicking against the pricks	Nick Cave and the Bad seeds
	476	The expanding universe	Laurie Spiegel
	477	The Lounge lizards	Lounge lizards
	478	Touch	Eurythmics
No Img	479	Traveling Wilburys : volume 1	The Traveling Wilburys
	480	Tutu	Miles Davis
	481	Under the sign of the black mark	Bathory
No Img	482	Undercover	The Rolling stones
	483	Upstairs at Eric's	Yazoo
	484	Zilch	Shack
No Img	485	Psychedelic speed freaks	High rise
	486	Wilder	The Teardrop explodes
	487	Your funeral ..my trial	Nick Cave and the Bad seeds
	488	Youth of America	Wipers
	489	They might be giants	They might be giants
	490	Boys and girls	Bryan Ferry
No Img	491	Joy ride	Brilliant corners
	492	From Langley Park to Memphis	Prefab sprout
	493	Fun boy three	Fun boy three
	494	Hysteria	Def leppard
	495	Heart shaped world	Chris Isaak
No Img	496	Tocsin	X mal Deutschland
	497	Juju music	King Sunny Adé
	498	Madonna	Madonna
	499	Mirage	Fleetwood mac
No Img	500	The wishing chair	10.000 Maniacs