Top Albums of 1980

11 - The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
12 - Pretenders - Pretenders
13 - The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
14 - Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel [3]
15 - Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
16 - Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
17 - The Sound - Jeopardy
18 - The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
19 - The Jam - Sound Affects
20 - Killing Joke - Killing Joke
21 - Judas Priest - British Steel
22 - The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
23 - Ultravox - Vienna
24 - The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
25 - Bruce Springsteen - The River
26 - Bob Marley (& The Wailers) - Uprising
27 - Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
28 - Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
29 - The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
30 - Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
31 - The Clash - Sandinista!
32 - Rush - Permanent Waves
33 - Prince - Dirty Mind
34 - XTC - Black Sea
35 - Tuxedomoon - Half-Mute
36 - Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
37 - David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
38 - U2 - Boy
39 - Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
40 - Devo - Freedom of Choice
41 - Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
42 - Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
43 - The Residents - Commercial Album
44 - The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
45 - The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers
46 - Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
47 - The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
48 - Wipers - Is This Real?
49 - Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
50 - Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror


Other



51 Gary Numan Telekon
52 The Beat The Beat
53 Queen The Game
54 Throbbing Gristle Heathen Earth
55 The Teardrop Explodes Kilimanjaro
56 The Birthday Party The Birthday Party
57 Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz
58 Eric Clapton Just One Night
59 Suicide Suicide [Alan Vega - Martin Rev]
60 The Specials More Specials
61 Japan Quiet Life
62 Defunkt Defunkt
63 Kate Bush Never for Ever
64 UB40 Signing Off
65 Siouxsie and the Banshees Kaleidoscope
66 The Damned The Black Album
67 Whitesnake Ready an' Willing
68 Lydia Lunch Queen of Siam
69 Squeeze Argybargy
70 The Associates The Affectionate Punch
71 Saxon Strong Arm of the Law
72 The Alan Parsons Project The Turn of a Friendly Card
73 Joni Mitchell Shadows and Light
74 Split Enz True Colours
75 Ramones End of the Century
76 Hawkwind Levitation
77 Steely Dan Gaucho
78 The B-52's Wild Planet
79 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Organisation
80 Visage Visage
81 Diana Ross Diana
82 Simple Minds Empires and Dance
83 Buggles The Age of Plastic
84 The Human League Travelogue

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