Pitchfork: Top 100 albums of the 80's
01 // Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation [Blast First/Enigma 1987]
02 // Talking Heads - Remain in Light [Sire 1980]
03 // Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique [Capitol 1989]
04 // Pixies - Doolittle [4AD 1989]
05 // R.E.M. - Murmur [IRS 1983]
06 // The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead [Sire 1986]
07 // Pixies - Surfer Rosa [4AD 1988]
08 // Tom Waits - Rain Dogs [Island 1985]
09 // Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back [Def Jam 1988]
10 // Joy Division - Closer [Factory 1980]
11 // Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones [Island 1983]
12 // Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain [Warner Bros 1984]
13 // The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace [Beggars Banquet 1985]
14 // Sonic Youth - Sister [SST 1987]
15 // XTC - Skylarking [Virgin 1986]
16 // Galaxie 500 - On Fire [Rough Trade 1989]
17 // Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime [SST 1984]
18 // De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising [Tommy Boy 1989]
19 // Public Image, Ltd. - Second Edition [Virgin 1980]
20 // This Heat - Deceit [Rough Trade 1981]
21 // Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [Sire 1981]
22 // My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything [Creation/Sire 1988]
23 // The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy [Blanco y Negro/Warner Bros 1985]
24 // Gang of Four - Solid Gold [Warner Bros 1981]
25 // Black Flag - Damaged [SST 1981]
26 // Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Get Happy [Columbia 1980]
27 // Michael Jackson - Thriller [Epic 1982]
28 // New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies [Factory 1983]
29 // The Replacements - Let It Be [Twin/Tone 1984]
30 // U2 - The Joshua Tree [Island 1987]
31 // Sonic Youth - EVOL [SST 1986]
32 // Hsker D - Zen Arcade [SST 1984]
33 // The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour [Kamera 1982]
34 // Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden [EMI 1988]
35 // N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton [Ruthless/Priority 1988]
36 // Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes [Rough Trade 1983]
37 // The Replacements - Tim [Sire 1985]
38 // The Cure - Disintegration [Fiction/Elektra 1989]
39 // The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses [Silvertone 1989]
40 // Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me [SST 1987]
41 // Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill [Def Jam 1986]
42 // Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session [RCA 1988]
43 // Run-DMC - Raising Hell [Profile 1986]
44 // Kraftwerk - Computer World [Warner Bros 1981]
45 // Prince - Sign 'O' The Times [Paisley Park/Warner Bros 1987]
46 // XTC - English Settlement [Virgin 1982]
47 // John Zorn - Naked City [Tzadik 1989]
48 // R.E.M. - Document [IRS 1987]
49 // Mission of Burma - Vs. [Ace of Hearts 1982]
50 // Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription [Fire 1987]
51 // Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man [Columbia 1988]
52 // Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full [4th & Broadway 1987]
53 // Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls & Marches [Ace of Hearts 1981]
54 // Big Black -Songs about Fucking [Touch & Go 1987]
55 // The Police - Synchronicity [A&M 1983]
56 // King Crimson - Discipline [Warner Bros 1981]
57 // Pixies - Come On Pilgrim [4AD 1987]
58 // Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom [Columbia 1982]
59 // Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction [Geffen 1987]
60 // Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska [Columbia 1982]
61 // Nurse with Wound - Homotopy to Marie [United Dairies 1982]
62 // R.E.M. - Reckoning [IRS 1984]
63 // Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth [Rough Trade 1980]
64 // Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It [Rough Trade 1981]
65 // The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight [Armageddon 1980]
66 // The Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot [Virgin 1987]
67 // The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & The Lash [MCA 1985]
68 // Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense [Sire 1984]
69 // The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms [A&M 1980]
70 // Elvis Costello - Trust [Columbia 1981]
71 // Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me [Sire 1987]
72 // Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun [SST 1985]
73 // Coil - Horse Rotorvator [Relativity 1987]
74 // Mekons - Fear & Whiskey [Sin 1985]
75 // Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded [Sugar Hill 1987]
76 // The dB's - Stands for Decibels [IRS 1981]
77 // The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come [Sire 1987]
78 // They Might Be Giants - Lincoln [Fire 1989]
79 // Manuel Gttsching - E2-E4 [Spalax 1981]
80 // Hsker D - New Day Rising [SST 1985]
81 // Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll [4AD 1988]
82 // The Fall - Perverted by Language [Rough Trade 1983]
83 // Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring [EMI 1986]
84 // ESG - Come Away with ESG [99 1983]
85 // Paul Simon - Graceland [Warner Bros 1986]
86 // The Police - Ghost in the Machine [A&M 1981]
87 // Prince - Dirty Mind [Warner Bros 1980]
88 // Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire [Fire 1989]
89 // Boredoms - Soul Discharge [Shimmy-Disc 1989]
90 // Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking [Warner Bros 1988]
91 // X - Los Angeles [Slash 1980]
92 // Kate Bush - Hounds of Love [EMI 1985]
93 // David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) [RCA 1980]
94 // Meat Puppets - II [SST 1983]
95 // Duran Duran - Rio [Capitol 1982]
96 // Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring [Dischord 1985]
97 // Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'N' Roll [A&M 1989]
98 // Cocteau Twins - Treasure [4AD 1984]
99 // Gang of Four - Songs of the Free [Warner Bros 1982]
100 // Minor Threat - Out of Step [Dischord 1984]
