Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1980

The Top Albums from 1980
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	37	Talking Heads	Remain in Light		Listen
2	40	Joy Division	Closer		Listen
3	99	AC/DC	Back in Black		Listen
4	160	Pretenders	Pretenders		Listen
5	269	Bruce Springsteen	The River		Listen
6	300	Dexys Midnight Runners	Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
7	310	Dead Kennedys	Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
8	357	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Get Happy!!		Listen
9	403	X	Los Angeles		Listen
10	450	Prince	Dirty Mind		Listen
11	458	The Clash	Sandinista!		Listen
12	483	The Jam	Sound Affects		Listen
13	487	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel (III)		Listen
14	489	David Bowie	Scary Monsters		Listen
15	491	The Feelies	Crazy Rhythms		Listen
16	540	Mot�rhead	Ace of Spades		Listen
17	582	The Cure	Seventeen Seconds		Listen
18	584	Young Marble Giants	Colossal Youth
19	590	Fehlfarben	Monarchie und Alltag		Listen
20	761	The Cramps	Songs the Lord Taught Us		Listen
21	762	Echo and the Bunnymen	Crocodiles		Listen
22	786	U2	Boy		Listen
23	890	Iron Maiden	Iron Maiden
24	932	The Police	Zenyatta Mondatta		Listen
25	955	The Soft Boys	Underwater Moonlight
26	958	The Beat	I Just Can't Stop It		Listen
27	1050	Killing Joke	Killing Joke		Listen
28	1065	The Teardrop Explodes	Kilimanjaro		Listen
29	1073	Judas Priest	British Steel		Listen
30	1082	Magazine	The Correct Use of Soap		Listen
31	1087	John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Double Fantasy
32	1147	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Doc at the Radar Station		Listen
33	1158	Diana Ross	Diana		Listen
34	1192	The Specials	More Specials		Listen
35	1309	Adam and The Ants	Kings of the Wild Frontier		Listen
36	1328	Dire Straits	Making Movies		Listen
37	1401	Ozzy Osbourne	Blizzard of Ozz		Listen
38	1430	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Bass Culture
39	1597	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Uprising		Listen
40	1603	Bauhaus	In the Flat Field
41	1741	Steely Dan	Gaucho		Listen
42	1880	The Residents	Commercial Album		Listen
43	1901	Steve Winwood	Arc of a Diver		Listen
44	1914	Tom Waits	Heartattack and Vine		Listen
45	1946	UB40	Signing Off		Listen
46	2076	Black Sabbath	Heaven and Hell		Listen
47	2094	XTC	Black Sea		Listen
48	2154	Pete Townshend	Empty Glass		Listen
49	2166	The B-52's	Wild Planet		Listen
50	2193	Suicide	Alan Vega/Martin Rev - Suicide		Listen
51	2219	Cold Chisel	East
52	2235	David Murray	Ming		Listen
53	2303	Rockpile	Seconds of Pleasure		Listen
54	2351	Squeeze	Argybargy
55	2396	Stevie Wonder	Hotter Than July		Listen
56	2438	The Blues Brothers	The Blues Brothers		Listen
57	2564	Ultravox	Vienna		Listen
58	2567	The Sound	Jeopardy
59	2649	Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	Joan Jett/Bad Reputation		Listen
60	2735	Smokey Robinson	Warm Thoughts
61	2737	The Jacksons	Triumph		Listen
62	2765	George Jones	I Am What I Am		Listen
63	2798	The Fall	Grotesque (After the Gramme)
64	2849	Black Uhuru	Sinsemilla		Listen
65	2883	Chic	Real People
66	2990	Half Japanese	1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Emmylou Harris	Roses in the Snow		Listen
		Donna Summer	The Wanderer		Listen
		Nic Jones	Penguin Eggs		Listen
		Mink DeVille	Le Chat Bleu		Listen
		James Brown	Soul Syndrome		Listen
		Art Ensemble of Chicago	Full Force		Listen
		Devo	Freedom of Choice		Listen
		Ramones	End of the Century
		Tuxedomoon	Half Mute
		Barbra Streisand	Guilty		Listen
		The Jim Carroll Band	Catholic Boy		Listen
		Defunkt	Defunkt		Listen
		Nacha Pop	Nacha Pop		Listen
		Durutti Column	The Return of The Durutti Column		Listen
		Sun Ra Arkestra	Sunrise in Different Dimensions
		Pat Metheny	80/81		Listen
		Madness	Absolutely		Listen
		The Psychedelic Furs	The Psychedelic Furs
		Simple Minds	Empires and Dance		Listen
		Yello	Solid Pleasure		Listen
		The Undertones	Hypnotised		Listen
		Rush	Permanent Waves		Listen
		Kate Bush	Never for Ever		Listen
		Carla Bley	Social Studies		Listen
		Japan	Gentlemen Take Polaroids		Listen
		Wipers	Is This Real?		Listen
		Siouxsie and The Banshees	Kaleidoscope		Listen
		Swell Maps	Jane from Occupied Europe		Listen
		Colin Newman	A-Z		Listen
		Budd, Harold and Brian Eno	Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror		Listen
		John Foxx	Metamatic
		Japan	Quiet Life		Listen