Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1980

The Top Albums from 1980
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	35	Talking Heads	Remain in Light		Listen
2	41	Joy Division	Closer		Listen
3	95	AC/DC	Back in Black		Listen
4	163	Pretenders	Pretenders		Listen
5	289	Bruce Springsteen	The River		Listen
6	296	Dexys Midnight Runners	Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
7	326	Dead Kennedys	Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
8	377	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Get Happy!!		Listen
9	428	X	Los Angeles		Listen
10	473	Prince	Dirty Mind		Listen
11	487	The Jam	Sound Affects		Listen
12	491	David Bowie	Scary Monsters		Listen
13	492	The Clash	Sandinista!		Listen
14	494	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel (III)		Listen
15	499	The Feelies	Crazy Rhythms		Listen
16	555	Mot�rhead	Ace of Spades		Listen
17	582	Young Marble Giants	Colossal Youth
18	588	The Cure	Seventeen Seconds		Listen
19	603	Fehlfarben	Monarchie und Alltag		Listen
20	781	The Cramps	Songs the Lord Taught Us		Listen
21	790	Echo and the Bunnymen	Crocodiles		Listen
22	809	U2	Boy		Listen
23	926	Iron Maiden	Iron Maiden
24	962	The Soft Boys	Underwater Moonlight
25	967	The Police	Zenyatta Mondatta		Listen
26	995	The Beat	I Just Can't Stop It		Listen
27	1008	The Teardrop Explodes	Kilimanjaro		Listen
28	1066	Judas Priest	British Steel		Listen
29	1081	Killing Joke	Killing Joke		Listen
30	1082	Magazine	The Correct Use of Soap		Listen
31	1134	John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Double Fantasy
32	1177	The Specials	More Specials		Listen
33	1181	Diana Ross	Diana		Listen
34	1200	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Doc at the Radar Station		Listen
35	1248	Adam and The Ants	Kings of the Wild Frontier		Listen
36	1322	Dire Straits	Making Movies		Listen
37	1427	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Bass Culture
38	1433	Ozzy Osbourne	Blizzard of Ozz		Listen
39	1645	Bauhaus	In the Flat Field
40	1670	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Uprising		Listen
41	1829	Steely Dan	Gaucho		Listen
42	1847	UB40	Signing Off		Listen
43	1895	The Residents	Commercial Album		Listen
44	1947	Tom Waits	Heartattack and Vine		Listen
45	1953	Steve Winwood	Arc of a Diver		Listen
46	1989	XTC	Black Sea		Listen
47	2107	Black Sabbath	Heaven and Hell		Listen
48	2164	Pete Townshend	Empty Glass		Listen
49	2225	Suicide	Alan Vega/Martin Rev - Suicide		Listen
50	2266	Cold Chisel	East
51	2282	The B-52's	Wild Planet		Listen
52	2326	Squeeze	Argybargy
53	2389	David Murray	Ming		Listen
54	2414	Rockpile	Seconds of Pleasure		Listen
55	2448	Stevie Wonder	Hotter Than July		Listen
56	2492	Ultravox	Vienna		Listen
57	2515	The Blues Brothers	The Blues Brothers		Listen
58	2633	The Sound	Jeopardy
59	2723	Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	Joan Jett/Bad Reputation		Listen
60	2832	The Jacksons	Triumph		Listen
61	2840	Smokey Robinson	Warm Thoughts
62	2852	Black Uhuru	Sinsemilla		Listen
63	2856	George Jones	I Am What I Am		Listen
64	2959	Chic	Real People
65	2966	Nic Jones	Penguin Eggs		Listen
66	2975	The Fall	Grotesque (After the Gramme)
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Half Japanese	1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts
		The Jim Carroll Band	Catholic Boy		Listen
		Emmylou Harris	Roses in the Snow		Listen
		Devo	Freedom of Choice		Listen
		James Brown	Soul Syndrome		Listen
		Mink DeVille	Le Chat Bleu		Listen
		Donna Summer	The Wanderer		Listen
		Tuxedomoon	Half Mute
		Art Ensemble of Chicago	Full Force		Listen
		Defunkt	Defunkt		Listen
		Ramones	End of the Century
		Barbra Streisand	Guilty		Listen
		Durutti Column	The Return of The Durutti Column		Listen
		Sun Ra Arkestra	Sunrise in Different Dimensions
		Madness	Absolutely		Listen
		Nacha Pop	Nacha Pop		Listen
		Pat Metheny	80/81		Listen
		Simple Minds	Empires and Dance		Listen
		The Psychedelic Furs	The Psychedelic Furs
		Yello	Solid Pleasure		Listen
		The Undertones	Hypnotised		Listen
		Rush	Permanent Waves		Listen
		Kate Bush	Never for Ever		Listen
		Siouxsie and The Banshees	Kaleidoscope		Listen
		Japan	Gentlemen Take Polaroids		Listen
		Carla Bley	Social Studies		Listen
		Wipers	Is This Real?		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