The Top Albums from 1980

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	40	Talking Heads	Remain in Light		Listen
2	46	Joy Division	Closer		Listen
3	107	AC/DC	Back in Black		Listen
4	162	Pretenders	Pretenders		Listen
5	242	Bruce Springsteen	The River		Listen
6	309	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Get Happy!!		Listen
7	312	The Dead Kennedys	Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
8	314	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
9	406	X	Los Angeles		Listen
10	450	Prince	Dirty Mind		Listen
11	453	The Jam	Sound Affects		Listen
12	467	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel (III)		Listen
13	474	The Feelies	Crazy Rhythms		Listen
14	484	David Bowie	Scary Monsters		Listen
15	505	The Clash	Sandinista!		Listen
16	544	Motörhead	Ace of Spades		Listen
17	668	The Cure	Seventeen Seconds		Listen
18	674	Fehlfarben	Monarchie und Alltag		Listen
19	679	Young Marble Giants	Colossal Youth
20	734	Echo and the Bunnymen	Crocodiles		Listen
21	755	U2	Boy		Listen
22	820	The Soft Boys	Underwater Moonlight
23	850	The Police	Zenyatta Mondatta		Listen
24	880	The Beat	I Just Can't Stop It		Listen
25	914	Iron Maiden	Iron Maiden
26	917	The Cramps	Songs the Lord Taught Us		Listen
27	963	John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Double Fantasy
28	1056	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Doc at the Radar Station		Listen
29	1087	Magazine	The Correct Use of Soap		Listen
30	1091	Judas Priest	British Steel		Listen
31	1139	The Teardrop Explodes	Kilimanjaro		Listen
32	1231	Dire Straits	Making Movies		Listen
33	1303	Ozzy Osbourne	Blizzard of Ozz		Listen
34	1357	Killing Joke	Killing Joke		Listen
35	1394	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Uprising		Listen
36	1437	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Bass Culture
37	1458	Adam and The Ants	Kings of the Wild Frontier		Listen
38	1617	Steely Dan	Gaucho		Listen
39	1691	XTC	Black Sea		Listen
40	1709	David Murray	Ming		Listen
41	1739	The Specials	More Specials		Listen
42	1746	Pete Townshend	Empty Glass		Listen
43	1828	Steve Winwood	Arc of a Diver		Listen
44	1831	UB40	Signing Off		Listen
45	1891	The Residents	Commercial Album		Listen
46	1899	Squeeze	Argybargy
47	1998	Bauhaus	In the Flat Field
48	2064	Rockpile	Seconds of Pleasure		Listen
49	2101	Suicide	Alan Vega/Martin Rev - Suicide		Listen
50	2151	Diana Ross	Diana		Listen
51	2158	Black Sabbath	Heaven and Hell		Listen
52	2262	Smokey Robinson	Warm Thoughts
53	2352	Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	Bad Reputation		Listen
54	2364	Stevie Wonder	Hotter Than July		Listen
55	2432	Black Uhuru	Sinsemilla		Listen
56	2454	The B-52's	Wild Planet		Listen
57	2460	Ultravox	Vienna		Listen
58	2465	The Fall	Grotesque (After the Gramme)
59	2498	George Jones	I Am What I Am		Listen
60	2595	Tom Waits	Heartattack and Vine		Listen
61	2625	Half Japanese	1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts
62	2671	Chic	Real People
63	2690	Emmylou Harris	Roses in the Snow		Listen
64	2696	Nic Jones	Penguin Eggs		Listen
65	2754	Donna Summer	The Wanderer		Listen
66	2774	Barbra Streisand	Guilty		Listen
67	2830	Cold Chisel	East
68	2834	The Jacksons	Triumph		Listen
69	2841	Sun Ra	Sunrise in Different Dimensions
70	2910	Tuxedomoon	Half Mute
71	2948	T