The Top Albums from 1981

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	214	The Human League	Dare!
2	327	Brian Eno - David Byrne	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts		Listen
3	405	Black Flag	Damaged		Listen
4	495	Motörhead	No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
5	549	Kraftwerk	Computer Welt		Listen
6	606	X	Wild Gift		Listen
7	763	Grace Jones	Nightclubbing		Listen
8	791	Soft Cell	Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret		Listen
9	796	Japan	Tin Drum		Listen
10	846	The Gun Club	Fire of Love		Listen
11	919	Rush	Moving Pictures		Listen
12	953	Black Uhuru	Red		Listen
13	994	Rickie Lee Jones	Pirates		Listen
14	1008	Squeeze	East Side Story		Listen
15	1016	The Rolling Stones	Tattoo You		Listen
16	1025	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Trust		Listen
17	1068	The Psychedelic Furs	Talk Talk Talk		Listen
18	1138	Journey	Escape		Listen
19	1162	Echo and the Bunnymen	Heaven Up Here		Listen
20	1165	The Go-Go's	Beauty and the Beat		Listen
21	1250	King Crimson	Discipline		Listen
22	1255	The Police	Ghost in the Machine		Listen
23	1260	Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft	Alles Ist Gut		Listen
24	1283	The Birthday Party	Prayers on Fire
25	1296	Flipper	Album - Generic Flipper
26	1432	Rick James	Street Songs
27	1443	This Heat	Deceit
28	1513	Gang of Four	Solid Gold
29	1676	Phil Collins	Face Value		Listen
30	1759	Heaven 17	Penthouse and Pavement		Listen
31	1764	Fela Anikulapo Kuti	Black President
32	1854	The Au Pairs	Playing with a Different Sex
33	1919	The Blasters	The Blasters
34	1925	The Raincoats	Odyshape
35	1977	Mission of Burma	Signals, Calls and Marches		Listen
36	2015	The Lounge Lizards	The Lounge Lizards		Listen
37	2046	The Neville Brothers	Fiyo on the Bayou		Listen
38	2131	The Cure	Faith		Listen
39	2145	Siouxsie and The Banshees	Juju		Listen
40	2179	Trio	Trio
41	2183	Tom Verlaine	Dreamtime
42	2219	Einstürzende Neubauten	Kollaps
43	2242	Glenn Branca	The Ascension
44	2447	The dB's	Stands for Decibels		Listen
45	2568	Mink DeVille	Coup de Grace
46	2575	Foreigner	4		Listen
47	2628	Prince	Controversy		Listen
48	2630	Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	I Love Rock'n'roll
49	2725	U2	October		Listen
50	2731	Daryl Hall and John Oates	Private Eyes		Listen
51	2743	Depeche Mode	Speak & Spell		Listen
52	2795	Pretenders	II		Listen
53	2803	Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls		Listen
54	2896	David Lindley	El Rayo-X		Listen
55	2921	Iron Maiden	Killers		Listen
56	2935	Dick Gaughan	Handful of Earth		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Smokey Robinson	Being with You
		The Stray Cats	The Stray Cats/Built for Speed		Listen
		Bobby Womack	The Poet		Listen
		Pat Metheny	Offramp		Listen
		The J. Geils Band	Freeze Frame		Listen
		New Order	Movement		Listen
		The Sound	From the Lion's Mouth
		Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes	Reach Up and Touch the Sky: Live		Listen
		Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	Architecture & Morality		Listen
		Teena Marie	It Must Be Magic		Listen
		Stevie Nicks	Bella Donna		Listen
		The Cramps	Psychedelic Jungle		Listen
		B.B. King	There Must Be a Better World Somewhere		Listen
		Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Hard Promises		Listen
		The Psychedelic Furs	The Psychedelic Furs