Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1981

The Top Albums from 1981
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	199	The Human League	Dare!
2	282	Brian Eno - David Byrne	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts		Listen
3	334	Black Flag	Damaged		Listen
4	467	Kraftwerk	Computerwelt		Listen
5	503	Motörhead	No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
6	600	X	Wild Gift		Listen
7	663	Soft Cell	Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret		Listen
8	700	Grace Jones	Nightclubbing		Listen
9	799	Rush	Moving Pictures		Listen
10	821	Japan	Tin Drum		Listen
11	851	Squeeze	East Side Story		Listen
12	895	Rickie Lee Jones	Pirates		Listen
13	924	The Gun Club	Fire of Love		Listen
14	980	The Police	Ghost in the Machine		Listen
15	1104	Black Uhuru	Red		Listen
16	1119	Echo and the Bunnymen	Heaven Up Here		Listen
17	1145	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Trust		Listen
18	1151	The Rolling Stones	Tattoo You		Listen
19	1226	The Psychedelic Furs	Talk Talk Talk		Listen
20	1230	Einstürzende Neubauten	Kollaps
21	1236	The Birthday Party	Prayers on Fire
22	1278	King Crimson	Discipline		Listen
23	1290	Heaven 17	Penthouse and Pavement		Listen
24	1339	Go-Go's	Beauty and the Beat		Listen
25	1371	Rick James	Street Songs
26	1442	Gang of Four	Solid Gold
27	1460	Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft	Alles Ist Gut		Listen
28	1536	Siouxsie and The Banshees	Juju		Listen
29	1579	This Heat	Deceit
30	1686	Minor Threat	Minor Threat [EP 1981 / LP 1984]		Listen
31	1718	Phil Collins	Face Value		Listen
32	1721	Journey	Escape		Listen
33	1907	The Lounge Lizards	The Lounge Lizards		Listen
34	1918	Fela Anikulapo Kuti	Black President
35	1955	Au Pairs	Playing with a Different Sex
36	2095	U2	October		Listen
37	2101	The Raincoats	Odyshape
38	2160	The Cure	Faith		Listen
39	2174	The Blasters	The Blasters
40	2220	Trio	Trio
41	2267	The Neville Brothers	Fiyo on the Bayou		Listen
42	2314	Tom Verlaine	Dreamtime
43	2333	Mission of Burma	Signals, Calls and Marches EP		Listen
44	2363	Glenn Branca	The Ascension
45	2365	The Cramps	Psychedelic Jungle		Listen
46	2510	Simple Minds	Sons and Fascination		Listen
47	2532	Depeche Mode	Speak & Spell		Listen
48	2539	Marquis de Sade	Rue De Siam		Listen
49	2550	Mink DeVille	Coup de Grace
50	2558	Wipers	Youth of America		Listen
51	2659	Foreigner	4		Listen
52	2697	The dB's	Stands for Decibels		Listen
53	2711	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	Architecture & Morality		Listen
54	2757	The Undertones	Positive Touch		Listen
55	2796	Public Image Ltd.	Flowers of Romance		Listen
56	2823	The Associates	Fourth Drawer Down		Listen
57	2841	Pretenders	Pretenders II		Listen
58	2893	Franco Battiato	La voce del padrone
59	2894	Stray Cats	The Stray Cats/Built for Speed		Listen
60	2963	Fela	Original Sufferhead		Listen
61	2967	Fleshtones	Roman Gods
62	3000	Television Personalities	...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls		Listen
		Iron Maiden	Killers		Listen
		Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	I Love Rock'n'roll
		Cabaret Voltaire	Red Mecca		Listen
		Prince	Controversy		Listen
		New Order	Movement		Listen
		The J. Geils Band	Freeze Frame		Listen
		Ebba Grön	Kärlek & Uppror
		Pat Metheny	Offramp		Listen
		Def Leppard	High 'n' Dry		Listen
		Penguin Café Orchestra	Penguin Café Orchestra		Listen
		Stevie Nicks	Bella Donna		Listen
		Bobby Womack	The Poet		Listen
		Rush	Exit...Stage Left		Listen
		Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes	Live - Reach Up and Touch the Sky		Listen
		Dick Gaughan	Handful of Earth		Listen
		Smokey Robinson	Being with You
		David Lindley	El Rayo-X		Listen
		Teena Marie	It Must Be Magic		Listen
		Ozzy Osbourne	Diary of a Madman		Listen
		The Sound	From the Lion's Mouth
		Daryl Hall and John Oates	Private Eyes		Listen
		Derek Bailey	Aida		Listen
		Johnny Copeland	Copeland Special
		Vangelis	Chariots of Fire		Listen
		The Fall	Slates		Listen
		Fela	Coffin for Head of State		Listen
		Tuxedomoon	Desire		Listen
		The Teardrop Explodes	Wilder
		Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Hard Promises		Listen
		Kid Creole and The Coconuts	Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
		Al Jarreau	Breakin' Away		Listen
		B.B. King	There Must Be a Better World Somewhere		Listen
		De Press	Block to Block
		Roky Erickson & The Aliens	The Evil One		Listen
		Duran Duran	Duran Duran		Listen
		The Beat	Wha'ppen?		Listen
		Jaco Pastorius	Word of Mouth		Listen
		Bauhaus	Mask
		Wall of Voodoo	Dark Continent