Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1981

The Top Albums from 1981
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	210	The Human League	Dare!
2	264	Brian Eno - David Byrne	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts		Listen
3	324	Black Flag	Damaged		Listen
4	455	Kraftwerk	Computerwelt		Listen
5	486	Motörhead	No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
6	589	X	Wild Gift		Listen
7	652	Soft Cell	Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret		Listen
8	678	Grace Jones	Nightclubbing		Listen
9	788	Rush	Moving Pictures		Listen
10	808	Japan	Tin Drum		Listen
11	859	Rickie Lee Jones	Pirates		Listen
12	865	Squeeze	East Side Story		Listen
13	905	The Gun Club	Fire of Love		Listen
14	1041	The Police	Ghost in the Machine		Listen
15	1074	Echo and the Bunnymen	Heaven Up Here		Listen
16	1086	Black Uhuru	Red		Listen
17	1104	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Trust		Listen
18	1106	The Rolling Stones	Tattoo You		Listen
19	1159	Einstürzende Neubauten	Kollaps
20	1195	The Birthday Party	Prayers on Fire
21	1202	The Psychedelic Furs	Talk Talk Talk		Listen
22	1207	Heaven 17	Penthouse and Pavement		Listen
23	1270	Rick James	Street Songs
24	1285	Go-Go's	Beauty and the Beat		Listen
25	1323	King Crimson	Discipline		Listen
26	1393	Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft	Alles Ist Gut		Listen
27	1415	Gang of Four	Solid Gold
28	1541	Siouxsie and The Banshees	Juju		Listen
29	1579	Minor Threat	Minor Threat [EP 1981 / LP 1984]		Listen
30	1614	This Heat	Deceit
31	1671	Journey	Escape		Listen
32	1685	Phil Collins	Face Value		Listen
33	1877	Fela Anikulapo Kuti	Black President
34	1927	Au Pairs	Playing with a Different Sex
35	2003	The Lounge Lizards	The Lounge Lizards		Listen
36	2097	U2	October		Listen
37	2115	The Blasters	The Blasters
38	2168	The Raincoats	Odyshape
39	2202	The Cure	Faith		Listen
40	2227	The Neville Brothers	Fiyo on the Bayou		Listen
41	2275	The Cramps	Psychedelic Jungle		Listen
42	2282	Trio	Trio
43	2367	Mission of Burma	Signals, Calls and Marches EP		Listen
44	2421	Depeche Mode	Speak & Spell		Listen
45	2442	Glenn Branca	The Ascension
46	2443	Tom Verlaine	Dreamtime
47	2444	Marquis de Sade	Rue De Siam		Listen
48	2555	Simple Minds	Sons and Fascination		Listen
49	2563	Wipers	Youth of America		Listen
50	2641	The Undertones	Positive Touch		Listen
51	2689	Foreigner	4		Listen
52	2738	Pretenders	Pretenders II		Listen
53	2750	The Associates	Fourth Drawer Down		Listen
54	2779	Public Image Ltd.	Flowers of Romance		Listen
55	2788	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	Architecture & Morality		Listen
56	2802	Fela	Original Sufferhead		Listen
57	2817	The dB's	Stands for Decibels		Listen
58	2859	Franco Battiato	La voce del padrone
59	2891	Mink DeVille	Coup de Grace
60	2930	Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls		Listen
61	2941	Stray Cats	The Stray Cats/Built for Speed		Listen
62	2953	Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	I Love Rock'n'roll
63	2986	Iron Maiden	Killers		Listen
64	2989	Cabaret Voltaire	Red Mecca		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Prince	Controversy		Listen
		Fleshtones	Roman Gods
		Ebba Grön	Kärlek & Uppror
		The J. Geils Band	Freeze Frame		Listen
		Pat Metheny	Offramp		Listen
		New Order	Movement		Listen
		Def Leppard	High 'n Dry		Listen
		Bobby Womack	The Poet		Listen
		Penguin Café Orchestra	Penguin Café Orchestra		Listen
		Television Personalities	…And Don't the Kids Just Love It
		Stevie Nicks	Bella Donna		Listen
		Rush	Exit…Stage Left		Listen
		Dick Gaughan	Handful of Earth		Listen
		Smokey Robinson	Being with You
		Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes	Live - Reach Up and Touch the Sky		Listen
		David Lindley	El Rayo-X		Listen
		Teena Marie	It Must Be Magic		Listen
		Derek Bailey	Aida		Listen
		The Sound	From the Lion's Mouth
		Ozzy Osbourne	Diary of a Madman		Listen
		Daryl Hall and John Oates	Private Eyes		Listen
		Vangelis	Chariots of Fire		Listen
		The Fall	Slates		Listen
		Fela	Coffin for Head of State		Listen
		Johnny Copeland	Copeland Special
		De Press	Block to Block
		The Teardrop Explodes	Wilder
		Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Hard Promises		Listen
		Al Jarreau	Breakin' Away		Listen
		Kid Creole and The Coconuts	Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
		Roky Erickson & The Aliens	The Evil One		Listen
		B.B. King	There Must Be a Better World Somewhere		Listen
		Duran Duran	Duran Duran		Listen
		The Beat	Wha'ppen?		Listen
		Jaco Pastorius	Word of Mouth		Listen
		Bauhaus	Mask
		Tuxedomoon	Desire		Listen
		Wall of Voodoo	Dark Continent