Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1983

The Top Albums from 1983
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	65	R.E.M.	Murmur		Listen
2	100	Tom Waits	Swordfishtrombones		Listen
3	235	The Police	Synchronicity		Listen
4	298	U2	War		Listen
5	332	Violent Femmes	Violent Femmes		Listen
6	477	New Order	Power, Corruption & Lies		Listen
7	601	Metallica	Kill 'Em All		Listen
8	756	Def Leppard	Pyromania		Listen
9	779	ZZ Top	Eliminator		Listen
10	836	Cyndi Lauper	She's so Unusual		Listen
11	877	Aztec Camera	High Land, Hard Rain		Listen
12	887	The The	Soul Mining		Listen
13	927	Minor Threat	Out of Step EP		Listen
14	1017	David Bowie	Let's Dance
15	1079	Stevie Ray Vaughan	Texas Flood		Listen
16	1216	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This...)		Listen
17	1311	Culture Club	Colour by Numbers		Listen
18	1372	Madonna	Madonna		Listen
19	1388	Womack and Womack	Love Wars		Listen
20	1409	Talking Heads	Speaking in Tongues		Listen
21	1480	Billy Idol	Rebel Yell		Listen
22	1490	The Blue Nile	A Walk Across the Rooftops		Listen
23	1559	Bad Brains	Rock for Light		Listen
24	1615	Billy Bragg	Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy		Listen
25	1634	Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck	Djam Leelii		Listen
26	1706	Eurythmics	Touch		Listen
27	1798	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Punch the Clock		Listen
28	1933	U2	Under a Blood Red Sky		Listen
29	2003	Lionel Richie	Can't Slow Down		Listen
30	2060	Big Country	The Crossing		Listen
31	2149	King Sunny Ad�	Synchro System		Listen
32	2211	The Go-Betweens	Before Hollywood
33	2269	Philip Glass	Koyaanisqatsi		Listen
34	2278	Echo and the Bunnymen	Porcupine		Listen
35	2334	Mark Stewart + Maffia	Learning to Cope with Cowardice
36	2351	Dio	Holy Diver		Listen
37	2480	Paul Young	No Parlez
38	2534	X	More Fun in the New World		Listen
39	2595	Malcolm McLaren	Duck Rock		Listen
40	2632	Green on Red	Gravity Talks
41	2721	M�tley Cr�e	Shout at the Devil		Listen
42	2766	UB40	Labour of Love		Listen
43	2920	Bob Dylan	Infidels		Listen
44	2924	T-Bone Burnett	Proof Through the Night
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Randy Newman	Trouble in Paradise		Listen
		John Cougar Mellencamp	Uh-Huh		Listen
		Cocteau Twins	Head Over Heels		Listen
		Richard Thompson	Hand of Kindness		Listen
		Charly Garcia	Clics Modernos
		Rain Parade	Emergency Third Rail Power Trip		Listen
		Yello	You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess		Listen
		Jonathan Richman	Jonathan Sings!
		Jason & The Scorchers	Fervor EP
		The Robert Cray Band	Bad Influence		Listen
		The Fall	Perverted by Language
		Van Morrison	Inarticulate Speech of the Heart		Listen
		Social Distortion	Mommy's Little Monster		Listen
		Lou Reed	Legendary Hearts
		Marillion	Script for a Jester's Tear		Listen
		Alan Vega	Saturn Strip
		Huey Lewis and The News	Sports		Listen
		Herbie Hancock	Future Shock		Listen
		The Replacements	Hootenanny		Listen
		Wipers	Over the Edge
		Mink DeVille	Where Angels Fear to Thread
		Paul Simon	Hearts & Bones		Listen
		Tears for Fears	The Hurting		Listen
		Suicidal Tendencies	Suicidal Tendencies		Listen
		Brian Eno	Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks		Listen
		Depeche Mode	Construction Time Again		Listen
		The Chameleons	Script of the Bridge		Listen