Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1983

The Top Albums from 1983
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	58	R.E.M.	Murmur		Listen
2	104	Tom Waits	Swordfishtrombones		Listen
3	217	The Police	Synchronicity		Listen
4	278	U2	War		Listen
5	298	Violent Femmes	Violent Femmes		Listen
6	472	New Order	Power, Corruption and Lies		Listen
7	632	Def Leppard	Pyromania		Listen
8	688	Metallica	Kill 'Em All		Listen
9	735	ZZ Top	Eliminator		Listen
10	773	Minor Threat	Out of Step		Listen
11	797	Aztec Camera	High Land Hard Rain		Listen
12	874	Cyndi Lauper	She's so Unusual		Listen
13	952	The The	Soul Mining		Listen
14	1029	David Bowie	Let's Dance
15	1044	Meat Puppets	II		Listen
16	1108	Womack and Womack	Love Wars		Listen
17	1140	Stevie Ray Vaughan	Texas Flood		Listen
18	1227	Culture Club	Colour by Numbers		Listen
19	1253	Talking Heads	Speaking in Tongues		Listen
20	1359	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This...)		Listen
21	1461	Billy Idol	Rebel Yell		Listen
22	1476	Bad Brains	Rock for Light		Listen
23	1589	Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck	Djam Leelii		Listen
24	1594	Madonna	Madonna		Listen
25	1668	Billy Bragg	Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy		Listen
26	1756	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Punch the Clock		Listen
27	1779	Big Country	The Crossing		Listen
28	1811	Lionel Richie	Can't Slow Down		Listen
29	1853	U2	Under a Blood Red Sky		Listen
30	1903	Eurythmics	Touch		Listen
31	1920	King Sunny Ad�	Synchro System		Listen
32	1967	The Go-Betweens	Before Hollywood
33	2024	Echo and the Bunnymen	Porcupine		Listen
34	2096	X	More Fun in the New World		Listen
35	2132	Dio	Holy Diver		Listen
36	2333	UB40	Labour of Love		Listen
37	2440	Philip Glass	Koyaanisqatsi		Listen
38	2462	Malcolm McLaren	Duck Rock		Listen
39	2475	Paul Young	No Parlez
40	2543	Robert Cray Band	Bad Influence		Listen
41	2691	Bob Dylan	Infidels		Listen
42	2704	M�tley Cr�e	Shout at the Devil		Listen
43	2736	Randy Newman	Trouble in Paradise		Listen
44	2740	Richard Thompson	Hand of Kindness		Listen
45	2777	Green on Red	Gravity Talks
46	2810	Simple Minds	Sparkle in the Rain		Listen
47	2851	T-Bone Burnett	Proof through the Night
48	2895	John Cougar Mellencamp	Uh-Huh		Listen
49	2942	Lou Reed	Legendary Hearts
50	2975	Cocteau Twins	Head over Heels		Listen
51	2992	Marillion	Script for a Jester's Tear		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Huey Lewis and The News	Sports		Listen
		Social Distortion	Mommy's Little Monster		Listen
		Jason & The Scorchers	Fervor EP
		Alan Vega	Saturn Strip
		The Fall	Perverted by Language
		Jonathan Richman	Jonathan Sings!
		Rain Parade	Emergency Third Rail Power Trip		Listen
		Van Morrison	Inarticulate Speech of the Heart		Listen
		Mink DeVille	Where the Angels Fear to Thread
		Depeche Mode	Construction Time Again		Listen