Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1985

The Top Albums from 1985
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	83	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Psychocandy		Listen
2	116	Tom Waits	Rain Dogs		Listen
3	204	Kate Bush	Hounds of Love		Listen
4	222	Prefab Sprout	Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good		Listen
5	247	The Pogues	Rum, Sodomy & the Lash		Listen
6	418	Hüsker Dü	New Day Rising		Listen
7	440	New Order	Low-Life		Listen
8	495	The Fall	This Nation's Saving Grace
9	506	Sam Cooke	Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963		Listen
10	508	The Replacements	Tim		Listen
11	517	The Cure	The Head on the Door		Listen
12	570	Dire Straits	Brothers in Arms		Listen
13	579	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder		Listen
14	749	LL Cool J	Radio		Listen
15	818	The Waterboys	This Is the Sea		Listen
16	1004	Sting	The Dream of the Blue Turtles		Listen
17	1040	Prince and The Revolution	Around the World in a Day		Listen
18	1056	Talking Heads	Little Creatures		Listen
19	1071	R.E.M.	Fables of the Reconstruction		Listen
20	1122	The Velvet Underground	VU		Listen
21	1168	Hüsker Dü	Flip Your Wig		Listen
22	1319	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Firstborn Is Dead		Listen
23	1344	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega		Listen
24	1417	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston		Listen
25	1435	Dexys Midnight Runners	Don't Stand Me Down		Listen
26	1470	Scritti Politti	Cupid & Psyche 85		Listen
27	1485	Meat Puppets	Up on the Sun		Listen
28	1493	John Cougar Mellencamp	Scarecrow		Listen
29	1544	Mekons	Fear and Whiskey		Listen
30	1666	Eurythmics	Be Yourself Tonight		Listen
31	1677	Tears for Fears	Songs from the Big Chair		Listen
32	1820	John Fogerty	Centerfield		Listen
33	1838	The Sisters of Mercy	First and Last and Always		Listen
34	1846	Einstürzende Neubauten	1/2 Mensch		Listen
35	1980	Marillion	Misplaced Childhood
36	2120	Simple Minds	Once Upon a Time		Listen
37	2234	Wynton Marsalis	Black Codes (from the Underground)		Listen
38	2310	Youssou N'Dour	Nelson Mandela		Listen
39	2386	The Cult	Love
40	2392	Run-D.M.C.	King of Rock		Listen
41	2399	Bryan Ferry	Boys and Girls		Listen
42	2446	Simply Red	Picture Book		Listen
43	2460	Luther Vandross	The Night I Fell in Love		Listen
44	2478	Mantronix	The Album		Listen
45	2520	The Blasters	Hard Line
46	2591	Bérurier Noir	Concerto pour detraques		Listen
47	2630	Ry Cooder	Paris, Texas		Listen
48	2752	Barbra Streisand	The Broadway Album		Listen
49	2762	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Freaky Styley		Listen
50	2805	Anthrax	Spreading the Disease		Listen
51	2848	Artists United Against Apartheid	Sun City		Listen
52	2873	Chris Isaak	Silvertone		Listen
53	2898	The Style Council	Our Favourite Shop/Internationalists
54	2935	Sonic Youth	Bad Moon Rising		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Dead Can Dance	Spleen and Ideal		Listen
		Iron Maiden	Live after Death		Listen
		Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians	Fegmania!		Listen
		Sade	Promise		Listen
		The Golden Palominos	Visions of Excess
		Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel	Nail		Listen
		Green on Red	Gas Food Lodging
		Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland	Showdown!		Listen
		Camper Van Beethoven	Telephone Free Landslide Victory
		Big Audio Dynamite	This Is Big Audio Dynamite		Listen
		Joe Henderson	The State of the Tenor		Listen
		CCCP Fedeli Alla Linea	Affinità-divergenze tra il Compagno Togliatti e noi
		Grant Green	Born to Be Blue		Listen
		Miles Davis & John Coltrane	Live in Stockholm 1960
		Level 42	World Machine		Listen
		INXS	Listen Like Thieves		Listen
		A-ha	Hunting High and Low		Listen
		Lone Justice	Lone Justice		Listen
		Robert Palmer	Riptide		Listen
		Aretha Franklin	Who's Zoomin' Who		Listen
		The Chameleons	What Does Anything Mean, Basically?