Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1985

The Top Albums from 1985
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	82	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Psychocandy		Listen
2	123	Tom Waits	Rain Dogs		Listen
3	228	Kate Bush	Hounds of Love		Listen
4	252	The Pogues	Rum, Sodomy & the Lash		Listen
5	263	Prefab Sprout	Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good		Listen
6	436	Hüsker Dü	New Day Rising		Listen
7	460	The Fall	This Nation's Saving Grace
8	476	New Order	Low-Life		Listen
9	502	The Replacements	Tim		Listen
10	525	Sam Cooke	Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963		Listen
11	566	Dire Straits	Brothers in Arms		Listen
12	612	The Cure	The Head on the Door		Listen
13	650	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder		Listen
14	695	LL Cool J	Radio		Listen
15	751	The Waterboys	This Is the Sea		Listen
16	948	Talking Heads	Little Creatures		Listen
17	966	The Velvet Underground	VU		Listen
18	1031	Hüsker Dü	Flip Your Wig		Listen
19	1046	Sting	The Dream of the Blue Turtles		Listen
20	1109	R.E.M.	Fables of Reconstruction		Listen
21	1239	Meat Puppets	Up on the Sun		Listen
22	1245	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Firstborn Is Dead		Listen
23	1259	Prince and The Revolution	Around the World in a Day		Listen
24	1338	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega		Listen
25	1382	The Mekons	Fear and Whiskey		Listen
26	1391	John Cougar Mellencamp	Scarecrow		Listen
27	1402	Scritti Politti	Cupid & Psyche 85		Listen
28	1435	Eurythmics	Be Yourself Tonight		Listen
29	1540	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Don't Stand Me Down		Listen
30	1591	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston		Listen
31	1662	Tears for Fears	Songs from the Big Chair		Listen
32	1666	John Fogerty	Centerfield		Listen
33	1777	Marillion	Misplaced Childhood
34	1960	Wynton Marsalis	Black Codes (from the Underground)		Listen
35	1994	The Sisters of Mercy	First and Last and Always		Listen
36	2028	Mantronix	Mantronix: The Album		Listen
37	2029	Einstürzende Neubauten	1/2 Mensch		Listen
38	2107	Simple Minds	Once Upon a Time		Listen
39	2141	Luther Vandross	The Night I Fell in Love		Listen
40	2177	The Blasters	Hard Line
41	2278	Barbra Streisand	The Broadway Album		Listen
42	2321	Bryan Ferry	Boys and Girls		Listen
43	2382	Youssou N'Dour	Nelson Mandela		Listen
44	2422	Artists United Against Apartheid	Sun City		Listen
45	2554	The Golden Palominos	Visions of Excess
46	2571	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Freaky Styley		Listen
47	2590	Dead Can Dance	Spleen and Ideal		Listen
48	2601	Simply Red	Picture Book		Listen
49	2612	Anthrax	Spreading the Disease		Listen
50	2640	The Cult	Love
51	2673	The Style Council	Our Favourite Shop/Internationalists
52	2706	Keith Jarrett	Standards Live		Listen
53	2728	Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians	Fegmania!		Listen
54	2885	Run-D.M.C.	King of Rock		Listen
55	2924	Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel	Nail		Listen
56	2959	Albert Collins/Robert Cray/Johnny Copeland	Showdown!		Listen
57	2983	Sonic Youth	Bad Moon Rising		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Butthole Surfers	Psychic…Powerless…Another Man's Sac		Listen
		Green on Red	Gas Food Lodging
		Big Audio Dynamite	This Is Big Audio Dynamite		Listen
		Joe Henderson	The State of the Tenor		Listen
		Lone Justice	Lone Justice		Listen
		Robert Palmer	Riptide		Listen
		Aretha Franklin	Who's Zoomin' Who		Listen
		Level 42	World Machine		Listen