Top Ten Pop/Rock Albums By Decade: 1980s
By Marvin Marks on Jan 2, 2011 in Features
This is the third in a series of posts on the top 10 pop/rock albums of each decade beginning with the 1960s according to the users of RateYourMusic.com. You can find the first two installments here (1960s) and here (1970s.)
#01 Pixies – Doolittle (#4695 on Amazon’s bestsellers list.)
#02 The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (#1349)
#03 Joy Division – Closer (#9760)
#04 Talking Heads – Remain in Light (#2774)
#05 Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
#06 Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
#07 The Cure – Disintegration
#08 Pixies – Surfer Rosa
#09 Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
#10 Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
Some Additional Top 100 Selections
#13 The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
#17 Prince – Purple Rain
#19 R.E.M. – Murmur
#21 Rush – Moving Pictures
#40 Michael Jackson – Thriller
#50 Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel
#63 AC/DC – Back in Black
#72 Guns N Roses – Appetite for Destruction
#88 Paul Simon – Graceland
#92 U2 – The Joshua Tree
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Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden best of the 80s? having lived through that period I’d have to say I never saw that coming. I’d say R.E.M. murmur was a much better LP or the Dream Syndicate’s first or The Gun Club Miami or even head on the Door by the Cure.
Jones | Mar 24, 2011 | Reply