Forty years. needless to say since 1980. It was probably the year that I became a sentient music listener, starting my record collection and beginning to develop my own tastes as a fourteen and then as a fifteen year old. It was a good time to start, being a particularly fabulous year for music as were the two previous years and the couple that followed. So with this in mind, I'm going to commence a little 1980 series on here. Starting with this, the Best Ever Album sites rundown of the best albums of that year, as voted by its readers.
Overall, it's a rather drab Top 30, not really reflecting the diverse and thrilling year it was musically. I have no objections to the first two records on the top of the list. They probably were the outstanding albums of the year. But elsewhere there's a lot of drab metal stuff that really doesn't appeal to me. You can keep your AC/DC. Dead Kennedys, Rush, Motorhead, Sabbath, Maiden, Ozzy and Queen. There was much more exciting stuff going down. I'll return with my own Top 30 presently.
- Talking Heads - Remain In Light
- Joy Division - Closer
- AC/DC - Back in Black
- The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
- David Bowie - Scary Monsters
- Bruce Springsteen - The River
- Peter Gabriel - III
- Dire Straits - Making Movies
- The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
- Pretenders - Pretenders
- Rush - Permanent Waves
- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
- The Clash - Sandinista
- U2 - Boy
- Elvis Costello & The Attractions
- Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
- Motorhead - Ace of Spades
- Steely Dan - Gaucho
- The Jam - Sound Affects
- Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
- The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
- Prince - Dirty Mind
- Ozzy Osborne - Blizzard of Oz
- Bauhaus - In the Flat field
- Kate Bush - Never for Ever
- Genesis - Duke
- Queen - The Game
- Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
- X - Los Angeles
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