These years are special years. Not just because I was coming of age then. Here is the Best Ever Albums charts for 1980:
1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
5. David Bowie - Scarey Monsters (and Super Freaks)
6. Bruce Springsteen - The River
7. Peter Gabriel - III
8. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
9. Dire Straits - Making Movies
10. Rush - Permanent Waves
and here are my 30 favourites. All in my record collection:
1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
2. Dexys Midnights Runners - Searching For The Young Sound Rebels
3. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
4. The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
5. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Freaks)
6. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
7. Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth
8. Pylon - Gyrate
9. Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
10. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
11. Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
12. Joy Division - Closer
13. Prince - Dirty Mind
14. Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
15. Tom Waits - Heartattack & Vine
16. UB40- Signing Off
17. Adam & The Ants - Kings of The Wild Frontier
18. Suicide - Alan Vega / Martin Rev
19. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
20. Peter Gabriel - III
21. The Clash - Sandinista
22. Simple Minds - Empires & Dance
23. XTC - Black Sea
24. Pretenders - Pretenders
25. The B-52's - Wild Planet
26. The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
27. The Undertones - Hypnotised
28. The Specials - More Specials
29. The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique
30. Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe
What more could you want?
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