100 Faves of the 80s
1. THE SMITHS – The Queen Is Dead
2. PET SHOP BOYS – Please
3. TALKING HEADS – Remain In Light
4. SONIC YOUTH – Daydream Nation
5. PET SHOP BOYS – Actually
6. GREG SAGE – Straight Ahead
7. THE CURE – Pornography
8. PREFAB SPROUT – Steve McQueen
9. WIPERS – Youth Of America
10. KEITH JARRETT, GARY PEACOCK, JACK DeJOHNETTE – Changeless
11. SCOTT WALKER – Climate Of Hunter
12. SONIC YOUTH – Sister
13. THE SMITHS – The Smiths
14. YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS – Colossal Youth
15. TALK TALK – Spirit Of Eden
16. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Nebraska
17. TALK TALK – The Colour Of Spring
18. THE CURE – Disintegration
19. JOY DIVISION – Closer
20. FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD – Welcome To The Pleasuredome
21. LINTON KWESI JOHNSON – Bass Culture
22. ABC – The Lexicon Of Love
23. TALK TALK – It’s My Life
24. THE CURE – Seventeen Seconds
25. PETER HAMMILL & THE K GROUP – The Margin
26. SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Kaleidoscope
27. GALAXIE 500 – On Fire
28. PETER HAMMILL – A Black Box
29. SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Juju
30. R.E.M. – Murmur
31. JONI MITCHELL – Shadows And Light
32. THE SMITHS – Meat Is Murder
33. DEPECHE MODE – Music For The Masses
34. KING CRIMSON – Discipline
35. JUNE TABOR – Abyssinians
36. THE CURE – Faith
37. FRED ANDERSON – The Missing Link
38. SONIC YOUTH – EVOL
39. PETER GABRIEL – Peter Gabrirel (Security)
40. PETER HAMMILL – And Close As This
41. SADE – Diamond Life
42. PETER HAMMILL – The Love Songs
43. THE LOUNGE LIZARDS – Lounge Lizards
44. MAL WALDRON QUINTET – The Seagulls Of Kristiansund
45. MAL WALDRON QUINTET – The Git Go – Live At The Village Vanguard
46. PETER HAMMILL – Patience
47. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – Psychocandy
48. TOWNES VAN ZANDT – At My Window
49. R.E.M. – Fables Of The Reconstruction
50. KATE BUSH – Hounds Of Love
51. NANCI GRIFFITH – Poet In My Window
52. STEVE LACY FOUR – Morning Joy
53. BEASTIE BOYS – Paul’s Boutique
54. CHRIS ISAAK – Silvertone
55. THE SMITHS – Strangeways, Here We Come
56. GUADALCANAL DIARY – Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man
57. FEHLFARBEN – Monarchie Und Alltag
58. DEPECHE MODE – 101
59. R.E.M. – Document
60. GANG OF FOUR – Solid Gold
61. RAIN PARADE – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
62. BOB NEUWIRTH – Back To The Front
63. ARTHUR RUSSELL – World Of Echo
64. CHRIS ISAAK – Chris Isaak
65. SADE – Promise
66. THE FALL – Hex Enduction Hour
67. DEAD KENNEDYS – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
68. ERIC B. & RAKIM – Follow The Leader
69. PHILIP GLASS – Glassworks
70. PUBLIC ENEMY – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
71. KEITH TIPPETT – Mujician
72. PET SHOP BOYS – Introspective
73. PETER BRÖTZMANN – 14 Love Poems
74. NICK MASON – Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports
75. DAVID BOWIE – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
76. LOU REED – New York
77. CHARLIE HADEN – The Ballad Of The Fallen
78. BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS – Criminal Minded
79. ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS – Get Happy!!
80. THE FEELIES – Crazy Rhythms
81. DAVID SYLVIAN – Brilliant Trees
82. TEARS FOR FEARS – Songs From The Big Chair
83. DEPECHE MODE – Black Celebration
84. BRÖTZMANN/MANGELSDORFF/SOMMER – Pica Pica
85. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
86. JOE HENDERSON – The State Of The Tenor Live At The Village Vanguard, Vol. 2
87. JOE HENDERSON – The State Of The Tenor Live At The Village Vanguard, Vol. 1
88. PETER BRÖTZMANN GROUP – Alarm
89. THE STONE ROSES – The Stone Roses
90. DE LA SOUL – 3 Feet High And Rising
91. R.E.M. – Reckoning
92. GENESIS – Duke
93. THE SPECIALS – More Specials
94. JULEE CRUISE – Floating Into The Night
95. HORACE ANDY – Dance Hall Style
96. PABLO MOSES – A Song
97. 23 SKIDOO – Seven Songs
98. KING SUNNY ADÉ AND HIS AFRICAN BEATS – Juju Music
99. GRACE JONES – Nightclubbing
100. LAURIE ANDERSON – Big Science
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