1980, 1980 in music
1981, 1981 in music
1982, 1982 in music
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- Dream Syndicate - Dreams of Wine & Roses 18
- Duran Duran - Rio NME 100 greatest albums of all time
- Fear - Record 18
- Flipper - Album -- Generic Flipper 18
- Hassisen Kone - Harsoinen teräs 22
- Kansas - Vinyl Confessions CCM magazine's 20 greatest rock albums
- Legal Weapon - Death of Innocence 18
- Men at Work - Business as Usual 2
- Michael Jackson - Thriller 7, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- The Misfits - Walk Among Us 13, 15, 18
- Mission of Burma - Vs 18
- Pete Townshend - All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes 2
- Petra - More Power to Ya CCM magazine's 20 greatest rock albums
- Richard Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights 18
- Rip Rig & Panic - I Am Cold 18
- Tom Verlaine - Words From the Front 18
- Savage Republic - Tragic Figures 18
- The Styrenes - Girl Crazy 18
- Sweet Comfort Band - Cuttin' Edge CCM magazine's 20 greatest rock albums
- Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die 18
- The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful 18
- X - Under the Big Black Sun 9
1983, 1983 in music
- Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain 13
- Bad Brains - Rock For Light 18
- Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 23
- Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels 18
- Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You 2
- DeGarmo & Key - Mission of Mercy CCM magazine's 20 greatest rock albums
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T 18
- Golden Palominos - Golden Palominos 18
- Jah Wobble - Jah Wobble's Bedroom Album 18
- Jane Siberry - No Borders Here 18
- John Cougar Mellencamp - Uh-Huh 2
- Mark Stewart & Maffia - Learning to Cope With Cowardice 18
- Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II 13
- Metallica - Kill 'Em All 9, 18
- Pink Floyd - The Final Cut 16
- The Police - Synchronicity 24, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Prince - 1999 VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Rain Parade - Third Rail Power Trip 1
- R.E.M - Murmur 1, 8, 9, 13, 18, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- The Swans - Filth 18
- Steve Taylor - I Want to Be a Clone CCM magazine's 20 greatest rock albums
- Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure 18
1984, 1984 in music
- Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Magnetic Flip 18
- Cocteau Twins - Treasure 18
- Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual Rolling Stone's 50 greatest albums by women
- Del Lords - Frontier Days 18
- Dingo - Nimeni on Dingo 22
- The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall 1
- Foetus - Hole 18
- Husker Du - Zen Arcade 13, 18
- Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth 18
- Killdozer - Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite 18
- Lazy Cowgirls - Lazy Cowgirls 18
- Long Ryders - Native Sons 1
- Metallica - Ride the Lightning 15, 18
- Minor Threat - Out of Step 18
- Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime 1, 9, 13, 18
- Nick Cave - From Her to Eternity 18
- The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl 18
- Prince - Purple Rain 7, 24, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- The Replacements - Let It Be 1, 9, 13, 18, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking 16
- The Swans - Cop 18
- Tina Turner - Private Dancer VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Zoogz Rift - Ipecac 18
1985, 1985 in music
- Beat Happening - Beat Happening 13
- The Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac 18
- Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory 13, 18
- The Cure - The Head on the Door 13
- David Thomas - Monster Walks the Winter Lake 18
- David Thomas & the Pedestrians - More Places Forever 18
- Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal 18
- Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms 23
- Elvis Costello - King of America 2
- Eppu Normaali - Kahdeksas ihme 22
- The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace 13
- Fetchin Bones - Cabin Flounder 18
- Foetus - Nail 18
- Husker Du - New Day Rising 1, 13, 18
- The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy 18
- The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey 13
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead 18
- Phil Collins - No Jacket Required 23
- Prince - Around the World in a Day 2
- The Reivers - Translate Slowly 1
- The Replacements - Tim 13, 18
- Rites of Spring - End on End 13
- Squirrel Bait - Squirrel Bait 18
- Stan Ridgway - Big Heat 18
- Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles 2
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Southern Accents 2
- Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 14
- Young Fresh Fellows - Topsy Turvy 1
1986, 1986 in music
- Big Black - Atomizer 18
- Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse 18
- C. W. Vrtacek - Learning to Be Silent 18
- Camper Van Beethoven - II & III 18
- Death of Samantha - Strungout on Jargon 18
- Die Kreuzen - October File 18
- The Dwarves - Horror Stories 18
- The Feelies - The Good Earth 1, 18
- fIREHOSE - Ragin' Full On 18
- Flaming Lips - Hear It Is 18
- Metallica - Master of Puppets 15
- New Order - Brotherhood 1
- Paul Simon - Graceland 2, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Peter Gabriel - So 23, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Prince - Parade 2
- Pussy Galore - Groovy Hate Fuck 18
- Salt-N-Pepa - Hot, Cool & Vicious Rolling Stone's 50 greatest albums by women
- Slayer - Reign in Blood 11, 15
- The Smithereens - Especially For You 18
- The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead NME 100 greatest albums of all time 14
- Stryper - To Hell With the Devil CCM magazine's 20 greatest rock albums
- The Swans - Greed 18
- Tiny Lights - Prayer for the Halcyon Fear 18
- Yo La Tengo - Ride the Tiger 18
1987, 1987 in music
- American Music Club - Engine 18
- Annette Peacock - Abstract-Contact 18
- Band of Susans - Blessing and Curse 18
- The Bats - Daddy's Highway 1
- Bel-Canto - White-Out Conditions 18
- Big Black - Songs About Fucking 18
- Blind Idiot God - Blind Idiot God 18
- Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician 18
- Didjits - Fizzjob 18
- Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me 13, 18
- Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips From the Chocolate Fireball 1
- Faith No More - Introduce Yourself 18
- Fetchin Bones - Galazy 500 18
- Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd!!!... The Flaming Lips 18
- Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction 18, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Henry Rollins - Hot Animal Machine 18
- INXS - Kick 23
- Joe Baiza & the Universal Congress of - Universal Congress of 18
- Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source 18
- Live Skull - Dusted 18
- The Necros - Tangled Up 18
- Prince - Sign O' the Times 2, 4, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Pussy Galore - Right Now 18
- R.E.M - Document 2
- The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me 18
- Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra 18
- Sonic Youth - Sister 1, 18
- Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven 18
- Sting - Nothing Like the Sun 2
- The Swans - Children of God 18
- Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years 18
- Tragic Mulatto - Locos Por Los Se 18
- U2 - The Joshua Tree 2, 5, 7, 8, 21, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Unrest - Tink of S.E 18
- Ut - Conviction 18
- The Walkabouts - See Beautiful Rattlesnake Gardens 18
- Zoogz Rift - Water 18
1988, 1988 in music
- American Music Club - California 18
- Band of Susans - Hope Against Hope 18
- Bongwater - Double Bummer 18
- Of Cabbages and Kings - Face 18
- The Chills - Kaleidoscope World 1
- C.W. Vrtacek - When Heaven Comes to Town 18
- Danzig - Danzig 18
- Dead Can Dance - Serpent's Egg 18
- Death of Samantha - Where the Women Wear the Glory 18
- Enya - Watermark 18
- Foetus - Thaw 18
- Galaxie 500 - Today 18
- Godflesh - Godflesh 18
- Hugo Largo - Drum 18
- In the Nursery - Koda 18
- Jane Siberry - The Walking 18
- Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking 2, 18
- k. d. lang - Shadowland Rolling Stone's 50 greatest albums by women
- King Snake Roost - Things That Play Themselves 18
- Lard - The Power of Lard 18
- Metallica - ...And Justice For All 15
- Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey 18
- Missing Foundations - 1933 18
- Naked Raygun - Jettison 18
- NWA - Straight Outta Compton VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Pixies - Surfer Rosa 9, 11, 13, 14, 18
- Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 4, 7, VH1's 100 greatest albums NME 100 greatest albums of all time
- Red Temple Spirits - Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon 18
- Robert Palmer - Heavy Nova 23
- Rollins Band - Life Time 18
- Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony 18
- Savage Republic - Jamahiriya 18
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 13, 18
- Soundgarden - Ultramega OK 18
- Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden 14, 18
- Tiny Lights - Hazel's Wreaths 18
- Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman Rolling Stone's 50 greatest albums by women
- Unrest - Malcolm X Park 18
1989, 1989 in music
- Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Bel Canton - Birds of Passage 18
- Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Faultline 18
- Bitch Magnet - Umber & Star Booty 18
- Blake Babies - Earwig 18
- Bob Mould - Workbook 18
- Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time Rolling Stone's 50 greatest albums by women
- Djam Karet - Reflections From the Firepool 18
- Dogbowl - Tit (An Opera) 18
- Flaming Lips - Telepathic Surgery 18
- Galaxie 500 - On Fire 18
- Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814 Rolling Stone's 50 greatest albums by women
- John Cougar Mellencamp - Big Daddy 23
- John Zorn - Naked City 14
- Laughing Hyenas - You Can't Pray a Lie 18
- Lazy Cowgirls - Radio Cowgirl 18
- Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule 23
- Lou Reed - New York 18
- Madonna - Like a Prayer Rolling Stone's 50 greatest albums by women, VH1's 100 greatest albums
- Ministry - A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste 18
- Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 25
- Pandora's Box - Original Sin 18
- Peter Gabriel - Passion 18
- Pixies - Doolittle NME 100 greatest albums of all time 1, 13, 18
- Pussy Galore - Dial M for Motherfucker 18
- Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule 18
- Savage Republic - Customs 18
- Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire 18
- Steel Pole Bath Tub - Butterfly Love 18
- Stone Roses - Stone Roses NME 100 greatest albums of all time 1, 4, 14
- The Swans - Burning World 18
- Tackhead - Friendly as a Hand Grenade 18
- They Might Be Giants - Lincoln 18
- Vulgar Boatmen - You and Your Sister 18