Best albums of the 80:s (very opinionated)

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1. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
2. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
3. The The - Soul Mining
4. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
5. Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
6. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence
7. This Heat - Deceit
8. Waterboys - This Is The Sea
9. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
10. XTC - Skylarking
11. David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive
12. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
13. Pieter Nooten, Michael Brook - Sleeps With The Fishes
14. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
15. Paul Simon - Graceland
16. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
17. Morrissey - Viva Hate
18. Davis Bowie - Scary Monsters
19. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
20. The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically
21. Clan Of Xymox - Clan Of Xymox
22. The Cure - Disintegration
23. The The - Burning Blue Soul
24. Public Image Ltd - Second Edition
25. Madness - The Rise & Fall
26. Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
27. David Sylvian - Gone To Earth
28. Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe
29. Dome - 4 Will You Speak This Word
30. Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
31. Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
32. Coil - Horse Rotorvator
33. The Verlaines - Hallelujah All The Way Home
34. Prince - Purple Rain
35. Steely Dan - Gaucho
36. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
37. The Chameleons - Strange Times
38. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
39. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
40. Fad Gadget - Under The Flag
41. David Byrne - Rei Momo
42. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
43. Swans - Children Of God
44. Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
45. Death In June - Nada!
46. The Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
47. Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
48. The Legendary Pink Dots - Any Day Now
49. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
50. Harold Grosskopf - Syntesist
51. Joy Division - Closer
52. Bruce Springsteen - The River
53. Harold Budd, Brian Eno - The Pearl
54. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hyaena
55. Shriekback - Oil and Gold
56. The Fall - This Nations Saving Grace
57. The Replacements - Tim
58. Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
59. The Cure - The Head On The Door
60. The Sound - From The Lions Mouth
61. Christian Death - Catastrophe Ballet
62. New Order - Technique
63. Psychic TV - Dreams Less Sweet
64. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
65. Moebius Plank Neumeier - Zero Set
66. Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy for Lilith
67. Modern English - Mesh & Lace
68. Moebius - Tonspuren
69. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
70. Kraftwerk - Computer World
71. Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
72. David Sylvian and Holger Czukay - Plight & Premonition
73. Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
74. Lewis - L'Amour
75. Glenn Branca - Symphony No 1
76. Neu! - Neu! '86
77. Brian Eno - Apollo
78. Mariah - Utakata No Hibi
79. The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
80. Current 93 - Dogs Blood Rising
81. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
82. Sonic Youth - Sister
83. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
84. Japan - Tin Drum
85. Roxy Music - Avalon
86. Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
87. Pixies - Dolittle
88. Thomas Dinger - Für mich
89. Miles Davis - Tutu
90. Throtting Gristle - Heathern Earth
91. Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
92. Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
93. The Wire - A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck
94. Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night
95. Mayhem - Deathcrush
96. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
97. Yasuaki Shimizu - Dementos
98. John Mellencamp - Scarecrow
99. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
100. Tim Story - Wheat and Rust
101. Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
102. John Cale - Music For A New Society
103. Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell
104. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
105. Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta
106. Michael Hoenig - Departure From The Northen Wasteland
107. Kraftwerk - Techno Pop
108. Cosey Fanni Tutti - Time To Tell
109. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green
110. Death In June - Burial
111. Psychic TV - Force The Hand Of Chance
112. Conrad Schnitzler - Con 3
113. Devo - Freedom Of Choice
114. Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Keyboard Fantasies
115. Les Vampyrettes - Les Vampyrettes
116. Normil Hawaiians - More Wealth Than Money
117. The Art Of Noise - (Whos Afraid Of) The Art Of Noise
118. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
119. The Church - The Blurred Crusade
120. Prince - Sign "O" the Times
121. Chris Cosey - Trance
122. Roedelius - Wenn der Südwind weht
123. Dif Juz - Extractions
124. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
125. Crime & The City Solution - Room of Lights
126. Néondian - Néondian (Klausi scheißt auf Hollywood)
127. The Birthday Party - Junkyard
128. Big Country - The Crossing
129. The Fall - Thw Wonderful and Frightening World Of...
130. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
131. The Sound - Jeopardy
132. Swans - Filth
133. Dexys Midnight Runners - Too Rye Ay
134. Morrissey - Your Arsenal
135. DAF - Alles ist Gut
136. The Psychadelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
137. Bathory - Bathory
138. Aztec Camera - Life
139. Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis - Deep Listening
140. Peter Murphy - Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
141. Pretenders - Pretenders
142. New Order - Low-life
143. John Cale - Artificial Intelligence
144. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A
145. Michael Rother - Fernwärme
146. Sonic Youth - EVOL
147. Philip Glass - Solo Piano
148. Normil Hawaiians - What's Going On?
149. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture And Morality
150. The Blue Nile - Hats
151. Peter Gabriel - 4: Security
152. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
153. U2 - October
154. Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime
155. Scott Walker - Climate Of Hunter
156. The Associates - The Affectionate Punch
157. New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
158. Waterboys - Fishermans blues
159. The The - Infected
160. Peter Gabriel - Melt
161. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
162. This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
163. A.R Kane - Sixty Nine
164. A.R Kane - i
165. Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland
166. Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked
167. Mick Karn - Dreams Of Reason Produce Monsters