My Top 50 Albums of 1980
Here's the Spotify playlist with a track from each album:
1. Pretenders - Pretenders
2. Squeeze - Argybargy
3. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt)
4. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
5. Devo - Freedom Of Choice
6. AC/DC - Back In Black
7. Bruce Springsteen - The River
8. Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
9. X - Los Angeles
10. Diana Ross – Diana
11. Rush - Permanent Waves
12. Van Halen - Women And Children First
13. The B-52s - Wild Planet
14. Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
15. Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
16. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
17. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
18. Prince - Dirty Mind
19. Judas Priest - British Steel
20. Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion
21. XTC - Black Sea
22. Steely Dan – Gaucho
23. Queen - The Game
24. Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
25. Daryl Hall & John Oates – Voices
26. Genesis – Duke
27. Tom Waits - Heartattack And Vine
28. George Jones – I Am What I Am
29. Kurtis Blow – Kurtis Blow
30. Sugarhill Gang – Sugarhill Gang
31. The Clash - Sandinista!
32. The Ramones - End Of The Century
33. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
34. Joe Jackson – Beat Crazy
35. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly – Joy And Pain
36. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
37. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
38. Huey Lewis And The News - Huey Lewis And The News
39. John Mellencamp - Nothin' Matters And What If It Did
40. Kate Bush - Never For Ever
41. Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School
2. Squeeze - Argybargy
3. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt)
4. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
5. Devo - Freedom Of Choice
6. AC/DC - Back In Black
7. Bruce Springsteen - The River
8. Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
9. X - Los Angeles
10. Diana Ross – Diana
11. Rush - Permanent Waves
12. Van Halen - Women And Children First
13. The B-52s - Wild Planet
14. Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
15. Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
16. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
17. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
18. Prince - Dirty Mind
19. Judas Priest - British Steel
20. Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion
21. XTC - Black Sea
22. Steely Dan – Gaucho
23. Queen - The Game
24. Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
25. Daryl Hall & John Oates – Voices
26. Genesis – Duke
27. Tom Waits - Heartattack And Vine
28. George Jones – I Am What I Am
29. Kurtis Blow – Kurtis Blow
30. Sugarhill Gang – Sugarhill Gang
31. The Clash - Sandinista!
32. The Ramones - End Of The Century
33. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
34. Joe Jackson – Beat Crazy
35. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly – Joy And Pain
36. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
37. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
38. Huey Lewis And The News - Huey Lewis And The News
39. John Mellencamp - Nothin' Matters And What If It Did
40. Kate Bush - Never For Ever
41. Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School
42. Urban Verbs - Urban
Verbs
43. Sparks – Terminal Jive
43. Sparks – Terminal Jive
44. U2 – Boy
45. Nicolette Larson – Radioland
46. Jackson Browne - Hold Out
47. Paul McCartney - McCartney II
48. John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
49. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
45. Nicolette Larson – Radioland
46. Jackson Browne - Hold Out
47. Paul McCartney - McCartney II
48. John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
49. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
50. Neil Young – Hawks & Doves
As I come to the end of this attempt to organize the 1980s into, I'm also closing out a year in which I've already ranked several of these albums within the respective catalogs of Bowie, Costello, Young, Bush, Prince, The Clash, U2, and Springsteen. Sometimes I think too hard about whether these things are internally consistent with one another, or whether they inadvertently reveal who I think is better at making albums than who. Urban Verbs were a Washington, D.C. band that an older co-worker had seen back in the day and hipped me to once, fronted by Chris Frantz's brother Roddy Frantz and sounding sort of like a sibling band to Talking Heads as well.
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