60 Albums 1980

Mixing it up a little... I'm jumping from the 60s to 1980. This was also another year where I couldn't stop at 60 at ended up with a list of my 100 favorites for the year.

1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2. Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
3. The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
4. The Clash - Sandinista!
5. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeeps)
6. U2 - Boy
7. Pretenders - Pretenders
8. Split Enz - True Colours
9. Prince - Dirty Mind
10. Squeeze Argybargy
11. Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure
12. Dirty Looks - Dirty Looks
13. Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
14. Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
15. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure
16. XTC - Black Sea
17. Bruce Springsteen - The River
18. Joy Division - Closer
19. Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
20. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
21. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
22. Hall & Oates - Voices
23. The Only Ones - Baby's Got a Gun
24. Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
25. X - Los Angeles
26. Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
27. The Jam - Sound Affects
28. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
29. Elvis Costello - Taking Liberties
30. Fischer-Z - Going Deaf For a Living
31. Martha & The Muffins - Metro Music
32. 999 - The Biggest Prize in Sport
33. Joan Armatrading - Me, Myself and I
34. Roxy Music - Flesh + Blood
35. Defunkt - Defunkt
36. John Hiatt - Two Bit Monsters
37. Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla
38. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
39. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
40. Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
41. T Bone Burnett - Truth Decay
42. Devo - Freedom of Choice
43. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
44. The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
45. The B-52's - Wild Planet
46. The Undertones - Hypnotised
47. Ramones - End of the Century
48. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Uprising
49. The Kinks - One For The Road
50. Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy
51. Kate Bush - Never For Ever
52. The Vapors - New Clear Days
53. The Specials - More Specials
54. The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
55. Joan Jett - Joan Jett
56. Bootsy Collins - Ultra Wave
57. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
58. The Roches - Nurds
59. Teenage Head - Frantic City
60. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
61. The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column
62. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
63. Ultravox - Vienna
64. Blondie - Autoamerican
65. Billy Burnette - Billy Burnette
66. The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
67. The Inmates - Shot in the Dark
68. UB40 - Signing Off
69. Robert Gordon - Bad Boy
70. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
71. Steely Dan - Gaucho
72. Link Wray - Live at the Paradiso
73. AC/DC - Back in Black
74. Pylon - Gyrate
75. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
76. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
77. Linton Kwesi Johnson - LKJ in Dub
78. Roky Erickson & The Aliens - Roky Erickson & The Aliens (5 Symbols)
79. Emmylou Harris - Roses in the Snow
80. Mink DeVille - Le Chat Bleu
81. Van Morrison - Common One
82. The Human League - Travelogue
83. The Birthday Party - The Birthday Party
84. Bruce Cockburn - Humans
85. Willie Nile - Willie Nile
86. Visage - Visage
87. Jim Carroll - Catholic Boy
88. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
89. Wreckless Eric - Big Smash
90. Swell Maps - In Jane From Occupied Europe
91. Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
92. Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver
93. Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
94. Paul McCartney - Paul McCartney II
95. Roseanne Cash - Right or Wrong
96. Buggles - The Age of Plastic
97. Orchestral Nanoeuvres in the Dark - Organization
98. Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
99. Various Artists - No Nukes
100. BB Gabor - BB Gabor