Top 50 Albums from 1984

#1: Metallica

#2: The Smiths

#3: Prince and the Revolution

#4: Iron Maiden

#5: Cocteau Twins

#6: The Replacements

#7: The Smiths

#8: Staatsorchester Stuttgart / Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra / The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies / Saulius Sondeckis / Gidon Kremer / Keith Jarrett / Tatjana Grindenko / Alfred Schnittke

#9: Minutemen

#10: Hüsker Dü

#11: Mercyful Fate

#12: Ennio Morricone

#13: Judas Priest

#14: Pascal Rogé

#15: R.E.M.

#16: Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Georg Solti

#17: Meat Puppets

#18: Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields / Neville Marriner

#19: Steve Roach

#20: Manuel Göttsching

#21: Echo & the Bunnymen

#22: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

#23: Dio

#24: Metal Church

#25: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

#26: Fabrizio De André

#27: Bruce Springsteen

#28: Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

#29: The Fall

#30: Trouble

#31: David Sylvian

#32: Kauffman & Caboor

#33: Scorpions

#34: W.A.S.P.

#35: Sade

#36: Saint Vitus

#37: Harold Budd / Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois

#38: Roland Kayn

#39: The Blue Nile

#40: Charly García

#41: Daniel Barenboim

#42: Black Flag

#43: Marillion

#44: Warlord

#45: Rush

#46: Depeche Mode

#47: Omen

#48: This Mortal Coil

#49: Stephen Sondheim

#50: Solaris