Top 50 Albums from the 1980s

#1: Talking Heads

#2: Pixies

#3: The Smiths

#4: The Cure

#5: Joy Division

#6: Sonic Youth

#7: Metallica

#8: Metallica

#9: Tom Waits

#10: Talk Talk

#11: Kate Bush

#12: Pixies

#13: Slayer

#14: The Smiths

#15: The Cure

#16: Prince and the Revolution

#17: Iron Maiden

#18: The Stone Roses

#19: Tom Waits

#20: Iron Maiden

#21: Michael Jackson

#22: Metallica

#23: Dead Kennedys

#24: R.E.M.

#25: Public Enemy

#26: Beastie Boys

#27: Iron Maiden

#28: Sonic Youth

#29: Cocteau Twins

#30: Kate Bush

#31: Rush

#32: The Replacements

#33: Metallica

#34: King Crimson

#35: Dinosaur Jr.

#36: This Heat

#37: The Smiths

#38: 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

#39: Prince

#40: Minutemen

#41: Hüsker Dü

#42: Kraftwerk

#43: The Jesus and Mary Chain

#44: Sonic Youth

#45: Dead Can Dance

#46: Iron Maiden

#47: Violent Femmes

#48: The Chameleons

#49: Black Sabbath

#50: Morbid Angel