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NME: Albums Of The Year 1980–1989

The best albums of the Eighties according to NME. Click on an album or album title to read more.


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1989

De La Soul
3 Feet High And Rising
Previous albums: None
Albums released since: AOI: Bionix, Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump, Buhloone Mindstate, De La Soul Is Dead, Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996, Stakes Is High, The Grind Date, The Impossible: Mission TV Series - Pt. 1

1988

Public Enemy
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Previous albums: Yo! Bum Rush The Show
Albums released since: Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black, Beat And Places, Fear Of A Black Planet, Fight the Power...Live!, Greatest Misses, He Got Game (Soundtrack), Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age, New Whirl Odor, Rebirth Of A Nation, Revolverlution, There's A Poison Goin' On

1987

Public Enemy
Yo! Bum Rush The Show
Previous albums: None
Albums released since: Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black, Beat And Places, Fear Of A Black Planet, Fight the Power...Live!, Greatest Misses, He Got Game (Soundtrack), It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age, New Whirl Odor, Rebirth Of A Nation, Revolverlution, There's A Poison Goin' On

1986

Prince
Parade
Previous albums: 1999, Around The World In A Day, Controversy, Dirty Mind, For You, Prince, Purple Rain

Albums released since: 3121, Batman (Soundtrack), Chaos And Disorder, Diamonds And Pearls, Emancipation, Exodus, Girl 6 (Soundtrack), Goldnigga, Graffiti Bridge (Soundtrack), Love Symbol, Lovesexy, Musicology, N.E.W.S, One Nite Alone... Live!, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, Sign 'O' The Times, The Gold Experience, The Rainbow Children

1985

Tom Waits
Rain Dogs
Previous albums: Blue Valentine, Closing Time, Foreign Affairs, Heart Of Saturday Night, Heartattack And Vine, Nighthawks at the Diner (Live), One From The Heart (Soundtrack), Small Change,
Swordfishtrombones

Albums released since: Alice, Big Time (Live), Blood Money, Bone Machine, Frank's Wild Years, Mule Variations, Night On Earth (Soundtrack), Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, Real Gone, The Black Rider

1984

Bobby Womack
The Poet II
Previous albums: Across 110th Street, BW Goes C&W, Communication, Fly Me To The Moon, Home Is Where The Heart Is, I Don't Know What The World Is Coming To, I Can Understand It, Lookin' For A Love Again, My Prescription, Pieces, Roads Of Life, Safety Zone, Save The Children, The Facts Of Life, The Poet, Understanding
Albums released since: Back To My Roots , Christmas Album, I Still Love You, I Wanna Make Love To You, Last Soul Man, Post, Resurrection, Rubare Alla Mafia E' Un Suicidio, So Many Rivers, Someday We'll All Be Free, Soul Seduction Supreme, Soul Sensation Live, Traditions, Womagic

1983

Elvis Costello
Punch The Clock
Previous albums: Almost Blue, Armed Forces, Get Happy!!, Imperial Bedroom, My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Trust
Albums released since: All This Useless Beauty, Blood And Chocolate, Brutal Youth, Costello & Nieve (with Steve Nieve), Cruel Smile, Deep Dead Blue (with Bill Frisell), For The Stars (with Anne-Sofie von Otter), G.B.H. (with Richard Harvey), Goodbye Cruel World, Il Sogno, Jake's Progress (with Richard Harvey), King Of America, Kojak Variety, Live At The El Mocambo, Mighty Like A Rose, My Flame Burns Blue, North, Painted From Memory (with Burt Bacharach), Piano Jazz (with Marian McPartland), Spike, Terror & Magnificence (with John Harle), The Delivery Man, The Juliet Letters (with The Brodsky Quartet), The River In Reverse (with Allen Toussaint), The Sweetest Punch (with Bill Frisell), When I Was Cruel

1982

Marvin Gaye
Midnight Love

Previous albums: A Tribute To The Great Nat "King" Cole, Diana & Marvin (with Diana Ross), Easy (with Tammi Terrell), Hello Broadway, Here, My Dear, How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You, I Want You, In Our Lifetime, In the Groove (reissued as I Heard It Through the Grapevine), Let's Get It On, Live At The London Palladium, Marvin Gaye Live!, Moods Of Marvin Gaye, Recorded Live On Stage, Take Two (with Kim Weston), That Stubborn Kinda Fellow, That's The Way Love Is, The Soulful Moods Of Marvin Gaye, Together (with Mary Wells), Trouble Man, United (with Tammi Terrell), What's Going On, When I'm Alone I Cry, You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell)

Albums released since: Dream Of A Lifetime, Marvin Gaye At The Copa (Live), Romantically Yours

1981

Grace Jones
Nightclubbing
Previous albums: Fame, Muse, Portfolio, Warm Leatherette
Albums released since: Bulletproof Heart, Inside Story, Living My Life, Slave To The Rhythm

1980

Joy Division
Closer
Previous albums: Unknown Pleasures
Albums released since: Les Bains Douche (Live), Preston Warehouse (Live), Still, Substance, The Peel Sessions, Warsaw

 



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