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This is a list of 1980s music albums that multiple music journalists, magazines, and professional music review websites have considered to be among the best of the 1980s and of all time, separated into the years of each album's release. The albums listed here are included on at least four separate "best/greatest of the 1980s/all time" lists ...
NME have included covermount albums for a long time. The Clash's release Capital Radio, which was released 9 April 1977, could only be obtained by sending away a coupon featured in one issue of the NME, and the red sticker from the cover of the band's debut album.
[1] The series contained 15 volumes. The first five were released on 21 June 1994, and concentrated mostly on music issued between 1977 and 1981, with a few tracks from 1982. (Despite the "New Wave Hits of the '80s" subtitle, Volume 1 actually contains no tracks from the 1980s; tracks from 1980 and later begin appearing midway through Volume 2.)
1 490 The Specials: The Special A.K.A. Live! [nb 4] 9 February 1980: 1 491 Kenny Rogers "Coward of the County" 16 February 1980: 2 492 Blondie "Atomic" 1 March 1980: 3 493 Fern Kinney "Together We Are Beautiful" 22 March 1980: 1 494 The Jam "Going Underground" 29 March 1980: 2 495 Liquid Gold "Dance Yourself Dizzy" ‡ 12 April 1980: 2 496 ...
Bob Dylan was the first artist to top NME 's albums list more than once, in 1975 and 1976. NME named Punch the Clock by Elvis Costello as the greatest album of 1983. Hip-hop group Public Enemy topped NME 's albums lists in consecutive years, 1987 and 1988. Spiritualized's album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space was named the best ...
Technique has been listed by several publications as one of the best albums of the 1980s and of all time. In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at number 21 on its list of the "40 Best Albums of the '80s". [23] NME ranked the album at number 122 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2013. [24]
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
In 2013, the album ranked number 7 on NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [60] In 2020, it came third in the BBC Radio 2 "Ultimate 80's Album" poll, [61] beating albums such as "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, "Appetite for Destruction" by Guns N' Roses and "Purple Rain" by Prince. The listeners poll, which had "tens of thousands of votes ...