Best Albums of 1981

Street Songs

Rick James

Fire of Unknown Origin

Blue Öyster Cult

8.9

Computer World (Remastered)

Kraftwerk

Juju Music

King Sunny Ade

Youth of America

Wipers

8.7

Discipline (Expanded Edition)

King Crimson

Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust, Inc.

Dead Kennedys

Nightclubbing

Grace Jones

Deceit

This Heat

Controversy

Prince

Mister Yellowman

Yellowman

8.4

Eraserhead

David Lynch & Alan R. Splet

8.4

Con Funk Shun 7

Con Funk Shun

9.4

Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (Deluxe Edition)

The Replacements

9.4

Damaged

Black Flag

9.2

The Blue Mask

Lou Reed

9.2

BGM

Yellow Magic Orchestra

9.2

My Life In the Bush of Ghosts

Brian Eno & David Byrne

Dare

The Human League

9.1

Tom Tom Club

Camino Del Sol

Antena

Season of Glass

Yoko Ono

Living In Darkness (40th Anniversary Edition)

Agent Orange

Generic

Flipper

8.8

In Our Lifetime

Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

8.7

Vicious Circle

Zero Boys

Haustor

La Voce Del Padrone

Franco Battiato

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Bonus Tracks) [2002 Remaster]

Soft Cell

Suburban Lawns

Odbrana I Poslednji Dani

Idoli

Glassworks - Re-Issue of the 1982 Release "Specially Mixed for Your Personal Cassette Player"

The Philip Glass Ensemble

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

John Williams

Unicornio

Silvio Rodríguez

8.4

Mercedes Sosa en Argentina (En Directo)

Mercedes Sosa

Fodder on My Wings

Nina Simone

Exit... Stage Left (Live) [Remastered]

Rush

Beauty and the Beat

The Go-Go's

Strait Country

George Strait

Kamikaze

Luis Alberto Spinetta

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live - Expanded Edition)

Motörhead

Nothing to Fear

Oingo Boingo

Time

Electric Light Orchestra

Christ The Album

Crass

Lovers Rock Raggae Style

Love Joys

Signals, Calls and Marches

Mission of Burma

Corazón de Poeta

Jeanette

From the Lion's Mouth

The Sound

Seven Waves

Suzanne Ciani

Watch Your Step

Ted Hawkins

Killing Time

Massacre

Carry On

Bobby Caldwell

Vigilante

Willie Colón

7.7

Chopin: Nocturnes

Daniel Barenboim

Peperina

Serú Girán

O Superman

Laurie Anderson

The Dude

Quincy Jones

Sextet

A Certain Ratio

Tattoo You

The Rolling Stones

Halloween II (30th Anniversary Edition) [Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

John Carpenter & Alan Howarth

Transit

Yasuha

Only A Lad

Oingo Boingo

Ai Ga Nakuchane.

Akiko Yano

Never Too Much

Luther Vandross & Martha Wash

Killers (2015 Remastered Edition)

Iron Maiden

Cores, Nomes

Caetano Veloso

Diary of a Madman (40th Anniversary Expanded Edition)

Ozzy Osbourne

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Monoton

Um banda um

Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben Jor

Songs In the Attic (Live)

Billy Joel

Fantasia

Gal Costa

A Taste of DNA

DNA

Triumph

The Jacksons

Solid Gold

Gang of Four

7

Madness

Wa-Do-Dem

Eek-A-Mouse

Word of Mouth

Jaco Pastorius

Bella Donna (2016 Remaster)

Stevie Nicks

Pleasure

Girls At Our Best!

Only Theatre of Pain

Christian Death

Healing

Todd Rundgren

Doe Maar - Skunk

Doe Maar

The Blurred Crusade (Remastered)

The Church

Abandoned Cities

Harold Budd

Death Penalty

Witchfinder General

December

George Winston

Sorry Ma! Forgot to Take Out the Trash!

The Replacements

Adolescents

7.8

What's This For . . . !

Killing Joke

7.8

Burning Blue Soul

The The

7.6

Wasser im Wind

Roedelius

7.6

Speak & Spell

Depeche Mode

7.5

Liaisons dangereuses

Liaisons Dangereuses

7.3

Blaze of Glory

Game Theory

7.2

For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

AC/DC

7.0

Shake It Up

The Cars

6.9

The Visitors (Deluxe Edition)

ABBA

6.8

Meat Puppets Live

Meat Puppets

2.7