Best Albums of 1981

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) [2017 Remaster]

David Bowie

8.9

Street Songs

Rick James

8.8

The Ascension

Glenn Branca

9.3

Signals, Calls and Marches

Mission of Burma

Fire of Unknown Origin

Blue Öyster Cult

8.9

Nightclubbing

Grace Jones

Planetary Unfolding

Michael Stearns

Business As Usual

Men At Work

Computer World (Remastered)

Kraftwerk

Controversy

Prince

Juju Music

King Sunny Ade

Youth of America

Wipers

8.7

Sorry Ma! Forgot to Take Out the Trash!

The Replacements

8.7

Discipline (Expanded Edition)

King Crimson

Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust, Inc.

Dead Kennedys

Deceit

This Heat

My Life In the Bush of Ghosts

Brian Eno & David Byrne

Mister Yellowman

Yellowman

Eraserhead

David Lynch & Alan R. Splet

Con Funk Shun 7

Con Funk Shun

9.4

Season of Glass

Yoko Ono

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

The Replacements

9.4

Time

Electric Light Orchestra

Damaged

Black Flag

9.2

BGM

Yellow Magic Orchestra

9.2

Liquid Liquid - EP

Liquid Liquid

9.2

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

John Williams

Dare

The Human League

9.1

Handful of Earth

Dick Gaughan

Paradise Theatre

Styx

Street Songs

Rick James

Moving Pictures (Remastered)

Rush

Scary Monsters

David Bowie

Camino Del Sol

Antena

Beauty and the Beat

The Go-Go's

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live - Expanded Edition)

Motörhead

From the Lion's Mouth

The Sound

Living In Darkness (40th Anniversary Edition)

Agent Orange

Generic

Flipper

8.8

Tom Tom Club

Songs In the Attic (Live)

Billy Joel

In Our Lifetime

Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

8.7

Vicious Circle

Zero Boys

7.9

Haustor

La Voce Del Padrone

Franco Battiato

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

Soft Cell

Odbrana I Poslednji Dani

Idoli

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

The Philip Glass Ensemble

Homotopy to Marie

Nurse With Wound

Non Stop Erotic Cabaret (Deluxe Edition)

Soft Cell

Unicornio

Silvio Rodríguez

Mercedes Sosa en Argentina (En Directo)

Mercedes Sosa

Fodder on My Wings

Nina Simone

Strait Country

George Strait

Kamikaze

Luis Alberto Spinetta

Nothing to Fear

Oingo Boingo

Roberto Carlos (1971) [Remasterizado]

Roberto Carlos

Christ The Album

Crass

Lovers Rock Raggae Style

Love Joys

Corazón de Poeta

Jeanette

Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?

The Waitresses

Seven Waves

Suzanne Ciani

Killing Time

Massacre

Carry On

Bobby Caldwell

Vigilante

Willie Colón

7.7

Chopin: Nocturnes

Daniel Barenboim

Peperina

Serú Girán

O Superman

Laurie Anderson

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

Watch Your Step

Ted Hawkins

7.6

4 (Deluxe Edition)

Foreigner

Only A Lad

Oingo Boingo

Ai Ga Nakuchane.

Akiko Yano

Welcome to Hell

Venom

Crazy and Mixed Up

Sarah Vaughan

Raise!

Earth, Wind & Fire

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

Bennie Wallace Plays Monk

Bennie Wallace

Never Too Much

Luther Vandross & Martha Wash

Cores, Nomes

Caetano Veloso

Live at Montreux and Northsea

Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers

A Distant Shore

Tracey Thorn

Epic Garden Music

Sad Lovers & Giants

Pictures at Eleven (Remastered)

Robert Plant

Singin' Alone

Arnaldo Baptista

I Advance Masked

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp

Tonight I'm Yours

Rod Stewart

Scissors Cut

Art Garfunkel

Diary of a Madman (40th Anniversary Expanded Edition)

Ozzy Osbourne

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Monoton

Um banda um

Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben Jor

Get Closer

Linda Ronstadt & The Nelson Riddle Orchestra

Trust

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Bad Reputation (Expanded Edition)

Joan Jett

Repercussion (2024 Remaster)

The dB's

Fantasia

Gal Costa