Uncut 500 Greatest Albums of the 80s (Jan’24)

The new Uncut ranks the 500 greatest albums of the 80s. All five Smiths albums make the top 100, with two of them making the top 10.
Typically, Morrissey is ignored…

Introducing the 500 Greatest Albums of the 1980s...Ranked!

As the 1980s went on, the British television programme Top Of The Pops developed a split personality. On the one hand it was a place of forced jollity and occasional subversion, as mainly middle-aged Radio 1 disc jockeys interacted uncomfortably with telegenic audience members, and introduced...

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Full top-10:
1. Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love – 1985
2. Talking Heads – Remain In Light – 1980
3. Joy Division – Closer – 1980
4. Kraftwerk – Computer World – 1980
5. De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising – 1989
6. Prince – Sign O’ The Times – 1987
7. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead – 1986
8. My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything – 1988
9. Talk Talk – Sprit Of Eden – 1988
10. The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow – 1984

 

[Juan Dulces]

Yeah, and Black Celebration didn't even make the list.

Besides Violator (89/90), there's one or two DM releases from the 80s that were better. Black Celebration had some clunkers in it.

To each their own. Black Celebration is still a good album.

 

[Juan Dulces]

Hatful deserves all the respect it gets. What a pleasant listen

 

[Was I ever any good]

The greatest album ever.

 

[RazFav]

They’re great album songs, and I always look at Viva Hate as one whole song, and find it criminal if it’s not listened to from start to finish in one sitting. It really is a classic, the original version of course.

It’s our Dark Side of the Moon, lol!

What a great comparison! Listening to Viva really is a music experience like Dark Side. From beginning to end it feels like a journey into Moz's inner psyche after the shock end to The Smiths. It seems as though he's trying to process the trauma by being more introspective, vulnerable and personal than ever.

 

[BookishBoy]

On Fire by Galaxie 500 should be in the top 10 of this list. A stone-cold masterpiece!

 

[MikeyZ]

The new Uncut ranks the 500 greatest albums of the 80s. All five Smiths albums make the top 100, with two of them making the top 10.
Typically, Morrissey is ignored…

Perhaps Morrissey-Solo overlooked the fact that twelve of Morrissey's thirteen studio albums were released in the 1990s, making them categorically irrelevant for an 80s list.

 

[Geoffrey Ingram]

The world won't listen is in there too, so 6 albums

 

[Thewlis]

The world won't listen is in there too, so 6 albums

Rank is also in there, so 7.

But 5 in the top-100.

 

[Gaylord Deepstar]

I’m really not that fond of Viva Hate and never was. It felt like a big letdown after Strangeways. Yes, there are some great songs on it, but some really poor ones as well.

Dial-a, I don’t Mind, Bengali and Guillotine are nothing more than filler. He should have used the Sunday B-sides instead. Then Viva Hate would have been stellar.

 

[The Outsider]

The Lotus Eaters ´No Sense Of Sin'...The Jam ´The Gift'...The Pale Fountains ´From Across The Kitchen Table ´...The Bodines ´Played'???

 

[BookishBoy]

Sorry, just noticed that the first Big Country album isn't even on the list: that's a f***ing shocking omission, simply because they were never considered "cool".