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KILLING JOKE - Eighties (Night Time) 1985PLAY DEAD - Walk Away (From The Promised Land) 1984XMAL DEUTSCHLAND - Eisengrau (Viva) 1987NEW MODEL ARMY - Courage (Poison Street 7") 1987CABARET VOLTAIRE - Just Fascination (The Crackdown) 1983NEW ORDER - Your Silent Face (Power Corruption & Lies) 1983THE OPPOSITION - Innocent (Promises) 1984ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Monkeys (Crocodiles) 1980A DROP IN THE GRAY - All The Same (Certain Sculptures) 1984BLANCMANGE - Don't Tell Me (12" single) 1984ICEHOUSE - Break These Chains (Fresco EP) 1984VOICE OF AMERICA - I Will Tell (single) 1988OMD - Stay (The Pacific Age) 1986BOURGEOIS TAGG - Waiting For The Worm To Turn (Yoyo) 1987EVENING LEGIONS - Your Dimension (s/t EP) 1984JAPAN - Life In Tokyo (Quiet Life) 1979ULTRAVOX - The Stranger Within (Rage In Eden) 1981THE SEERS - Lightning Strikes (single) 1988LET'S ACTIVE - Waters Part (Cypress) 1984RAIN PARADE - Don't Feel Bad (Crashing Dream) 1985DUMPTRUCK - Going Nowhere (For The Country) 1987BAND OF SUSANS - You Were an Optimist (Hope Against Hope) 1988X - You (See How We Are) 1987R.E.M. - Box Cars (Chronic Town EP) 1982THE CONNELLS - Try (Boylan Heights) 1987DEL AMITIRI - Hammering Heart (s/t) 1985HOUSE OF FREAKS - Sun Gone Down (Tantilla) 1989THE REPLACEMENTS - Achin' To Be (Don't Tell a Soul) 1989

Which albums from this landmark year made the cut? Listen and find out!

Which albums from this landmark year made the cut? Listen and find out!

COMSAT ANGELS - Will You Stay Tonight (Land) 1983TALK TALK - Today (The Party's Over) 1982THE FIXX - Changing (Reach The Beach) 1983ENGLISH BEAT - Monkey Murders (Wha'ppen) 1981THE JAM - Town Called Malice (The Gift) 1982JOE JACKSON - Go For It (Body & Soul) 1984TUESDAY BLUE - Love Me Simple (Shibumi) 1988U2 - The Three Sunrises (Wide Awake in America) 1985BIG COUNTRY - Flame of the West (Steeltown) 1984SIMPLE MINDS - Book of Brilliant Things (Sparkle in the Rain) 1983BOOM CRASH OPERA - The Best Thing (Here Are the Crazy Times) 1989THE WOODENTOPS - Everything Breaks (Giant) 1986THE SMITHS - Half a Person (single) 1986McCARTHY - Keep an Open Mind or Else (The Enraged Shall Inherit the Earth) 1989JAMES - Are You Ready (Strip-Mine) 1988CLEANERS FROM VENUS - Girl on a Swing (Going to England) 1987THE JAZZ BUTCHER - Southern Mark Smith (A Scandal in Bohemia) 1984ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS - Flesh Number One (Globe of Frogs) 1988DARLING BUDS - Just Say So (single) 1988INSPIRAL CARPETS - Move (12" single) 1989MIGHTY LEMON DROPS - Happy Head (Happy Head) 1986POP WILL EAT ITSELF - Like an Angel (Love Missile F1-11) 1987PERFECT VISION - The Hook (Our Broken Crown) 1984NEW ORDER - Cries & Whispers (Everything's Gone Green b-side) 1981PARTY DAY - Rabbit Pie (Glasshouse) 1985SAD LOVERS & GIANTS - Imagination (Epic Garden Music) 1982DANSE SOCIETY - Belief (s/t) 1983THE CHAMELEONS - In Shreds (12" single) 1982PLAY DEAD - Isabel (From The Promised Land) 1984

THE CURE - A Short Term Effect (Pornography) 1982SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Partys Fall (Tinderbox) 1986SHOCK THERAPY - Can I Do What I Like (single) 1985QUITE SIMPLE - Victims (7" single) 1987LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Open Your Eyes (s/t) 1982PINK TURNS BLUE - When The Hammer Comes Down (Two Worlds Kiss) 1987THE DAMNED - Dozen Girls (Strawberries) 1982ROSE OF AVALANCHE - Height of the Clouds Pt. 2 (In Rock) 1988JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Blues From a Gun (Automatic) 1989DIE KREUZEN - Slow (Century Days) 1988DANCING HOODS - Wild & The Lonely (12 Jealous Roses) 1985HOODOO GURUS - I Want You Back (Stoneage Romeos) 1984GUADALCANAL DIARY - Fade Out (Flip Flop) 1989BUFFALO TOM - Sunflower Suit (s/t) 1989MOVING TARGETS - Coming Home (Burning In Water) 1986BEAUTY CONSTANT - Catching You (Like The Enemy) 1987RATIONAL YOUTH - City Of Night (Cold War Night Life) 1982ULTRAVOX - Sleepwalk (Vienna) 1980BOOK OF LOVE - I Touch Roses (s/t) 1986OMD - So In Love (Crush) 1985PREFAB SPROUT - Johnny Johnny (Steve McQueen) 1985AZTEC CAMERA - All I Need Is Everything (Knife) 1984SQUEEZE - I've Returned (Sweets From a Stranger) 1982XTC - Respectable Street (The Black Sea) 1980SPLIT ENZ - Missing Person (True Colours) 1980SPARKS - Pretending to Be Drunk (Pulling Rabbits From a Hat) 1984DEVO - Jerkin Back & Forth (New Traditionalists) 1981

MAURICE & THE CLICHES - Soft Core (single) 1983DEEP SIX - Stay Right Here (s/t) 1986FACE OF CONCERN - Brighter Days (Brighter Days EP) 1986THE OTHER ONES - All The Love (s/t) 1986PRIMARY COLOURS - Paint Love Blue (single) 1985FIRST MAN OVER - It's Happening (s/t EP) 1986FALLING JOYS - You're In a Mess (single) 1988UPS & DOWNS - In The Shadows (single) 1986PARACHUTE MEN - Sometimes In Vain (The Innocents) 1988ARMY OF LOVE - Exodus (s/t EP) 1983HURRAH! - Gloria (single) 1985SUDDEN AFTERNOON - Acid Rain (single) 1985VEX - Sanctuary (Sanctuary EP) 1984

ABECEDARIANS - The Misery Of Cities (Eureka EP) 1986BREEDING GROUND - Reunion (s/t EP) 1982CORN DOLLIES - Nothing Of You (single) 1989THE DOWNSIDERS - My Only Reply (s/t) 1987PURE JOY - Ocean (s/t EP) 1986RHYTHM CORPS - Solidarity (s/t EP) 1982HOME - Heaven (7" single) 1987CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE - The Picture (This Can't Be Heaven EP) 1987BALAAM & THE ANGEL - Love Me (Sun Family) 1986MARY GOES ROUND - The Night (Sunset) 1989CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE - It Costs to Be Austere (Near Marineland) 1981BUSH TETRAS - Too Many Creeps (Single) 1980

GO-BETWEENS - Love Goes On (16 Lovers Lane) 1988GRAPES OF WRATH - O Lucky Man (Treehouse) 1987THE DOWNSIDERS - I Wanna Drive (All My Friends are Fish) 1988THE LONG RYDERS - Prairie Fire (Two Fisted Tales) 1987RAIN PARADE - This Can't Be Today (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip) 1983THE FEELIES - Away (only Life) 1988THE NEIGHBORHOODS - W.U.S.A. (The High Hard One) 1986THE DANGTRIPPERS - Masquerade (Days Between Stations) 1989R.E.M. - Cuyahoga (Life's Rich Pageant) 1986GUADALCANAL DIARY - Winds of Change (2x4)THE 77's - Do It For Love (s/t) 1987DARLING BUDS - Uptight (Pop Said) 1988HOUSE OF LOVE - Christine (s/t) 1988THE WEDDING PRESENT - Your Favourite Dress (George Best Plus) 1987WEATHER PROPHETS - Almost Prayed (Mayflower) 1987

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - She's a Carnival (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse) 1982CHAMELEONS UK - One Flesh (What Does Anything...) 1985ABECEDARIANS - Dinner (Resin) 1987JOY DIVISION - Dead Souls (Still) 1981DANSE SOCIETY - Hide (Seductions) 1982THE CURE - A Hundred Years (Pornography) 1982CS ANGELS - Under The Influence (Chasing Shadows) 1987SHRIEKBACK - Nemesis (Oil & Gold) 1985JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Blues From a Gun (Automatic) 1989BAND OF SUSANS - You Were an Optimist (Hope Against Hope) 1988THE PRIMITONS - All My Friends (s/t EP) 1985DEEP SIX - Something/Nothing (s/t) 1986NOT SHAKESPEARE - Turnaround (s/t EP) 1986

DEPECHE MODE - Something To Do (Some Great Reward) 1984NEW ORDER - Your Silent Face (Power Corruption & Lies) 1983VISAGE - Visage (Visage) 1980FIGURES ON A BEACH - Breathless (single) 1984GANG OF FOUR - Is It Love? (single) 1983GLEAMING SPIRES - Are You Ready For The Sex Girls? (single) 1982THE POLECATS - Make a Circuit (12" single) 1983THE SUBURBS - Love Is The Law (Love Is The Law) 1984SQUEEZE - Is That Love (Singles - 45s & Under) 1981TWILIGHT IDOLS - Gonna Tell On You (Beyond Good & Evil) 1986THE GODFATHERS - Birth.School.Work.Death (Birth.School.Work.Death) 1988THE JAM - Happy Together (The Gift) 1982EASTERHOUSE - To Live Like This (Contenders) 1986THAT PETROL EMOTION - Swamp (Babble) 1987THE SMITHS - Half a Person (single) 1986