Top Pick Albums 1980

Yesterday I posted the top pick of songs from the year 1980. Today it's the top albums of 1980. Now this is purely subjective. It has nothing to do with charts or plays or anything like that. I had a couple of criteria. One. I had to own the album. I had to like it, of course. And I tried not to pick an album that I had picked a song from for my top twenty of the year. I am posting the top ten albums for me. One through ten is my favorite track at the time from the album. I also picked a second track from each album for side two (these were originally cassettes - mixtapes). Somewhere near the end of the decade instead of the second track I picked songs from my favorite compilations of the year, But that doesn't happen til much later. They aren't in order of my liking them. If it was how much I listened to each album it would be hard to say, but I have to admit it was probably Billy Joel. That was on repeat when I was on a trip to Hawaii that year and kept getting played after I came back. 

Top Pick Albums 1980

01 Pretenders - Precious
02 Kate Bush - Babooshka
03 Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
04 Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
05 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
06 XTC - Generals and Majors
07 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
08 U2 - I Will Follow
09 Devo - Whip It
10 Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach
11 Soft Boys - I Got The Hots
12 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
13 Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
14 XTC - Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)
15 Pretenders - Space Invader
16 Devo - Freedom Of Choice
17 Kate Bush - Breathing
18 Billy Joel - You May Be Right
19 Martha And The Muffins - Cheesies And Gum
20 U2 - Stories For Boys