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

Top Pick 1980

Back right around this year I started making my Top Picks at the end of each year. I had a couple of rules, which I will explain. First like every pick on this site, I could only use songs or albums that I owned. I had to like it enough to have it in my collection. I could never keep it to my top ten, so I picked Twenty. I would then make that into a mixtape (later a mix CD). I also made a top ten albums list for the year and mostly no tracks from the album list would be on the tracks list. My albums lists I will post later. They did not have to be released as a single to make it on my Top Picks. But the songs must have been released in that year. I know that some countries release songs at different times. As long as my copy of the released album or single was of that year it qualified for me. So here is my list of picks from 1980. They are not in order of how much I like them. A couple of notes: Klark Kent was on green 10" vinyl and theSplit Enz had laser etching which was a thing for a while. Also, I will be posting one of these per month for now.

Top Pick 1980

01 Klark Kent - Don't Care

02 J Geils Band - Love Stinks

03 Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles

04 Blondie - Rapture

05 The Fall - How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'

06 Visage - Fade To Grey

07 The Clash - The Magnificent Seven

08 Black Slate - Amigo

09 The Residents - Diskomo

10 Split Enz - I Got You

11 Tuxedomoon - What Use

12 Cars - Touch And Go

13 The B-52's - Quiche Lorraine

14 The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me

15 UB40 - Madam Medusa

16 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

17 Dexys Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long

18 Joy Division - Isolation

19 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity

20 The Cure - A Forest