best of 1980's
THE SMITHS - the queen is dead (10)
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - pychocandy (10)
FELT - forever breathes the lonely word (10)
STONE ROSES - st (10)
JOY DIVISON - closer (9)
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - the painted word (10)
FELT strange idol patterns and other short stories (10)
YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS - colossal youth (9)
COCTEAU TWINS - treasure (9.5)
THE HOUSE OF LOVE - st (10)
PULP - freaks (10)
PRINCE - dirty mind (10)
THE WIPERS - youth of america (9.5)
THE CURE - disintegration (10)
X - los angeles (9)
DEAD KENNEDYS fresh fruit for rotten vegetables (9)
THIS MORTAL COIL - it'll end in tears (9)
FELT strange idol patterns and other short stories (10)
COCTEAU TWINS - blue bell knoll (9)
SPACEMEN 3 - playing with fire (10)
DANIEL JOHNSTON - yip/jump music (9) - hi how are you (8)
SONIC YOUTH - sister (9)
NEW ORDER - low life (9)
PRINCE - purple rain (10)
THE VASELINES - dum dum
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN - ocean rain (9.5)
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - tender prey (9)
THE VASELINES - dum dum
PIXIES - surfer rosa (9)
FELT -poem of the river (9)
MICHAEL JACKSON - thriller (10)
MEAT PUPPETS - meat puppets II (10)
FELT - ignite the seven cannons (10)
MARINE GIRLS - beach party (9.5)
THE PASTELS - up for a bit (9)
BEAT HAPPENING - jamboree (9)
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - isn't anything (9)
ORANGE JUICE - you can't hide your love forever (8.5)
THE SMITHS - hatful of hollow (10)
FELT crumbling the antiseptic beauty (8) me and a monkey on the moon (9)
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - darklands (9)
COCTEAU TWINS - victorialand (9)
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD - metal box (8)
LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS - rattlesnakes (8.5)
JOHN LENNON AND YOKO ONO - double fantasy (9)
PAUL MCCARTNEY - mccartney II (8)
MADONNA first album (9)
MEAT PUPPETS - up in the sun (9)
THE SMITHS - meat is murder (9)
FELT - the pictorial jackson review (9.5)
FIELD MICE - snowball (9)
DEPECHE MODE - music for the masses (9)
X - under the big black sun (9)
DE LA SOUL - 3 feet high and rising (8.5)
THE BEASTIE BOYS - licensed to ill (8)
NEW ORDER brotherhood (8) - technique (9)
GALAXIE 500 - today (8)
THE PRETENDERS - II (8)
DEPECHE MODE - black celebration (8)
PRINCE - controversy (9)
THE APARTMENTS - the evening visits ... (8.5)
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
FELT - the splendor of fear (9)
FLEETWOOD MAC - mirages (8)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - vu (10)
THE PRIMITIVES - lovely (8)
THE GO BETWEENS - 16 lovers lane (8)
THE HOUSEMARTINS - hull 6 : london 0 (8)
KATE BUSH - hounds of love (8)
VIOLENT FEMMES - st (8)
SLAYER - reign in blood (8)
MEGADETH - peace is selling but who's buying? (8)
MOTORHEAD - ace of spades (9)
ANTHRAX - among the living (8)
CYNDI LAUPER - she's so unusual (7)
PRINCE - controversy (9)
THE APARTMENTS - the evening visits ... (8.5)
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
SPACEMEN 3 - the perfect prescription (9)
ORANGE JUICE - rip it up (9)
THE WIPERS - over the edge (9)
NEW ORDER - power corruption and lies (9)
DINOSAUR JR - bug (8) - you're living all over me (9)
FLEETWOOD MAC - mirages (8)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - vu (10)
THE PRIMITIVES - lovely (8)
THE SNEETCHES - sometimes that's all we have (8)
THE SHOP ASSISTANTS - will anything happen? (8)
X - wild gift (8)
THIS HEAT - deceit (8)
ORANGE JUICE - rip it up (8.5)
JAMES - stutter (8)
THE SMITHS - strangeways here we come (8)
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - automatic (8)
THE GO BETWEENS - 16 lovers lane (8)
THE HOUSEMARTINS - hull 6 : london 0 (8)
KATE BUSH - hounds of love (8)
VIOLENT FEMMES - st (8)
SLAYER - reign in blood (8)
MEGADETH - peace is selling but who's buying? (8)
MOTORHEAD - ace of spades (9)
ANTHRAX - among the living (8)
CYNDI LAUPER - she's so unusual (7)
SONIC YOUTH - daydream nation (8)
GEORGE MICHAEL - faith (8)
PET SHOP BOYS - introspective / actually, (8)
REM - green (8)
PRINCE - sign o the times (8)
THE CRAMPS - psychedelic jungle (8)
MADONNA - like a virgin (second edition) (9)
LL COOL J - B.A.D. (9)
THE CURE - the head on the door (8.5)
DEPECHE MODE - speak and spell (9)
DEAD KENNEDYS - plastic surgery disaster (8)
COCTEAU TWINS - aikea guinea (8) - tiny dynamine (8)- echoes in a shallow bay (8)- the moon and the melodies (8.5)
THIS MORTAL COIL filigree and shadows (8)
THE PASTELS - sittin pretty - suck on
THE JAMES DEAN DRIVING EXPERIENCE - eps (8)
MADONNA - like a prayer (8)
THE WEATHER PROPHETS - mayflower
THE CHILLS - kaleidoscope
PETER ASTOR - zoo
GALAXIE 500 - on fire (8)
SONIC YOUTH - evol (8)
THE WEATHER PROPHETS - mayflower
THE CHILLS - kaleidoscope
PETER ASTOR - zoo
GALAXIE 500 - on fire (8)
RAINCOATS - odyshape
DEAD KENNEDYS - frankenkrist (8)
NIRVANA - bleach (8)
NINE INCH NAILS - pretty hate machine (8)
PUBLIC ENEMY - it takes a nation to hold us back (8)
NWA - straight outta compton (8)
MICHAEL JACKSON - bad (8.5)
DAVID BOWIE - let's dance (8)
DAVID BOWIE - let's dance (8)
THE WAKE - harmony / here comes everybody (8)
FELT - let the snakes crinkle their head to death (8)
FELT - let the snakes crinkle their head to death (8)
