Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1985

The Top Albums from 1985
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	84	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Psychocandy		Listen
2	114	Tom Waits	Rain Dogs		Listen
3	186	Kate Bush	Hounds of Love		Listen
4	228	Prefab Sprout	Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good		Listen
5	248	The Pogues	Rum, Sodomy & the Lash		Listen
6	426	Hüsker Dü	New Day Rising		Listen
7	444	New Order	Low-Life		Listen
8	480	The Fall	This Nation's Saving Grace
9	507	The Replacements	Tim		Listen
10	527	Sam Cooke	Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963		Listen
11	530	The Cure	The Head on the Door		Listen
12	575	Dire Straits	Brothers in Arms		Listen
13	593	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder		Listen
14	741	LL Cool J	Radio		Listen
15	852	The Waterboys	This Is the Sea		Listen
16	991	R.E.M.	Fables of the Reconstruction		Listen
17	1070	Sting	The Dream of the Blue Turtles		Listen
18	1072	Talking Heads	Little Creatures		Listen
19	1125	Prince and The Revolution	Around the World in a Day		Listen
20	1147	The Velvet Underground	VU		Listen
21	1209	Hüsker Dü	Flip Your Wig		Listen
22	1324	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Firstborn Is Dead		Listen
23	1326	Dexys Midnight Runners	Don't Stand Me Down		Listen
24	1401	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega		Listen
25	1499	Mekons	Fear and Whiskey		Listen
26	1502	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston		Listen
27	1504	John Cougar Mellencamp	Scarecrow		Listen
28	1514	Meat Puppets	Up on the Sun		Listen
29	1584	Scritti Politti	Cupid & Psyche 85		Listen
30	1727	Eurythmics	Be Yourself Tonight		Listen
31	1792	John Fogerty	Centerfield		Listen
32	1810	The Sisters of Mercy	First and Last and Always		Listen
33	1821	Tears for Fears	Songs from the Big Chair		Listen
34	1945	Einstürzende Neubauten	1/2 Mensch		Listen
35	1986	Marillion	Misplaced Childhood
36	2167	Youssou N'Dour	Nelson Mandela		Listen
37	2193	The Cult	Love
38	2222	Simple Minds	Once Upon a Time		Listen
39	2339	Wynton Marsalis	Black Codes (from the Underground)		Listen
40	2352	The Blasters	Hard Line
41	2444	Simply Red	Picture Book		Listen
42	2449	Ry Cooder	Paris, Texas		Listen
43	2461	Luther Vandross	The Night I Fell in Love		Listen
44	2473	Bryan Ferry	Boys and Girls		Listen
45	2503	Run-D.M.C.	King of Rock		Listen
46	2610	Mantronix	The Album		Listen
47	2729	Bérurier Noir	Concerto pour détraqués		Listen
48	2838	The Style Council	Our Favourite Shop/Internationalists
49	2855	Chris Isaak	Silvertone		Listen
50	2870	Artists United Against Apartheid	Sun City		Listen
51	2899	Sonic Youth	Bad Moon Rising		Listen
52	2908	Barbra Streisand	The Broadway Album		Listen
53	2995	Anthrax	Spreading the Disease		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Red Hot Chili Peppers	Freaky Styley		Listen
		Dead Can Dance	Spleen and Ideal		Listen
		Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians	Fegmania!		Listen
		The Golden Palominos	Visions of Excess
		Iron Maiden	Live after Death		Listen
		Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel	Nail		Listen
		Sade	Promise		Listen
		Green on Red	Gas Food Lodging
		Camper Van Beethoven	Telephone Free Landslide Victory
		Big Audio Dynamite	This Is Big Audio Dynamite		Listen
		Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland	Showdown!		Listen
		Joe Henderson	The State of the Tenor		Listen
		CCCP Fedeli Alla Linea	Affinità-divergenze tra il Compagno Togliatti e noi
		Grant Green	Born to Be Blue		Listen
		Miles Davis & John Coltrane	Live in Stockholm 1960
		Tina Brooks	Back to the Tracks		Listen
		The Chameleons	What Does Anything Mean, Basically?
		Level 42	World Machine		Listen
		INXS	Listen Like Thieves		Listen
		Lone Justice	Lone Justice		Listen
		Aretha Franklin	Who's Zoomin' Who		Listen
		A-ha	Hunting High and Low		Listen
		Robert Palmer	Riptide		Listen