| Year |
Artist |
Title |
Comments |
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| 1989 |
Neil Young |
Freedom |
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| |
My Bloody Valentine |
Ecstasy and Wine |
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| |
Todd Rundgren |
Nearly Human |
|
| |
Thee Mighty Caesars |
John Lennon's Corpse Revisited |
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| 1988 |
My Bloody Valentine |
Isn't Anything |
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| |
Billy Bragg |
Workers Playtime |
 |
| |
My Bloody Valentine |
You Made Me Realize [EP] |
|
| |
Joy Division |
Substance |
 |
| |
Sonic Youth |
Daydream Nation |
 |
| |
Everything But the Girl |
Idlewild |
 |
| |
Billy Bragg |
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry |
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| |
The Jesus and
Mary Chain |
Barbed Wire Kisses |
|
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|
| 1987 |
Sonic Youth |
Sister |
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| |
The Pogues |
If I Should Fall From Grace With God |
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| |
Wire |
The Ideal Copy |
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| |
The Smiths |
Louder than Bombs |
 |
| |
New Order |
Substance |
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| |
Kathy Mattea |
Untasted Honey |
|
| |
Eugene Chadbourne |
There'll Be No Tears Tonight |
|
| |
Eugene Chadbourne |
Vermin of the Blues |
|
| |
Eugene Chadbourne |
LSD C&W |
|
| |
Eugene Chadbourne |
Dear Eugene: What You Said was Not Very
Nice, and Now I am Going to Have to KILL EUGENE |
|
| |
The Jesus and Mary Chain |
Darklands |
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| |
Game Theory |
Lolita Nation |
|
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|
| 1986 |
Sonic Youth |
EVOL |
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| |
Elvis Costello |
King of America |
|
| |
Elvis Costello |
Blood & Chocolate |
|
| |
The Smiths |
The Queen is Dead |
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| |
Eugene Chadbourne |
Corpses of Foreign Wars |
|
| |
REM |
Life's Rich Pageant |
(actually, there's no apostrophe, but I couldn't stand to write it that way) |
| |
XTC |
Skylarking |
|
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|
| 1985 |
The Fall |
This Nation's Saving Grace |
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| |
The Pogues |
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash |
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| |
Daniel Johnston |
Continued Story |
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| |
New Order |
Low Life |
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| |
The Jesus and Mary Chain |
Psychocandy |
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| |
Todd Rundgren |
A Cappella |
|
| |
Husker Du |
New Day Rising |
|
| |
REM |
Fables of the Reconstruction |
|
| |
Game Theory |
Real Nighttime |
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| |
Everything But the
Girl |
Love Not Money |
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| |
Meat Puppets |
Up on the Sun |
|
| |
The Style Council |
Internationalists
(Our Favorite Shop) |
|
| |
The Ramones |
Too Tough to Die |
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|
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|
| 1984 |
The Smiths |
The Smiths |
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| |
Billy Bragg |
Brewing Up With Billy Bragg |
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| |
The Style Council |
My Ever Changing Moods (Cafe Bleu) |
|
| |
The Replacements |
Let it Be |
|
| |
The Smiths |
Hatful of Hollow |
 |
| |
Public Image LTD |
This is What You Want,
This is What You Get |
|
| |
Public Image LTD |
Commercial Zone |
|
| |
The Fall |
Escape From the Wonderful and Frightening World of...
|
|
| |
Husker Du |
Zen Arcade |
|
| |
REM |
Reckoning |
|
| |
The Raincoats |
Moving |
|
| |
Motörhead |
No Remorse |
Mustn't forget the ümläüt. |
| |
The Minutemen |
Double Nickles on the Dime |
|
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|
| 1983 |
New Order |
Power, Corruption, and Lies |
 |
| |
Marshall Crenshaw |
Field Day |
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| |
Daniel Johnston |
Yip/Jump Music |
 |
| |
The Minutemen |
Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat |
|
| |
Shockabilly |
Earth vs. Shockabilly |
|
| |
REM |
Murmur |
|
| |
Meat Puppets |
II |
|
| |
The Ramones |
Subterranean Jungle |
 |
|
|
|
|
| 1982 |
Magazine |
After the Fact |
|
| |
Fear |
The Record |
|
| |
Au Pairs |
Sense & Sensuality |
|
| |
Elvis Costello |
Imperial Bedroom |
|
| |
Marshall Crenshaw |
Marshall Crenshaw |
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| |
The Germs |
G.I. |
|
| |
Talking Heads |
The Name of This Band is
Talking Heads |
|
| |
Laurie Anderson |
Big Science |
|
| |
The Fall |
Room to Live |
|
| |
John Cale |
Music for a New Society |
|
| |
Elvis Costello |
Imperial Bedroom |
|
| |
The Clash |
Combat Rock |
|
| |
The Damned |
Strawberries |
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| |
Dave Edmunds |
D.E. 7th |
|
| |
Gang of Four |
Songs of the Free |
|
| |
XTC |
English Settlement |
|
| |
Bauhaus |
The Sky's Gone Out |
|
| |
Utopia |
Utopia |
|
| |
Penguin Cafe Orchestra |
Broadcasting from Home |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1981 |
Talking Heads |
Remain in Light |
|
| |
Elvis Costello |
Almost Blue |
|
| |
Elvis Costello |
Trust |
|
| |
King Crimson |
Discipline |
|
| |
Squeeze |
East Side Story |
|
| |
Ultravox |
Rage in Eden |
|
| |
Black Flag |
Damaged |
|
| |
Penguin Cafe Orchestra |
Penguin Cafe Orchestra |
|
| |
Todd Rundgren |
Healing |
|
| |
David Byrne & Brian Eno |
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts |
|
| |
Public Image LTD |
The Flowers of Romance |
|
| |
The Raincoats |
Odyshape |
|
| |
Gang of Four |
Entertainment |
|
| |
Peter Hammill |
Sitting Targets |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1980 |
Swell Maps |
...in Jane From Occupied Europe |
 |
| |
Squeeze |
Argybargy |
|
| |
XTC |
Black Sea |
|
| |
Ultravox |
Vienna |
|
| |
Bauhaus |
In the Flat Field |
|
| |
The Raincoats |
The Raincoats |
|
| |
Dead Kennedys |
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
|
| |
David Bowie |
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
|
| |
Magazine |
The Correct Use of Soap |
|
| |
The Clash |
Sandinista |
 |
| |
The Clash |
Black Market Clash |
 |
| |
The Jam |
Sound Effects |
|
| |
The Damned |
The Black Album |
 |
| |
The Soft Boys |
Underwater Moonlight |
|
| |
Joy Division |
Closer |
 |
| |
Utopia |
Adventures in Utopia |
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