Year End Charts

for Thursday, December 31, 1981

1. Simple Minds · Sons & Fascination
2. King Crimson · Discipline
3. Human League · Dare
4. Psychedelic Furs · Talk Talk Talk
5. Iggy Pop · Party
6. U2 · October
7. Orchestral Maneouvres · Architecture & Morality
8. The Clash · Sandinista
9. Ultravox · Rage in Eden
10. UB40 · Present Arms
11. Kraftwerk · Computer World
12. Duran Duran · Duran Duran
13. Japan · Tin Drum
14. John Fox · The Garden
15. Martha and the Muffins · This Is The Age Of Ice
16. Adam and the Ants · Kings of the Wild Frontier
17. Killing Joke · Killing Joke
18. Eno & Bryne · My Life In the Bush of Ghosts
19. Joan Armatrading · Walk Under Ladders
20. The Police · Ghosts in the Machine
21. Echo & The Bunnymen · Heaven Up Here
22. Joy Division · Still
23. The Jam · Sound Affects
24. Siousxie & The Banshees · Ju Ju
25. Joe Jackson · Jumpin Jive
26. Neil Young · Reactor
27. Stranglers · Men In Black
28. Bruce Cockburn · Inner City Front
29. The English Beat · Wha'appened
30. Marianne Faithful · Dangerous Acquaintances
31. Spandau Ballet · Journeys to Glory
32. Elvis Costello · Trust
33. Godley & Creme · Ismism
34. Soft Cell · Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
35. Gen X · Kiss Me Deadly
36. Stranglers · La Folie
37. New Musik · Anywhere
38. Split Enz · Waiata
39. Boomtown Rats · Mondo Bongo
40. Jon & Vangelis · The Friends of Mr. Cairo
41. Rough Trade · For Those Who Think Young
42. Nash the Slash · Children of the Night
43. Classix Nouveaux · Classix Nouveaux
44. New Order · Movement
45. The Ramones · Pleasant
46. The Cure · Faith
47. Stray Cats · Stray Cats
48. Jerry Harrison · The Red & The Black
49. Squeeze · East Side Story
50. Gang of Four · Solid Gold
51. Garland Jeffries · Escape Artist
52. Robin Trower · B.L.T.
53. John Martyn · Glorious Fool
54. Bow Wow Wow · See Jungle
55. John Entwhistle · Too Late/The Hero
56. Magazine · Magic Murder & The Weather
57. Stiff Little Fingers · Go For It
58. The Kinks · Give The People What They Want
59. The Spoons · Stick Figure Neighbourhood
60. Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays · As Falls Wichita
61. The Tubes · Completion Backwards Principle
62. Little Feat · Hoy Hey
63. Heaven 17 · Penthouse & Pavement
64. Ricky Lee Jones · Pirates
65. The Deserters · The Deserters
66. B.B. Gabor · Girls of the Future
67. The Go Go's · Beauty & the Beat
68. Tim Curry · Simplicity
69. Ian Hunter · Short Back 'N' Sides
70. Rick Wakeman · 1984
71. 999 · Concrete
72. Eberhard Schoener · Video Magic
73. Walkie Talkies · Surveillance
74. Tangerine Dream · Exit
75. Marquis de Sade · Rue de Siam
76. Tom Tom Club · Tom Tom Club
77. Spirit · Potatoeland
78. Jona Lewie · On the Other Hand
79. Rupert Hine · Immunity
80. The Pretenders · 2
81. Masque · Camouflage