Fire Walk With Me

previously on Best Albums Lists oh god why am I doing this:

1960’s —- 1970’s 

1980: The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

(runners-up: The Talking Heads- Remain in Light; Joy Division - Closer; The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us; David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps); Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth)

1981: The Human League - Dare

(Runners-up: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju; Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement; The Cure - Faith; Black Flag - Damaged)

1982: Michael Jackson - Thriller

(runners-up: Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes; Mission of Burma - Vs; Prince - 1999; The Cure - Pornography; Orange Juice - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever)

1983: New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies

(runners-up: Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones; U2 - War; The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge; Elvis Costello - Punch The Clock; R.E.M. - Murmur)

1984: The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

(runners-up: Prince - Purple Rain; The Smiths - The Smiths; The Replacements - Let It Be)

1985: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

(runners-up: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy; Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair; The Cure - The Head on the Door; Kate Bush - Hounds of Love)

1986: The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

(runners-up: The Chameleons - Strange Times;  R.E.M. - Life’s Rich Pageant; XTC - Skylarking; Peter Gabriel - So)

1987: Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription

(runners-up: The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God; Tom Waits - Frank’s Wild Years; The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim)

1988: The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

(runners-up: Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back; Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey; Morrissey - Viva Hate)

1989: De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

(runners-up: The Pixies - Doolittle; The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses; The Cure - Disintegration; Galaxie 500 - On Fire; Nirvana - Bleach; Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814)