TALK TALK - The Colour Of Spring (1986) CWax Rating 94.7%
Essential tracks: I Don't Believe In You, Life's What You Make It, April 5th, Living In Another World, Give It Up
THE SMITHS - Meat Is Murder (1984)
CWax Rating 94.6%
Essential tracks: The Headmaster Ritual, Rusholme Ruffians, I Want The One I Can't Have, What She Said, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Nowhere Fast, Well I Wonder, Barbarism Begins At Home
THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses (1989)
CWax Rating 94.2%
Essential tracks: I Wanna Be Adored, She Bangs The Drums, Waterfall, (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister, Made Of Stone, This Is The One, I Am The Resurrection
NEW ORDER - Technique (1989) CWax Rating 94.1%
Essential tracks: Fine Time, All The Way, Round & Round, Run, Mr Disco, Vanishing Point, Dream Attack
TEARS FOR FEARS - Songs From The Big Chair (1985) CWax Rating 93.7%
Essential tracks: Shout, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Mothers Talk, Head Over Heels
DURAN DURAN - Rio (1982) CWax Rating 93.6%
Essential tracks: Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf, Hold Back The Rain, Save A Prayer, The Chauffeur
NEW ORDER - Low-Life (1985) CWax Rating 93.0%
Essential tracks: Love Vigilantes, The Perfect Kiss, Sunrise, Sub-culture
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born In The USA (1984) CWax Rating 92.8%
Essential tracks: Born In The USA, Cover Me, Downbound Train, I'm On Fire, No Surrender, Bobby Jean, Glory Days, Dancing In The Dark
DAVID BOWIE - Scary Monsters (1980) CWax Rating 92.7%
Essential tracks: Up The Hill Backwards, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), Ashes To Ashes, Teenage Wildlife, Because You're Young, It's No Game (Pt 2)
BIG COUNTRY - The Crossing (1983) CWax Rating 92.3%
Essential tracks: In A Big Country, Chance, Harvest Home, Fields Of Fire, Porrohman
TALK TALK - It's My Life (1984) CWax Rating 92.1%
Essential tracks: Dum Dum Girl, Such A Shame, It's My Life, Tomorrow's Started
NEW ORDER - Brotherhood (1986)
CWax Rating 91.8%
Essential tracks: Bizarre Love Triangle, All Day Long, State Of The Nation
AC/DC - Back In Black (1980) CWax Rating 91.6%
Essential tracks: Hells Bells, Shoot To Thrill, Back In Black, You Shook Me All Night Long
THE SMITHS - Hatful Of Hollow (1984) CWax Rating 91.4%
Essential tracks: William It Was Really Nothing, What Difference Does It Make, These Things Take Time, This Charming Man, How Soon Is Now, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Reel Around The Fountain, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
THE PRETENDERS - Pretenders (1980) CWax Rating 91.4%
Essential tracks: Precious, Stop Your Sobbing, Kid, Private Life, Brass In Pocket, Mystery Achievement
THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
CWax Rating 90.9%
Essential tracks: The Queen Is Dead, Cemetery Gates, Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
U2 - War (1983) CWax Rating 90.7%
Essential tracks: Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day, Two Hearts Beat As One, Surrender
ULTRAVOX - Vienna (1980) CWax Rating 90.6%
Essential tracks: Astradyne, Passing Strangers, Sleepwalk, Vienna, All Stood Still
TEARS FOR FEARS - The Hurting (1983) CWax Rating 90.4%
Essential tracks: Mad World, Pale Shelter, Suffer The Children, Change
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love (1982) CWax Rating 90.4%
Essential tracks: Show Me, Poison Arrow, Tears Are Not Enough, Look Of Love (Pt 1), All Of My Heart
OMD - Architecture & Morality (1981)
CWax Rating 90.4%
Essential tracks: She's Leaving, Souvenir, Joan Of Arc, Maid Of Orleans
JOY DIVISION - Closer (1980)
CWax Rating 89.9%
Essential tracks: Isolation, Passover, A Means To An End
THE THE - Infected (1986) CWax Rating 89.9%
Essential tracks: Infected, Heartland, Slow Train To Dawn