 | The Raincoats by The Raincoats
Buy used from: $79.99 The best girl band?
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 | Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies
Buy used from: $15.19 |
 | Wipers Box Set by Wipers
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $18.50 The album on the first disc, "Is This Real?", was released in 1980. The second disc contains the Wipers' second LP, "Youth of America", from 1981.
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 | Closer by Joy Division
Buy used from: $3.57 The cover is white not yellow.
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 | Hee-Haw by The Birthday Party
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.87 Their first album (1980) with their previous band's last release (the Boys Next Door "Hee-Haw" [EP] (1979))
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 | Remain in Light by Talking Heads
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.01 Far and away the best Talking Heads album. "Seen And Not Seen"
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 | And Don't the Kids Just Love It by Television Personalities
Buy used from: $23.69 |
 | Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants
Buy used from: $9.00 |
 | Los Angeles by X
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.02 |
 | Doc at the Radar Station by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Buy new: $11.94 / Used from: $8.37 |
 | Underwater Moonlight . . . And How It Got There by The Soft Boys
Buy used from: $31.13 Our last inclusion from 1980.
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 | Prayers on Fire by The Birthday Party
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.97 Our first selection from 1981. The strangest album ever to make my all-time top 10.
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 | Fire of Love by Gun Club
Buy used from: $41.90 |
 | Solid Gold/Another Day/Another Dollar by Gang of Four
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.31 |
 | Complete Discography by Minor Threat
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.65 The self-titled EP came out in '81.
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 | The Blue Mask by Lou Reed
Buy used from: $9.00 My favorite of Reed's solo output.
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 | Deceit by This Heat
Buy used from: $17.99 |
 | Signals, Calls and Marches by Mission of Burma
Buy used from: $3.10 |
 | Guitar Beat by Raybeats
Buy used from: $35.99 Post-punk surf rock!
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 | E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching
Buy used from: $24.99 |
 | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Buy used from: $3.99 |
 | The Ascension by Glenn Branca
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $8.50 |
 | Slates / Part of America Therein 1981 by Fall
Buy used from: $3.49 |
 | Red Mecca
Buy used from: $7.22 |
 | Boom in the Night by Bush Tetras
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $9.99 |
 | Computer World by Kraftwerk
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.65 |
 | Damaged by Black Flag
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.66 Liquid Liquid also had some great releases in 1981, but I couldn't find any in 73 pages of options.
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