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UK BEST ALBUMS 1981-1989
(indie charts)
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1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
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Date of entry
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Album & Artist
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Weeks on top
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19/1/80
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Dirk Wears White Sox - Adam & The Ants |
13*
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26/1/80
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Stations Of The Crass - Crass |
5*
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9/2/80
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Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division |
1
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23/2/80
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Sheep Farming In Barnet - Toyah |
3
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29/3/80
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Songs The Lord Taught Us - Cramps |
1
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5/4/80
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For How Much Longer Must We Tolerate Mass Murder - Pop Group |
3
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26/4/80
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Bootleg Retrospective - Slits |
3
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17/5/80
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Totale’s Turns (It’s Now Or Never) - Fall |
5
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21/6/80
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The Blue Meaning - Toyah |
2
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5/7/80
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Live At Last - Black Sabbath |
3
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26/7/80
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Closer - Joy Division |
8
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20/9/80
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Signing Off - UB4O |
11*
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22/11/80
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In The Flat Field - Bauhaus |
2
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6/12/80
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Grotesque (After The Gramme) - Fall |
3
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| He Who Dares Wins - Theatre Of Hate |
5
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9/5/81
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To Each... - A Certain Ratio |
1
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16/5/81
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Punk’s Not Dead - Exploited |
2
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30/5/81
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Playing With A Different Sex - Au Pairs |
2
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13/6/81
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Present Arms - UB4O |
11 *
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11/7/81
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Penis Envy - Crass |
5
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22/8/81
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The Last Call - Anti - Pasti |
2
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26/9/81
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Red Mecca - Cabaret Voltaire |
1
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24/10/81
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Still Joy Division |
4
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21/11/81
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Speak And Spell - Depeche Mode |
7*
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5/12/81
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Movement - New Order |
4*
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| Sextet - A Certain Ratio |
4*
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6/3/82
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Seven Songs - 23 Skidoo |
1
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13/3/82
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Dr. Heckle And Mr. Jive - Pigbag |
10*
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15/5/82
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The Good, The Bad And The 4 - Skins - 4 - Skins |
1
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29/5/82
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We Are The League - Anti - Nowhere League |
5*
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26/6/82
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Troops Of Tomorrow Exploited |
3
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24/7/82
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2 x 45 - Cabaret Voltaire |
1
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31/7/82
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Junkyard - Birthday Party |
4
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28/8/82
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Christ The Album - Crass |
1
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4/9/82
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Upstairs At Eric’s - Yazoo |
12*
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16/10/82
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UB44 - UB4O |
3*
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30/10/82
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A Broken Frame - Depeche Mode |
2
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20/11/82
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Warrior Rock (Toyah On Tour) - Toyah |
2
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| Pillows And Prayers - Various |
5
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19/2/83
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Strive To Survive, Causing Least Suffering Possible - Flux Of Pink Indians |
2
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5/3/83
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Wreckin’ Crew - Meteors |
3
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26/3/83
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Song And Legend - Sex Gang Children |
2
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9/4/83
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It’s Time To See Who’s Who - Conflict |
3
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30/4/83
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High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera |
2
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14/5/83
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Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order |
7*
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18/6/83
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Yes Sir, I Will - Crass |
3
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9/7/83
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Off The Bone Cramps |
2
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23/7/83
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You And Me Both - Yazoo |
8*
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3/9/83
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Construction Time Again - Depeche Mode |
5*
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5/11/83
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Head Over Heels - Cocteau Twins |
4
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3/12/83
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Smell Of Female - Cramps |
3
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24/12/83
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Perverted By Language - Fall |
4
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| Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy - Billy Bragg |
6
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3/3/84
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The Smiths - Smiths |
12
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26/5/84
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Vengeance - New Model Army |
1
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2/6/84
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From Her To Eternity - Nick Cave |
6
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14/7/84
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Tocsin I Mal Deutschland |
3
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4/8/84
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Rockabilly Psychosis - Various |
1
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11/8/84
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Urban Gamelan - 23 Skidoo |
1
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18/8/84
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Revolution - Theatre Of Hate |
6
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29/9/84
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Burning Oil - Skeletal Family |
2
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13/10/84
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Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode |
2
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27/10/84
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It’ll End In Tears - This Mortal Coil |
4
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24/11/84
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Hatful Of Hollow - Smiths |
13
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| Meat Is Murder - Smiths |
12
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18/5/85
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Native Sons - Long Ryders |
2
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1/6/85
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Low - Life - New Order |
8
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27/7/85
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Night Of A Thousand Candles - Men They Couldn’t Hang |
4
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24/8/85
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Colourbox - Colourbox |
4
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21/9/85
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Held Down To VinylAt Last - Guana Batz! |
2
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5/10/85
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There Are Eight Million Stories - June Brides |
4
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2/11/85
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Flip Your Wig - HOsker DO |
1
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9/11/85
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The Singles 81 - 85 - Depeche Mode |
3*
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23/11/85
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The Clock Goes Down The Stairs - Microdisney |
1
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7/12/85
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Nail - Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel |
2
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21/12/85
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Frankenchrist - Dead Kennedys |
5
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| Back In The DHSS - Half Man Half Biscuit |
6*
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1/3/86
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A Date With Elvis - Cramps |
4*
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22/3/86
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Paint Your Wagon - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry |
1
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5/4/86
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Black Celebration - Depeche Mode |
2
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26/4/86
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Victorialand - Cocteau Twins |
4
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24/5/86
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Manic Pop Thrill - That Petrol Emotion |
5
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21/6/86
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The Queen Is Dead - Smiths |
8*
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16/8/86
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High Priest Of Love - Zodiac Mindwarp |
1
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30/8/86
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Kicking Against The Pricks - Nick Cave |
4
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27/9/86
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Blood And Chocolate - Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
2
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11/10/86
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Brotherhood - New Order |
6
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22/11/86
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Your Funeral, My Trial - Nick Cave |
2
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6/12/86
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The Moon & The Melodies - Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser,
Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde |
2
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20/12/86
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Bedtime For Democracy - Dead Kennedys |
7
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| Dirtdish - Wiseblood |
3
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28/2/87
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The World Won’t Listen - Smiths |
5
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4/4/87
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Reunion Wilderness - Railway Children |
1
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11/4/87
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The Circus - Erasure |
16*
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9/5/87
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Live Hypnobeat Live - Woodentops |
1
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16/5/87
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The Ideal Copy - Wire |
2
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30/5/87
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Dawn Razor - Fields Of The Nephilim |
2
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13/6/87
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Sister - Sonic Youth |
3
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4/7/87
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Give Me Convenience Or Give Me death - Dead Kennedys |
5
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8/8/87
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Turning Rebellion Into Money - Conflict |
2
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22/8/87
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Substance - New Order |
5
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26/9/87
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Songs About Fucking - Big Black |
1
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3/10/57
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Strangeways, Here We Come - Smiths |
5*
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24/10/87
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George Best - Wedding Present |
4
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5/12/87
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In Palace Of Swords Reversed - FaIl |
2
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19/12/87
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Jesus Meets The Stupids - Stupids |
2
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| Wooden Foot Cops On The Highway - Woodentops |
4
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30/4/88
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The Innocents - Erasure |
5*
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21/5/88
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Life’s Too Good - Sugarcubes |
2
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4/6/58
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House Of Love - House Of Love |
4*
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25/6/88
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Judges, Juries And Horsemen - Weather Prophets |
1
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9/7/88
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‘69 - AR. Kane |
2
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23/7/88
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Substance 1977 - 1980 - Joy Division |
3
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13/8/88
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Tommy - Wedding Present |
1
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20/8/88
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Doing It For The Kids - Various |
4
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17/9/88
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Rank - Smiths |
2
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1/10/88
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Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins |
3
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22/10/88
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Bug - Dinosaur Junior |
1
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29/10/88
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Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth |
3
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19/11/88
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From Enslavement To Obliteration - Napalm Death |
2
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3/12/88
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Isn’t Anything - My Bloody Valentine |
3
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24/12/88
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Kylie - Kylie Minogue |
4
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| Fade Out - Loop |
1
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11/2/89
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Technique - New Order |
5
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18/3/89
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Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3 |
2
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1/4/89
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3 Feet High And Rising - De La Soul |
4
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29/4/89
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Doolittle - Pixies |
3
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20/5/89
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Ten Good Reasons - Jason Donovan |
4*
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3/6/89
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The Stone Roses - Stone Roses |
19*
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24/6/89
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Tranzophobia - Mega City Four |
1
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29/7/89
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Margin Walker - Fugazi |
2
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9/9/89
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Lazy ‘86 - 88 - Primitives |
1
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30/9/89
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Primal Scream - Primal Scream |
2
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14/10/89
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Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week - Sugarcubes |
2
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28/10/89
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Wild! - Erasure |
3
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18/11/89
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Mudhoney - Mudhoney |
2
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