Best Albums of 1980
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Dirty MindThirty minutes of cheap synths and unprintable subject matter, and the whole personality arrives at once.Read the review
Back in BlackA tribute to a dead singer that became the blueprint for hard rock: ten riffs, huge space around every one of them, and words best ignored.
The RiverA double album that deliberately mixes bar band throwaways with the bleakest writing he had done. The mix is the point and the cost.