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Judas Priest - British Steel
X - Los Angeles
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Devo - Freedom Of Choice
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel ("Melt")
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
The Clash – Sandinista!
Motorhead – Ace Of Spades
XTC – Black Sea
AC/DC – Back In Black
Circle Jerks – Group Sex
Squeeze – Argybargy
Minutemen – Paranoid Time
Ramones – End Of The Century
Wipers – Is This Real?
Iggy Pop – Soldier
Blue Angel – Blue Angel
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath – Heaven And Hell
Angel Witch – Angel Witch
The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Uprising
The Pretenders – The Pretenders
Queen – The Game
The Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It
The Vapors – New Clear Days
Elvis Costello – Get Happy!!!
GG Allin & The Jabbers – Always Was, Is, And Always Shall Be
The B-52s – Wild Planet
The Fall – Grotesque (After The Gramme)
Van Halen – Women And Children First
The Jam – Sound Affects
Throbbing Gristle – Heathen Earth
Diana Ross – Diana
Bauhaus – In The Flat Field
The Cure – Seventeen Seconds
Echo And The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Joy Division – Closer
The Birthday Party – The Birthday Party
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Kaleidoscope
Dexys Midnight Runners – Looking For The New Soul Rebels
Blondie – Autoamerican
U2 – Boy
Magazine – The Correct Use Of Soap
Hall & Oates - Voices
The Cramps – Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Damned – The Black Album
Black Flag – Jealous Again
The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
The Residents – Commercial Album
Kurtis Blow – Kurtis Blow
Zapp – Zapp I
Prince – Dirty Mind
The Cars – Panorama
Suicide – Second Album
Visage – Visage
The Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight
Roky Erickson and The Aliens – Roky Erickson And The Aliens
Glen Branca – Lesson No. 1
Darryl Hall – Sacred Songs
Angry Samoans – Inside My Brain
Joan Jett – Bad Reputation
Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue
John Lennon and Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy
Paul McCartney – McCartney II
Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
REO Speedwagon – High Infidelity
Billy Joel – Glass Houses
Half Japanese – ½ Gentlemen/ Not Beasts
Blue Oyster Cult – Cultosaurus Erectus
Gil Scott-Heron – 1980
Weather Report – Night Passage
Queen – Flash Gordon
Colin Newman – A-Z
The Durutti Column – The Return Of The Durutti Column
Alice Cooper – Flush The Fashion
Tom Waits – Heartattack and Vine

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