1. Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain
2. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
3. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
4. David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
5. Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
6. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
7. Everything But the Girl - Eden
8. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
9. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
10. Me & the Heat - Game of Position

Update:

1. Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
2. Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
3. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
4. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
5. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
6. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
7. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
8. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
9. The Smiths - The Smiths
10. Cocteau Twins - Treasure

Goed jaar!

1. Cocteau Twins - Treasure 5*
2. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
3. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow 4.5*
4. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward 4*
5. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
6. Talk Talk - It's My Life 3.5*
7. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
8. R.E.M. - Reckoning
9. The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue
10. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire 3*

01. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes 5*
02. The Waterboys - A Pagan Place 4.5*
03. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
04. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
05. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward 4*
06. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
07. The Triffids - Raining Pleasure
08. Nits - Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof 3.5*
09. R.E.M. - Reckoning
10. Talk Talk - It's My Life

1. (-) Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
2. (1) The Smiths - The Smiths
3. (2) Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
4. (-) The Replacements - Let It Be
5. (-) Nick Cave - From Her to Eternity
6. (-) Diamanda Galás - Diamanda Galás
7. (-) Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Magnetic Flip
8. (7) The Homosexuals - The Homosexuals' Record
9. (-) Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
10. (3) Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

1. (-) Sade - Diamond Life
2. (-) Marillion - Fugazi
3. (-) Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
4. (-) R.E.M. - Reckoning
5. (-) Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
6. (-) Talk Talk - It's My Life
7. (-) Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
8. (-) Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
9. (-) U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
10. (-) Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain

1. Big Country - Steeltown
2. Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
4. The Pogues - Red Roses for Me
5. Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?
6. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
7. Billy Bragg - Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
8. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
9. Christy Moore - Ride On
10. Van Halen - 1984

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Sodom - In the Sign of Evil
4. AC/DC - '74 Jailbreak
5. Motörhead - No Remorse
6. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
7. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
8. Overkill - Power in Black
9. Slayer - Haunting the Chapel
10. Anthrax - Fistful of Metal

Matig jaar voor mij.

Update:

1. Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
2. Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
3. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
4. Marc Almond - Vermin in Ermine
5. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
6. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
7. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
8. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
9. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
10. The Smiths - The Smiths

1. Shannon - Let the Music Play
2. Big Country - Steeltown
3. Herbert Grönemeyer - Bochum
4. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole
5. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
6. Billy Bragg - Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
7. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
8. Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
9. Sade - Diamond Life
10.Joe Jackson - Body and Soul

1. Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
2. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
3. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
4. Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain
5. Bryan Adams - Reckless
6. Frank Boeijen Groep - Kontakt
7. The Replacements - Let it Be
8. Marillion - Fugazi
9. R.E.M. - Reckoning
10. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

(liveplaten niet meegeteld)

1. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
2. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.
3. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
4. R.E.M. - Reckoning
5. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sence
6. Nick Cave - From Here To Eturnity
7. David Silvian - Brillian Trees
8. Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive
9. U2. - The Unforgetble Fire
10.Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain

10. Dire Straits - Alchemy: Dire Straits Live (4*)
9. The Smiths - The Smiths (4*)
8. Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain (4,5*)
7. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (4,5*)
6. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (4,5*)
5. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (4,5*)
4. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (4,5*)
3. Talk Talk - It's My Life (4,5*)
2. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (4,5*)
1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (5*)

Een hoop sterke albums

1.Depeche mode-some great reward
2.Duran duran-Arena
3.Foetus- Hole
4.Shong-Funk Theology
5 Run DMC_rum dmc
6.Shakatak-down on the street
7.Mezzoforte-Rising
8.Spandau ballet-parade
9.Bryan ferry-Boys and girls
10.David sylvain_Brilliant trees
verdere fantastische artiesten in die tijd waren:Dead can dance, Cocteau twins, Talk talk, U2, Simple minds, Psychich TV, Ultravox, Cabaret voltaire, Skidoo 23, KMFDM, a flock of seagulls, Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark, Wham!,
Madonna, Janet jackson, Sheila E, Rick james, Gazebo, Fiction factory, Prince, Heaven 17, Human legaeu, Kurtis blow, Melle melle and the furious five, Jean philipp Marthely, Jocelym berouard, Johny Gill, Ede Staal, Toto, Nick Kershaw ,Thompson twins, Blancmange, SOS band, Cherelle, Soul sonic force, Frankie Paul, Sugar minott, yellowman, The mad professor en UB 40

1.U2-The Unforgettable Fire
2.David Sylvian-Brilliant Trees
3.Talking Heads-Sto Making Sense!
4.Marillion-Fugazi
5.Big Country-Steeltown
6.Simple Minds-Sparkle In the rain
7.Deep Purple-Perfect Strangers
8.Roger Waters-The Pros&Cons of Hitchhiking
9.David Gilmour-About Face
10.Dire Straits-Alchemy

1.Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
2. Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak
3. The Replacements - Let it Be
4. Joe Jackson - Body and Soul
5. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
6. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
7. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
8. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
9. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
10.The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl

1. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
2 The Cure - The Top
3. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
4. The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
5. Anne Clark - Joined Up Writing
6. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
7. David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
8. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
9. Twice A Man - From A Northern Shore
10. The Smiths - The Smiths

01. The Waterboys - A Pagan Place 5*
02. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes 4.5*
03. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
04. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
05. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward 4*
06. R.E.M. - Reckoning
07. The Triffids - Raining Pleasure
08. The Nits - Adieu Sweet Bahnhof 3.5*
09. Talk Talk - It's My Life
10. Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

Laat ik ook een top-10 geven van 1984 (27 reguliere albums):

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
2. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
3. The Smiths - The Smiths
4. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
5. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
6. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
7. Bryan Adams - Reckless
8. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
9. Talk Talk - It's My Life
10. Sade - Diamond Life

Opmerkelijk : 3 debuutalbums in deze top-10 (3, 8 en 10).

01. Clan of Xymox - Subsequent Pleasures 4,5*
02. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade 4,0*
03. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
04. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
05. Marillion - Fugazi
06. Play Dead - From the Promised Land
07. Frites Modern - Veel, Vet, Goor en Duur
08. The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
09. Scatterbrain - Mountains Go Rhythmic
10. Sad Lovers & Giants - In the Breeze

1. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
2. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
3. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
4. Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain
5. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
6. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
7. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
8. Talk Talk - It's My Life
9. Joe Jackson - Body and Soul
10. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance

1. The Smiths - The Smiths
2. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
3. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
4. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
5. The Replacements - Let it Be
6. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
7. R.E.M. - Reckoning
8. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
9. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
10. Art of Noise - (Who's Afraid of) the Art of Noise

Een top 20 gebaseerd op de jaar top 50
met als criteria het hoogste aantal stemmen en de totaalscore.

01. DAVID SYLVIAN - Brilliant Trees

02. METALLICA - Ride the Lightning

03. IRON MAIDEN - Powerslave

04. THE SMITHS - The Smiths

05. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE - Couldn't Stand the Weather

06. PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION - Purple Rain

07. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Ocean Rain

08. COCTEAU TWINS - Treasure

09. LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS - Rattle Snakes

10. THE WATERBOYS - A Pagan Place

11. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

12. THIS MORTAL COIL - It'll End in Tears

13. JOE JACKSON - Body & Soul

14. SIMPLE MINDS - Sparkle in the Rain

15. MARILLION - Fugazi

16. RY COODER - Paris Texas

17. TALK TALK - It's My Life

18. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born in the USA

19. DEPECHE MODE - Some Great Reward

20. NICK CAVE - From Here to Eternity

Ik nam dus de top 50 van 1984 als basis.
Selecteerde daaruit de 20 albums met de meeste stemmen.
En rangschikte ze gewoon volgens stemgemiddelde.

Hoe ziet de lijst eruit als we enkel naar het aantal stemmen kijken?
Dus een top 40 lijst van de populairste albums uit 1984 op MuMe.

01. U2- The Unforgettable Fire

02. METALLICA - Ride the Lightning

03. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born in the USA

04. PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION - Purple Rain

05. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Ocean Rain

06. THE SMITHS - The Smiths

07. IRON MAIDEN - Power Slave

08. TALK TALK - It's My Life

09. SIMPLE MINDS - Sparkle in the Rain

10. QUEEN - The Works

11. DAVID SYLVIAN - Brilliant Trees

12. MARILLION - Fugazi

13. MADONNA - Like a Virgin

14. BRYAN ADAMS - Reckless

15. THE CURE - The Top

16. R.E.M. - Reckoning

17. COCTEAU TWINS - Treasure

18. NICK CAVE - From Here to Eternity

19. SADE - Diamond Life

20. ROGER WATERS - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking

21. FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - Welcome to the Pleasuredome

22. JOE JACKSON - Body and Soul

23. VAN HALEN - 1984

24. DEPECHE MODE - Some Great Reward

25. LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS - Rattlesnakes

26. ALPHAVILLE - Forever Young

27. THIS MORTAL COIL - It'll End in Tears

28. THE WATERBOYS - A Pagan Place

29. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE - Couldn't Stand the Weather

30. DEEP PURPLE - Perfect Strangers

31. RUSH - Grace under Pressure

32. HUSKER DU - Zen Arcade

33. THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - Ammonia Avenue

34. JUDAS PRIEST - Defenders of the Faith

35. THE REPLACEMENTS - Let It Be

36. BIG COUNTRY - Steeltown

37. DEAD CAN DANCE - Dead Can Dance

38. MARILLION - Real to Reel

39. MINUTEMEN - Double Nickles on the Dime

40. QUEENSRYCHE - The Warning

Bij gelijk aantal stemmen, weegt het aantal sterren door.
Alle albums moeten minstens een gemiddelde van 3 sterren halen.

Misschien wel mijn favoriete muziekjaar! Daarom voor de gelegenheid eenmalig een top-20.

01 Marillion - Fugazi
02 Rush - Grace under Pressure
03 Camel - Stationary Traveller
04 Talk Talk - It's My Life
05 Metallica - Ride the Lightning
06 Iron Maiden - Powerslave
07 Eloy - Metromania
08 R.E.M. - Reckoning
09 Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák
10 Boudewijn de Groot - Maalstroom

11 Scorpions - Love at First Sting
12 Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain
13 Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
14 Twelfth Night - Art & Illusion
15 Nena - ?
16 The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
17 Los Jaivas - Obras de Violeta Parra
18 Survivor - Vital Signs
19 Big Country - Steeltown
20 Ultravox - Lament

1. Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break The Oath
2. Iron Maiden – Powerslave
3. Rush – Grace Under Pressure
4. Metallica – Ride The Lightning
5. Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
6. Queensrÿche – The Warning
7. Loudness – Disillusion
8. Alcatrazz – Live Sentence
9. Helstar – Burning Star
10. Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force – Rising Force

He, deze was ik vergeten.

01. Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
02. Waterboys - A Pagan Place
03. Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
04. Joe Jackson - Body and Soul
05. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
06. Queen - The Works
07. Pogues - Red Roses for Me
08. Cure - The Top
09. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
10. Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story

me too....(willekeurig).

- How Will The Wolf Survive? (Los Lobos)
- The Unforgettable Fire (U2)
- Sparkle In The Rain (Simple Minds)
- Ride The Lightning (Metallica)
- It's My Life (Talk Talk)
- Reckless (Bryan Adams)
- Steeltown (Big Country)
- Body And Soul (Joe Jackson)
- 1984 (Van Halen)
- Hatful Of Hollow (The Smiths)

1. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
2. Sade - Diamond Life
3. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
4. Change - Change of Heart

1. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
2. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
3. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
4. Talk Talk - It's My Life
5.The Smiths - The Smiths
6. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
7. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
8. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
9. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
10. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain