Thirty Year Vintage: The Best Albums of 1984

1. The Cocteau Twins-Treasure

2. Husker Du-Zen Arcade

3. This Mortal Coil-It'll End in Tears

4. The Smiths-The Smiths

5. Danielle Dax-Jesus the Egg Wept

6. Bruce Gilbert-This Way

7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-From Her to Eternity

8. Soft Cell-This Last Night in Sodom

9. Scratch Acid-Scratch Acid

10. Manuel Gottsching-E2-E4

11. Cindytalk-Camoflauge Heart

12. Arto Lindsay/Ambitious Lovers-Envy

13. The Egyptian Lover-On the Nile

14. Harold Budd and Brian Eno-The Pearl

15. Dead Can Dance-Dead Can Dance

16. CTI-Elemental 7

17. R. Stevie Moore-Everything You Always Wanted to Know About R. Stevie Moore But Were Afraid to Ask

18. The Fall-The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall

19. Coil-Scatology

20. The Minutemen-Double Nickels on the Dime

21. Skinny Puppy-Back and Forth

22. Various-Decoder sdtrk

23. Ralph Lundsten-Strangers in Paradise

24. Meat Puppets-II

25. Eric Random & Bedlamites-Time-Splice

26. Bathory-Bathory

27. The Flying Lizards-Top Ten

28. Depeche Mode-Some Great Reward

29. A.T.R.O.X-Water Tales

30. Zoviet France-Oestre

31. KMFDM-Opium

32. Metallica-Ride the Lightning

33. The Replacements-Let it Be

34. Terry Riley-No Man's Land

35. The Butthole Surfers-Psychic...   Powerless... Another Man's Sac

36. General Strike-Danger in Paradise

37. Prince-Purple Rain

38. Public Image Limited-This is What You Want…This Is what You Got

39. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel-Hole

40. Charles Bernstein- Nightmare on Elm Street Soundtrack

41. Swans-Cop

42. Van Halen-1984

43. The Ex-Blueprints for a Blackout

44. Frightwig-Cat Fam Faboo

45. Peter Gabriel-Birdy

46. Cabaret Voltaire-Micro-Phonies

47. Tangerine Dream-Flashpoint

48. The Fat Boys-The Fat Boys

49. Psychic TV-Pagan Day

50. Reagan Youth-Youth Anthems for the New Order