The Spirit of 1980 Radio- a 40 Year's Vintage (1980)

Ultimate LPs from 1980

1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light

2. Prince - Dirty Mind

3. Joy Division  - Closer

4. Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe

5. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field

6. Devo - Freedom of Choice

7. Harold Budd and Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirrors

8. Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America

9. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

10. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

11. Harald Grosskopf - Synthesist

12. The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column

13. Peter Gabriel - Scratch

14. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight

15. Chris Carter - The Space Between

16. David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

17. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

18. Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette

19. The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It

20. Fela Kuti - International Thief Thief

21. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetable

22. The Pretenders - The Pretenders

23. The Dance - Dance for Your Dinner

24. Carl Erdmann - Bizzarophytes

25. Adam and the Ants - King of the Wild Frontier

26. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth

27. Walter Rockman - Underwater vol 1

28. XTC - English Settlement

29. Human League - Travelogue

30. Daryll Hall - Sacred Songs

31. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure

32. Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs

33. Van Halen - Women and Children First

34. Yello  - Solid Pleasure

35. Suicide - Alan Vega: Martin Rev

36. Various - Slow

37. Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue

38. Visage - Visage

39. Indoor Life - Indoor Life

40. Paul McCartney - McCartney II

Tip Top Cuts of 1980

1.  Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

2.  Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime"

3.  David Bowie - "Ashes to Ashes"

4.  Zapp - "More Bounce to the Ounce"

5.  Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark - "Enola Gay"

6.  The Cure - "A Forest"

7.  Grace Jones - "Private Life"

8.  Killing Joke - "Requiem"

9.  Devo - "Gates of Steel"

10.  Prince - "Do It All Night"

11.  Alice Cooper - "Clones (We're All)"

12.  Was Not Was - "Wheel Me Out"

13.  Breakwater - "Release the Beast"

14.  Les Vampyrettes - "Biomutaten"

15.  Blondie  - "Rapture"

16.  Bauhaus - "Dark Entires"

17.  Rush - "The Spirit of Radio"

18.  Generation X - "Dancing with Myself"

19.  Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Redemption Song"

20.  The Birthday Party - "Waving My Arms"

21.  Robert Palmer - "Johnny and Mary"

22.  Ludus  - "I Can't Swim I Have Nightmares"

23.  Soft Boys - "I Wanna Destroy You"

24.  Dead Kennedys - "Holiday in Cambodia"

25.  u2 - "I Will Follow"

26.  The Selecter - "Everyday"

27.  Rema Rema - "Fond Affections"

28.  XTC - "Generals and Majors"

29.  The Equators - "Baby Come Back"

30.  Loose Joints  - "Is It All Over My Face"

31.  Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train"

32.  Throbbing Gristle - "Adrenalin"

33.  The Clash - "Police on My Back"

34.  Becky Bell - "Super Queen"

35.  Visage - "Fade to Grey"

36.  Alan Parsons Project - "Time"

37.  Aksak Maboul - "Modern Lesson"

38.  Teena Marie - "Behind the Groove"

39.  The Korgis - "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime"

40.  Van Halen - "Everybody Wants Some"