Best albums of the 80s

Pitchfork have updated their 2002 list of ‘Best Albums of the Eighties’ – a list they now say ‘represented a limited editorial stance’ and had a ‘lack of diversity’. The new list includes Prince and Michael Jackson at numbers one and two, neither of whom made the original top ten.

1 Purple Rain Prince and the Revolution

2 Thriller Michael Jackson

3 Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.

4 Hounds of Love Kate Bush

5 Remain in Light Talking Heads

6 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy

7 Daydream Nation Sonic Youth

8 Control Janet Jackson

9 Disintegration The Cure

10 Diamond Life Sade