To doubt me is absurd: Best albums of 1981

Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk
Marvin Gaye – In Our Lifetime
The Human League – Dare
The Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat
Prince – Controversy
Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Trust
Luther Vandross – Never Too Much
Teena Marie – It Must Be Magic
Merle Haggard – Big City
Rosanne Cash – Seven Year Ache
Soft Cell – Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Grace Jones – Nightclubbing
Funkadelic – The Electric Spanking of War Babies
Yoko Ono – Season of Glass
The English Beat – Wha’ppen?
X – Wild Gift
The Rolling Stones – Tattoo You
Rosanne Cash – Seven Year Ache
Earth, Wind & Fire – Raise!
Phil Collins – Face Value
The db’s – Stands For Decibels
The Clash – Sandinista!
David Byrne – Songs From the Broadway Production of “The Catherine Wheel”
The Police – Ghost in the Machine
Lindsey Buckingham – Law and Order
ABBA – The Visitors
Duran Duran – Duran Duran