1. The Clash, Sandinista! - 504
2. X, Wild Gift - 558
3. Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Trust - 965
4. The Rolling Stones, Tattoo You - 973
5. Rickie Lee Jones, Pirates - 967
6. Squeeze, East Side Story - 948
7. Tom Verlaine, Dreamtime - 2194
8. Prince, Controversy - 2532
9. Rick James, Street Songs - 1326
10. The Go-Gos, Beauty and the Beat - 1071
11. Human Switchboard, Who’s Landing in My Hangar? - ---
12. Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places - ---
13. David Byrne, Songs from “The Catherine Wheel” - ---
14. Black Uhuru, Red - 936
15. Psychedelic Furs, Talk Talk Talk - 999
16. Neil Young, Re-Ac-Tor - ---
17. Romeo Void, It’s a Condition - ---
18. U2, Boy - 765
19. The Neville Brothers, Fiyo on the Bayou - 1912
20. Was (Not Was) - ---
21. Au Pairs, Playing With a Different Sex - 1817
22. Tom Tom Club - ---
23. The English Beat, Wha’ppen? - ---
24. The Police, Ghost in the Machine - 1174
25. James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing - ---
26. dBs, Stands for Decibels - 2329
27. David Lindley, El Rayo-X - 2790
28. Joe Ely, Live Shots - ---
29. Yoko Ono, Season of Glass - ---
30. The Blasters - 1835
31. Grace Jones, Nightclubbing - 814
32. Luther Vandross, Never Too Much - ---
33. Fela Anikuiapo Kati, Black President - 1847
34. Joan Jett, Bad Reputation - 2268
35. King Crimson, Discipline - 1336
36. Joan Armatrading, Walk Under Ladders - ---
37. Lindsey Buckingham, Law and Order - ---
38. Marianne Faithfull, Dangerous Acquaintances - ---
39. U2, October - 2651
40. dBs, Repercussion - ---
Highest-ranking album not on poll:
Brian Eno/David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - 324
