Greatest Hits
1981
The best-selling album in British history, with roughly one copy sold for every three households in the country. Almost every track was a single.
★ 6.4
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Showing 4 albums from 1981
Dare
1981
Singer Phil Oakey found two of his backing vocalists dancing in a Sheffield nightclub and put them on stage within weeks. Neither had sung professionally.
★ 6.1
Duran Duran
1981
John Taylor's bass carries the tunes the way a lead guitar normally would, which is what separates this from the synth-pop around it.
★ 4.0
Red
1981
Sly Dunbar plays an electronic drum on it, which almost nobody in reggae was doing, and it gives the whole record its metallic snap.
★ 3.9