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1981 NME Albums

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  1. Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
  2. Computer world - Kraftwerk
  3. Red - Black Uhuru
  4. Wha'ppen - The beat
  5. Penthouse and Pavement - Heaven 17
  6. Dare - Human league
  7. Trust - Elvis Costello
  8. Alles ist gut - DAF
  9. Red mecca - Cabaret Voltaire
  10. Fresh fruit in foreign places - Kid Creole and the coconuts
  11. Gold und liebe - DAF
  12. Mutant disco - Various artists
  13. Slates - The fall
  14. Black president - Fela Kuti
  15. Flowers of romance - PIL
  16. Raise! - Earth wind and fire
  17. Playing with a different sex - Au Pairs
  18. Rock 'n' groove - Bunny Wailer
  19. East side story - Squeeze
  20. Almost blue - Elvis Costello
  21. Being with you - Smokey Robinson
  22. Heaven up here - Echo and the bunnymen
  23. See jungle! etc..... - Bow wow wow
  24. The electric spanking ..... - Funkadelic
  25. Odyshape - The raincoats
  26. Gang war - Prince Charles & the City beat band
  27. Sings the Wailers - Bunny Wailer
  28. Positive touch - The undertones
  29. Get down attack - General Caine II
  30. Blythe Spirit - Arther Blythe
  31. Tin drum - Japan
  32. 7 - Madness
  33. Defunkt - Defunkt
  34. Tattoo you - The Rolling Stones
  35. Alan vega - Alan Vega
  36. Intuition - Linx
  37. Dreamtime - Tom Verlaine
  38. In our lifetime - Marvin Gaye
  39. New chapter - Aswad
  40. Greatest hits - Throbbing Gristle
  41. Something special - Kool and the gang
  42. Dolmen music - Meredith Monk
  43. Miracles - Change
  44. Wild gift - X
  45. The man with the horn - Miles Davis
  46. Pleasant dreams - The Ramones
  47. Psychedelic jungle - The cramps
  48. It must be magic - Teena Marie
  49. Sleep no more - The Comsat angels
  50. The many faces of roger - Roger

 

1981 NME Singles
  1. Ghost town - The specials
  2. Adventures on the wheel of steel - Grandmaster flash
  3. Me no pop I - Coati Mundi
  4. Fascist groove thang - Heaven 17
  5. Love action - Human league
  6. Mama used to say - Junior Giscombe
  7. Tears are not enough - ABC
  8. Pull up to the bumper - Grace Jones
  9. O Superman - Laurie Anderson
  10. Walking on thin ice - Yoko Ono
  11. Burn rubber on me - The gap band
  12. Tainted love - Soft cell
  13. Papa's got a brand new pigbag - Pigbag
  14. Rapp Payback - James Brown
  15. Wordy Rappinghood - Tom tom club
  16. Let's groove - Earth wind and fire
  17. The razor's edge - Defunkt
  18. Being with you - Smokey Robinson
  19. Four Movements - Thomas Leer
  20. Just can't get enough - Depeche mode
  21. Going back to my roots - Odyssey
  22. Intuition - Linx
  23. Rapture - Blondie
  24. Plan B - Dexys Midnight runners
  25. Happy birthday - Stevie Wonder
  26. Chariots of fire - Vangelis
  27. Der Mussolini - DAF
  28. Good year for the roses - Elvis Costello
  29. Shoot the pump - J. Walter Negro & the loose joints
  30. Doors of your heart - The beat
  31. Kitchen Person - The Associates
  32. Can you feel it - The Jacksons
  33. Favourite shirts - Haircut 100
  34. Pocket calculator - Kraftwerk
  35. Another one bites the dust - General saint and Clint Eastwood
  36. Launderette - Vivien Goldman
  37. Genius of love - Tom Tom Club
  38. Chant No.1 (We don’t need this pressure on) - Spandau Ballet
  39. Out come the freaks - Was(not was)
  40. W.O.R.K. - Bow wow wow
  41. Flowers of romance - P.I.L.
  42. Ceremony - New Order
  43. Beggarman- Pablo Gad
  44. The longest day - Sound of the valleys
  45. The ‘Sweetest Girl’ - Scritti politti
  46. Pretty in pink - Psychedelic furs
  47. The art of parties - Japan
  48. Computer love - Kraftwerk
  49. To drunk to fuck - The dead Kennedys
  50. Show me - Dexys midnight runners

 

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