Barry Martin
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Number 9
#1985AlbumsTop20
Our Favourite Shop - The Style Council
PW never missed an opportunity to have a go at Thatcher & the Tories! Which should always be commended
Walls Come Tumbling Down 🏆
The Lodgers
Come To Milton Keynes
Man Of Great Promise
#1985AlbumsTop20
Our Favourite Shop - The Style Council
PW never missed an opportunity to have a go at Thatcher & the Tories! Which should always be commended
Walls Come Tumbling Down 🏆
The Lodgers
Come To Milton Keynes
Man Of Great Promise
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Number 9
#1985AlbumsTop20
Our Favourite Shop - The Style Council
PW never missed an opportunity to have a go at Thatcher & the Tories! Which should always be commended
Walls Come Tumbling Down 🏆
The Lodgers
Come To Milton Keynes
Man Of Great Promise
#1985AlbumsTop20
Our Favourite Shop - The Style Council
PW never missed an opportunity to have a go at Thatcher & the Tories! Which should always be commended
Walls Come Tumbling Down 🏆
The Lodgers
Come To Milton Keynes
Man Of Great Promise
Number 10
#1985AlbumsTop20
Low-Life - New Order
Kicking off the Top 10 with New Orders 3rd album! Another brilliant piece of Dance/Synth Pop from the Manc legends
The Perfect Kiss 🏆
Sub-Culture
Elegia
Love Vigilantes
#1985AlbumsTop20
Low-Life - New Order
Kicking off the Top 10 with New Orders 3rd album! Another brilliant piece of Dance/Synth Pop from the Manc legends
The Perfect Kiss 🏆
Sub-Culture
Elegia
Love Vigilantes
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Number 10
#1985AlbumsTop20
Low-Life - New Order
Kicking off the Top 10 with New Orders 3rd album! Another brilliant piece of Dance/Synth Pop from the Manc legends
The Perfect Kiss 🏆
Sub-Culture
Elegia
Love Vigilantes
#1985AlbumsTop20
Low-Life - New Order
Kicking off the Top 10 with New Orders 3rd album! Another brilliant piece of Dance/Synth Pop from the Manc legends
The Perfect Kiss 🏆
Sub-Culture
Elegia
Love Vigilantes
Number 11
#1985AlbumsTop20
Around The World In A Day - Prince
Fans were expecting Purple Rain mark 2 but Prince had other ideas! A much more experimental album with some great highlights 🔥
Raspberry Beret 🏆
Paisley Park
Pop Life
America
#1985AlbumsTop20
Around The World In A Day - Prince
Fans were expecting Purple Rain mark 2 but Prince had other ideas! A much more experimental album with some great highlights 🔥
Raspberry Beret 🏆
Paisley Park
Pop Life
America
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Number 11
#1985AlbumsTop20
Around The World In A Day - Prince
Fans were expecting Purple Rain mark 2 but Prince had other ideas! A much more experimental album with some great highlights 🔥
Raspberry Beret 🏆
Paisley Park
Pop Life
America
#1985AlbumsTop20
Around The World In A Day - Prince
Fans were expecting Purple Rain mark 2 but Prince had other ideas! A much more experimental album with some great highlights 🔥
Raspberry Beret 🏆
Paisley Park
Pop Life
America
Number 12
#1985AlbunsTop20
Flaunt The Imperfection - China Crisis
The band brought in Walter Becker from Steely Dan on production to give a more polished sound & it had the desired effect
Black Man Ray 🏆
King In A Catholic Style
The Highest High
You Did Cut Me
#1985AlbunsTop20
Flaunt The Imperfection - China Crisis
The band brought in Walter Becker from Steely Dan on production to give a more polished sound & it had the desired effect
Black Man Ray 🏆
King In A Catholic Style
The Highest High
You Did Cut Me
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Number 12
#1985AlbunsTop20
Flaunt The Imperfection - China Crisis
The band brought in Walter Becker from Steely Dan on production to give a more polished sound & it had the desired effect
Black Man Ray 🏆
King In A Catholic Style
The Highest High
You Did Cut Me
#1985AlbunsTop20
Flaunt The Imperfection - China Crisis
The band brought in Walter Becker from Steely Dan on production to give a more polished sound & it had the desired effect
Black Man Ray 🏆
King In A Catholic Style
The Highest High
You Did Cut Me
Number 13
#1985AlbumsTop20
Picture Book - Simply Red
A great debut album from Mick Hucknall and Co ! An introduction to a great Blue eyed soul voice
Holding Back The Years 🏆
Money's Too Tight To Mention
Come To My Aid
Look At You Now
#1985AlbumsTop20
Picture Book - Simply Red
A great debut album from Mick Hucknall and Co ! An introduction to a great Blue eyed soul voice
Holding Back The Years 🏆
Money's Too Tight To Mention
Come To My Aid
Look At You Now
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Number 13
#1985AlbumsTop20
Picture Book - Simply Red
A great debut album from Mick Hucknall and Co ! An introduction to a great Blue eyed soul voice
Holding Back The Years 🏆
Money's Too Tight To Mention
Come To My Aid
Look At You Now
#1985AlbumsTop20
Picture Book - Simply Red
A great debut album from Mick Hucknall and Co ! An introduction to a great Blue eyed soul voice
Holding Back The Years 🏆
Money's Too Tight To Mention
Come To My Aid
Look At You Now
Number 14
#1985AlbumsTop20
Boys & Girls - Bryan Ferry
After the demise of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry continued his solo career in the same style as Roxy's final album Avalon! His best solo album imo
Slave To Love 🏆
Don't Stop The Dance
Windswept
Valentine
#1985AlbumsTop20
Boys & Girls - Bryan Ferry
After the demise of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry continued his solo career in the same style as Roxy's final album Avalon! His best solo album imo
Slave To Love 🏆
Don't Stop The Dance
Windswept
Valentine
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Number 14
#1985AlbumsTop20
Boys & Girls - Bryan Ferry
After the demise of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry continued his solo career in the same style as Roxy's final album Avalon! His best solo album imo
Slave To Love 🏆
Don't Stop The Dance
Windswept
Valentine
#1985AlbumsTop20
Boys & Girls - Bryan Ferry
After the demise of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry continued his solo career in the same style as Roxy's final album Avalon! His best solo album imo
Slave To Love 🏆
Don't Stop The Dance
Windswept
Valentine
Number 15
#1985AlbumsTop20
Psychocandy - JATMC
Next up is the great debut album from cheery rockers JATMC 😂! Clearly influenced by The Velvet Underground! Great album
Just Like Honey 🏆
Some Candy Talking
Sowing Seeds
The Hardest Walk
#1985AlbumsTop20
Psychocandy - JATMC
Next up is the great debut album from cheery rockers JATMC 😂! Clearly influenced by The Velvet Underground! Great album
Just Like Honey 🏆
Some Candy Talking
Sowing Seeds
The Hardest Walk
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Number 15
#1985AlbumsTop20
Psychocandy - JATMC
Next up is the great debut album from cheery rockers JATMC 😂! Clearly influenced by The Velvet Underground! Great album
Just Like Honey 🏆
Some Candy Talking
Sowing Seeds
The Hardest Walk
#1985AlbumsTop20
Psychocandy - JATMC
Next up is the great debut album from cheery rockers JATMC 😂! Clearly influenced by The Velvet Underground! Great album
Just Like Honey 🏆
Some Candy Talking
Sowing Seeds
The Hardest Walk
Number 16
#1985AlbumsTop20
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
Arguably The Pogues at their best on this album 🔥
Sally Maclennane 🏆
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Dirty Old Town
#1985AlbumsTop20
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
Arguably The Pogues at their best on this album 🔥
Sally Maclennane 🏆
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Dirty Old Town
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Number 16
#1985AlbumsTop20
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
Arguably The Pogues at their best on this album 🔥
Sally Maclennane 🏆
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Dirty Old Town
#1985AlbumsTop20
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
Arguably The Pogues at their best on this album 🔥
Sally Maclennane 🏆
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Dirty Old Town
Number 17
#1985AlbumsTop20
This Is Big Audio Dynamite
A great comeback from Mick Jones alongside Dan Donovan and others! A brilliant use of samples throughout 🔥
E=MC2 🏆
Medicine Show
The Bottom Line
Sony
#1985AlbumsTop20
This Is Big Audio Dynamite
A great comeback from Mick Jones alongside Dan Donovan and others! A brilliant use of samples throughout 🔥
E=MC2 🏆
Medicine Show
The Bottom Line
Sony
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Number 17
#1985AlbumsTop20
This Is Big Audio Dynamite
A great comeback from Mick Jones alongside Dan Donovan and others! A brilliant use of samples throughout 🔥
E=MC2 🏆
Medicine Show
The Bottom Line
Sony
#1985AlbumsTop20
This Is Big Audio Dynamite
A great comeback from Mick Jones alongside Dan Donovan and others! A brilliant use of samples throughout 🔥
E=MC2 🏆
Medicine Show
The Bottom Line
Sony
Number 18
#1985AlbumsTop20
Fine Young Cannibals
Johnny Come Home 🏆
Suspicious Minds
Don't Ask Me To Choose
Like A Stranger
#1985AlbumsTop20
Fine Young Cannibals
Johnny Come Home 🏆
Suspicious Minds
Don't Ask Me To Choose
Like A Stranger
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Number 18
#1985AlbumsTop20
Fine Young Cannibals
Johnny Come Home 🏆
Suspicious Minds
Don't Ask Me To Choose
Like A Stranger
#1985AlbumsTop20
Fine Young Cannibals
Johnny Come Home 🏆
Suspicious Minds
Don't Ask Me To Choose
Like A Stranger
Number 19
#1985AlbumsTop20
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
A great introduction to A-ha , with their blend of catchy Synth Pop tunes!
Take On Me 🏆
Hunting High & Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
The Blue Sky
#1985AlbumsTop20
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
A great introduction to A-ha , with their blend of catchy Synth Pop tunes!
Take On Me 🏆
Hunting High & Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
The Blue Sky
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Number 19
#1985AlbumsTop20
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
A great introduction to A-ha , with their blend of catchy Synth Pop tunes!
Take On Me 🏆
Hunting High & Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
The Blue Sky
#1985AlbumsTop20
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
A great introduction to A-ha , with their blend of catchy Synth Pop tunes!
Take On Me 🏆
Hunting High & Low
The Sun Always Shines On TV
The Blue Sky
Number 20
#1985AlbumsTop20
Night Time - Killing Joke
Worthy of being placed for Love Like Blood alone! But the rest of the album is great too !
Love Like Blood 🏆
Eighties
Kings & Queens
Darkness Before Dawn
#1985AlbumsTop20
Night Time - Killing Joke
Worthy of being placed for Love Like Blood alone! But the rest of the album is great too !
Love Like Blood 🏆
Eighties
Kings & Queens
Darkness Before Dawn
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Number 20
#1985AlbumsTop20
Night Time - Killing Joke
Worthy of being placed for Love Like Blood alone! But the rest of the album is great too !
Love Like Blood 🏆
Eighties
Kings & Queens
Darkness Before Dawn
#1985AlbumsTop20
Night Time - Killing Joke
Worthy of being placed for Love Like Blood alone! But the rest of the album is great too !
Love Like Blood 🏆
Eighties
Kings & Queens
Darkness Before Dawn
So my last Countdown will be celebrating the brilliant albums of 1985 !
It's a fantastic year of music to bow out on ! Hopefully as many of you legends as possible can join in?
Starting Monday 17th November
#1985AlbumsTop20
Retweet & Share 🙌🙌
It's a fantastic year of music to bow out on ! Hopefully as many of you legends as possible can join in?
Starting Monday 17th November
#1985AlbumsTop20
Retweet & Share 🙌🙌
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So my last Countdown will be celebrating the brilliant albums of 1985 !
It's a fantastic year of music to bow out on ! Hopefully as many of you legends as possible can join in?
Starting Monday 17th November
#1985AlbumsTop20
Retweet & Share 🙌🙌
It's a fantastic year of music to bow out on ! Hopefully as many of you legends as possible can join in?
Starting Monday 17th November
#1985AlbumsTop20
Retweet & Share 🙌🙌
Thanks to everyone who joined in with my penultimate Countdown!
Details of my last Countdown to follow later today!
#2000SongsTop20
Details of my last Countdown to follow later today!
#2000SongsTop20
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Thanks to everyone who joined in with my penultimate Countdown!
Details of my last Countdown to follow later today!
#2000SongsTop20
Details of my last Countdown to follow later today!
#2000SongsTop20
Next up we are fast forwarding 7 years from 1993 & celebrating the songs from the beginning of a new millennium!
Starting Monday 20th October!
#2000SongsTop20
Starting Monday 20th October!
#2000SongsTop20
October 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Next up we are fast forwarding 7 years from 1993 & celebrating the songs from the beginning of a new millennium!
Starting Monday 20th October!
#2000SongsTop20
Starting Monday 20th October!
#2000SongsTop20
Thanks to everyone who joined in with this Countdown! It's been great celebrating another brilliant year of Albums!
I'll put a post out in the next few days with the next Countdown year!
#1993AlbumsTop20
I'll put a post out in the next few days with the next Countdown year!
#1993AlbumsTop20
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Thanks to everyone who joined in with this Countdown! It's been great celebrating another brilliant year of Albums!
I'll put a post out in the next few days with the next Countdown year!
#1993AlbumsTop20
I'll put a post out in the next few days with the next Countdown year!
#1993AlbumsTop20
Number 1 🏆
#1993AlbumsTop20
In Utero - Nirvana
The band were determined not to make Nevermind mark 2! They brought in Steve Albini on production to help achieve that! Brilliant album 🔥
Heart Shaped Box 🏆
All Apologies
Pennyroyal Tea
Rape Me
#1993AlbumsTop20
In Utero - Nirvana
The band were determined not to make Nevermind mark 2! They brought in Steve Albini on production to help achieve that! Brilliant album 🔥
Heart Shaped Box 🏆
All Apologies
Pennyroyal Tea
Rape Me
October 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Number 1 🏆
#1993AlbumsTop20
In Utero - Nirvana
The band were determined not to make Nevermind mark 2! They brought in Steve Albini on production to help achieve that! Brilliant album 🔥
Heart Shaped Box 🏆
All Apologies
Pennyroyal Tea
Rape Me
#1993AlbumsTop20
In Utero - Nirvana
The band were determined not to make Nevermind mark 2! They brought in Steve Albini on production to help achieve that! Brilliant album 🔥
Heart Shaped Box 🏆
All Apologies
Pennyroyal Tea
Rape Me
Number 2
#1993AlbumsTop20
Siamese Dream -Smashing Pumpkins
In my opinion this is their Masterpiece! Brilliant from start to finish & the album propelled them into Superstardom 🔥
Mayonaise 🏆
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Today
#1993AlbumsTop20
Siamese Dream -Smashing Pumpkins
In my opinion this is their Masterpiece! Brilliant from start to finish & the album propelled them into Superstardom 🔥
Mayonaise 🏆
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Today
October 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Number 2
#1993AlbumsTop20
Siamese Dream -Smashing Pumpkins
In my opinion this is their Masterpiece! Brilliant from start to finish & the album propelled them into Superstardom 🔥
Mayonaise 🏆
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Today
#1993AlbumsTop20
Siamese Dream -Smashing Pumpkins
In my opinion this is their Masterpiece! Brilliant from start to finish & the album propelled them into Superstardom 🔥
Mayonaise 🏆
Disarm
Cherub Rock
Today
Number 3
#1993AlbumsTop20
V's - Pearl Jam
Pretty impossible to follow the masterpiece that is the Ten album ! They made a brilliant job of trying though. Some of their best songs on this album 🔥
Rearview Mirror 🏆
Dissident
Daughter
Go
#1993AlbumsTop20
V's - Pearl Jam
Pretty impossible to follow the masterpiece that is the Ten album ! They made a brilliant job of trying though. Some of their best songs on this album 🔥
Rearview Mirror 🏆
Dissident
Daughter
Go
October 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Number 3
#1993AlbumsTop20
V's - Pearl Jam
Pretty impossible to follow the masterpiece that is the Ten album ! They made a brilliant job of trying though. Some of their best songs on this album 🔥
Rearview Mirror 🏆
Dissident
Daughter
Go
#1993AlbumsTop20
V's - Pearl Jam
Pretty impossible to follow the masterpiece that is the Ten album ! They made a brilliant job of trying though. Some of their best songs on this album 🔥
Rearview Mirror 🏆
Dissident
Daughter
Go
Number 4
#1993AlbumsTop20
Debut - Bjork
An outstanding debut from Bjork & one I don't think she ever bettered !
Venus As A Boy
Play Dead
Big Time Sensuality
Human Behavior
#1993AlbumsTop20
Debut - Bjork
An outstanding debut from Bjork & one I don't think she ever bettered !
Venus As A Boy
Play Dead
Big Time Sensuality
Human Behavior
October 4, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Number 4
#1993AlbumsTop20
Debut - Bjork
An outstanding debut from Bjork & one I don't think she ever bettered !
Venus As A Boy
Play Dead
Big Time Sensuality
Human Behavior
#1993AlbumsTop20
Debut - Bjork
An outstanding debut from Bjork & one I don't think she ever bettered !
Venus As A Boy
Play Dead
Big Time Sensuality
Human Behavior
Number 5
#1993AlbumsTop20
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Blur really hit their stride with this album! It remains one of my favourite albums from the band
For Tomorrow 🏆
Oily Water
Chemical World
Colin Zeal
#1993AlbumsTop20
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Blur really hit their stride with this album! It remains one of my favourite albums from the band
For Tomorrow 🏆
Oily Water
Chemical World
Colin Zeal
September 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Number 5
#1993AlbumsTop20
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Blur really hit their stride with this album! It remains one of my favourite albums from the band
For Tomorrow 🏆
Oily Water
Chemical World
Colin Zeal
#1993AlbumsTop20
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Blur really hit their stride with this album! It remains one of my favourite albums from the band
For Tomorrow 🏆
Oily Water
Chemical World
Colin Zeal
Number 6
#1993AlbumsTop20
Zooropa - U2
Fair play to U2 for embracing the Dance music culture at the time.A few weaker tracks on the album but generally a very good album
Stay (So Faraway, So Close) 🏆
Lemon
Zooropa
Numb
#1993AlbumsTop20
Zooropa - U2
Fair play to U2 for embracing the Dance music culture at the time.A few weaker tracks on the album but generally a very good album
Stay (So Faraway, So Close) 🏆
Lemon
Zooropa
Numb
September 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Number 6
#1993AlbumsTop20
Zooropa - U2
Fair play to U2 for embracing the Dance music culture at the time.A few weaker tracks on the album but generally a very good album
Stay (So Faraway, So Close) 🏆
Lemon
Zooropa
Numb
#1993AlbumsTop20
Zooropa - U2
Fair play to U2 for embracing the Dance music culture at the time.A few weaker tracks on the album but generally a very good album
Stay (So Faraway, So Close) 🏆
Lemon
Zooropa
Numb
September 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Number 8
#1993AlbumsTop20
Suede
A fantastic debut album & often cited as the birth of Britpop! I'm not sure the band were ever comfortable with that title.
Animal Nitrate 🏆
Pantomime Horse
So Young
The Drowners
#1993AlbumsTop20
Suede
A fantastic debut album & often cited as the birth of Britpop! I'm not sure the band were ever comfortable with that title.
Animal Nitrate 🏆
Pantomime Horse
So Young
The Drowners
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Number 8
#1993AlbumsTop20
Suede
A fantastic debut album & often cited as the birth of Britpop! I'm not sure the band were ever comfortable with that title.
Animal Nitrate 🏆
Pantomime Horse
So Young
The Drowners
#1993AlbumsTop20
Suede
A fantastic debut album & often cited as the birth of Britpop! I'm not sure the band were ever comfortable with that title.
Animal Nitrate 🏆
Pantomime Horse
So Young
The Drowners
Number 9
#1993AlbumsTop20
Laid - James
One of my favourite albums from James, it contains a few of their all time classic songs 🔥
Laid 🏆
Say Something
Sometimes
Lullaby
#1993AlbumsTop20
Laid - James
One of my favourite albums from James, it contains a few of their all time classic songs 🔥
Laid 🏆
Say Something
Sometimes
Lullaby
September 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Number 9
#1993AlbumsTop20
Laid - James
One of my favourite albums from James, it contains a few of their all time classic songs 🔥
Laid 🏆
Say Something
Sometimes
Lullaby
#1993AlbumsTop20
Laid - James
One of my favourite albums from James, it contains a few of their all time classic songs 🔥
Laid 🏆
Say Something
Sometimes
Lullaby