Following his list of seventy album titles from the 1970s, ALWYN TURNER now offers eighty of the best/worst album titles from British acts in the 1980s.

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Album (1986) – Public Image Ltd.

Sulk (1982) – The Associates

Hats (1989) – The Blue Nile

Gruts (1986) – Ivor Cutler

Scum (1987) – Napalm Death

Fried (1984) – Julian Cope

God (1981) – Rip Rig + Panic

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The Politics of Dancing (1983) – Re-Flex

She Was Only a Grocer’s Daughter (1987) – The Blow Monkeys

Let’s Start a War (Said Maggie One Day) (1983) – The Exploited

For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980) – The Pop Group

Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986) – Chumbawamba

The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks (1984) – Flux of Pink Indians

Penis Envy (1981) – Crass

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In the Mood for Something Rude (1982) – Foghat

Strangeways, Here We Come (1987) – The Smiths

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (1985) – The Pogues

Bummed (1988) – Happy Mondays

Slide It In (1984) – Whitesnake

Play Dirty (1983) – Girlschool

Pornography (1982) – The Cure

Peepshow (1988) – Siouxsie and the Banshees

Prostitute (1988) – Toyah

This Last Night in Sodom (1984) – Soft Cell

Discipline (1981) – King Crimson

Powerslave (1984) – Iron Maiden

Scatology (1984) – Coil

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The Wreck-Age (1985) – Tygers of Pan Tang

Viva Hate (1988) – Morrisey

Symphonies of Sickness (1989) – Carcass

Swastikas for Noddy (1988) – Current 93

Buchenwald (1981) – Whitehouse

The Ultimate Sin (1986) – Ozzy Osbourne

Lords of Sin (1984) – Witchfynde

Friends of Hell (1983) – Witchfinder General

Rock You to Hell (1987) – Grim Reaper

Hell Hath No Fury (1983) – Rock Goddess

Filth Hounds of Hades (1982) – Tank

At War with Satan (1984) – Venom

Abominog (1982) – Uriah Heep

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Beserker (1984) – Gary Numan

Fegmania! (1985) – Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

Loonee Tunes! (1980) – Bad Manners

Loony on the Bus (1988) – Roy Harper

Who’s Been Sleeping in My Brain (1983) – Alien Sex Fiend

Don’t Touch the Bang Bang Fruit (1987) – The Meteors

Madness, Money and Music (1982) – Sheena Easton

Beer, Sex, Chips ‘n’ Gravy (1985) – The Macc Lads

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Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti (1985) – Squeeze

24 Carrots (1980) – Al Stewart

Let It Bee (1988) – Voice of the Beehive

Dr Heckle and Mr Jive (1982) – Pigbag

Now and Zen (1988) – Robert Plant

The Abominable Showman (1983) – Nick Lowe

Chasanova (1981) – Chaz Jankel

Deep Sea Skiving (1983) – Bananarama

Till Deaf Do Us Part (1981) – Slade

Back in the DHSS (1985) – Half Man Half Biscuit

Moss Side Story (1989) – Barry Adamson

Eat Me in St Louis (1989) – It Bites

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Introducing the Hardline According to… (1987) – Terence Trent D’Arby

The Wonderful and Frightening World Of… (1984) – The Fall

They Could Have Been Bigger Than the Beatles (1982) – Television Personalities

The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death (1987) – The Housemartins

All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (1982) – Pete Townshend

Snap Crackle and Bop (1980) – John Cooper Clarke

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The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion (1985) – Nurse With Wound

The Mona Lisa’s Sister (1988) – Graham Parker

Kenny Rogers’ Greatest Hit (Take 2) (1989) – Blurt

Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin (1985) – Hawkwind

Steve McQueen (1985) – Prefab Sprout

George Best (1987) – The Wedding Present

Errol Flynn (1989) – The Dogs D’Amour

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Aliens Ate My Buick (1988) – Thomas Dolby

See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! (1981) – Bow Wow Wow

Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms Some People Think It’s Fun to Entertain (1982) – China Crisis

1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) (1987) – The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

What Does Anything Mean? Basically (1985) – The Chameleons

In No Sense? Nonsense! (1987) – Art of Noise

Finyl Vinyl (1986) – Rainbow

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