Best Post-Punk Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
36	Remain in Light - Talking Heads	1980	89.3	85.2	97	89.2	85.9	91	87	89.8
40	The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths	1986	89.1	82.6	100	87.3	85.8	91.6	88	88.6
42	Standing On A Beach: The Singles - The Cure	1986	89.1	83.8	100	88.8	88.8	90	84	88
44	Marquee Moon - Television	1977	89	82.8	100	88.4	84.5	93	86	88.2
56	Disintegration - The Cure	1989	88.7	85.2	87	90.3	89.1	92.8	86	90.4
58	London Calling - The Clash	1979	88.6	80.2	100	87.4	84.7	92.2	87	88.8
68	Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads	1984	88.4	86.8	84	92	92.8	90	83	90
89	Deathconsciousness - Have a Nice Life	2008	87.8	82.6	90	90.9	88.2	95	81	87
92	Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths	1984	87.8	82.2	95	88	85.2	91	85	88
111	Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division	1979	87.5	82	95	86.3	83.8	92.2	86	87
144	Closer - Joy Division	1980	86.8	81.4	94	86.1	83	91	85	87.4
151	The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads - Talking Heads	1982	86.8	84.4	88	88	88.8	88.2	80	90
159	Substance - New Order	1987	86.7	83.8	85	90	84.9	91.2	84	88
227	Substance - Joy Division	1988	86	82	90	85.9	85.1	91.2	82	86
236	Louder than Bombs - The Smiths	1987	85.9	82.8	89	86	85.4	91.4	83	84
241	Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown	2016	85.9	82.6	84	89.5	85.8	92	83	84.4
276	Fear of Music - Talking Heads	1979	85.6	80	96	85.1	81.8	88.4	84	84
279	Pink Flag - Wire	1977	85.6	78.4	97	83.2	80.6	92	82	86
286	Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth	1988	85.6	80.6	87	85.1	82.9	91.6	84	87.8
323	Fugazi - Fugazi	1988	85.2	80.6	90	83.8	86.1	92	80	84.2
339	Script of the Bridge - The Chameleons	1983	85.1	79.4	90	83.8	84.2	92.8	80	85.6
349	you made me realise - my bloody valentine	1988	85.1	79.6	90	80.6	81.9	95.6	83	84.8
417	Chairs Missing - Wire	1978	84.6	78.4	95	82.8	79.5	91.8	81	84
428	Entertainment! - Gang of Four	1979	84.6	79	93	83.3	80.6	91.2	81	84
447	Sister - The Sonic Youth	1987	84.5	78	95	82.5	80.3	90.6	80	85.2
451	Repetition - Unwound	1996	84.5	80.6	90	85.8	81.9	91.6	79	82.6
479	The Joshua Tree - U2	1987	84.4	73.2	100	80.6	81	89.2	83	83.6
484	Signos - Soda Stereo	1986	84.3	77	90	84	83.8	93.4	78	84
504	Murmur - R.E.M.	1983	84.2	77.4	94	81.8	79.3	89.4	83	84.6
519	Youth of America - Wipers	1981	84.1	78.8	91	82	78	92	81	86.2
544	154 - Wire	1979	84	79.4	93	83.6	79.1	91.8	79	82
548	Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen	1984	84	78.4	88	82.5	78.6	92.8	80	87.4
557	The Idiot - Iggy Pop	1977	83.9	77.4	92	82	82.2	88.6	80	85.4
601	Knocknarea - Maruja	2023	83.8	78	90	85.1	83.7	93.6	76	80
619	The Smiths - The Smiths	1984	83.7	76.8	89	82.5	82.6	90	83	82
629	13 Songs - Fugazi	1989	83.7	79	90	83	80.2	89.6	80	84
631	Juju - Siouxsie and the Banshees	1981	83.7	79.4	84	84.8	83.7	90.2	80	83.6
638	The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers	1994	83.7	76.6	84	84.8	86	89.4	78	86.8
671	Deceit - This Heat	1981	83.5	78.8	90	80.8	79.7	92.2	78	85
692	From the Lions Mouth - The Sound	1981	83.4	76.8	90	81.5	82.3	92.4	79	82
708	Strange Times - The Chameleons	1986	83.4	76.8	90	82.8	81	90.8	78	84.2
715	Jeopardy - The Sound	1980	83.3	77.4	95	81.7	82	90.2	77	80
719	Crazy Rhythms - The Feelies	1980	83.3	76	95	81.8	78.8	91.6	78	82
724	Over the Edge - Wipers	1983	83.3	76.8	90	81.8	81.8	91.6	77	84
764	Brother, Sister - mewithoutYou	2006	83.1	74.8	78	81.7	88.6	93.6	78	87
776	Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement	1992	83	75.8	93	80.2	76.9	90	82	83.4
791	Lust For Life - Iggy Pop	1977	83	76	93	80.8	79.8	88.4	81	82
817	Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices	1994	82.9	76.6	88	80	80.3	92.2	79	84.4
819	Joy as an Act of Resistance. - IDLES	2018	82.9	74	88	83.9	84.2	91.2	80	79.2
820	Signals, Calls and Marches - Mission of Burma	1981	82.9	77	94	82	78.5	90	77	82
829	Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - David Bowie	1980	82.9	76.8	89	82.8	81.3	87.4	81	82
832	Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain	1985	82.9	74	100	78.4	78.5	90.4	79	80
855	The Best of 1980-1990 - U2	1998	82.8	78.8	79	85.6	84.5	88.8	83	80
862	This Is the Sea - The Waterboys	1985	82.8	76.4	91	81.8	81.1	86.6	79	83.6
885	What Does Anything Mean? Basically - The Chameleons	1985	82.7	76.2	90	81.4	81.2	90.4	78	82
917	Reckoning - R.E.M.	1984	82.6	76.2	90	80.9	79.2	88.2	80	84
938	Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order	1983	82.5	76.8	83	83	81.6	90.4	81	82
995	Atomizer - Big Black	1986	82.4	77.6	90	82.4	78	90.6	76	82
1057	Tinderbox - Siouxsie & The Banshees	1986	82.2	78.6	80	85.1	84.4	87.4	78	82
1073	Black Sea - XTC	1980	82.2	77.2	86	82.6	83.5	87	79	80
1093	The Great Annihilator - Swans	1995	82.1	79	76	85.2	83.1	90.2	79	82.4
1097	This Heat - This Heat	1979	82.1	76.8	91	79.1	79.7	92.2	76	80
1148	This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall	1985	82	76.4	90	79.8	75.8	90	78	84
1167	Low-Life - New Order	1985	81.9	77.2	80	83.8	82.6	88	80	82
1169	Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall	1982	81.9	76.6	82	80.2	82.4	91.4	77	84
1184	EVOL - Sonic Youth	1986	81.9	76.6	89	80.4	79.1	89.2	77	82
1193	Catch for Us the Foxes - mewithoutYou	2004	81.9	75.2	80	81.4	84	94	74	84.6
1275	In the Flat Field - Bauhaus	1980	81.7	76.2	83	81.2	83.1	89.4	77	82
1308	More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads	1978	81.6	76.4	90	80.5	77.1	87.4	80	80
1324	Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned	1979	81.6	76.2	85	79.6	80.8	89.6	76	84
1377	Pornography - The Cure	1982	81.5	81.4	63	85.5	84.1	90.8	80	85.6
1381	Pain to Power - Maruja	2025	81.5	73.4	86	84.8	82.8	93	73	77.4
1382	Playing With a Different Sex - Au Pairs	1981	81.5	73.8	92	80.6	80.4	85.6	78	80
1396	Is This Real? - Wipers	1980	81.5	77.2	80	80.1	79.7	93.2	76	84
1416	First and Last and Always - The Sisters of Mercy	1985	81.4	75.8	80	80.8	84	89.6	76	83.6
1423	Vs. - Mission of Burma	1982	81.4	74.8	90	81.4	76.3	89.2	78	80
1430	Schlagenheim - black midi	2019	81.4	77	81	84.7	82.2	89.8	79	75.8
1441	Wide Awake! - Parquet Courts	2018	81.3	74.8	84	82.3	82.1	88.8	80	77.4
1453	Change - The Dismemberment Plan	2001	81.3	75.8	82	82.4	80.2	89.2	78	81.6
1462	The World Won't Listen - The Smiths	1987	81.3	80.2	77	81.3	81.1	89.4	80	80
1482	Smiling With No Teeth - Genesis Owusu	2021	81.2	75	84	81.7	80.6	92.2	77	78.2
1517	Miami - The Gun Club	1982	81.2	75.2	90	80.3	78.9	89.8	76	78
1522	New Plastic Ideas - Unwound	1994	81.2	80	70	84.3	83	89.6	79	82.2
1529	Document - R.E.M.	1987	81.2	74.2	90	80.2	76.7	87	80	80
1558	Greatest Hits - The Cure	2001	81.1	78	69	83	89.3	91.4	79	78
1559	The Head on the Door - The Cure	1985	81.1	77.2	75	83	82.6	88.8	81	80
1602	Goo - Sonic Youth	1990	81	76.6	78	82.9	81.7	89.8	80	78
1609	Skinty Fia - Fontaines D.C.	2022	81	73.4	87	80.6	81.8	92.2	76	76
1612	Penis Envy - Crass	1981	81	74.4	90	81	85.9	88.6	69	78
1615	English Settlement - XTC	1982	81	76.2	80	80.7	80.9	88	79	82
1625	Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Devo	1978	81	75.2	85	79	76.9	89.6	79	82
1634	Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	1988	80.9	76.8	78	80.9	80.5	87.4	79	84
1637	Starfish - The Church	1988	80.9	74	85	80.3	80.1	89.2	78	80
1652	Strangers from the Universe - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282	1994	80.9	74.8	91	78.9	78	89	76	78.6
1690	Brutalism - IDLES	2017	80.8	72.8	86	80.8	79.7	90.4	78	78.2
1692	Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants	1980	80.8	73.6	92	76.5	79.2	91.6	77	76
1738	The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu	1978	80.7	75.2	90	77.5	75.9	90.6	78	78
1741	Darklands - The Jesus and Mary Chain	1987	80.7	73.4	85	79.4	80	88.4	79	80
1745	Real Life - Magazine	1978	80.7	75.6	83	80.1	76.6	88.8	79	82
1759	Relatives in Descent - Protomartyr	2017	80.7	74.2	83	80.4	81.7	89.6	77	79

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