Eric says:
Almost everything from 1980 has a similar (cocaine-fuelled) sprawl, mixing every genre, with particular attention to (usually reggae-fixated) weirdness. Clearly the year of the double album.
 
McCartney II - Paul McCartney
Sandanista! - The Clash
The Game - Queen
Closer - Joy Division
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
Peter Gabriel (melting face) - Peter Gabriel
Scary Monsters - David Bowie
Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
Seventeen Seconds - The Cure
I Just Can't Stop It - The Beat
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello
Dirty Mind - Prince
Empty Glass - Pete Townshend
More Specials - Specials
Autoamerican - Blondie
Wild Planet - The B52s
Black Sea - XTC
Hotter Than July - Stevie Wonder
Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Pretenders - Pretenders
Uprising - Bob Marley
Gaucho - Steely Dan
Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam and the Ants
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Boy - U2
Glass Houses - Billy Joel
In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin
The Apple - Soundtrack