TOP 40 albums from 1985
selected from my vinyl record collection
| album | artist | label | top |
| psychocandy | the jesus and mary chain | blanco y negro | 1 |
| must've been something i took last night | yard trauma | dionysus records | 2 |
| beware the ides of march | thee mighty caesars | big beat records | 3 |
| lysergic emanations | the fuzztones | abc | 4 |
| emerge | the morlocks | midnight records | 5 |
| what's inside | the vibes | chainsaw | 6 |
| stop! | the chesterfield kings | mirror records | 7 |
| psychic… powerless… another man's sac | the butthole surfers | fundamental | 8 |
| dangerous charms | the delmonas | big beat records | 9 |
| love | the cult | beggars banquet | 10 |
| bad moon rising | sonic youth | blast first | 11 |
| trash for cash | the cannibals | hit records | 12 |
| mbih! | the neon judgement | anything but records | 13 |
| sabotage | the klinik | 3rio records | 14 |
| first and last and always | the sisters of mercy | merciful | 15 |
| the head on the door | the cure | fiction records | 16 |
| 25 o'clock | the dukes of stratosphear | virgin | 17 |
| night time | killing joke | eg | 18 |
| silvertone | chris isaak | warner bros records | 19 |
| frankenchrist | dead kennedys | alternative tentacles | 20 |
| heaven | shockabilly | fundamental | 21 |
| the curse of the mutants | the meteors | dojo | 22 |
| legacy of brutality | misfits | plan9 | 23 |
| slave girl | the lime spiders | hybrid records | 24 |
| maximum security | alien sex fiend | anagram records | 25 |
| no free lunch | green on red | mercury | 26 |
| first avalanche | the rose of avalanche | leeds independent label | 27 |
| the now sound of | the tell-tale hearts | voxx records | 28 |
| atom bomb party | scientists | au go go | 29 |
| talk about the weather | red lorry yellow lorry | red rhino records | 30 |
| nada | death in june | new european recordings | 31 |
| green peas | the vietnam veterans | music maniac records | 32 |
| city slab horror | severed heads | ink records | 33 |
| concerto pour detraques | bérurier noir | bondage records | 34 |
| buen ser-vicio | desechables | 3cipreses | 35 |
| the lust | zowiso | geen records | 36 |
| rum sodomy & the lash | the pogues | stiff records | 37 |
| running stream | running stream | ton um ton | 38 |
| yeah | the cavemen | midnight records | 39 |
| music for men | mad daddys | new rose records | 40 |