1981 in music

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Albums released

:Alphabetized by artist

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• Wild-Eyed Southern Boys - .38 Special
• The Visitors - ABBA
• For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) - AC/DC
• Breaker - Accept
• Hard N' Heavy - Anvil
• Playing With A Different Sex - The Au Pairs
• Precious Time - Pat Benatar
• Prayers On Fire - The Birthday Party
• Damaged - Black Flag
• The Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
• Red - Black Uhuru
• Autoamerican - Blondie
• Best of Blondie - Blondie
• The Ascension - Glenn Branca
• My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - David Byrne & Brian Eno
• Made in America - Carpenters
• Face Value - Phil Collins
• Special Forces - Alice Cooper
• Trust - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• Penis Envy - Crass
• Faith - The Cure
• Olympia 81 - Dalida
• Cool Night - Paul Davis
• High 'N' Dry - Def Leppard
• Breaking the Chains - Dokken
• Love Is Only Feeling - Donovan
• Duran Duran - Duran Duran
• Shot of Love - Bob Dylan
• In the Garden - Eurythmics
• Punk's Not Dead - The Exploited (debut)
• 4 - Foreigner
• The Electric Spanking of War Babies - Funkadelic
• Handful Of Earth - Dick Gaughan
• The Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's
• Amy Grant In Concert - Amy Grant
• In Concert Volume Two - Amy Grant
• Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Standing Hampton - Sammy Hagar
• Bangkok shocks, Saigobn Shakes...Hanoi Rocks - Hanoi Rocks
• White Lace & Black Leather - Helix
• Dare - Human League
• Killers - Iron Maiden
• Maiden Japan EP - Iron Maiden
• Freeze Frame - J. Geils Band
• I Love Rock 'N Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
• The Fox Album - Elton John
• Captured - Journey
• Escape - Journey
• Point of Entry - Judas Priest
• Discipline - King Crimson
• Give The People What They Want - The Kinks
• Music From The Elder - KISS
• Kix - Kix
• Hardware - Krokus
• Computer World - Kraftwerk
• Get Lucky - Loverboy
• Chances Are - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Quiero Ser - Menudo
• Too Fast For Love - Mötley Crüe
• No Sleep Till' Hammersmith - Motörhead
• M.S.G. II - The Michael Schenker Group
• One Night at Budokan - The Michael Schenker Group
• The Michael Schenker Group - The Michael Schenker Group
• Place Without a Postcard - Midnight Oil
• Minor Threat and In My Eyes - Minor Threat
• Physical - Olivia Newton-John
• Fiyou on the Bayou - The Neville Brothers
• Bella Donna - Stevie Nicks
• Movement - New Order
• Intensities In Ten Cities - Ted Nugent
• Great gonzos : the Best Of Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
• Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys
• Only a Lad - Oingo Boingo
• Architecture and Morality - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• Blizzard Of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
• Diary Of A Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
• 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs - Dolly Parton
• A Collection of Great Dance Songs - Pink Floyd
• Ghost In The Machine - The Police
• Controversy - Prince
• Talk, Talk, Talk - Psychedelic Furs
• Flowers of Romance - Public Image Ltd.
• Quarterflash - Quarterflash
• Difficult to Cure - Rainbow
• Rock Till You Drop - Raven
• Play Me Out - Helen Reddy
• Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash - The Replacements (debut)
• As Far as Siam - Red Rider
• Share Your Love - Kenny Rogers
• Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
• For Those Who Think Young - Rough Trade
• Moving Pictures - Rush
• Shock Tactics - Samson
• Denim And Leather - Saxon
• Non-Stop Erotic Caberet - Soft Cell
• East Side Story - Squeeze
• Don't Say No - Billy Squier
• Teddy Boys Don't Knit - Vivian Stanshall
• Burning Blue Soul - The The
• The Time - The Time
• Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
• October - U2
• Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
• Fair Warning - Van Halen
• Welcome to Hell - Venom
• Come an' Get It - Whitesnake
• Face Dances - The Who
• Earthshaker - Y&T