Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time [Pt. 5 of 5]

In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine revised its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. You can see the complete list here, but at this address we're only interested in albums on the list that were released in the years 1976-85.  Yes, overall the list is weighted towards white, male, rock artists from the late '60s, but I'm trying to discover "new-to-me" music from my favorite decade that I may have missed. I made these lists for my own sake, but thought I'd share them with you for the common good of society.

There's at least five "greatest hits" compilations here and I call shenanigans, but it's Rolling Stone's list so they can do what they want.  In any case, here's the 20 albums from '76-'85 that placed in the top 100 spots on the list:

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No.	Album	Artist	Year
98	This Year's Model	Elvis Costello	1978
94	40 Greatest Hits	Hank Williams	1978
92	20 Golden Greats	Buddy Holly	1978
87	The Wall	Pink Floyd	1979
86	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen	1976
81	The Clash	The Clash	1979
77	Back in Black	AC/DC	1980
76	Purple Rain	Prince and the Revolution	1984
70	The Stranger	Billy Joel	1977
68	Off the Wall	Michael Jackson	1979
59	Chronicle Vol. 1	Creedence Clearwater Revival	1976
57	Songs in the Key of Life	Stevie Wonder	1976
46	Legend	Bob Marley and the Wailers	1984
41	Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols	The Sex Pistols	1977
37	Hotel California	The Eagles	1976
33	Ramones	Ramones	1976
26	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	1977
21	The Great Twenty-Eight	Chuck Berry	1982
20	Thriller	Michael Jackson	1982
8	London Calling	The Clash	1980

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Here's a breakdown of the above 20 albums by release date:

1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985
5	3	3	3	2	0	2	0	2	0

107 (21.4%) of the 500 albums were released during the years 1976-85: