I found this list from CNFY in Canada, their best of 1982
1. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
2. Duran Duran - Rio
3. Roxy Music - Avalon
4. The Spoons - Arias And Symphonies
5. ABC - Lexicon Of Love
6. Joe Jackson - Night And Day
7. Peter Gabriel - Security
8. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
9. Flock Of Seagulls - Flock Of Seagulls
10. Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever
11. Clash - Combat Rock
12. The Beat - Special Beat Service
13. Men At Work - Business As Usual
14. Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
15. Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's
16. UB40 - UB44
17. Haircut 100 - Pelican West
18. China Crisis - Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms
19. Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
20. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
21. The Jam - The Gift
22. Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter
23. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
24. Rough Trade - Shakin The Foundations
25. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless
26. XTC - English Settlement
27. New Order -Temptation
28. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
29. Blue Peter - Up To You
30. Human League - Dare (Domestic Release)
31. Gang Of Four - Songs Of The Free
32. Stray Cats - Built For Speed
33. Joe ****er - Sheffield Steel
34. Fashion - Fabrique
35. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
36. Musical Youth - Youth Of Today
37. Thompson Twins - In The Name Of Love
38. Leisure Process - Love Cascade
39. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
40. Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band...
41. Pete Shelley - Homosapien
42. Billy Idol - Billy Idol
43. Payolas - No Stranger To Danger
44. B Movie - Nowhere Girl
45. Spandau Ballet - Diamond
46. Associates - Sulk
47. Captain Sensible - Women And Captains First
48. Fun Boy Three - Fun Boy Three
49. Romeo Void - Benefactor
50. Pat Metheny - Off Ramp
51. Black Uhuru - Chill Out
52. Altered Images - Pinky Blue (I Could Be Happy)
53. Heaven 17 - Let Me Go
54. Grandmaster Flash - The Message
55. Level 42 - Level 42
56. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going
57. Rush - Signals
58. Ultravox - Quartet
59. The Fixx - Shuttered Room
60. New Musik - Warp
61. Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock
62. Gil Scott-Heron - Moving Target
63. Bill Nelson - The Love That Whirls
64. Icehouse - Primitive Man
65. Phil Manzanera - Primitive Guitars
66. Visage - The Anvil
67. Flash And The Pan - Headlines
68. Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me
69. Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision
70. The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
71. Soft Machine - Land Of ****ayne
72. Men Without Hats - Rhythm Of Youth
73. Steel Pulse - True Democracy
74. King Crimson - Beat
75. Nash The Slash - And You Thought You Were Normal
76. Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino
77. Lene Lovich - No Man's Land
78. Secret Service - Cutting Corners
79. Way Of The West - Don't Say That's Just For White Boys
80. Falco - Einzelhaft
81. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
82. Rational Youth - Cold War Night Life
I like a lot of songs from those albums, but I really can't pick a whole album to nominate
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