Editing 1981 in music (section)

===October===
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!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2
| ''[[Discipline (King Crimson album)|Discipline]]'' || [[King Crimson]] ||-
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| ''[[Ghost in the Machine (The Police album)|Ghost in the Machine]]'' || [[The Police]]||-
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| ''[[In the Garden (Eurythmics album)|In the Garden]]'' || [[Eurythmics]]||Debut
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| ''[[7 (Madness album)|7]]'' || [[Madness (band)|Madness]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|5
| ''[[Kollaps]]'' || [[Einstürzende Neubauten]]||-
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| ''[[Speak & Spell (album)|Speak & Spell]]'' || [[Depeche Mode]]||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|7
| ''[[Get Lucky (Loverboy album)|Get Lucky]]'' || [[Loverboy]]||-
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| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[Looking Back with Love]]'' || [[Mike Love]]|| solo debut
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| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|9
| ''[[Still (Joy Division album)|Still]]'' || [[Joy Division]]|| Compilation
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| style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''[[October (U2 album)|October]]'' || [[U2]]||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''[[Controversy (Prince album)|Controversy]]'' || [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]||-
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|16
| ''[[Mask (Bauhaus album)|Mask]]'' || [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]] ||-
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| ''[[Dare (album)|Dare]]'' || [[The Human League]]||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[Underneath the Colours]]'' || [[INXS]] ||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[Bobby and the Midnites (album)|Bobby and the Midnites]]'' || [[Bobby and the Midnites]]||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|23
| ''[[Almost Blue]]'' || [[Elvis Costello]] [[The Attractions|and the Attractions]]||-
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|26
| ''[[Freeze Frame (The J. Geils Band album)|Freeze Frame]]'' || [[The J. Geils Band]] ||-
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| ''[[Greatest Hits (Queen album)|Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Queen (band)|Queen]] || Compilation
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| style="text-align:center;"|29
| ''[[Exit...Stage Left]]'' || [[Rush (band)|Rush]] || Live
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| rowspan="29" style="text-align:center;" |?
| ''[[The Best of Blondie]]'' || [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] || Compilation
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| ''[[Diary of a Madman (album)|Diary of a Madman]]'' || [[Ozzy Osbourne]]||<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/610/mode/2up|title=The Great Rock Discography|year=1995|page=610 |isbn=9780862415419 |last1=Strong |first1=Martin Charles }}</ref>
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| ''[[Law and Order (album)|Law and Order]]'' || [[Lindsey Buckingham]]||-
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| ''[[Sonic Attack]]'' || [[Hawkwind]]||-
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| ''[[Don't Stop (Billy Idol EP)|Don't Stop]]'' || [[Billy Idol]] || EP
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| ''[[Camera Camera (Renaissance album)|Camera Camera]]'' || [[Renaissance (band)|Renaissance]] ||-
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| ''[[Premonition (Survivor album)|Premonition]]'' || [[Survivor (band)|Survivor]] ||-
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| ''[[This Is the Way (album)|This Is the Way]]'' || [[Rossington Collins Band]] ||-
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| ''[[Present Arms in Dub]]'' || [[UB40]]|| Remix
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| ''[[Big City (Merle Haggard album)|Big City]]'' || [[Merle Haggard]] ||-
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| ''[[Chances Are (album)|Chances Are]]'' || [[Bob Marley & the Wailers]] || Compilation of previously unreleased material
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| ''[[Christmas Album (Boney M. album)|Christmas Album]]'' || [[Boney M.]] || Christmas
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| ''[[Circle of Love (Steve Miller Band album)|Circle of Love]]'' || [[Steve Miller Band]] ||-
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| ''[[Coup de Grâce (Mink DeVille album)|Coup de Grâce]]'' || [[Mink DeVille]] ||-
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| ''[[Face to Face (GQ album)|Face to Face]]'' || [[GQ (band)|GQ]] ||-
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| ''[[Fourth Drawer Down]]'' || [[Associates (band)|Associates]] ||-
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| ''[[Gonna Ball]]'' || [[Stray Cats]] ||-
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| ''[[Inside You]]'' || [[The Isley Brothers]] ||-
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| ''[[Living Eyes (Bee Gees album)|Living Eyes]]'' || [[Bee Gees]] ||-
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| ''[[Local and/or General]]'' || [[Models (band)|Models]] ||-
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| ''[[Love Is Only Feeling]]'' || [[Donovan]] ||-
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| ''[[Physical (Olivia Newton-John album)|Physical]]'' || [[Olivia Newton-John]] ||-
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| ''[[Quarterflash (album)|Quarterflash]]'' || [[Quarterflash]]||-
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| ''[[Round Trip (The Knack album)|Round Trip]]'' || [[The Knack]] ||-
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| ''[[See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy]]'' || [[Bow Wow Wow]] ||-
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| ''[[The Sound of the Sand and Other Songs of the Pedestrian]]'' || [[David Thomas (musician)|David Thomas<br /> & the Pedestrians]] ||-
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| ''[[Strictly Personal (The Romantics album)|Strictly Personal]]'' || [[The Romantics]] ||-
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| ''[[Tom Tom Club (album)|Tom Tom Club]]'' || [[Tom Tom Club]] ||-
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| ''Wrap It!'' || [[Doug and the Slugs]] ||-
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