Nineteeneighties is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips. The album consists of cover songs of college rock bands synonymous with the 1980s. It was released on June 27, 2006 under Zoë Records.
The bulk of the album was recorded at Grant-Lee Phillips' personal studio, Magnetic Fields Recordings, with Phillips performing most of the instruments. David J. Carpenter, a collaborator of John Doe and Gregory Page, and Kevin Jarvis, drummer on several Steve Wynn solo albums, performed on four tracks each, while The Section Quartet founder Eric Gorfain appeared on a single recording.
Nineteeneighties was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 75, based on 10 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 73 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 5 reviews.
In a review for Slant Magazine, Preston Jones awarded the album three out of five stars and complimented "Age of Consent" as a "particular beauty". For NPR, Stephen Thompson wrote "it's surprising how smoothly these tributes fit into his homespun, heartfelt catalog." Michael Metivier, writing for PopMatters, positively compared Nineteeneighties to The Covers Record by Cat Power, believing Phillips' interpretations had an "identifiable purpose". Mark Deming of AllMusic called Phillips' arrangements "measured and atmospheric", continuing with "Phillips reaches into the material with an obvious love and respect, and he finds a beautifully melancholy essence". Billboard critic Joshua Klein commended Phillips for not leaning into the "giddy 80s excess" and instead focused on "the explosion of creativity inspired by punk and new wave" of the 1980s. For The Sunday Times, Mike Edwards praised the renditions of "Boys Don't Cry", "So Central Rain", and "Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me", but said "the dreamy pace can occasionally become soporific".