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1981-1998 est le titre du coffret rétrospectif (3 CD + DVD) de Dead Can Dance sorti en 2001, trois ans après la séparation du groupe.
- "Frontier (Demo)" – 1981
- "Labour of Love (Radio)" – 1983
- "Ocean (Radio)" – 1983
- "Orion (Radio)" – 1983
- "Threshold (Radio)" – 1983
- "Carnival of Light" – 1984
- "In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated" – 1984
- "De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)" – 1985
- "Avatar" – 1985
- "Enigma of the Absolute" – 1985
- "Summoning of the Muse" – 1987
- "Anywhere out of the World" – 1987
- "Windfall" – 1987
- "Cantara" – 1987
- "In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-eyed Are Kings" – 1988
- "Bird" – 1991
- "The Protagonist" – 1984
- "Severance" – 1988
- "The Host of Seraphm" – 1988
- "Song of Sophia" – 1988
- "The Arrival and the Reunion" – 1990
- "Black Sun" – 1990
- "The Promised Womb" – 1990
- "Saltarello" – 1990
- "The Song of the Sibyl" – 1990
- "Spirit" – 1991
- "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)" – 1993
- "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" – 1993
- "Sloth (Radio)" – 1993
- "Bylar" – 1996
- "The Carnival Is Over" – 1993
- "The Spider's Stratagem" – 1993
- "The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Radio)" – 1993
- "How Fortunate the Man with None" – 1993
- "I Can See Now" – 1994
- "American Dreaming" – 1994
- "Tristan" – 1994
- "Sanvean" – 1994
- "Rakim" – 1994
- "Gloridean" – 1994
- "Don't Fade Away" – 1994
- "Nierika" – 1996
- "Song of the Nile" – 1996
- "Sambatiki" – 1996
- "Indus" – 1996
- "The Snake and the Moon (Edit)" – 1996
- "The Lotus Eaters" – 1998
Le DVD reprend la vidéo du live Toward the Within accompagnée de plusieurs vidéo-clips.