Mar 12, 2011

The Best Singles of 1980

Top 50













  1. Going underground - THE JAM
  2. Love will tear us apart - JOY DIVISION
  3. Totally wired - THE FALL
  4. A forest - THE CURE
  5. Rescue - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
  6. Treason - TEARDROP EXPLODES
  7. Mr. Jones - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
  8. Garbageman - THE CRAMPS
  9. Seven minutes to midnight - WAH! HEAT
  10. Christine - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
  11. It’s obvious - THE AU PAIRS
  12. Holiday in Cambodia - DEAD KENNEDYS
  13. Alien boy - WIPERS
  14. Wardance - KILLING JOKE
  15. How I wrote 'Elastic Man' - THE FALL
  16. The great curve - TALKING HEADS
  17. Start! - THE JAM
  18. Precious - PRETENDERS
  19. Atomic - BLONDIE
  20. Too many creeps - BUSH TETRAS
  21. Israel - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
  22. Atmosphere - JOY DIVISION
  23. The puppet - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
  24. Gathering dust - MODERN ENGLISH
  25. Mr. Clarinet - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
  26. Dark entries - BAUHAUS
  27. Let's build a car - SWELL MAPS
  28. I wanna destroy you - THE SOFT BOYS
  29. Bankrobber - THE CLASH
  30. Call me - BLONDIE
  31. Ashes to ashes - DAVID BOWIE
  32. Whip it - DEVO
  33. My girl - MADNESS
  34. Another nail in my heart - SQUEEZE
  35. Shack up - A CERTAIN RATIO
  36. Changeling - SIMPLE MINDS
  37. Enola Gay - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
  38. Private Idaho - THE B-52's
  39. You - DELTA 5
  40. Final day - YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS
  41. A song from under the floorboards - MAGAZINE
  42. I can't stand up for falling down - ELVIS COSTELLO
  43. White girl - X
  44. Ha ha ha - FLIPPER
  45. Amoeba - ADOLESCENTS
  46. I wanna be sedated - RAMONES
  47. I will follow - U2
  48. Too much too young - THE SPECIALS
  49. Geno - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
  50. Dog eat dog - ADAM AND THE ANTS


1 comment:

ody said...

Some more: Only after dark - THE HUMAN LEAGUE, Cities - TALKING HEADS, Drug train - THE CRAMPS, Requiem - KILLING JOKE, The friend catcher - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, Fiery jack - THE FALL, Happy house - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Sister Europe - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS, Outside the trains don't run on time - GANG OF FOUR, Everybody's got something to hide (except me and my monkey) - THE FEELIES, Gentlemen take polaroids - JAPAN, Echo beach - MARTHA & THE MUFFINS, Don’t stand so close to me - THE POLICE, Jukebox babe - ALAN VEGA, Can't cheat karma - ZOUNDS, Love comes in spurts - RICHARD HELL, People who died - JIM CARROLL, Ace of spades - MOTÖRHEAD, Back in black - AC/DC, Pay to cum! - BAD BRAINS, We got the beat - GO-GO'S, To cut a long story short - SPANDAU BALLET, Another one bites the dust - QUEEN, The same old scene - ROXY MUSIC, Hungry heart - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, High Fidelity - ELVIS COSTELLO, I need two heads - THE GO-BETWEENS, Get up and use me - FIRE ENGINES, Getting nowhere fast - GIRLS AT OUR BEST, Janitor - SUBURBAN LAWNS, Girls don't count - SECTION 25, Sex machine - THE CRAWLING CHAOS, Kill the poor - DEAD KENNEDYS, Train in vain (stand by me) - THE CLASH, Stereotype - THE SPECIALS, Baggy trousers - MADNESS, Mirror in the bathroom - THE BEAT, Talk of the town - PRETENDERS, C30 C60 C90 go - BOW WOW WOW, There goes Concorde again - ...AND THE NATIVE HIPSTERS, Fade to grey - VISAGE, Games without frontiers - PETER GABRIEL, Refugee - TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, Girl you want - DEVO, 10:15 Saturday night - THE CURE, When I dream - TEARDROP EXPLODES, It's kinda funny - JOSEF K, Falling and laughing - ORANGE JUICE, Crosseyed and painless - TALKING HEADS, Seconds too late - CABARET VOLTAIRE