The Best Singles of 1985

Top 50

1. How Soon Is Now? - THE SMITHS
2. Cruiser's Creek / L.A. - THE FALL
3. Tupelo - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
4. Never Understand - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
5. The Perfect Kiss - NEW ORDER
6. Walls Come Tumbling Down - THE STYLE COUNCIL
7. Fields Of Glass EP - THE TRIFFIDS
8. Love & Desperation - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
9. Looking For Lewis and Clark - THE LONG RYDERS
10. Makes No Sense At All - HUSKER DU
11. Yu Gung - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
12. King of Rock - RUN DMC
13. Cities in Dust - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
14. Driver 8 - R.E.M.
15. Heaven - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
16. In Between Days - THE CURE
17. Just Like Honey - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
18. Chance - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY
19. Death of the European - THE THREE JOHNS
20. Up The Hill and Down the Slope - THE LOFT
21. The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - THE SMITHS
22. You Trip Me Up - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
23. Kick Over the Statues! - REDSKINS
24. Like A Curse - THE NEW CHRISTS
25. She's Wicked - THE FUZZTONES
26. V2 - THAT PETROL EMOTION
27. America - PRINCE
28. Road to Nowhere - TALKING HEADS
29. Bring on the Dancing Horses - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
30. Rollin' Dany / Couldn't Get Ahead - THE FALL
31. Go Out and Get 'Em Boy! - THE WEDDING PRESENT
32. No Rest - NEW MODEL ARMY
33. Salad Days - MINOR THREAT
34. Out of Control - LIME SPIDERS
35. Date with a Vampyre - THE SCREAMING TRIBESMEN
36. Time Ain't Nothing - GREEN ON RED
37. Between the Wars - BILLY BRAGG
38. Sunspots - JULIAN COPE
39. Move Me - THE WOODENTOPS
40. Raspberry Beret - PRINCE
41. Rock the Bells - LL COOL J
42. Needle to the Groove - MANTRONIX
43. I Want You - CABARET VOLTAIRE
44. No Time to Cry - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
45. When All's Well - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
46. The Whole of the Moon - THE WATERBOYS
47. Don't You (Forget About Me) - SIMPLE MINDS
48. She Sells Sanctuary - THE CULT
49. Sequenz - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
50. All Fall Down - PRIMAL SCREAM