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

The Best Albums Of 1985

Top 50

1. Meat is murder - THE SMITHS
2. Psychocandy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
3. This nation’s saving grace - THE FALL
4. Our favourite shop - THE STYLE COUNCIL
5. Gas, food, lodging / No free lunch - GREEN ON RED
6. New day rising / Flip your wig - HUSKER DU
7. Wild weed - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
8. Charm world - YO
9. Valley of rain - GIANT SAND
10. The firstborn is dead - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
11. Frankenchrist - DEAD KENNEDYS
12. First and last and always - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
13. Lysergic emanations - THE FUZZTONES
14. Exploring the axis - THIN WHITE ROPE
15. Up on the sun - MEAT PUPPETS
16. Fables of the reconstruction - R.E.M.
17. Low life - NEW ORDER
18. The covenant, the sword and the arm of the lord - CABARET VOLTAIRE
19. Around the world in a day - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
20. State of our union - THE LONG RYDERS
21. Sundown on Venus - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
22. The head on the door - THE CURE
23. Colourbox - COLOURBOX
24. King of rock - RUN DMC
25. Bad moon rising - SONIC YOUTH
26. 3 way tie (for last) - MINUTEMEN
27. Stone cold world - THE DROOGS
28. The lost weekend - DANNY & DUSTY
29. 28th day - 28TH DAY
30. Wonder wonderful wonderland - PLASTICLAND
31. Keep your cool and read the rules - PLAN 9
32. Straight ahead - GREG SAGE
33. Antietam - ANTIETAM
34. Tim - THE REPLACEMENTS
35. Crashing dream - RAIN PARADE
36. Fegmania! - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
37. Ghosts of an ideal wife - LAUGHING CLOWNS
38. Stella - YELLO
39. The album - MANTRONIX
40. Language barrier - SLY AND ROBBIE
41. Once upon a time - SIMPLE MINDS
42. This is the sea - THE WATERBOYS
43. Little creatures - TALKING HEADS
44. Slave girl - LIME SPIDERS
45. Succumb - TO DAMASCUS
46. Love - THE CULT
47. A secret wish - PROPAGANDA
48. Love not money - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
49. Ain’t love grant - X
50. No rest for the wicked - NEW MODEL ARMY

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