The Best Singles of 1984

Top 50

1. Upside Down - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
2. Death Valley '69 - SONIC YOUTH
3. What Difference Does It Make? - THE SMITHS
4. Dirty - HARD CORPS
5. Do The Square Thing - THE THREE JOHNS
6. Oh! Brother - THE FALL
7. Pink Frost - THE CHILLS
8. Racer-X - BIG BLACK
9. C.R.E.E.P. - THE FALL
10. The Killing Moon - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
11. Our Darkness - ANNE CLARK
12. Shout To The Top - THE STYLE COUNCIL
13. Still Ill - THE SMITHS
14. Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.
15. Slave Girl - LIME SPIDERS
16. Psycho - BEASTS OF BOURBON
17. Eight Miles High - HUSKER DU
18. Eighties - KILLING JOKE
19. Call For Escape Route EP - THE FALL
20. World Destruction - TIME ZONE
21. Middle of the Road - PRETENDERS
22. The Greatness and Perfection of Love - JULIAN COPE
23. Walk Into The Sun - THE MARCH VIOLETS
24. Pearly Dewdrops' Drops - COCTEAU TWINS
25. Close (To The Edit) - THE ART OF NOISE
26. Calamity Crush - FOETUS-ART-TERRORISM
27. Sensoria - CABARET VOLTAIRE
28. Keep On Keeping On - THE REDSKINS
29. I Will Dare - THE REPLACEMENTS
30. Celebrated Summer / New Day Rising - HUSKER DU
31. Bad News Travels Fast - THE FUZZTONES
32. Change Is Gonna Come - DROOGS
33. Medicine Show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
34. Like a Curse - THE NEW CHRISTS
35. Walk Away / Poison Door - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
36. Thieves Like Us - NEW ORDER
37. I Wanna Be Loved - ELVIS COSTELLO
38. When Doves Cry - PRINCE
39. Dancing In The Dark - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
40. I Want You Back - HOODOO GURUS
41. In The Ghetto - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
42. Fell From The Sun - KENDRA SMITH & DAVID ROBACK & KEITH MITCHEL
43. Come Back - THE MIGHTY WAH!
44. Let's Go Crazy - PRINCE
45. Rock Box - RUN-D.M.C.
46. Unity - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & JAMES BROWN
47. The Lebanon - THE HUMAN LEAGUE
48. Michael Caine - MADNESS
49. You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) - JOE JACKSON
50. Bachelor Kisses - THE GO-BETWEENS

The Best Singles of 1983

Top 50

1. Blue Monday - NEW ORDER
2. Hand in glove - THE SMITHS
3. She's in parties - BAUHAUS
4. Gone daddy gone - VIOLENT FEMMES
5. Cattle and cane - THE GO-BETWEENS
6. This charming man - THE SMITHS
7. The man whose head expanded - THE FALL
8. A.W.O.L. - THE THREE JOHNS
9. Temple of love - SISTERS OF MERCY
10. Oblivious - AZTEC CAMERA
11. The cutter - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
12. Let's all go (to the fire dances) - KILLING JOKE
13. Mutiny EP - BIRTHDAY PARTY
14. Kicker conspiracy - THE FALL
15. Burning down the house - TALKING HEADS
16. Money-Go-Round (Parts 1+2) - THE STYLE COUNCIL
17. Every day I write the book - ELVIS COSTELLO
18. New Year’s Day - U2
19. Looking for the perfect beat - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE
20. This is not a love song - P.I.L.
21. The walk - THE CURE
22. Just fascination - CABARET VOLTAIRE
23. Snake dance - THE MARCH VIOLETS
24. I want to help you Ann - LYRES
25. Another state of mind - SOCIAL DISTORTION
26. Bad seed EP - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
27. Marquis cha-cha - THE FALL
28. Lean on me - THE REDSKINS
29. Great expectations - NEW MODEL ARMY
30. Mexican radio - WALL OF VOODOO
31. Tomorrow's (just another day) - MADNESS
32. Palm of my hand - THE PALE FOUNTAINS
33. Talk about the passion - R.E.M.
34. Sunday bloody Sunday - U2
35. Waterfront - SIMPLE MINDS
36. Let them all talk - ELVIS COSTELLO
37. Speak like a child - THE STYLE COUNCIL
38. Beat box - THE ART OF NOISE
39. White lines (Don't don't do it) - GRANDMASTER FLASH & MELLE MEL
40. It's like that - RUN-D.M.C.
41. Hip-Hop-Bommi-Bop - THE INCREADIBLE T.H. SCRATCHERS STARRING FREDDY LOVE
42. Long hot summer - THE STYLE COUNCIL
43. Sugar hiccup - COCTEAU TWINS
44. Song to the siren - THIS MORTAL COIL
45. Dear prudence - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
46. The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE
47. October (love song) - CHRIS AND COSEY
48. Change - TEARS FOR FEARS
49. Relax - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
50. New gold dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS

The Best Singles of 1982

Top 50

1. Town called malice - THE JAM
2. Slowdive - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
3. The message - GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
4. Planet rock - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE
5. Let's go to bed - THE CURE
6. Temptation - NEW ORDER
7. I melt with you - MODERN ENGLISH
8. Love my way - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
9. Alice - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
10. I love a man in uniform - GANG OF FOUR
11. Know your rights - THE CLASH
12. Back on the chain gang - PRETENDERS
13. The back of love - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
14. Melt! - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
15. The hanging garden - THE CURE
16. Life in the gladhouse - MODERN ENGLISH
17. Look, know - THE FALL
18. Fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
19. Rolling moon - THE CHILLS
20. Senses working overtime - XTC
21. Beat surrender - THE JAM
22. Never say never - ROMEO VOID
23. ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody - ESG
24. Knife slits water - A CERTAIN RATIO
25. Empire song - KILLING JOKE
26. Ziggy Stardust - BAUHAUS
27. Mad world - TEARS FOR FEARS
28. Come on Eileen - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
29. Our house - MADNESS
30. Annie get your gun - SQUEEZE
31. Pillar to post - AZTEC CAMERA
32. The story of the blues - WAH!
33. Shipbuilding - ROBERT WYATT
34. Man out of time - ELVIS COSTELLO
35. Blue spark - X
36. In a free land - HUSKER DU
37. 1945 - SOCIAL DISTORTION
38. Bleed for me - DEAD KENNEDYS
39. Incubus Succubus - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
40. Dancing / True love - ZOUNDS
41. Rock the Casbah - THE CLASH
42. Shock the monkey - PETER GABRIEL
43. Promised you a miracle - SIMPLE MINDS
44. In shreds - THE CHAMELEONS
45. Felicity - ORANGE JUICE
46. Steppin' out - JOE JACKSON
47. Situation - YAZOO
48. Let me go! - HEAVEN 17
49. Poison arrow - ABC
50. Buffalo gals - MALCOLM MCLAREN

The Best Singles of 1981

Top 50

1. Sex beat / Ghost on the highway - THE GUN CLUB
2. Spellbound - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
3. Once in a lifetime - TALKING HEADS
4. That's entertainment - THE JAM
5. Ghost town - THE SPECIALS
6. Radio free Europe - R.E.M.
7. Goo Goo muck - THE CRAMPS
8. Romeo - WIPERS
9. Lie dream of a casino soul - THE FALL
10. What we all want - GANG OF FOUR
11. Ceremony - NEW ORDER
12. Reward - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
13. Don't you want me - THE HUMAN LEAGUE
14. The Jezebel spirit - BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE
15. Flowers of romance - P.I.L.
16. Primary - THE CURE
17. Kick in the eye - BAUHAUS
18. Follow the leaders - KILLING JOKE
19. Too drunk to fuck - THE DEAD KENNEDYS
20. Release the bats - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
21. Demystification - ZOUNDS
22. You're no good - ESG
23. Things that go boom in the night - BUSH TETRAS
24. Pretty in pink - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
25. Love song - SIMPLE MINDS
26. Tainted love - SOFT CELL
27. Rapture - BLONDIE
28. We want the airwaves - RAMONES
29. The magnificent seven - THE CLASH
30. Inconvenience - THE AU PAIRS
31. The art of parties - JAPAN
32. The gospel comes to New Guinea - 23 SKIDOO
33. Computer love / The Model - KRAFTWERK
34. Der Mussolini - DAF
35. (We don't need this) Fascist groove thang - HEAVEN 17
36. O Superman - LAURIE ANDERSON
37. Papa's got a brand new Pigbag - PIGBAG
38. It must be love - MADNESS
39. One in ten - UB40
40. From a whisper to a scream - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
41. Only the stones remain - THE SOFT BOYS
42. The river - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
43. Gloria - U2
44. Respectable street - XTC
45. A promise - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
46. Your turn, my turn - THE GO-BETWEENS
47. Calcutta - THE NAMES
48. The fish needs a bike - BLURT
49. Sex bomb - FLIPPER
50. Six pack - BLACK FLAG

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