The Best Singles of 1986

Top 50

1. Mr Pharmacist - THE FALL
2. World Shut Your Mouth - JULIAN COPE
3. Wide Open Road - THE TRIFFIDS
4. Into the Groovey - CICCONE YOUTH
5. Bigmouth Strikes Again - THE SMITHS
6. I Want You - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
7. Fall on Me - R.E.M.
8. Take the Skinheads Bowling - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
9. Saturday Night - SCHOOLLY D
10. Panic - THE SMITHS
11. Some Candy Talking - JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
12. Flower - SONIC YOUTH
13. Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely - HUSKER DU
14. Spring Rain - THE GO-BETWEENS
15. River Of Love - THE SPIKES
16. Walk This Way - RUN DMC
17. (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) - BEASTIE BOYS
18. Bizarre Love Triangle - NEW ORDER
19. Truck Train Tractor - THE PASTELS
20. Tokyo Storm Warning - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
21. Once More - THE WEDDING PRESENT
22. I Love My Leather Jacket - THE CHILLS
23. If You Were A Priest - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
24. Bad News Travel Fast - THE FUZZTONES
25. Living To Late - THE FALL
26. Starpower - SONIC YOUTH
27. Brave Captain - fIREHOSE
28. Somebody Put Something in My Drink - RAMONES
29. 51st State - NEW MODEL ARMY
30. Born Out of Time - THE NEW CHRISTS
31. This Damn Nation - THE GODFATHERS
32. Like an Angel - THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS
33. Infected - THE THE
34. Kaw-Liga - THE RESIDENTS
35. Mind At The End Of The Tether - TACKHEAD
36. South Bronx - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
37. Kiss - PRINCE
38. Word Up - CAMEO
39. Eric B. Is President - ERIC B. & RAKIM
40. Bassline - MANTRONIX
41. Kiss - AGE OF CHANCE
42. A Screw - SWANS
43. 1936: The Spanish Revolution - THE EX
44. Therese - THE BODINES
45. Almost Prayed - THE WEATHER PROPHETS
46. Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune) - IT'S IMMATERIAL
47. Sledgehammer - PETER GABRIEL
48. Graceland - PAUL SIMON
49. Greetings to the New Brunette - BILLY BRAGG
50. Don't Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS

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 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