My (Incomplete) Personal Canon: 1983-1987 POLL

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Saving one of the best periods for (near) the end.

Poll Results

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KATE BUSH – Cloudbusting 4
NEW ORDER – The Perfect Kiss (Substance edit) 4
THE VERLAINES – Death and the Maiden 4
TEARS FOR FEARS – Everybody Wants to Rule the World 4
HUSKER DU – The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill 3
MEAT PUPPETS – Up on the Sun 3
THE CURE – Close to Me 3
WAYNE SMITH – Under Mi Sleng Teng 3
CYNDI LAUPER – Time After Time 3
THE GO-BETWEENS – Cattle and Cane 3
THE SMITHS – There is a Light That Never Goes Out 2
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Your Funeral, My Trial 2
PET SHOP BOYS – West End Girls 2
PUBLIC ENEMY – Rebel Without a Pause 2
PYLON – Crazy 2
AUDIO TWO – Top Billin’ 2
TENOR SAW – Ring the Alarm 2
SHOP ASSISTANTS – Safety Net 2
MEKONS – Last Dance 2
MADONNA – Live to Tell 2
MARY JANE GIRLS – All Night Long 1
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Brilliant Disguise 1
DEPECHE MODE – Never Let Me Down Again 1
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – The Killing Moon 1
THE REPLACEMENTS – Left of the Dial 1
ERIC B. & RAKIM – Paid in Full (Seven Minutes of Madness Remix) 1
TALK TALK – It’s Getting Late in the Evening 1
SONIC YOUTH – Cotton Crown 1
ESG – My Love For You 1
SEXUAL HARASSMENT – I Need a Freak 1
RENE & ANGELA – I’ll Be Good 1
LOOSE JOINTS – Tell You (Today) 1
BEASTIE BOYS – No Sleep Till Brooklyn 0
VOLCANO SUNS – Jak 0
TOM WAITS – Jockey Full of Bourbon 0
THE SEA URCHINS – Pristine Christine 0
THE FALL – Smile 0
BIZ MARKIE – Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz 0
THE VASELINES – Son of a Gun 0
THE MINUTEMEN – History Lesson Pt. 2 0
THE MICE – Not Proud of the USA 0
PRINCE – If I Was Your Girlfriend 0
K-ROB VS. RAMMELLZEE – Beat Bop 0
DINOSAUR JR. – The Lung 0
HALF JAPANESE – Firecracker Firecracker 0
R.E.M. – Pretty Persuasion 0
THE BATS – Made Up in Blue 0
THE CHILLS – I Love My Leather Jacket 0
THE CLEAN – Whatever I Do is Right 0
WIPERS – Messenger 0


Chris L, Friday, 12 September 2025 12:14 (one month ago)

It would nice if somehow we could give more than one vote on these huge polls with lots of winners.

nicky lo-fi, Friday, 12 September 2025 14:20 (one month ago)

Talk about evergreen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDRfbEPaqDQ

Chris L, Friday, 12 September 2025 14:43 (one month ago)

"Beat Bop" and "Safety Net" two of my favourite songs ever...not sure yet.

clemenza, Friday, 12 September 2025 15:25 (one month ago)

tell you

tell you

tell you

sleeve, Friday, 12 September 2025 15:47 (one month ago)

All Night Long, one of my favorites of all time, former personal ringtone

brimstead, Friday, 12 September 2025 22:37 (one month ago)

feeling the mekons tbh

gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 September 2025 23:06 (one month ago)

Gah, too, too hard, so many great ones.

birdistheword, Friday, 12 September 2025 23:22 (one month ago)

I Need a Freak

octobeard, Saturday, 13 September 2025 00:33 (one month ago)

well this is impossible lol

austinato (Austin), Saturday, 13 September 2025 00:42 (one month ago)

Customary apple playlist w bonus songs

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/the-canon-1983-1987/pl.u-11zBPPmi8z4gjj

Chris L, Saturday, 13 September 2025 00:51 (one month ago)

Somebody was into the Flying Nun heyday, too...

I could easily vote for half this list but went with The Go-Betweens for their greatest achievement, that song is all-time.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 13 September 2025 01:10 (one month ago)

Ring The Alarm

Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Saturday, 13 September 2025 07:56 (one month ago)

Bruuuuce

cryptosicko, Monday, 15 September 2025 00:14 (one month ago)

Eric B & Rakim, hard to deny that one.. But that REM song is one of my faves, and one not often singled out.

Josefa, Monday, 15 September 2025 00:22 (one month ago)

no thing can stop YOU

Morley Timmons, Monday, 15 September 2025 01:07 (one month ago)

You have good taste in 1983-1987 songs.

Heaven Hill fer me

kornrulez6969, Monday, 15 September 2025 01:55 (one month ago)

Impossible poll

Josefa otm about "Pretty Persuasion" but I have to go with "Crazy"

Brad C., Monday, 15 September 2025 02:09 (one month ago)

Prince vs Meat Puppets = smoke and sparks emitting from head holes

Cow_Art, Monday, 15 September 2025 02:18 (one month ago)

Narrowing this down to a question of "which do I most want to actually hear right *now*?" it might be "Top Billin'" or "Pristine Christine".

Fed up with your constant and uniform motion (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 15 September 2025 02:54 (one month ago)

thought this was going to be hard until i saw Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun

budo jeru, Monday, 15 September 2025 03:02 (one month ago)

I've listened to Death and the Maiden so many times so it has to get my vote. More new discoveries, really like that Pylon song (didn't know REM were covering them).

That particular Fall song, and about four or five others on the same album, are unavailable on Apple Music, but the rest is there. Weird.

Duane Barry, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 20:28 (one month ago)

Live to Tell or Up on the Sun for me

pfutt, Wednesday, 17 September 2025 21:32 (one month ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 18 September 2025 00:01 (one month ago)

Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon harmonizing on Cotton Crown,
"Angels are dreaming of you..."

nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 18 September 2025 01:14 (one month ago)

voted top billin, mainly because i've had it stuck in my head over the last few days

ava (aiva), Thursday, 18 September 2025 07:42 (one month ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 19 September 2025 00:01 (one month ago)


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