The 80's POX

Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1
Grauzone - Eisbär
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message
Pixies - Hey
Rammellzee - Beat Bop (Vs. K-Rob)
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
The Specials - Ghost Town
Young Marble Giants - Final Day
Yuri - El Pequeño Panda De Chapultepec

This is too hard. I should remove Beat Bop for 'a forest' or 'cloudbusting' or 'c'est fab' or billy fucking jean... I quit.

Related I guess: The 10 best songs from the 90's

Like with the 90s list, this is impossible, but here are the first 10 perfect tunes to pop into my mind:

Desireless - Voyage Voyage
Sharon Redd - Beat the Street
Laurent X - Machines
Ofra Haza - Im Nin'Alu
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited - Varombo Kuvarombo
Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy
Vangelis - Theme from Antarctica
MC Lyte - Paper Thin
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

Good one. I keep forgetting Voodoo Ray (& pump up the volume) were from the 80s.

O Superman
Life During Wartime
Einstein on the Beach
Expressway to Yr Skull
Into The Groove
When Doves Cry
Billie Jean
Fight the Power
The Message
Hand in Glove

oops...take out einstein on the beach.

Substitute "Atlantic City" for Einstein.

this is rough.

Steve Reich - Different Trains
Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry
Grandmaster Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Never Understand
New Order - Blue Monday
A Flock of Seagulls - Nightmares
Deux - Game And Performance
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
38 Special - Caught Up In You

off the top of my head...

laurie anderson - o superman
iron maiden - number of the beast
blue oyster cult - black blade
adrian belew - big electric cat
run-DMC - it's tricky
yazoo - only you
sonic youth - death valley '69
the pixies - gouge away
rhys chatham - guitar trio
prince - sexuality

isn't guitar trio 1977?

lol, yes. i said it was off the top of my head.

(87's die donnergotter was my intro to chatham, and that version was rec'd in '81)

new order - temptation
chaka khan - i feel for you
mdc - dead cops/america's so straight
mr. fingers/fingers inc. - can you feel it?
van halen - jump
boogie down productions - the bridge is over
dinosaur jr. - freak scene
prince - kiss
flipper - sex bomb
public enemy - black steel in the hour of chaos

i hate that list already.

dinosaur jr. - freak scene
prince - kiss
flipper - sex bomb
public enemy - black steel in the hour of chaos

^ this part is unfuckwithable

Yuri - El Pequeño Panda De Chapultepec

haha good trolling!

ok let's try it

joy division - twenty four hours
the stranglers - la folie
killing joke - birds of a feather
echo and the bunnymen - nocturnal me
cocteau twins - aikea guinea
tantra - hills of katmandu
inner city - good life
s'express - theme from s'express
renegade soundwave - lucky luke
stump - tupperware stripper

Associates-Party Fears 2
Dexys Midnight Runners-This Is What She's Like
Luther Vandross-Never Too Much
The Blue Nile-I Love This Life
Prefab Sprout-Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
Madness-Our House
ABC-Date Stamp
Felt-Primitive Painters
Cameo-Candy
Pretenders-Back On The Chain Gang

Models - Barbados
Dio - Last In Line
Agent Orange - Bloodstains
Lou Gramm - Midnight Blue
Concrete Blonde - Happy Birthday
Bon Jovi - Runaway
INXS - Don't Change
Cyndi Lauper - All Through The Night
Prince - Raspberry Beret
Resort Girls - Australian Crawl

Oops I mean Australian Crawl - Resort Girls

Yuri - El Pequeño Panda De Chapultepec

haha good trolling!

― cock chirea

I always add something ludicrous to almost every list I make to see if someone notices. Good job ;)

I actually like the song though.

Just because this will probably be the only occasion Yuri is mentioned in ILM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-w6jlW8e7w

And now to my list:

JAMC - Never Understand
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Salt n Pepa - Push It
New Order - True Faith
Kate Bush - Running Up The Hill
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Young MC - Bust A Move
Prince - When Doves Cry
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Michael Sembello - Maniac

what about english beat "save it for later" folks?

kate bush - cloudbusting
tullio de piscopo - stop bajon
pet shop boys - west end girls
electronic - getting away with it
mr fingers - what about this love
a guy called gerald - voodoo ray
loose ends - hangin on a string
prince - mountains
madonna - live to tell
abc - the look of love

Prince - Take Me With U
The Blue Nile - Easter Parade
Meat Puppets - Hot Pink
Husker Du - Celebrated Summer
Minutemen - Cut
Thomas Dolby - Weightless
Talk Talk - Desire
Shriekback - The Only Thing That Shines
Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
Robyn Hitchcock - Out Of The Picture

K, second attempt?

Bob Dylan - Most of the Time
The Cure - A Forest
Depeche Mode - Never let me down again
Liquid Liquid - Optimo
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Never Understand
Madonna - Into the Groove
Nancy Sesay & the Melodaires - C'est Fab
Rheingold - Dreiklangs-Dimensionen
Sugarcubes - Birthday

Still missed Bauhaus, Tom Waits, Prince, ESG, King Sunny Ade...

It's basically impossible. I chose to think only of song-y stuff.

The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon
The Psychedelic Furs - So Run Down
Prince - Head
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
Pixies - Vamos
Live Skull - Alive Again
Roxanne Shante - Have A Nice Day
Sonic Youth - Kotton Krown
the CURE - A Few Hours After This
Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause

kate bush - cloudbusting
tullio de piscopo - stop bajon
pet shop boys - west end girls
electronic - getting away with it
mr fingers - what about this love
a guy called gerald - voodoo ray
loose ends - hangin on a string
prince - mountains
madonna - live to tell
abc - the look of love

This is an awesome list! Bonus points for including "Stop Bajon", and that particular Prince song.

thanks man.

twist and crawl - english beat
sole salvation - english beat
spy in the house of love - the dB's
holiday (12" version) - Madonna
six months in a leaky boat - split enz
i found that essence rare - Go4
a month of sundays - Henley
i could never take the place of your man - Prince
i will dare - the replacements

this is so impossible i'm leaving out #10 in memory of all the ones that i'll think about later

The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
Beastie Boys - Shadrach
Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
The Cure - A Few Hours After This*
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
Pet Shop Boys/Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Teddy Pendergrass - Dream Girl
Diana Ross- My Old Piano
Sparks - Funny Face
Talking Heads - Seen and Not Seen

*Woah — I didn't even see someone else put this on their list before I made it!

I'm expecting A Few Hours After This to place pretty high in The Cure poll in a couple of weeks.

1981: "The Birdie Song"
1982: "Superman (Gioca Jouer)" (UK #9)
1983: "Hey You"
1984: "Agadoo" (UK #2)
1984: "Do The Conga" (UK #10)
1985: "El Vino Collapso" (UK #42)
1985: "I Speaka Da Lingo" (UK #49)
1985: "Hokey Cokey" (UK #31)
1986: "Viva La Mexico"
1986: "Wig Wam Bam" (UK #63)
1989: "Die You Fat Goth Cunt"

For reference - Pazz & Jop's top singles for every year of the decade:

1980 Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
1981 Laurie Anderson - O Superman
1982 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message
1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
1984 Prince - When Doves Cry
1985 Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City
1986 Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way
1987 Prince - Sign O' the Times
1988 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
1989 Public Enemy - Fight the Powe

can not do this, though wkiw Moka listening to choons.

Yikes, this is hard.

1980 Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen
1981 Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
1982 John Cougar - Hurts So Good
1983 Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
1984 Prince - When Doves Cry
1985 The Pogues - And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
1986 Cameo - Word Up!
1986 The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
1987 Salt N Pepa - Push It
1988 Leonard Cohen - I Can't Forget