Acclaimed Music - The Top 200 Songs from the 1980s

The Top 200 Songs from the 1980s
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Year	Sample
1	15	Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five	The Message	1982
2	18	Joy Division	Love Will Tear Us Apart	1980
3	27	Michael Jackson	Billie Jean	1982	Listen
4	44	Prince and The Revolution	When Doves Cry	1984	Listen
5	45	The Police	Every Breath You Take	1983	Listen
6	66	New Order	Blue Monday	1983
7	76	Public Enemy	Fight the Power	1989	Listen
8	79	Run-D.M.C.	Walk This Way	1986	Listen
9	82	Guns 'n' Roses	Sweet Child O' Mine	1987	Listen
10	85	Prince and The Revolution	Little Red Corvette	1982	Listen
11	101	The Specials	Ghost Town	1981
12	116	The Smiths	This Charming Man	1983	Listen
13	124	Marvin Gaye	Sexual Healing	1982	Listen
14	128	Talking Heads	Once in a Lifetime	1980	Listen
15	139	Prince	Sign 'O' the Times	1987	Listen
16	146	Prince and The Revolution	Kiss	1986	Listen
17	150	Van Halen	Jump	1984	Listen
18	154	Michael Jackson	Beat It	1982	Listen
19	156	Soft Cell	Tainted Love	1981	Listen
20	168	The Stone Roses	Fools Gold	1989	Listen
21	176	Public Enemy	Bring the Noise	1987	Listen
22	181	The Smiths	How Soon Is Now?	1984	Listen
23	182	The Human League	Don't You Want Me	1981
24	185	Madonna	Like a Virgin	1984	Listen
25	187	Bruce Springsteen	Born in the U.S.A.	1984	Listen
26	194	R.E.M.	Radio Free Europe	1981	Listen
27	217	Violent Femmes	Blister in the Sun	1983	Listen
28	219	Madonna	Into the Groove	1985
29	220	The Smiths	There Is a Light That Never Goes Out	1986	Listen
30	222	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Relax	1983	Listen
31	228	Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five	The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel	1981
32	233	Sonic Youth	Teenage Riot	1988	Listen
33	238	Mot�rhead	Ace of Spades	1980	Listen
34	246	Beastie Boys	Fight for Your Right (To Party)	1986	Listen
35	251	Pixies	Monkey Gone to Heaven	1989	Listen
36	257	Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force	Planet Rock	1982	Listen
37	259	U2	Sunday Bloody Sunday	1983	Listen
38	289	Prince and The Revolution	1999	1982	Listen
39	291	Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel	White Lines (Don't Do It)	1983
40	294	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This...)	1983	Listen
41	297	Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	I Love Rock'n'roll	1982
42	307	Don Henley	The Boys of Summer	1984	Listen
43	310	Madonna	Like a Prayer	1989	Listen
44	311	The Jam	Going Underground	1980
45	320	Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock	It Takes Two	1988
46	321	Dinosaur Jr.	Freak Scene	1988	Listen
47	323	Tracy Chapman	Fast Car	1988	Listen
48	324	U2	With or Without You	1987	Listen
49	325	U2	Pride (In the Name of Love)	1984	Listen
50	333	N.W.A.	F*** Tha Police	1988	Listen
51	342	Bon Jovi	Livin' on a Prayer	1986	Listen
52	347	The Cure	Just Like Heaven	1987	Listen
53	353	R.E.M.	It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)	1987
54	361	Pixies	Debaser	1989	Listen
55	362	Cyndi Lauper	Girls Just Want to Have Fun	1983	Listen
56	365	U2	I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	1987	Listen
57	376	Public Enemy	Rebel Without a Pause	1987	Listen
58	379	AC/DC	You Shook Me All Night Long	1980	Listen
59	381	M/A/R/R/S	Pump Up the Volume	1987
60	393	Tina Turner	What's Love Got to Do with It	1984	Listen
61	401	Cameo	Word Up	1986	Listen
62	406	Eric B. & Rakim	Paid in Full	1987	Listen
63	409	The Clash	Rock the Casbah	1982	Listen
64	411	Prince and The Revolution	Purple Rain	1984	Listen
65	429	U2	New Year's Day	1983	Listen
66	442	Guns 'n' Roses	Welcome to the Jungle	1987	Listen
67	443	Salt 'n' Pepa	Push It	1987	Listen
68	444	Neil Young	Rockin' in the Free World	1989	Listen
69	464	Culture Club	Do You Really Want to Hurt Me	1982	Listen
70	473	The Sugarcubes	Birthday	1987	Listen
71	475	Pet Shop Boys	West End Girls	1985	Listen
72	486	George Jones	He Stopped Loving Her Today	1980
73	487	ABC	The Look of Love	1982	Listen
74	491	The Go-Go's	Our Lips Are Sealed	1981	Listen
75	496	Pretenders	Back on the Chain Gang	1982	Listen
76	502	The Rolling Stones	Start Me Up	1981	Listen
77	505	Neneh Cherry	Buffalo Stance	1988	Listen
78	506	Foreigner	I Want to Know What Love Is	1984
79	507	New Order	True Faith	1987
80	508	Cyndi Lauper	Time After Time	1983	Listen
81	521	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Never Understand	1985	Listen
82	524	R.E.M.	The One I Love	1987
83	527	Kate Bush	Running Up That Hill	1985	Listen
84	531	Pixies	Gigantic	1988	Listen
85	541	Duran Duran	Hungry Like the Wolf	1982
86	545	New Order	Temptation	1982
87	546	Laurie Anderson	O Superman	1981	Listen
88	547	George Michael	Faith	1987	Listen
89	549	Tom Petty	Free Fallin'	1989	Listen
90	556	Devo	Whip It	1980	Listen
91	557	AC/DC	Back in Black	1980	Listen
92	568	Faith No More	Epic	1989	Listen
93	575	Crowded House	Don't Dream It's Over	1986	Listen
94	580	Rick James	Super Freak	1981
95	582	Funky Four Plus One	That's the Joint	1981
96	586	Soul II Soul	Back to Life	1989	Listen
97	587	Public Enemy	Don't Believe the Hype	1988	Listen
98	593	Chaka Khan	I Feel for You	1984
99	596	The Jam	That's Entertainment	1980	Listen
100	606	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Come On Eileen	1982	Listen
101	608	Blondie	Call Me	1980
102	610	N.W.A.	Straight Outta Compton	1988	Listen
103	617	Fugazi	Waiting Room	1988	Listen
104	618	The B-52's	Love Shack	1989
105	626	U2	Where the Streets Have No Name	1987	Listen
106	637	The Jam	Town Called Malice	1982
107	640	Depeche Mode	Personal Jesus	1989	Listen
108	643	Eric B. & Rakim	I Know You Got Soul	1987	Listen
109	648	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Just Like Honey	1985	Listen
110	650	Rythim Is Rythim	Strings of Life	1987
111	653	The Special A.K.A.	Free Nelson Mandela	1984	Listen
112	654	The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl	Fairytale of New York	1987
113	662	Doug E. Fresh	The Show	1985
114	665	Kurtis Blow	The Breaks	1980
115	666	Mission of Burma	That's When I Reach for My Revolver	1981	Listen
116	675	U2	I Will Follow	1980	Listen
117	676	Yoko Ono	Walking on Thin Ice	1981
118	677	Lipps Inc.	Funkytown	1980
119	690	Kim Carnes	Bette Davis Eyes	1981
120	702	De La Soul	Me Myself and I	1989	Listen
121	707	Fine Young Cannibals	She Drives Me Crazy	1989	Listen
122	708	Tom Tom Club	Genius of Love	1981
123	715	The Clash	Should I Stay or Should I Go	1982	Listen
124	720	Grace Jones	Pull Up to the Bumper	1981	Listen
125	723	Bruce Springsteen	Dancing in the Dark	1984	Listen
126	730	Suzanne Vega	Luka	1987	Listen
127	733	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Two Tribes	1984	Listen
128	738	Madness	Our House	1982
129	740	Run-D.M.C.	It's Like That	1983	Listen
130	750	Soul II Soul	Keep On Movin'	1989	Listen
131	755	Madonna	Borderline	1983	Listen
132	766	Robert Wyatt	Shipbuilding	1982
133	771	The Smiths	What Difference Does It Make?	1984	Listen
134	772	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Geno	1980
135	778	Nirvana	About a Girl	1989	Listen
136	782	Echo and the Bunnymen	The Killing Moon	1984	Listen
137	804	Pixies	Where Is My Mind?	1988	Listen
138	811	Madonna	Papa Don't Preach	1986	Listen
139	812	Pretenders	Middle of the Road	1983	Listen
140	816	Public Image Ltd.	Rise	1986
141	826	Taana Gardner	Heartbeat	1981
142	828	Queen & David Bowie	Under Pressure	1981
143	837	Blondie	Rapture	1980
144	844	A Guy Called Gerald	Voodoo Ray	1988
145	849	The Stone Roses	I Wanna Be Adored	1989	Listen
146	851	Chris Isaak	Wicked Game	1989	Listen
147	864	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Mercy Seat	1988	Listen
148	868	Morrissey	Everyday Is Like Sunday	1988	Listen
149	875	808 State	Pacific State	1989
150	876	Joy Division	Atmosphere	1980
151	890	Peter Gabriel	Sledgehammer	1986	Listen
152	893	Run-D.M.C.	Sucker MC's	1983	Listen
153	897	Talking Heads	Burning Down the House	1983	Listen
154	916	Simple Minds	Don't You (Forget About Me)	1985
155	925	Run-D.M.C.	Rock Box	1984	Listen
156	933	Depeche Mode	Just Can't Get Enough	1981	Listen
157	947	Young M.C.	Bust a Move	1989
158	951	Janet Jackson	Nasty	1986	Listen
159	952	David Bowie	Ashes to Ashes	1980	Listen
160	953	Phil Collins	In the Air Tonight	1981	Listen
161	957	Elvis Costello	I Want You	1986	Listen
162	959	Nine Inch Nails	Head Like a Hole	1989	Listen
163	967	The Smiths	Panic	1986
164	970	New Order	Bizarre Love Triangle	1986	Listen
165	973	Ton� Loc	Wild Thing	1988
166	976	Robert Palmer	Addicted to Love	1985
167	978	George Clinton	Atomic Dog	1982	Listen
168	982	Def Leppard	Photograph	1983	Listen
169	984	Prince	If I Was Your Girlfriend	1987	Listen
170	986	Eric B. & Rakim	Follow the Leader	1988	Listen
171	990	Midnight Oil	Beds Are Burning	1987	Listen
172	997	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986	Listen
173	1001	Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force	Looking for the Perfect Beat	1982	Listen
174	1012	The Dead Kennedys	Holiday in Cambodia	1980
175	1016	Tears for Fears	Shout	1984	Listen
176	1018	Biz Markie	Just a Friend	1989
177	1020	The Psychedelic Furs	Pretty in Pink	1981	Listen
178	1022	Madonna	Holiday	1983	Listen
179	1025	The Cure	Inbetween Days	1985	Listen
180	1034	The Smiths	Girlfriend in a Coma	1987	Listen
181	1040	USA for Africa	We Are the World	1985
182	1049	Prince	Alphabet Street	1988
183	1053	Mudhoney	Touch Me, I'm Sick	1988	Listen
184	1062	H�sker D�	Makes No Sense at All	1985	Listen
185	1067	Stetsasonic	Talkin' All That Jazz	1988
186	1068	R.E.M.	Orange Crush	1988	Listen
187	1070	Ramones	Bonzo Goes to Bitburg	1985
188	1074	Metallica	Master of Puppets	1986	Listen
189	1075	John Waite	Missing You	1984
190	1077	Heaven 17	(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang	1981	Listen
191	1083	Herbie Hancock	Rockit	1983
192	1085	My Bloody Valentine	You Made Me Realize	1988
193	1094	The Replacements	I Will Dare	1984	Listen
194	1097	The Beat	Mirror in the Bathroom	1980	Listen
195	1103	Ultravox	Vienna	1980	Listen
196	1105	This Mortal Coil	Song to the Siren	1983
197	1106	The Replacements	Bastards of Young	1985	Listen
198	1107	Modern English	I Melt with You	1982
199	1108	Jane's Addiction	Jane Says	1988	Listen
200	1113	Squeeze	Tempted	1981	Listen