| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 446 |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001) | 101 |
| Robert Christgau (USA) - 10 Best Albums and Singles from the '80s (1990) | 5 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| New Musical Express (UK) - Singles of the Year | 21 |