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	16	Joy Division	Love Will Tear Us Apart	1980
3	29	Michael Jackson	Billie Jean	1982	Listen
4	44	Prince and The Revolution	When Doves Cry	1984	Listen
5	49	The Police	Every Breath You Take	1983	Listen
6	53	New Order	Blue Monday	1983
7	80	Public Enemy	Fight the Power	1989	Listen
8	87	Prince and The Revolution	Little Red Corvette	1982	Listen
9	88	Run-D.M.C.	Walk This Way	1986	Listen
10	90	The Specials	Ghost Town	1981
11	91	Guns N' Roses	Sweet Child O' Mine	1987	Listen
12	93	The Smiths	This Charming Man	1983	Listen
13	123	Talking Heads	Once in a Lifetime	1980	Listen
14	129	Prince	Sign 'O' the Times	1987	Listen
15	137	Prince and The Revolution	Kiss	1986	Listen
16	138	Marvin Gaye	Sexual Healing	1982	Listen
17	146	Soft Cell	Tainted Love	1981	Listen
18	153	The Stone Roses	Fools Gold	1989	Listen
19	160	Public Enemy	Bring the Noise	1987	Listen
20	161	Van Halen	Jump	1984	Listen
21	172	Madonna	Like a Virgin	1984	Listen
22	173	Michael Jackson	Beat It	1982	Listen
23	175	The Smiths	How Soon Is Now?	1984	Listen
24	179	The Smiths	There Is a Light That Never Goes Out	1986	Listen
25	181	The Human League	Don't You Want Me	1981
26	183	Violent Femmes	Blister in the Sun	1982	Listen
27	184	Bruce Springsteen	Born in the U.S.A.	1984	Listen
28	194	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Relax	1983	Listen
29	207	Madonna	Into the Groove	1985
30	208	U2	Sunday Bloody Sunday	1983	Listen
31	209	Sonic Youth	Teen Age Riot	1988	Listen
32	210	Pixies	Monkey Gone to Heaven	1989	Listen
33	215	Mot�rhead	Ace of Spades	1980	Listen
34	217	R.E.M.	Radio Free Europe	1981	Listen
35	242	Beastie Boys	Fight for Your Right (To Party)	1986	Listen
36	246	The La's	There She Goes	1988
37	253	Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force	Planet Rock	1982	Listen
38	257	Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five	The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel	1981
39	267	Madonna	Like a Prayer	1989	Listen
40	271	Pixies	Debaser	1989	Listen
41	288	The Jam	Going Underground	1980
42	293	U2	Pride (In the Name of Love)	1984	Listen
43	295	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This...)	1983	Listen
44	300	Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	I Love Rock'n'roll	1982
45	301	U2	With or Without You	1987	Listen
46	303	Dinosaur Jr.	Freak Scene	1988	Listen
47	307	Don Henley	The Boys of Summer	1984	Listen
48	309	Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel	White Lines (Don't Do It)	1983
49	310	R.E.M.	It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)	1987
50	311	M/A/R/R/S	Pump Up the Volume	1987
51	328	Prince and The Revolution	1999	1982	Listen
52	338	The Cure	Just Like Heaven	1987	Listen
53	359	Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock	It Takes Two	1988
54	362	Bon Jovi	Livin' on a Prayer	1986	Listen
55	363	Public Enemy	Rebel Without a Pause	1987	Listen
56	365	AC/DC	You Shook Me All Night Long	1980	Listen
57	370	N.W.A	F*** Tha Police	1988	Listen
58	385	U2	I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	1987	Listen
59	392	Tracy Chapman	Fast Car	1988	Listen
60	395	Cameo	Word Up!	1986	Listen
61	408	Eric B. & Rakim	Paid in Full	1987	Listen
62	411	The Sugarcubes	Birthday	1987	Listen
63	417	Prince and The Revolution	Purple Rain	1984	Listen
64	427	The Clash	Rock the Casbah	1982	Listen
65	428	Cyndi Lauper	Girls Just Want to Have Fun	1983	Listen
66	433	Kate Bush	Running Up That Hill	1985	Listen
67	436	U2	New Year's Day	1983	Listen
68	439	Pet Shop Boys	West End Girls	1985	Listen
69	453	Laurie Anderson	O Superman	1981	Listen
70	457	ABC	The Look of Love	1982	Listen
71	468	The Jam	That's Entertainment	1980	Listen
72	469	Neil Young	Rockin' in the Free World	1989	Listen
73	473	George Jones	He Stopped Loving Her Today	1980
74	489	U2	I Will Follow	1980	Listen
75	493	The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl	Fairytale of New York	1987
76	495	Neneh Cherry	Buffalo Stance	1988	Listen
77	503	Culture Club	Do You Really Want to Hurt Me	1982	Listen
78	504	Tina Turner	What's Love Got to Do with It	1984	Listen
79	506	Salt 'n' Pepa	Push It	1987	Listen
80	507	Go-Go's	Our Lips Are Sealed	1981	Listen
81	508	New Order	True Faith	1987
82	514	Guns N' Roses	Welcome to the Jungle	1987	Listen
83	515	Pixies	Gigantic	1988	Listen
84	526	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Never Understand	1985	Listen
85	530	The Rolling Stones	Start Me Up	1981	Listen
86	533	Soul II Soul	Back to Life	1989	Listen
87	534	Crowded House	Don't Dream It's Over	1986	Listen
88	537	Devo	Whip It	1980	Listen
89	542	Public Enemy	Don't Believe the Hype	1988	Listen
90	546	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Just Like Honey	1985	Listen
91	548	Depeche Mode	Personal Jesus	1989	Listen
92	558	Pretenders	Back on the Chain Gang	1982	Listen
93	561	Cyndi Lauper	Time After Time	1983	Listen
94	572	Eric B. & Rakim	I Know You Got Soul	1987	Listen
95	574	R.E.M.	The One I Love	1987
96	587	New Order	Temptation	1982
97	590	Foreigner	I Want to Know What Love Is	1984
98	595	Tom Tom Club	Genius of Love	1981
99	600	The Jam	Town Called Malice	1982
100	605	Duran Duran	Hungry Like the Wolf	1982
101	607	Suzanne Vega	Luka	1987	Listen
102	608	Dexys Midnight Runners	Come On Eileen	1982	Listen
103	609	The Special A.K.A.	Free Nelson Mandela	1984	Listen
104	612	De La Soul	Me Myself and I	1989	Listen
105	613	Rick James	Super Freak	1981
106	616	George Michael	Faith	1987	Listen
107	620	Rhythim Is Rhythim	Strings of Life	1987
108	622	Pixies	Where Is My Mind?	1988	Listen
109	624	Madness	Our House	1982
110	628	Run-D.M.C.	It's Like That	1983	Listen
111	629	U2	Where the Streets Have No Name	1987	Listen
112	640	Fugazi	Waiting Room	1988	Listen
113	645	Faith No More	Epic	1989	Listen
114	659	AC/DC	Back in Black	1980	Listen
115	662	Kurtis Blow	The Breaks	1980
116	664	Madonna	Borderline	1983	Listen
117	666	Tom Petty	Free Fallin'	1989	Listen
118	681	Soul II Soul	Keep On Movin'	1989	Listen
119	698	Morrissey	Everyday Is Like Sunday	1988	Listen
120	699	Blondie	Call Me	1980
121	706	808 State	Pacific State	1989
122	710	The Stone Roses	I Wanna Be Adored	1989	Listen
123	711	The B-52's	Love Shack	1989
124	713	The Clash	Should I Stay or Should I Go	1982	Listen
125	715	Chaka Khan	I Feel for You	1984
126	716	Funky Four Plus One	That's the Joint	1981
127	717	Orbital	Chime	1989
128	718	Robert Wyatt	Shipbuilding	1982
129	725	The Smiths	What Difference Does It Make?	1984	Listen
130	727	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Two Tribes	1984	Listen
131	730	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Mercy Seat	1988	Listen
132	732	Yoko Ono	Walking on Thin Ice	1981
133	734	Madonna	Papa Don't Preach	1986	Listen
134	743	Lipps Inc.	Funkytown	1980
135	746	Nirvana	About a Girl	1989	Listen
136	758	Echo and the Bunnymen	The Killing Moon	1984	Listen
137	765	N.W.A	Straight Outta Compton	1988	Listen
138	772	Mission of Burma	That's When I Reach for My Revolver	1981	Listen
139	798	Doug E. Fresh	The Show	1985
140	822	Dexys Midnight Runners	Geno	1980
141	828	Dead Kennedys	Holiday in Cambodia	1980
142	841	Public Image Ltd.	Rise	1986
143	847	The Replacements	I Will Dare	1984	Listen
144	857	A Guy Called Gerald	Voodoo Ray	1988
145	862	Fine Young Cannibals	She Drives Me Crazy	1989	Listen
146	866	Bruce Springsteen	Dancing in the Dark	1984	Listen
147	868	Herbie Hancock	Rockit	1983
148	874	Joy Division	Atmosphere	1980
149	878	David Bowie	Ashes to Ashes	1980	Listen
150	879	Madonna	Material Girl	1984	Listen
151	884	Chris Isaak	Wicked Game	1989	Listen
152	887	Kim Carnes	Bette Davis Eyes	1981
153	889	Blondie	Rapture	1980
154	897	Peter Gabriel	Sledgehammer	1986	Listen
155	899	Heaven 17	(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang	1981	Listen
156	903	Grace Jones	Pull Up to the Bumper	1981	Listen
157	907	Young M.C.	Bust a Move	1989
158	916	The Cult	She Sells Sanctuary	1985
159	918	The Smiths	Panic	1986
160	933	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	I Want You	1986	Listen
161	936	Martha and The Muffins	Echo Beach	1980
162	937	George Clinton	Atomic Dog	1982	Listen
163	944	Pretenders	Middle of the Road	1983	Listen
164	947	Mudhoney	Touch Me, I'm Sick	1988	Listen
165	951	Queen & David Bowie	Under Pressure	1981
166	955	Run-D.M.C.	Sucker MC's	1983	Listen
167	960	Robert Palmer	Addicted to Love	1985	Listen
168	965	S'Express	Theme from S'Express	1988
169	973	Tone-Loc	Wild Thing	1988
170	977	Camper Van Beethoven	Take the Skinheads Bowling	1985
171	982	Simple Minds	Don't You (Forget About Me)	1985
172	983	Janet Jackson	Nasty	1986	Listen
173	988	Madonna	Holiday	1983	Listen
174	991	Depeche Mode	Just Can't Get Enough	1981	Listen
175	994	Prince	If I Was Your Girlfriend	1987	Listen
176	996	New Order	Bizarre Love Triangle	1986	Listen
177	1003	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986	Listen
178	1004	The Teardrop Explodes	Reward	1981
179	1008	The Smiths	Girlfriend in a Coma	1987	Listen
180	1009	Talking Heads	Burning Down the House	1983	Listen
181	1012	Taana Gardner	Heartbeat	1981
182	1013	Eric B. & Rakim	Follow the Leader	1988	Listen
183	1015	Morrissey	Suedehead	1988	Listen
184	1018	Phuture	Acid Tracks	1987
185	1034	R.E.M.	Orange Crush	1988	Listen
186	1035	Stetsasonic	Talkin' All That Jazz	1988
187	1042	Nine Inch Nails	Head Like a Hole	1989	Listen
188	1052	Inner City	Big Fun	1988	Listen
189	1055	Phil Collins	In the Air Tonight	1981	Listen
190	1066	Echo and the Bunnymen	The Cutter	1983	Listen
191	1068	Bryan Adams	Summer of '69	1984	Listen
192	1076	Midnight Oil	Beds Are Burning	1987	Listen
193	1078	Leonard Cohen	Tower of Song	1988	Listen
194	1079	Prince	When You Were Mine	1980	Listen
195	1090	Tears for Fears	Shout	1984	Listen
196	1092	Run-D.M.C.	Rock Box	1984	Listen
197	1095	X	Los Angeles	1980	Listen
198	1107	Depeche Mode	Never Let Me Down Again	1987	Listen
199	1108	The Beat	Mirror in the Bathroom	1980	Listen
200	1120	This Mortal Coil	Song to the Siren	1983