Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1981

The Top Songs from 1981
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Sample
1	95	The Specials	Ghost Town
2	148	Soft Cell	Tainted Love	Listen
3	184	The Human League	Don't You Want Me
4	246	R.E.M.	Radio Free Europe	Listen
5	250	Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five	The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
6	446	Laurie Anderson	O Superman	Listen
7	464	The Go-Go's	Our Lips Are Sealed	Listen
8	506	The Rolling Stones	Start Me Up	Listen
9	589	Rick James	Super Freak
10	590	Tom Tom Club	Genius of Love
11	607	Yoko Ono	Walking on Thin Ice
12	682	Funky Four Plus One	That's the Joint
13	712	Grace Jones	Pull Up to the Bumper	Listen
14	817	Kim Carnes	Bette Davis Eyes
15	857	Mission of Burma	That's When I Reach for My Revolver	Listen
16	927	Queen & David Bowie	Under Pressure
17	957	Heaven 17	(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang	Listen
18	963	Taana Gardner	Heartbeat
19	1024	Depeche Mode	Just Can't Get Enough	Listen
20	1039	Phil Collins	In the Air Tonight	Listen
21	1060	The Teardrop Explodes	Reward
22	1159	The Psychedelic Furs	Pretty in Pink	Listen
23	1264	Squeeze	Tempted	Listen
24	1443	Pigbag	Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
25	1463	New Order	Ceremony
26	1515	The Human League	Love Action
27	1609	The Birthday Party	Release the Bats
28	1661	Romeo Void	Never Say Never
29	1667	Japan	Ghosts	Listen
30	1779	Daryl Hall and John Oates	I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)	Listen
31	1903	The Dead Kennedys	Too Drunk to Fuck
32	2050	Rosanne Cash	Seven Year Ache
33	2103	Scritti Politti	The Sweetest Girl	Listen
34	2123	Journey	Don't Stop Believin'	Listen
35	2124	Duran Duran	Girls on Film	Listen
36	2162	Black Flag	TV Party	Listen
37	2243	Black Flag	Rise Above	Listen
38	2251	The Cure	Charlotte Sometimes
39	2255	Stevie Nicks	Edge of Seventeen
40	2273	Prince	Controversy	Listen
41	2377	Adam and The Ants	Stand and Deliver
42	2381	Rush	Tom Sawyer	Listen
43	2493	Kim Wilde	Kids in America
44	2522	ABC	Tears Are Not Enough	Listen
45	2538	Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft	Der Mussolini	Listen
46	2557	Spandau Ballet	Chant No. 1 (We Don't Need This Pressure On)
47	2616	Pete Shelley	Homosapien
48	2633	Frankie Smith	Double Dutch Bus
49	2661	Gang of Four	To Hell with Poverty
50	2764	Teena Marie	Square Biz	Listen
51	2834	The Police	Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic	Listen
52	2840	Coati Mundi	Me No Pop I
53	2862	Bob Dylan	Every Grain of Sand
54	2874	Joy Division	Digital
55	2921	Haircut 100	Favourite Shirts
56	2933	Japan	Visions of China	Listen
57	2943	Department S	Is Vic There?
58	2952	Pretenders	Message of Love	Listen
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Junior Giscombe	Mama Used to Say
		The Gap Band	Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
		Was (Not Was)	Out Come the Freaks
		Spandau Ballet	Glow
		The Cars	Shake It Up
		The Cramps	Goo Goo Muck	Listen
		Smokey Robinson	Being with You
		Madness	It Must Be Love
		The Reels	Quasimodo's Dream
		The Stray Cats	Rock This Town	Listen
		The Pointer Sisters	Slow Hand
		Elvis Costello	Psycho
		Soft Cell	Say Hello, Wave Goodbye	Listen
		Tom Tom Club	Wordy Rappinghood
		Hank Williams Jr.	All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over
		Adam and The Ants	Kings of the Wild Frontier	Listen
		Foreigner	Urgent	Listen
		X	We�re Desperate	Listen
		Earth, Wind & Fire	Let's Groove
		ESG	You're No Good