Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1981

The Top Songs from 1981
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Sample
1	92	The Specials	Ghost Town
2	186	Soft Cell	Tainted Love	Listen
3	196	The Human League	Don't You Want Me
4	211	R.E.M.	Radio Free Europe	Listen
5	312	Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five	The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
6	354	Joan Jett and The Blackhearts	I Love Rock 'n Roll
7	434	Mission of Burma	That's When I Reach for My Revolver	Listen
8	438	Laurie Anderson	O Superman	Listen
9	555	Tom Tom Club	Genius of Love
10	613	Queen & David Bowie	Under Pressure
11	635	Go-Go's	Our Lips Are Sealed	Listen
12	776	Funky Four Plus One	That's the Joint
13	796	The Rolling Stones	Start Me Up	Listen
14	806	Rick James	Super Freak
15	850	Yoko Ono	Walking on Thin Ice
16	909	New Order	Ceremony
17	932	Heaven 17	(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang	Listen
18	1025	Black Flag	Rise Above	Listen
19	1049	Grace Jones	Pull Up to the Bumper	Listen
20	1183	Phil Collins	In the Air Tonight	Listen
21	1223	Depeche Mode	Just Can't Get Enough	Listen
22	1286	The Teardrop Explodes	Reward
23	1303	Daryl Hall and John Oates	I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)	Listen
24	1319	The Psychedelic Furs	Pretty in Pink	Listen
25	1351	Taana Gardner	Heartbeat
26	1362	Black Flag	TV Party	Listen
27	1393	Kim Carnes	Bette Davis Eyes
28	1403	Pigbag	Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
29	1417	Scritti Politti	The Sweetest Girl	Listen
30	1549	Journey	Don't Stop Believin'	Listen
31	1615	Bob Dylan	Every Grain of Sand
32	1656	The Human League	Love Action
33	1776	Squeeze	Tempted	Listen
34	1861	Rush	Tom Sawyer	Listen
35	1934	The Birthday Party	Release the Bats
36	1963	ABC	Tears Are Not Enough	Listen
37	1968	Japan	Ghosts	Listen
38	2200	Gang of Four	To Hell with Poverty!
39	2221	Minor Threat	Straight Edge	Listen
40	2259	ESG	Moody
41	2303	Romeo Void	Never Say Never
42	2430	Duran Duran	Girls on Film	Listen
43	2516	Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft	Der Mussolini	Listen
44	2557	Men at Work	Down Under
45	2568	The Police	Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic	Listen
46	2692	The Cure	Charlotte Sometimes
47	2828	Grace Jones	Nightclubbing
48	2862	Adam and The Ants	Stand and Deliver
49	2955	Spandau Ballet	Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
50	2978	Kim Wilde	Kids in America
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Rosanne Cash	Seven Year Ache
		Flipper	Sex Bomb
		The Stranglers	Golden Brown
		Stevie Nicks	Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)
		Minor Threat	Minor Threat	Listen
		Dead Kennedys	Too Drunk to Fuck
		Adam and The Ants	Kings of the Wild Frontier	Listen
		Coati Mundi	Me No Pop I
		Haircut 100	Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
		Kraftwerk	Computer World 2
		Prince	Controversy	Listen
		The Cramps	Goo Goo Muck	Listen
		Spandau Ballet	Glow
		Department S	Is Vic There?
		Pretenders	Message of Love	Listen
		Was (Not Was)	Out Come the Freaks
		Japan	Visions of China	Listen
		Junior Giscombe	Mama Used to Say
		Pete Shelley	Homosapien
		Tom Tom Club	Wordy Rappinghood
		Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Psycho
		Frankie Smith	Double Dutch Bus
		Stray Cats	Rock This Town	Listen
		Soft Cell	Say Hello, Wave Goodbye	Listen
		The Cars	Shake It Up
		The Reels	Quasimodo's Dream
		Madness	It Must Be Love
		Teena Marie	Square Biz	Listen
		Smokey Robinson	Being with You
		ESG	UFO
		The Pointer Sisters	Slow Hand
		Earth, Wind & Fire	Let's Groove
		Foreigner	Urgent	Listen
		ESG	You're No Good
		Men at Work	Who Can It Be Now?
		X	We�re Desperate	Listen