Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1983

The Top Songs from 1983
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Sample
1	50	The Police	Every Breath You Take	Listen
2	54	New Order	Blue Monday
3	105	The Smiths	This Charming Man	Listen
4	201	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Relax	Listen
5	217	Violent Femmes	Blister in the Sun	Listen
6	223	U2	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Listen
7	292	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This...)	Listen
8	297	Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel	White Lines (Don't Do It)
9	414	Cyndi Lauper	Girls Just Want to Have Fun	Listen
10	468	U2	New Year's Day	Listen
11	516	Cyndi Lauper	Time After Time	Listen
12	594	Run-D.M.C.	It's Like That	Listen
13	709	Madonna	Borderline	Listen
14	868	Herbie Hancock	Rockit
15	890	Pretenders	Middle of the Road	Listen
16	951	Run-D.M.C.	Sucker MC's	Listen
17	968	Talking Heads	Burning Down the House	Listen
18	1074	Madonna	Holiday	Listen
19	1137	This Mortal Coil	Song to the Siren
20	1140	Def Leppard	Photograph	Listen
21	1145	Echo and the Bunnymen	The Cutter	Listen
22	1227	The Imposter	Pills & Soap	Listen
23	1290	Shannon	Let the Music Play
24	1298	David Bowie	Let's Dance
25	1449	Eddy Grant	Electric Avenue
26	1480	Bob Dylan	Blind Willie McTell
27	1509	ZZ Top	Gimme All Your Lovin'	Listen
28	1511	Indeep	Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
29	1640	Public Image Ltd.	This Is Not a Love Song
30	1693	Billy Bragg	A New England	Listen
31	1705	Big Country	In a Big Country	Listen
32	1710	Meat Puppets	Lake of Fire	Listen
33	1819	Lionel Richie	All Night Long	Listen
34	1842	John Cougar Mellencamp	Pink Houses	Listen
35	1878	Culture Club	Karma Chameleon	Listen
36	1959	The Smiths	Hand in Glove	Listen
37	1983	Yes	Owner of a Lonely Heart
38	1997	The The	This Is the Day	Listen
39	2017	Donna Summer	She Works Hard for the Money
40	2104	Bonnie Tyler	Total Eclipse of the Heart
41	2311	Thompson Twins	Hold Me Now
42	2323	Kraftwerk	Tour De France
43	2372	Culture Club	Church of the Poison Mind	Listen
44	2387	Rufus and Chaka Khan	Ain't Nobody
45	2391	The Style Council	Long Hot Summer
46	2407	Malcolm X	No Sell Out
47	2438	Dimples D.	Sucker D.J.'s
48	2470	ZZ Top	Legs	Listen
49	2546	Womack and Womack	Love Wars	Listen
50	2667	Elvis Costello	Everyday I Write the Book	Listen
51	2711	Depeche Mode	Get the Balance Right
52	2718	Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton	Islands in the Stream
53	2769	Suicidal Tendencies	Instituionalized
54	2799	SOS Band	Just Be Good to Me
55	2841	The Rolling Stones	Undercover of the Night
56	2885	Pretenders	2000 Miles	Listen
57	2995	Pat Benatar	Love Is a Battlefield
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		K-Rob Vs. Rammelzee	Beat Bop
		Echo and the Bunnymen	Never Stop	Listen
		Elvis Costello	Shipbuilding	Listen
		Irene Cara	Flashdance (What a Feeling)
		Violent Femmes	Kiss Off	Listen
		The Go-Betweens	Cattle and Cane
		Heaven 17	Temptation	Listen
		UB40	Red Red Wine	Listen
		Tom Waits	16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six	Listen
		The Birthday Party	The Bad Seed
		Brian Eno	Deep Blue Day
		John Cougar Mellencamp	Authority Song	Listen
		Malcolm McLaren	Soweto	Listen
		Mtume	Juicy Fruit
		David Bowie	Modern Love
		Madonna	Lucky Star	Listen
		Billy Joel	Uptown Girl
		The Human League	(Keep Feeling) Fascination
		John Cougar Mellencamp	Crumblin' Down	Listen