Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1985

The Top Songs from 1985
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Sample
1	219	Madonna	Into the Groove
2	311	Kate Bush	Running Up That Hill	Listen
3	381	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Just Like Honey	Listen
4	456	Pet Shop Boys	West End Girls	Listen
5	577	The Replacements	Bastards of Young	Listen
6	679	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Never Understand	Listen
7	834	Simple Minds	Don't You (Forget About Me)
8	836	LL Cool J	I Can't Live Without My Radio	Listen
9	1037	The Cure	In Between Days	Listen
10	1068	Tom Waits	Jockey Full of Bourbon	Listen
11	1083	Wayne Smith	Under Me Sleng Teng
12	1128	Doug E. Fresh	The Show
13	1179	Camper Van Beethoven	Take the Skinheads Bowling
14	1245	The Cure	Close to Me	Listen
15	1256	Prince and The Revolution	Raspberry Beret	Listen
16	1277	Robert Palmer	Addicted to Love	Listen
17	1296	The Cult	She Sells Sanctuary
18	1347	The Jesus and Mary Chain	You Trip Me Up	Listen
19	1368	Kate Bush	Hounds of Love	Listen
20	1384	The Waterboys	The Whole of the Moon	Listen
21	1492	Double Dee & Steinski	The Payoff Mix/Lesson 2/Lesson 3 (Promo EP)
22	1530	Tears for Fears	Everybody Wants to Rule the World	Listen
23	1577	Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch	Death Valley '69	Listen
24	1590	H�sker D�	Makes No Sense at All	Listen
25	1678	USA for Africa	We Are the World
26	1703	Ramones	Bonzo Goes to Bitburg
27	1729	Artists United Against Apartheid	Sun City	Listen
28	1741	Barrington Levy	Here I Come
29	1748	Tom Waits	Downtown Train	Listen
30	1799	Talking Heads	Road to Nowhere	Listen
31	1802	LL Cool J	Rock the Bells	Listen
32	1849	The Smiths	The Boy with the Thorn in His Side	Listen
33	1887	Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force	I Wonder if I Take You Home
34	1896	Siouxsie and The Banshees	Cities in Dust
35	1937	Tenor Saw	Ring the Alarm
36	1979	Doug E. Fresh	La-Di-Da-Di
37	2061	Madonna	Crazy for You
38	2229	Whitney Houston	How Will I Know	Listen
39	2272	The Pogues	A Pair of Brown Eyes	Listen
40	2278	New Order	The Perfect Kiss	Listen
41	2306	�Til Tuesday	Voices Carry
42	2329	H�sker D�	Celebrated Summer	Listen
43	2351	The Pogues	Dirty Old Town	Listen
44	2368	Randy Travis	On the Other Hand	Listen
45	2373	Fine Young Cannibals	Johnny Come Home
46	2391	The Fall	Cruiser's Creek
47	2394	R.E.M.	Driver 8
48	2581	Billy Bragg	Between the Wars	Listen
49	2594	Commodores	Nightshift
50	2626	Schoolly D	P.S.K. (What Does It Mean?)
51	2664	Dire Straits	Money for Nothing	Listen
52	2679	Grace Jones	Slave to the Rhythm
53	2702	Katrina and The Waves	Walking on Sunshine
54	2706	Echo and the Bunnymen	Bring On the Dancing Horses
55	2760	Strafe	Set It Off
56	2928	Run-D.M.C.	King of Rock	Listen
57	2988	John Cougar Mellencamp	Small Town	Listen
58	2989	Tears for Fears	Head Over Heels
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		H�sker D�	I Apologize	Listen
		Art of Noise	Moments in Love
		The Dream Academy	Life in a Northern Town
		The Velvet Underground	Foggy Notion	Listen
		Beastie Boys	Rock Hard
		Beastie Boys	She's On It
		Faith No More	We Care a Lot
		Schoolly D	Gucci Time
		Eurythmics	There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)	Listen
		Eurythmics	Would I Lie to You?	Listen
		James Brown	Living in America
		The Clash	This Is England
		The Three Johns	Death of a European
		Talking Heads	And She Was	Listen
		Prefab Sprout	Appetite	Listen
		Cameo	Single Life
		Pet Shop Boys	Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)	Listen
		Aretha Franklin	Freeway of Love	Listen
		Trouble Funk	Still Smokin'
		Tom Waits	Time	Listen
		Talking Heads	Stay Up Late	Listen
		The Replacements	Here Comes a Regular
		Sting	If You Love Somebody Set Them Free	Listen
		Prince and The Revolution	Pop Life	Listen
		Huey Lewis and The News	The Power of Love
		Bob Dylan	I'll Keep It With Mine
		New Order	Love Vigilantes	Listen