Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1985

The Top Songs from 1985
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Sample
1	234	Madonna	Into the Groove
2	434	Kate Bush	Running Up That Hill	Listen
3	445	Pet Shop Boys	West End Girls	Listen
4	540	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Never Understand	Listen
5	599	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Just Like Honey	Listen
6	714	Doug E. Fresh	The Show
7	939	Robert Palmer	Addicted to Love	Listen
8	1015	The Cult	She Sells Sanctuary
9	1048	Simple Minds	Don't You (Forget About Me)
10	1105	The Cure	Inbetween Days	Listen
11	1151	USA for Africa	We Are the World
12	1173	Ramones	Bonzo Goes to Bitburg
13	1192	Hüsker Dü	Makes No Sense at All	Listen
14	1198	LL Cool J	I Can't Live Without My Radio	Listen
15	1212	A-ha	Take on Me
16	1224	The Jesus and Mary Chain	You Trip Me Up	Listen
17	1250	Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force	I Wonder if I Take You Home
18	1300	The Replacements	Bastards of Young	Listen
19	1324	Double Dee & Steinski	The Payoff Mix/Lesson 2/Lesson 3 (Promo EP)
20	1358	Wayne Smith	Under Me Sleng Teng
21	1426	Tom Waits	Downtown Train	Listen
22	1458	Doug E. Fresh	La-Di-Da-Di
23	1472	LL Cool J	Rock the Bells	Listen
24	1478	Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch	Death Valley '69	Listen
25	1488	Artists United Against Apartheid	Sun City	Listen
26	1505	The Waterboys	The Whole of the Moon	Listen
27	1600	Prince and The Revolution	Raspberry Beret	Listen
28	1688	Tenor Saw	Ring the Alarm
29	1737	Barrington Levy	Here I Come
30	1964	The Commodores	Nightshift
31	1968	The Pogues	A Pair of Brown Eyes	Listen
32	1973	The Fall	Cruiser's Creek
33	2019	Dire Straits	Money for Nothing	Listen
34	2034	Grace Jones	Slave to the Rhythm
35	2042	Tears for Fears	Everybody Wants to Rule the World	Listen
36	2056	Talking Heads	Road to Nowhere	Listen
37	2070	Madonna	Crazy for You
38	2099	Fine Young Cannibals	Johnny Come Home
39	2110	New Order	The Perfect Kiss	Listen
40	2150	Whitney Houston	How Will I Know	Listen
41	2178	Katrina and The Waves	Walking on Sunshine
42	2224	John Cougar Mellencamp	Small Town	Listen
43	2433	Art of Noise	Moments in Love
44	2467	Echo and the Bunnymen	Bring on the Dancing Horses
45	2510	New Order	Love Vigilantes	Listen
46	2568	Schoolly D	P.S.K. (What Does It Mean?)
47	2578	Eurythmics	Would I Lie to You	Listen
48	2579	The Cure	Close to Me	Listen
49	2596	The Smiths	The Boy with the Thorn in His Side	Listen
50	2701	Talking Heads	And She Was	Listen
51	2801	‘Til Tuesday	Voices Carry
52	2848	Schoolly D	Gucci Time
53	2870	The Pogues	Dirty Old Town	Listen
54	2909	Beastie Boys	Rock Hard
55	2925	Pet Shop Boys	Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)	Listen
56	2942	Run-D.M.C.	King of Rock	Listen
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Beastie Boys	She's On It
		Strafe	Set It Off
		Tom Waits	Jockey Full of Bourbon	Listen
		Les Rita Mitsouko	Marcia Baila
		The Dream Academy	Life in a Northern Town
		Aretha Franklin	Freeway of Love	Listen
		The Clash	This Is England
		Eurythmics	There Must Be an Angel	Listen
		Billy Bragg	Between the Wars	Listen
		Prefab Sprout	Appetite	Listen
		The Three Johns	Death of a European
		Cameo	Single Life
		Huey Lewis and The News	The Power of Love
		Tom Waits	Time	Listen
		Talking Heads	Stay Up Late	Listen
		Prince and The Revolution	Pop Life	Listen
		Sting	If You Love Somebody (Set Them Free)	Listen
		Trouble Funk	Still Smokin'
		Kate Bush	Hounds of Love	Listen
		Hüsker Dü	I Apologize	Listen
		Hüsker Dü	Celebrated Summer	Listen
		Leonard Cohen	Hallelujah