Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1986

The Top Songs from 1986
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Sample
1	94	Run-D.M.C.	Walk This Way	Listen
2	134	The Smiths	There Is a Light That Never Goes Out	Listen
3	164	Prince and The Revolution	Kiss	Listen
4	291	Beastie Boys	(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)	Listen
5	523	New Order	Bizarre Love Triangle	Listen
6	534	Bon Jovi	Livin' on a Prayer	Listen
7	593	Cameo	Word Up!	Listen
8	649	Crowded House	Don't Dream It's Over	Listen
9	774	Paul Simon	Graceland	Listen
10	788	The Smiths	Panic
11	866	Peter Gabriel	Sledgehammer	Listen
12	1030	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	I Want You	Listen
13	1056	Metallica	Master of Puppets	Listen
14	1069	Madonna	Papa Don't Preach	Listen
15	1091	R.E.M.	Fall on Me	Listen
16	1190	Public Image Ltd.	Rise
17	1234	Billy Bragg	Levi Stubbs' Tears	Listen
18	1309	Beastie Boys	Paul Revere	Listen
19	1338	Peter Gabriel	In Your Eyes	Listen
20	1401	XTC	Dear God	Listen
21	1433	Janet Jackson	Nasty	Listen
22	1441	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Some Candy Talking
23	1527	Slayer	Angel of Death	Listen
24	1595	Pet Shop Boys	Suburbia	Listen
25	1655	Marshall Jefferson	Move Your Body (House Music Anthem)
26	1775	The Smiths	Bigmouth Strikes Again	Listen
27	1816	Big Black	Kerosene
28	1827	Slayer	Raining Blood	Listen
29	1829	Beastie Boys	No Sleep Till Brooklyn	Listen
30	1852	Boogie Down Productions	South Bronx	Listen
31	1942	Run-D.M.C.	My Adidas	Listen
32	1989	Bangles	Manic Monday	Listen
33	2074	Madonna	Live to Tell	Listen
34	2212	Run-D.M.C.	It's Tricky	Listen
35	2242	Big Audio Dynamite	E=MC2	Listen
36	2302	Gwen Guthrie	Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent
37	2333	Paul Simon	You Can Call Me Al	Listen
38	2411	The Real Roxanne	Bang Zoom (Let's Go Go)
39	2428	The Human League	Human
40	2453	Ciccone Youth	Into the Groove(y)
41	2463	Metallica	Battery	Listen
42	2577	Eric B. & Rakim	Eric B. Is President	Listen
43	2589	H�sker D�	Sorry Somehow	Listen
44	2598	Talk Talk	Life's What You Make It	Listen
45	2605	Run-D.M.C.	Peter Piper	Listen
46	2688	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	If You Leave
47	2711	Janet Jackson	When I Think of You	Listen
48	2823	Beastie Boys	It's the New Style	Listen
49	2870	Steve Winwood	Higher Love	Listen
50	2946	Madonna	Where's the Party	Listen
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead	Listen
		Janet Jackson	What Have You Done for Me Lately	Listen
		Farley Jackmaster Funk	Love Can't Turn Around
		Primal Scream	Velocity Girl
		Age of Chance	Kiss
		Madonna	Open Your Heart	Listen
		The The	Heartland	Listen
		The Triffids	Wide Open Road
		Mantronix	Who Is It?
		Oran 'Juice' Jones	The Rain
		The Pogues	A Rainy Night in Soho
		Bangles	Walk Like an Egyptian	Listen
		The Housemartins	Happy Hour
		Timex Social Club	Rumors
		Van Halen	Why Can't This Be Love	Listen
		Europe	The Final Countdown
		The Smithereens	Behind the Wall of Sleep
		The Smiths	I Know It's Over
		H�sker D�	Too Far Down	Listen
		Madonna	La Isla Bonita	Listen
		Stacey Q	Two of Hearts
		The Smiths	Cemetry Gates	Listen
		Bruce Hornsby & The Range	The Way It Is
		Peter Gabriel with Kate Bush	Don't Give Up	Listen
		Depeche Mode	Stripped	Listen
		Talking Heads	Wild Wild Life	Listen
		Van Morrison	In the Garden	Listen
		David & David	Welcome to the Boomtown
		Van Halen	Dreams	Listen
		Timbuk 3	The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
		The Smithereens	Blood and Roses