Greatest Songs of the 1980s | The Greatest Music

Rank	Song	Artist	Year
#991	Should I Stay or Should I Go	The Clash	1981
#998	True Love Will Find You in the End	Daniel Johnston	1987
#1001	Hallelujah	Happy Mondays	1989
#1002	Relax	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	1983
#1004	Night Nurse	Gregory Isaacs	1982
#1005	I Feel for You	Chaka Khan	1984
#1011	Downtown Train	Tom Waits	1985
#1016	The River	Bruce Springsteen	1980
#1017	Police & Thieves	Junior Murvin	1984
#1024	Fairytale of New York	The Pogues, Kirsty MacColl	1987
#1033	I Know It's Over	The Smiths	1985
#1037	Hoochie Coochie Man	Muddy Waters	1987
#1038	We Are the World	USA for Africa	1985
#1039	I Want You	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1986
#1048	Pour Some Sugar on Me	Def Leppard	1987
#1050	This Is Not a Love Song	Public Image Ltd	1983
#1069	Desire	U2	1988
#1073	House of the Rising Sun	The Animals	1984
#1079	Love in an Elevator	Aerosmith	1989
#1083	Jersey Girl	Tom Waits	1980
#1084	I Would Die 4 U	Prince, The Revolution	1984
#1095	Song for Whoever	The Beautiful South	1989
#1096	French Kiss	Lil' Louis	1989
#1098	Let's Dance	David Bowie	1983
#1104	Give Peace a Chance	John Lennon	1989
#1106	Paul ist tot	Fehlfarben	1980
#1110	Dream Baby Dream	Suicide	1981
#1111	I Go to Sleep	Pretenders	1981
#1112	Love Shack	The B‐52s	1989
#1113	Cloudbusting	Kate Bush	1985
#1237	Mother of Earth	The Gun Club	1982
#1239	China Girl	David Bowie	1983
#1241	Bonny	Prefab Sprout	1985
#1243	It's Like That	Run‐D.M.C.	1983
#1253	Party Fears Two	The Associates	1982
#1268	Controversy	Prince	1981
#1283	Taschenrechner	Kraftwerk	1981
#1287	Papa Was a Rolling Stone	The Temptations	1980
#1289	The Breaks	Kurtis Blow	1982
#1299	Thriller	Michael Jackson	1982
#1303	Don't Give Up	Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush	1986
#1306	A Forest	The Cure	1980
#1321	Computerwelt	Kraftwerk	1981
#1323	Raspberry Beret	Prince, The Revolution	1985
#1324	Falling and Laughing	Orange Juice	1980
#1336	Such a Shame	Talk Talk	1984
#1352	Antmusic	Adam and the Ants	1980
#1361	She's Like Heroin to Me	The Gun Club	1981
#1368	Of All the Things We've Made	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	1982
#1375	Always on My Mind	Willie Nelson	1982
#1378	Love and Death	Ebo Taylor, Uhuru Yenzu	1980
#1383	Private Dancer	Tina Turner	1984
#1384	Our House	Madness	1982
#1394	I Believe in You	Talk Talk	1988
#1405	Time	Tom Waits	1985
#1407	Shout to the Top	The Style Council	1985
#1410	What Becomes of the Brokenhearted	Jimmy Ruffin	1983
#1418	South Bronx	Boogie Down Productions	1986
#1420	Panic	The Smiths	1986
#1423	Under Me Sleng Teng	Wayne Smith	1985
#1429	Somewhere	Barbra Streisand	1985
#1432	September Song	Walter Huston	1984
#1437	Cities in Dust	Siouxsie and the Banshees	1985
#1457	Temporary Secretary	Paul McCartney	1980
#1462	Der brennende Junge	Die Antwort	1987
#1472	Strings of Life	Rhythim Is Rhythim	1987
#1476	Its a Man's Man's Man's World	James Brown	1982
#1477	Fashion	David Bowie	1980
#1479	Only You	Yazoo	1982
#1482	Love Action (I Believe in Love)	The Human League	1981
#1489	Start!	The Jam	1980
#1492	Nelson Mandela	The Specials	1984
#1493	Pills and Soap	The Imposter	1983
#1494	A Town Called Malice	The Jam	1982
#1511	I Wanna Be Adored	The Stone Roses	1989
#1512	Rise	Public Image Ltd	1985
#1515	Lovesong	The Cure	1989
#1516	Everything Counts	Depeche Mode	1989
#1518	Tupelo	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	1985
#1522	Boy With the Thorn in His Side	The Smiths	1985
#1525	I Will Follow	U2	1980
#1529	Different Drum	Linda Ronstadt	1986
#1530	Manchild	Neneh Cherry	1989
#1531	Careless Whisper	George Michael	1989
#1532	Deutschland muss sterben	Slime	1989
#1555	Skateaway	Dire Straits	1980
#1556	Nausea	X	1980
#1557	Sex and Dying in High Society	X	1980
#1558	Ma che sarà	Edoardo Bennato	1980
#1559	Suicide Child	The Nuns	1980
#1560	India	The Psychedelic Furs	1980
#1561	Phantom of the Opera	Iron Maiden	1980
#1563	Stigmata	Ministry	1988
#1564	Tower of Song	Leonard Cohen	1988
#1565	Genius of Love	Tom Tom Club	1981
#1566	Man in the Mirror	Michael Jackson	1987
#1568	Follow the Leader	Eric B. & Rakim	1988
#1572	Red Mask	Cabaret Voltaire	1981
#1573	Denial	New Order	1981
#1574	The Passion of Lovers	Bauhaus	1981

#991

Should I Stay or Should I Go

The Clash

1981

#998

True Love Will Find You in the End

Daniel Johnston

1987

#1001

Hallelujah

Happy Mondays

1989