Greatest Songs of the 1980s | The Greatest Music

Rank	Song	Artist	Year
#2241	Love Hurts	Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons	1987
#2242	King's Cross	Pet Shop Boys	1987
#2243	Exit	U2	1987
#2244	Baby Wants to Ride	Jamie Principle	1987
#2247	Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	U2	1987
#2248	Good Life	Inner City	1988
#2249	Forever Young	Bob Dylan	1988
#2254	Photograph	Def Leppard	1983
#2267	Deanna	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	1988
#2268	Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six	The Pogues	1988
#2269	Rainy Night in Soho	The Pogues	1988
#2270	Death Is Not the End	Bob Dylan	1988
#2271	Im Into Something Good	Herman's Hermits	1988
#2272	Telephone Love	June Lodge	1988
#2273	Stop The Violence	Boogie Down Productions	1988
#2274	Company Policy	Martin Carthy	1988
#2275	Car Wash (from Car Wash)	Rose Royce	1988
#2276	First We Take Manhattan	Leonard Cohen	1988
#2277	To Cry About	Mary Margaret O'Hara	1988
#2278	Wild Thing	Tone‐Lōc	1988
#2279	Christine	The House of Love	1988
#2280	Revolution	Spacemen 3	1988
#2281	Drop the Pilot	Joan Armatrading	1983
#2282	If I Could Turn Back Time	Cher	1989
#2286	Aint That a Shame	Fats Domino	1988
#2309	Don't Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim!	Kirsty MacColl	1989
#2310	Sueño Latino	Sueño Latino	1989
#2311	Someday	CeCe Rogers	1989
#2312	Terry	Twinkle	1989
#2313	WFL (Think About The Future Mix)	Happy Mondays	1989
#2314	Rockin' in the Free World	Neil Young	1989
#2315	Empty Bed Blues	Bessie Smith	1989
#2316	Coney Island	Van Morrison	1989
#2317	Tramp the Dirt Down	Elvis Costello	1989
#2322	Don't Dream It's Over	Crowded House	1986
#2329	Perfect Way	Scritti Politti	1985
#2349	At the Hop	Danny & the Juniors	1988
#2365	Big Time	Peter Gabriel	1986
#2368	Take On Me	a‐ha	1984
#2383	Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)	Pretenders	1981
#2405	The Mayor of Simpleton	XTC	1989
#2407	P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)	Michael Jackson	1982
#2408	Atomic Dog	George Clinton	1982
#2409	4th of July	X	1987
#2410	Rio	Duran Duran	1982
#2428	You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)	Dead or Alive	1984
#2431	Only the Lonely	Roy Orbison	1987
#2453	Veronica	Elvis Costello	1989
#2468	Like a Virgin	Madonna	1984
#2469	Sowing the Seeds of Love	Tears for Fears	1989
#2470	That's When I Reach for My Revolver	Mission of Burma	1981
#2471	Rise Above	Black Flag	1981
#2473	Dancing in the Dark	Bruce Springsteen	1984
#2474	New Rap Language	The Treacherous Three	1980
#2475	8th Wonder	The Sugarhill Gang	1980
#2476	Monster Jam	Spoonie Gee, The Sequence	1980
#2477	The Magnificent Seven	The Clash	1980
#2478	Totally Wired	The Fall	1980
#2479	Dont Leave Me This Way	Thelma Houston	1980
#2480	The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness	The Feelies	1980
#2481	Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar	Glenn Branca	1980
#2482	Kings of the Wild Frontier	Adam and the Ants	1980
#2483	Final Day	Young Marble Giants	1980
#2484	Pay to Cum	Bad Brains	1980
#2485	Dirty Mind	Prince	1980
#2521	Walk This Way	Run‐D.M.C.	1986
#2525	Youth of America	Wipers	1981
#2526	This Angry Silence	Television Personalities	1981
#2527	Tally Ho!	The Clean	1981
#2528	Minor Threat	Minor Threat	1981
#2529	Walking on Thin Ice	Yoko Ono	1981
#2530	The Sweetest Girl	Scritti Politti	1981
#2531	Moody	ESG	1981
#2532	Happy Birthday	Altered Images	1981
#2563	All of My Heart	ABC	1982
#2564	Dirty Talk	Klein & M.B.O.	1982
#2565	Back on the Chain Gang	Pretenders	1982
#2566	The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel	Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	1982
#2567	The Chauffeur	Duran Duran	1982
#2568	Save It for Later	The Beat	1982
#2569	Run to the Hills	Iron Maiden	1982
#2570	Town Called Malice	The Jam	1982
#2571	Beyond Belief	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1982
#2572	Third Uncle	Bauhaus	1982
#2573	The Classical	The Fall	1982
#2592	Relax (Relax, Trevor Honey, Relax)	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	1983
#2593	Optimo	Liquid Liquid	1983
#2594	Problèmes d'amour	Alexander Robotnick	1983
#2595	Beat Bop	Rammellzee, K‐Rob	1983
#2596	On the Radio	The Crash Crew	1983
#2597	Cattle and Cane	The Go‐Betweens	1983
#2618	Rock Box	Run‐D.M.C.	1984
#2619	History Lesson – Part II	Minutemen	1984
#2620	Pink Turns to Blue	Hüsker Dü	1984
#2621	Rawhide	Scott Walker	1984
#2622	Looking From a Hilltop (Restructure)	Section 25	1984
#2623	So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)	R.E.M.	1984
#2624	Pink Frost	The Chills	1984
#2625	Lorelei	Cocteau Twins	1984
#2626	Plateau	Meat Puppets	1984

#2241

Love Hurts

Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons

1987

#2242

King's Cross

Pet Shop Boys

1987

#2243

Exit

U2

1987