The Village Voice Top 100 singles and songs of the 1980's

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The Village Voice
The Top 100 Tracks / Songs of the 1980's

This is a very useful list. Village Voice receives the votes of 300+ rock critics every year and then determines the best tracks from it. Dan Brown has counted the votes from the top 10 tracks of each year throughout the 1980's and compiled the definitive TOP 100. This is it. See the VV 1990's list also
(note that there are quite a lot of identical chart positions - this is not a mistake)

Pos.

1

1.40

x

x

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

2

0.50

x

x

3

1.70

When Doves Cry R

x

x

4

0.10

Artists United Against Apartheid

Sun City (various artists)

5

2.07

x

x

Michael Jackson

6

0.95

Walk This Way (ft. Aerosmith) R

x

x

7

1.63

Every Breath You Take R

x

x

8

0.64

Back On The Chain Gang

x

x

Learning To Crawl

9

1.42

Dancing In The Dark

x

x

Bruce Springsteen

Born In The U.S.A.

10

0.37

Fight The Power

x

x

Fear of A Black Planet

11

0.50

x

x

12

1.36

x

x

13

0.47

x

x

The Rolling Stones

13

0.09

x

x

Laurie Anderson

15

1.51

x

x

16

1.72

x

x

17

0.34

What's Love Got To Do With It

x

x

18

0.55

Freeway of Love

x

x

Aretha Franklin

Who's Zoomin' Who?

19

0.54

Rock The Casbah

x

x

20

0.79

Sign O' The Times

x

x

Sign O' The Times

21

0.13

x

x

Solitude Standing

22

0.10

Eight Miles High

Eight Miles High (single)

23

0.37

x

x

24

0.09

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels of Steel

x

x

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels of Steel (single)

25

1.26

x

x

Non-stop Erotic Cabaret

26

0.20

Little Red Corvette

x

x

26

0.09

Looking For The Perfect Beat

x

x

Afrika Bambaataa And The Soulsonic Force

Looking For The Perfect Beat (single)

28

0.19

x

x

29

0.16

The Old Man Down The Road

x

x

30

0.09

Electric Avenue

x

x

Killer On The Rampage

31

0.09

Pass The Dutchie

x

x

The Youth of Today

32

0.21

x

x

La Bamba (single)

33

0.86

x

x

Michael Jackson

34

1.20

x

x

Club Classics Vol. 1

35

0.07

x

x

36

0.21

Bette Davis Eyes R

Mistaken Identity

36

0.09

Walking On Thin Ice

x

x

Walking On Thin Ice (single)

38

0.09

x

x

Afrika Bambaataa And The Soulsonic Force

Planet Rock (single)

39

1.64

Love Will Tear Us Apart

x

x

Love Will Tear Us Apart (single)

40

0.99

She Drives Me Crazy

Fine Young Cannibals

The Raw & The Cooked

41

0.15

Makes No Sense At All

42

1.12

x

x

43

0.10

Bonzo Goes To Bitburg

Bonzo Goes To Bitburg (EP)

44

0.14

x

x

45

0.09

Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock

46

1.43

x

x

Call Me (single)

47

1.15

White Lines (Don't Do It)

x

x

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel

White Lines (EP)

48

1.90

x

x

49

0.11

Unity (pt. 1 - the third coming)

x

x

Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown

49

0.09

x

x

51

0.25

The Boys of Summer

Building The Perfect Beast

52

0.05

Loc-ed After Dark

53

0.68

Brass In Pocket

x

x

53

0.54

x

x

55

0.05

56

0.24

x

x

57

0.06

x

x

58

0.05

Stone Cold Rhymin'

59

1.34

Don't You Want Me R

x

x

The Human League

59

0.34

The Look of Love

The Lexicon of Love

59

0.10

x

x

Aretha Franklin

62

0.14

Would I Lie To You?

x

x

Be Yourself Tonight

62

0.05

I Wonder If I Take You Home

Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam

64

0.90

x

x

65

1.01

Master Blaster (Jammin')

x

x

Hotter Than July

66

0.05

Doug E. Fresh And The Get Fresh Crew

67

1.55

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun R

x

x

She's So Unusual

67

0.75

Time After Time

x

x

She's So Unusual

69

0.07

I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man

x

x

Sign O' The Times

70

2.35

Sweet Child O' Mine R

x

x

Appetite For Destruction

71

0.58

72

0.05

That's The Joint

That's The Joint (single)

73

0.33

Burning Down The House

x

x

Speaking In Tongues

74

1.16

x

x

1981 - Factus 8 - 1982 (EP)

75

2.10

Pride (in the name of love) R

x

x

The Unforgettable Fire

76

1.14

Alphabet Street

x

x

77

0.09

x

x

78

1.32

Running Up That Hill

x

x

The Hounds of Love

79

1.40

(Just Like) Starting Over R

x

x

80

0.18

Pump Up The Volume

Pump Up The Volume

81

0.24

Pull Up To The Bumper

x

x

82

0.28

Everyday I Write The Book

x

x

Punch The Clock

83

0.07

Beds Are Burning

Diesel And Dust

84

0.17

In A Big Country

85

1.73

x

x

85

0.05

Brilliant Disguise

Bruce Springsteen

85

0.15

The Grateful Dead

88

1.33

Into The Groove

x

x

Into The Groove (single)

89

0.15

x

x

90

0.09

Dancing With Myself

x

x

90

0.05

Heartbeat (party version)

Heartbeat (single)

90

0.05

It Must Be Magic

90

0.04

Double Dutch Bus

Children of Tomorrow

94

0.16

x

x

Sign O' The Times

95

0.04

Don't Believe The Hype

x

x

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

95

0.43

Handle With Care

x

x

Traveling Wilburys

Traveling Wilburys Vol 1

97

0.41

x

x

Full Moon Fever

97

0.54

Money For Nothing

x

x

Brothers In Arms

99

0.15

Middle of The Road

x

x

Learning To Crawl

100

0.05

I Love A Man In Uniform

Songs of The Free

Pos.


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