Top tunes 1980 - 2006?

[ElvisFan]

I'll do a full list later but the best song of 1985 is "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush.

 

[Nim]

1980 The Jam - Going Underground
1981 The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
1982 The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
1984 Queen - I Want To Break Free
1985 Tom Waits - Clap Hands
1986 Paul Simon - Graceland
1987 REM - It's The End of the World As We Know It
1988 The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
1989 Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
1990 Public Enemy - Fight The Power
1991 Pearl Jam - Alive
1992 The Prodigy - Charly
1993 Smashing Pumpkins - Today
1994 Weezer - Buddy Holly
1995 Pulp - Common People
1996 DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
1997 Foo Fighters - Everlong
1998 Boards of Canada - Telephasic Workshop
1999 Blur - Coffee And TV
2000 Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad
2001 Eels - Fresh Feeling
2002 Queens of the Stone Age - Go With The Flow
2003 White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button
2004 Ben Harper - She's Only Happy In The Sun
2005 Ben Folds - Jesusland
2006 The Raconteurs - Level

Jesus, that took ages. But at 1:59:47, it'll fit quite nicely onto a pair of CDs, and I put in just about enough effort that most of it should flow well. If you ignore the Pearl Jam/Prodigy pairing, anyway.

 

[philio16]

Smells Like Teen Spirit? I hate that song so much! heh

1997 - Foo Fighters, Everlong

Likewise, I personally don't see musically what is so special about it. I know it defined the whole scene at the time, but it is just annoying to listen to over and over

 

[HangTime]

As a child of 1980 I may as well have a bash at this myself:

1980: Blondie - Atomic
1981: Queen - Under Pressure
1982: Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
1983: The Police - Every Breath You Take
1984: Bon Jovi - Runaway
1985: Waterboys - Whole of the Moon
1986: Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
1987: U2 - With or Without You
1988: Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth
1989: Madonna - Like a Prayer
1990: Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
1991: Bryan Adams - Everything I Do
1992: Snap - Rhythm is a Dancer (the first single I ever bought)
1993: Counting Crows - Mr Jones
1994: Oasis - Slide Away
1995: Underworld - Born Slippy
1996: Chicane - Offshore
1997: Hurricane #1 - Step Into My World
1998: Paul van Dyk - For an Angel
1999: Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
2000: Coldplay - Yellow
2001: Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
2002: Greenwheel - Breathe
2003: Evanescence - Tourniquet
2004: The Darkness - Love is only a Feeling
2005: Trustcompany - The War is Over
2006: Haven't heard any good records released this year

Heh. That took ages, nearly 2 hours At the end I started to chucking down any old nonsense, the first song I like a lot I could think of from those years. The choices for this decade are, how can I put this, a bit suspect. Probably some quality trance I could slot in there somewhere instead if I thought about it.

I decided to limit myself to only one year per artist, otherwise things could get a little silly.

 

[Lopéz]

Gilly's list kicks ass, Nim and HangTime have some corkers in there too.

 

[THMRK]

emo only goes to 1999 doesnt it?

no doubt im missing the grandaddys of emo from some decade i bet...

Awesome. Except emo doesn't exist anymore and ceased to exist in its proper form in the mid 90s.

 

[Chris [BEANS]]

post his please too

1980 The police – Don’t stand so close to me
1981 Phil Collins – In the air tonight
1982 The stranglers – Golden brown
1983 Spandau ballet - True
1984 Prince – When doves cry
1985 Dire straits – Brothers in arms
1986 Steve Winwood – Higher Love
1987 Suzanne Vega – Luca
1988 Tracy Chapman – Fast car
1989 Frankie goes to Hollywood – The power of Love
1990 Sinead O’Connor – Nothing compares
1991 One – U2
1992 Nirvana – Come as you are
1993 Spin Doctors – Two princes
1994 Greenday - Longview
1995 Smashing pumpkins – Bullet with butterfly wings
1996 Blur – Charmless man
1997 Prodigy - Breathe
1998 Garbage - Paranoid
1999 TLC - Unpretty
2000 Sonique – Feels so good
2001 Alicia keys - Falling
2002 Tatu – All the things she said
2003 Blu Cantrell - Breathe
2004 LMC vs. u2 – Take me to the clouds above
2005 2Pac feat Elton John – Ghetto Gospel
2006 Artic monkeys – When the sun goes down

 

[daz]

1985 - Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine

 

[Gezzard]

1980 - Adam and the Ants - Ant Music
1981 - Phil Collins : In the air tonight
1982 - Stranglers - Golden Brown
1983 - Men Without hats : Safety Dance
1984 - Duran Duran : Wild Boys
1985 - Go West : We close our eyes
1986 - Falco : Rock Me Amadeus
1987 - Karel Fialka - Hey Matthew
1988 - The Timelords (KLF) - Doctorin the Tardis
1989 - Lil Louis : French Kiss
1990 - Primal Scream : Loaded
1991 - Altern 8 : Activ8
1992 - SL2 : On A Ragga Tip
1993 - Snoop Doggy Dogg : What's My Name
1994 - Oasis - Supersonic
1995 - Faithless : Insomnia
1996 - Stretch & Vern - I'm Alive
1997 - Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar
1998 - Fat Les - Vindaloo
1999 - DJ Luck & MC Neat - Little Bit Of Luck
2000 -
2001 -
2002 -
2003 -
2004 - The Libertines : Cant Stand Me now
2005 - Hard-Fi : Hard To Beat
2006 - Dirty Pretty Things :Bang Bang You're Dead

Dunno obout the early 00's, can't have been too good for classic songs.