I remember 80s had some savage KILLING JOKE records.

Without Killing Joke there would never have been the likes of "industrial-metal"
"nu-metal" "grunge" and others etc...

Killing Joke,Swans and Melvins are among the greatest influence bands that nobody recognizes.


Tool and Helmet and many others owe a lot to them.

FLMountainMan: I_C_Weener: That is the most pretentious and eclectic list of top 100 "best" songs of the 80s I've ever seen.

THIS. Only read the Top Ten and was incredibly underwhelmed. "Buffalo Stance"? Are you kidding me? A lot of the selection process seemed to be "remember that amazing album that band put out? What was the fourth-best song on it? Yeah, that's the one."

Thank you for summing it up much better than I could. New Order in the top 10 twice and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" is #18? That's pretty horrible.

/no love for Huey Lewis? WTF?

No Eurythmics.

Top 100 80's songs?

I'm surprised they gathered 100 songs even worth listening to from the decade, nevermind an entire list of best ones.

SPna15: I'm not the one who thinks Reign in Blood is Slayer's best album.

It isn't?

rhiannon: And I see what you did

Given my feelings on that particular disc.. you're definitely reading into things a bit :)

kab: SPna15: I'm not the one who thinks Reign in Blood is Slayer's best album.

It isn't?

Not even close.

did Weird Al cover any of these songs?

List for whatever the 80's eqivalent of 'hipster' was.

vegaswench: bluesbox: I've long mainained that the 1980's were the worst decade for popular music this country has ever had (as long as we've had a national "popular music", anyhow). It was just a shiatty, shiatty decade for music.

The 80s were the best for music. Of course, I like the synths and the "shoe-gazing" as it was called elsewhere in the thread.

I love these types of threads. The 80s to me were not Michael Jackson or Madonna, they were New Order and Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys (though as someone stated in the thread, where's Oingo Boingo and Adam Ant??). Guess I listened to too much KROQ as a kid.

There was no such thing as too much KROQ back then. I even had my 1st drivers license photo taken in a cropped pink sleeveless "ROQ of the 80s" t-shirt.

List fails without Butthole Surfers. Also tends to confirm my opinion that the '80s were the worst decade for music.

List needs at least one Cocteau Twins and Throwing Muses song. Other than that I have no problem with it. Of course musically I'm an anglophile at heart.


Glitchwerks: Lil' Louis

Wow, my first girlfriend and I used to drop acid and have sex to that song all the time. I didn't know anyone else had even heard of it.

That list was total crap, but I'm not surprised everything else posted at FARK is total crap.


Just change the name to CRAP.com.

I love 80s music, but why pick Madonna's "Like a Prayer" over "Like a Virgin" or "La Isla Bonita" or "Papa Don't Preach"? No "Party Like It's 1999" from Prince? And for a list that skews British, no Rick Astley? Really? No Kylie Minogue?

way too much Pixies and Stone Roses love.

In my eyes, this list is seriously lacking some Peter Gabriel.

kab: Top 100 80's songs?

I'm surprised they gathered 100 songs even worth listening to from the decade, nevermind an entire list of best ones.

Hell, you could do 100 just from Manchester, and NME certainly tried.

SPna15: kab: SPna15: I'm not the one who thinks Reign in Blood is Slayer's best album.

It isn't?

Not even close.

I go back and forth between it and Hell Awaits. I think Hell Awaits holds up better, but at the time there was no comparison to Reign in Blood.

To be honest though, I think just about everything they did up to and including Decade of Aggression is about as perfect as metal gets. It's hard to pick a single 'best' album.

Ratt
Poison
Huey Lewis
Rod Stewart
AC/DC
Ozzy Osbourne
Beastie Boys
Etc.

And a lot of the selected songs aren't the ones I would pick. Meh. As are most things, "best" is subjective.

wiredtolain: needs more pixies

this needs repeating.

Dumb-Ass-Monkey: Tainted Love #84??

That's one of the defining songs of the 80s. top 20, easily.

and this is a typical, British-centric NME list with a lot of music that was never heard in the states.

Pretty much my take.

That noted, Whar Jazz Butcher, Whar?

The Police, Talk Talk, and XTC are glaring omissions, amongst many more. Thought Every Breath You Take, Life's What You Make It and Senses Working Overtime would be in there somewhere - Those selections just being the obvious choices from each group.

There is one REM song on there, The One I Love, but for some reason it's credited to "various artists" in the list. I'm not sure what's up with that.

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Really? Neither of these could make the list, but Grace Jones, Lil' Louis and S-Express do? Really?


Looking at those sleeves, I wonder who is going to explain to the younger generation what a "B-side" was ?

Robert1966: UCFRoadWarrior: HS and college in the 80s....and most of the top 10 is Brit Shiat that few in America listened to. I'll give this credit for recognizing Prince (not his best song), Neneh Cherry, and Talking Heads (OIAL would be a OK #1)

And, no one listened to The Smiths in the USA...no one


Bullshiat. I'm in the same age group as you and we definitely listened to the Smiths in college.

Well...that makes you #2 or #3, I am sure

sonnyboy11: No Peter Gabriel on the list? That's a glaring oversight......

Very glaring....even if you dislike the over-commercialization of "Sledgehammer"......"In Your Eyes" and "Biko" were excellent songs.....and "Big Time" should be considered, too.

malaktaus: List fails without Butthole Surfers. Also tends to confirm my opinion that the '80s were the worst decade for music.

1990's worst music decade. Overrated grunge...overrated chick music....no talent rap/hip hop

Ehhh, list is overloaded with awful, awful 80s pop nonsense, some of the worst music ever made in ANY decade. Man, the 80s was the age of metal! Where's Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer?

/didn't read the whole list

UCFRoadWarrior: 1990's worst music decade. Overrated grunge...overrated chick music....no talent rap/hip hop

If that's all you got out of the nineties, then you put no effort into finding music.

/There is no worst decade for music, just lazy listeners

Cromar: Ehhh, list is overloaded with awful, awful 80s pop nonsense, some of the worst music ever made in ANY decade. Man, the 80s was the age of metal! Where's Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer?



Metallica is #69 with Master of Puppets

judging from this thread, quite a bit of you had no idea what NME was before posting here. There is also a significant overlap of that crowd with those who think this list is the be-all-end-all authority on personal opinion and that these lists don't list solely to spark debate.

Fark sure is whiny about stuff it dislikes...

Blue Monday is a great track, and it really exemplifies the 80's in musical form. I approve.

Interesting list,

but what about Black Flag? Dire Straits? Gowan?

verbaltoxin: FeedTheCollapse: judging from this thread, quite a bit of you had no idea what NME was before posting here. There is also a significant overlap of that crowd with those who think this list is the be-all-end-all authority on personal opinion and that these lists don't list solely to spark debate.

Fark sure is whiny about stuff it dislikes...


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yeah, I knew that was coming, but the sheer amount of biatching that's on here gets tiring.

fark it, most of the stuff on the GTA:Vice City soundtrack should be on here. Never a finer collection of the best bits of the 80s ever compiled

Coming of age in the 80s....developing a social consciuosness if you will, all i can say is that it was a terrible decade for most things. Mostly all music was ostentatious in its presentation...the color equivalent of music was neon. Thank god for thrash and metal, because without it, as a culture wed still be basking in that soft glow watching highly developed yet oh so sterile animated videos.