Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1982

The Top Songs from 1982
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Sample
1	20	Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five	The Message
2	24	Michael Jackson	Billie Jean	Listen
3	122	Prince and The Revolution	Little Red Corvette	Listen
4	179	Marvin Gaye	Sexual Healing	Listen
5	208	Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force	Planet Rock	Listen
6	308	Michael Jackson	Beat It	Listen
7	320	Prince and The Revolution	1999	Listen
8	499	The Clash	Rock the Casbah	Listen
9	566	New Order	Temptation
10	574	The Clash	Should I Stay or Should I Go	Listen
11	576	ABC	The Look of Love	Listen
12	608	The Jam	Town Called Malice
13	620	Robert Wyatt	Shipbuilding
14	647	Dexys Midnight Runners	Come On Eileen	Listen
15	721	Pretenders	Back on the Chain Gang	Listen
16	731	Culture Club	Do You Really Want to Hurt Me	Listen
17	819	George Clinton	Atomic Dog	Listen
18	860	Madness	Our House
19	877	Duran Duran	Hungry Like the Wolf
20	1013	Bruce Springsteen	Atlantic City
21	1057	Modern English	I Melt with You
22	1111	Roxy Music	More Than This	Listen
23	1240	The Associates	Party Fears Two
24	1387	Tears for Fears	Mad World
25	1471	Gregory Isaacs	Night Nurse
26	1481	XTC	Senses Working Overtime	Listen
27	1513	Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force	Looking for the Perfect Beat	Listen
28	1531	Michael Jackson	Thriller	Listen
29	1546	The Beat	Save It for Later	Listen
30	1553	The Clash	Straight to Hell	Listen
31	1555	The Fall	The Classical
32	1557	ABC	Poison Arrow	Listen
33	1558	Willie Nelson	Always on My Mind
34	1604	Simple Minds	Promised You a Miracle	Listen
35	1674	Malcolm McLaren	Buffalo Gals	Listen
36	1826	Duran Duran	Rio
37	1901	Iron Maiden	Run to the Hills
38	1908	The Psychedelic Furs	Love My Way	Listen
39	2070	Richard and Linda Thompson	Wall of Death	Listen
40	2145	The The	Uncertain Smile	Listen
41	2187	Wah!	The Story of the Blues
42	2189	Rhoda Dakar	The Boiler
43	2240	The Cure	Let's Go to Bed
44	2345	Iron Maiden	The Number of the Beast
45	2498	Yazoo	Situation
46	2561	The Gap Band	You Dropped a Bomb on Me
47	2586	Michael Jackson	Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'	Listen
48	2633	The Jam	Beat Surrender
49	2680	Toni Basil	Mickey
50	2742	Madness	House of Fun
51	2800	John Cougar	Jack & Diane	Listen
52	2804	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Beyond Belief
53	2810	Culture Club	Time (Clock of the Heart)	Listen
54	2883	Yazoo	Only You	Listen
55	2938	Fearless Four	Rockin' It
56	2945	Thomas Dolby	She Blinded Me with Science
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Midnight Oil	Power and the Passion	Listen
		Billy Idol	White Wedding
		Kid Creole and The Coconuts	Anni I'm Not Your Daddy
		Bruce Springsteen	State Trooper	Listen
		Wall of Voodoo	Mexican Radio	Listen
		Gang of Four	I Love a Man in Uniform
		Yazoo	Don't Go	Listen
		ABBA	The Day Before You Came
		The Nails	88 Lines About 44 Women
		Imagination	Just An Illusion
		Pretenders	My City Was Gone	Listen
		The Jam	The Bitterest Pill
		A Flock of Seagulls	I Ran (So Far Away)
		Peter Gabriel	Shock the Monkey	Listen
		Tommy Tutone	867-5309/Jenny
		Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes	Up Where We Belong
		Musical Youth	Pass the Dutchie
		Dire Straits	Private Investigations	Listen
		Bad Brains	Sailin' On	Listen
		The Associates	Club Country
		Joe Jackson	Steppin' Out	Listen
		Aretha Franklin	Jump to It
		Billy Squier	Everybody Wants You
		Shalamar	I Can Make You Feel Good
		Bow Wow Wow	I Want Candy
		Survivor	Eye of the Tiger
		The Waitresses	I Know What Boys Like
		Billy Joel	Allentown
		The Weather Girls	It's Raining Men
		The Pointer Sisters	I'm So Excited