Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1983

The Top Songs from 1983
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Sample
1	40	New Order	Blue Monday
2	82	The Smiths	This Charming Man	Listen
3	85	The Police	Every Breath You Take	Listen
4	187	U2	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Listen
5	210	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Relax	Listen
6	237	Violent Femmes	Blister in the Sun	Listen
7	332	Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel	White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
8	373	Cyndi Lauper	Girls Just Want to Have Fun	Listen
9	420	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)	Listen
10	496	U2	New Year's Day	Listen
11	569	Run-D.M.C.	It's Like That	Listen
12	651	Madonna	Borderline	Listen
13	763	Cyndi Lauper	Time After Time	Listen
14	858	Madonna	Holiday	Listen
15	868	Herbie Hancock	Rockit
16	1055	David Bowie	Let's Dance
17	1149	Billy Bragg	A New England	Listen
18	1241	Shannon	Let the Music Play
19	1270	Pretenders	Middle of the Road	Listen
20	1315	Run-D.M.C.	Sucker MC's	Listen
21	1328	The Imposter	Pills & Soap	Listen
22	1356	This Mortal Coil	Song to the Siren
23	1524	Echo and the Bunnymen	The Cutter	Listen
24	1592	Talking Heads	Burning Down the House	Listen
25	1627	Talking Heads	This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
26	1650	Big Country	In a Big Country	Listen
27	1676	John Cougar Mellencamp	Pink Houses	Listen
28	1814	Indeep	Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life
29	1817	Def Leppard	Photograph	Listen
30	1859	Violent Femmes	Gone Daddy Gone
31	1925	The The	This Is the Day	Listen
32	1927	ZZ Top	Gimme All Your Lovin'	Listen
33	1990	The Smiths	Hand in Glove	Listen
34	2100	Public Image Ltd.	This Is Not a Love Song
35	2208	Liquid Liquid	Optimo
36	2230	Lionel Richie	All Night Long (All Night)	Listen
37	2367	Eddy Grant	Electric Avenue
38	2380	K-Rob Vs. Rammelzee	Beat Bop
39	2387	The Cure	The Love Cats
40	2451	The Go-Betweens	Cattle and Cane
41	2468	Culture Club	Karma Chameleon	Listen
42	2493	Violent Femmes	Add It Up
43	2496	The Style Council	Long Hot Summer
44	2537	New Order	Age of Consent
45	2569	Yes	Owner of a Lonely Heart
46	2654	Malcolm X	No Sell Out
47	2661	Kraftwerk	Tour De France
48	2673	Liquid Liquid	Cavern
49	2700	Womack and Womack	Love Wars	Listen
50	2744	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Everyday I Write the Book	Listen
51	2835	Rufus and Chaka Khan	Ain't Nobody
52	2861	ZZ Top	Legs	Listen
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Bonnie Tyler	Total Eclipse of the Heart
		Culture Club	Church of the Poison Mind	Listen
		Elton John	I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues
		Dimples D.	Sucker D.J.'s
		The Rolling Stones	Undercover of the Night
		Depeche Mode	Get the Balance Right
		Thompson Twins	Hold Me Now
		Tom Waits	In the Neighborhood
		SOS Band	Just Be Good to Me
		Suicidal Tendencies	Institutionalized
		Donna Summer	She Works Hard for the Money
		Echo and the Bunnymen	Never Stop	Listen
		Irene Cara	Flashdance...What a Feeling
		Violent Femmes	Kiss Off	Listen
		Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton	Islands in the Stream
		Eurythmics	Who's That Girl
		Heaven 17	Temptation	Listen
		Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Shipbuilding	Listen
		UB40	Red Red Wine	Listen
		The Birthday Party	Sonny's Burning
		Pretenders	2000 Miles	Listen
		Mtume	Juicy Fruit
		Malcolm McLaren	Soweto	Listen
		Pat Benatar	Love Is a Battlefield
		Tom Waits	16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six	Listen
		John Cougar Mellencamp	Authority Song	Listen
		Madonna	Lucky Star	Listen
		Paul Simon	The Late Great Johnny Ace
		David Bowie	Modern Love
		Brian Eno	Deep Blue Day
		Billy Joel	Uptown Girl
		The Human League	(Keep Feeling) Fascination
		John Cougar Mellencamp	Crumblin' Down	Listen