Songs of the 1980s Poll: Results!

[Moonbeam]

Brad

Best Friends:

Michel: 0.311
Honorio: 0.307
DaveC: 0.292

Biggest Foes:

stone37: -0.324
Bruno: -0.307
Henry: -0.215

Balloons:

Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief: +24
Billy Bragg - A New England: +16
The Replacements - Bastards of Young: +16
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection: +16
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday: +15
The Jam - Going Underground: +13
The Replacements - Unsatisfied: +12
The Church - Under the Milky Way: +11
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon: +11
The Jam - That's Entertainment: +11
The Replacements - I Will Dare: +11

Anchors:

The Stranglers - Golden Brown: -11
Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April: -10
George Michael - Careless Whisper: -8
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name: -8

Bruno

Best Friends:

stone37: 0.38
Henry: 0.375
Stephan: 0.259

Biggest Foes:

Brad: -0.307
Michel: -0.27
TimmyWing: -0.249

Balloons:

Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way: +18
AC/DC - Back in Black: +11
Michael Jackson - Thriller: +10

Anchors:

None

CharlieDriggs

Best Friends:

DaveC: 0.463
Jirin: 0.266
jamieW: 0.237

Biggest Foes:

Henry: -0.341
Stephan: -0.332
stone37: -0.32

Balloons:

Goran Bregovic - Ederlezi: +30
XTC - Dear God: +15
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding: +14
Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon: +13
Au Pairs - Headache for Michelle: +11
Faith No More - Epic: +11
Elvis Costello - I Want You: +10
The Jam - That's Entertainment: +10
The Specials - Ghost Town: +10

Anchors:

AC/DC - Back in Black: -9
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name: -9

Craig

Best Friends:

Harold: 0.466
mattceinicram: 0.431
Rocky Raccoon: 0.408

Biggest Foes:

sonofsamiam: -0.107
CharlieDriggs: -0.034
Nassim: 0.066

Balloons:

The Church - Under the Milky Way: +17
U2 - Bad: +14
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun: +13
Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way: +11
XTC - Dear God: +11
The Cure - Lullaby: +10
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love): +10

Anchors:

None

Dan

Best Friends:

mattceinicram: 0.425
Honorio: 0.422
Stephan: 0.4

Biggest Foes:

Nassim: -0.093
sonofsamiam: -0.059
Greg: -0.015

Balloons:

Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion: +24
Goran Bregovic - Ederlezi: +22
The Cure - Close To Me: +12
Madonna - Like a Prayer: +10
Prince - Kiss: +10
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: +10

Anchors:

Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief: -8
Tom Petty - Free Fallin': -8
The Replacements - Bastards of Young: -8

DaveC

Best Friends:

CharlieDriggs: 0.463
Honorio: 0.41
Michel: 0.295

Biggest Foes:

stone37: -0.128
Rocky Raccoon: -0.095
Bruno: -0.083

Balloons:

Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday: +27
Goran Bregovic - Ederlezi: +21
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding: +14
Billy Bragg - A New England: +12
Bob Marley - Redemption Song: +12
Sugarcubes - Birthday: +12
Au Pairs - Headache for Michelle: +11

Anchors:

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name: -9
Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April: -9
Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way: -9
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes: -8

DocBrown

Best Friends:

Stephan: 0.39
Live in Phoenix: 0.343
Craig: 0.322

Biggest Foes:

sonofsamiam: -0.228
Mindrocker: -0.155
Nassim: -0.146

Balloons:

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over: +23
Faith No More - Epic: +23
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York: +20
The Clash - Rock the Casbah: +19
Paul Simon - Graceland: +15
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle: +12
Bruce Springsteen - The River: +12
AC/DC - Back in Black: +11
Blondie - Call Me: +11
Tear for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World: +11

Anchors:

The Cure - Pictures of You: -11
Motörhead - Ace of Spades: -9
Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: -9
The Replacements - Bastards of Young: -9
Soft Verdict - Struggle for Pleasure: -9
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief: -8

Greg

Best Friends:

Listyguy: 0.307
Henry: 0.228
Live in Phoenix: 0.169

Biggest Foes:

CharlieDriggs: -0.138
Mindrocker: -0.103
Jirin: -0.102

Balloons:

Roxy Music - More Than This: +20
The Replacements - Bastards of Young: +17
Tom Waits - Time: +17
Tear for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World: +15
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody): +13
Van Halen - Jump: +13
The Replacements - Unsatisfied: +12
The Clash - Rock the Casbah: +10
The Cure - Pictures of You: +10
Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: +10

Anchors:

XTC - Dear God: -10
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: -9
Sugarcubes - Birthday: -9
AC/DC - Back in Black: -8
Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way: -8

Harold

Best Friends:

Rocky Raccoon: 0.579
Craig: 0.466
Listyguy: 0.397

Biggest Foes:

CharlieDriggs: -0.114
Mindrocker: -0.114
Moonbeam: -0.056

Balloons:

Faith No More - Epic: +22
The Replacements - I Will Dare: +16
The Replacements - Unsatisfied: +14
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love): +14
Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise: +12
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer: +11
Prince - When You Were Mine: +11
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long: +10

Anchors:

The Clash - Rock the Casbah: -8

Henrik

Best Friends:

nicolas: 0.343
Dan: 0.336
jamieW: 0.272

Biggest Foes:

DocBrown: -0.051
Harold: -0.049
Kingoftonga: -0.042

Balloons:

Motörhead - Ace of Spades: +32
Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion: +18
Goran Bregovic - Ederlezi: +17
The Cure - Close To Me: +15
Michael Jackson - Thriller: +14
The Cure - Lullaby: +13
The Specials - Ghost Town: +11
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name: +10

Anchors:

The Replacements - Bastards of Young: -8

Henry

Best Friends:

Live in Phoenix: 0.596
stone37: 0.493
Bruno: 0.375

Biggest Foes:

CharlieDriggs: -0.341
sonofsamiam: -0.265
Brad: -0.215

Balloons:

The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up: +30
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: +24
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes: +23
Van Halen - Jump: +23
George Michael - Careless Whisper: +17
Tear for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World: +16
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long: +14
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight: +13
The Police - Every Breath You Take: +11
Michael Jackson - Beat It: +10

Anchors:

Billy Bragg - A New England: -11
Joy Division - Atmosphere: -11
Sugarcubes - Birthday: -11
U2 - Bad: -11
Talk Talk - The Rainbow: -10
XTC - Dear God: -9
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York: -8
The Replacements - Bastards of Young: -8
Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream: -8
Tom Waits - Time: -8

Honorio

Best Friends:

Otisredding: 0.443
Dan: 0.422
DaveC: 0.41

Biggest Foes:

stone37: -0.122
Henry: -0.079
Moonbeam: -0.032

Balloons:

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle: +27
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York: +18
Goran Bregovic - Ederlezi: +16
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday: +12
Prince - Kiss: +12
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon: +11
The Jam - Going Underground: +11
XTC - Dear God: +11
Sugarcubes - Birthday: +10

Anchors:

None

jamieW

Best Friends:

Henrik: 0.272
Live in Phoenix: 0.262
Bruno: 0.25

Biggest Foes:

Miguel: -0.091
TimmyWing: -0.066
Greg: -0.039

Balloons:

Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows: +33
Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten: +24
George Michael - Careless Whisper: +15
Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion: +15
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight: +14
Soft Verdict - Struggle for Pleasure: +14
Blondie - Call Me: +12
Michael Jackson - Thriller: +11
U2 - New Year's Day: +11

Anchors:

U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name: -10
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief: -9
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: -9
XTC - Dear God: -9
The Cure - Close To Me: -8
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday: -8

JimmyJazz

Best Friends:

mattceinicram: 0.448
Honorio: 0.398
Otisredding: 0.358

Biggest Foes:

Henry: -0.101
Miguel: -0.064
stone37: -0.052

Balloons:

Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: +20
Pixies - Where Is My Mind?: +15

Anchors:

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over: -8

Jirin

Best Friends:

JimmyJazz: 0.297
Kingoftonga: 0.293
sonofsamiam: 0.287

Biggest Foes:

DocBrown: -0.124
Greg: -0.102
Henry: -0.083

Balloons:

Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: +19
Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon: +18
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun: +16
XTC - Dear God: +16
Elvis Costello - I Want You: +10
Prince - When You Were Mine: +10
Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: +10
Tom Waits - Time: +10

Anchors:

Billy Bragg - A New England: -10

Kingoftonga

Best Friends:

Michel: 0.309
Jirin: 0.293
Otisredding: 0.286

Biggest Foes:

CharlieDriggs: -0.201
TimmyWing: -0.05
Henrik: -0.042

Balloons:

The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection: +34
Pixies - Where Is My Mind?: +13
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: +10
Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble: +10

Anchors:

The Cure - Close To Me: -8

Listyguy

Best Friends:

Rocky Raccoon: 0.404
Harold: 0.397
Craig: 0.397

Biggest Foes:

CharlieDriggs: -0.144
sonofsamiam: -0.103
Mindrocker: -0.085

Balloons:

Tom Petty - Free Fallin': +21
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes: +19
Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: +15
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me): +14
U2 - Bad: +14
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long: +12
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight: +12
The Cure - Lovesong: +11
Talking Heads - The Great Curve: +11
Tom Waits - Downtown Train: +11

Anchors:

Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief: -9
Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion: -9
Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten: -8
The Stranglers - Golden Brown: -8

Live in Phoenix

Best Friends:

Henry: 0.596
stone37: 0.426
Rocky Raccoon: 0.42

Biggest Foes:

CharlieDriggs: -0.21
sonofsamiam: -0.204
Michel: -0.116

Balloons:

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me): +34
The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up: +25
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight: +24
Roxy Music - More Than This: +16
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding: +13
Madonna - Live to Tell: +13
AC/DC - Back in Black: +12
Tom Petty - Free Fallin': +11
Prince - Let's Go Crazy: +11
U2 - New Year's Day: +11
Soft Cell - Tainted Love: +10
Tear for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World: +10

Anchors:

Billy Bragg - A New England: -9
Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion: -9
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection: -9
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief: -8
Soft Verdict - Struggle for Pleasure: -8
XTC - Dear God: -8

mattceinicram

Best Friends:

JimmyJazz: 0.448
Rocky Raccoon: 0.435
Craig: 0.431

Biggest Foes:

Greg: -0.051
Miguel: -0.037
Nassim: -0.009

Balloons:

The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection: +18
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: +14
Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way: +12
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun: +11

Anchors:

None

Michel

Best Friends:

Honorio: 0.32
Brad: 0.311
Kingoftonga: 0.309

Biggest Foes:

Bruno: -0.27
stone37: -0.193
Live in Phoenix: -0.116

Balloons:

Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten: +30
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes: +14
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again: +14
The Jam - That's Entertainment: +11
Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City: +10

Anchors:

None

Miguel

Best Friends:

Henry: 0.339
nicolas: 0.287
Stephan: 0.284

Biggest Foes:

sonofsamiam: -0.325
Nassim: -0.285
CharlieDriggs: -0.138

Balloons:

Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows: +21
Soft Verdict - Struggle for Pleasure: +20
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday: +16
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing: +15
Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble: +14
Prince - Raspberry Beret: +13
Roxy Music - More Than This: +13
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love): +13
The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up: +12
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al: +12
Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise: +12
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody): +12
Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World: +11

Anchors:

The Clash - Rock the Casbah: -11
Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way: -10
Tom Petty - Free Fallin': -9
The Replacements - Bastards of Young: -9
AC/DC - Back in Black: -8
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York: -8
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: -8

Mindrocker

Best Friends:

mattceinicram: 0.257
Henrik: 0.255
Otisredding: 0.24

Biggest Foes:

DocBrown: -0.155
Harold: -0.114
Greg: -0.103

Balloons:

Motörhead - Ace of Spades: +29
Soft Verdict - Struggle for Pleasure: +29
R.E.M. - The One I Love: +13
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas: +11
Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields: +11
The Replacements - Bastards of Young: +11
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again: +11
Billy Bragg - A New England: +10
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight: +10

Anchors:

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes: -8
Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April: -8

Moonbeam

Best Friends:

Live in Phoenix: 0.238
jamieW: 0.195
Henry: 0.182

Biggest Foes:

Brad: -0.155
Rocky Raccoon: -0.065
Michel: -0.061

Balloons:

Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody): +21
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus: +17
The Cure - Lovesong: +14
The Cure - Pictures of You: +13
Tom Petty - Free Fallin': +13
Prince - 1999: +13
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: +12
Prince - Let's Go Crazy: +11
Blondie - Call Me: +10
Prince - Controversy: +10

Anchors:

R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine): -10
Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble: -9
AC/DC - Back in Black: -8
Billy Bragg - A New England: -8
Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream: -8
XTC - Dear God: -8

Nassim

Best Friends:

Listyguy: 0.183
Brad: 0.16
jamieW: 0.122

Biggest Foes:

stone37: -0.292
Miguel: -0.285
DocBrown: -0.146

Balloons:

Faith No More - Epic: +24
The Cure - Lullaby: +20
Motörhead - Ace of Spades: +20
XTC - Dear God: +17
The Cure - Close To Me: +16
The Replacements - Bastards of Young: +15
The Replacements - Unsatisfied: +14
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection: +14
U2 - Bad: +13
Soft Verdict - Struggle for Pleasure: +12
Billy Bragg - A New England: +11
New Order - Temptation: +10

Anchors:

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes: -9
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday: -9
Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April: -8
The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up: -8
The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Love Me: -8
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody): -8
Van Halen - Jump: -8

nicolas

Best Friends:

Dan: 0.36
Henrik: 0.343
Miguel: 0.287

Biggest Foes:

sonofsamiam: -0.154
CharlieDriggs: -0.122
Brad: -0.114

Balloons:

Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon: +26
Tom Waits - Time: +20
Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion: +18
Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way: +16
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long: +14
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen: +12
Bruce Springsteen - The River: +12
Goran Bregovic - Ederlezi: +11
Bob Marley - Redemption Song: +11
The Specials - Ghost Town: +11
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name: +10

Anchors:

Billy Bragg - A New England: -9
Talk Talk - The Rainbow: -8

Otisredding

Best Friends:

Honorio: 0.443
Dan: 0.389
Craig: 0.362

Biggest Foes:

Bruno: -0.125
Nassim: -0.014
stone37: 0.01

Balloons:

Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows: +24
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me): +14
The Jam - Going Underground: +12

Anchors:

None

Rocky Raccoon

Best Friends:

Harold: 0.579
stone37: 0.485
mattceinicram: 0.435

Biggest Foes:

CharlieDriggs: -0.133
sonofsamiam: -0.115
Nassim: -0.109

Balloons:

Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise: +17
Prince - Let's Go Crazy: +15
The Replacements - I Will Dare: +14
Bob Marley - Redemption Song: +12
Prince - Little Red Corvette: +12
Prince - When You Were Mine: +12
Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: +11
Tom Petty - Free Fallin': +10
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love): +10

Anchors:

Kraftwerk - Computer Love: -8

sonofsamiam

Best Friends:

Jirin: 0.287
JimmyJazz: 0.276
TimmyWing: 0.235

Biggest Foes:

Miguel: -0.325
Henry: -0.265
DocBrown: -0.228

Balloons:

Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten: +28
The Cure - Pictures of You: +22
Tom Waits - Time: +18
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection: +16
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief: +15
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise: +14
Prince - When You Were Mine: +12
Talk Talk - The Rainbow: +12
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon: +11
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday: +10
Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April: +10

Anchors:

Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding: -12
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long: -9
Billy Bragg - A New England: -9
The Pogues - And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda: -9
Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble: -9
George Michael - Careless Whisper: -8
Tom Petty - Free Fallin': -8
The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink: -8

Stephan

Best Friends:

Rocky Raccoon: 0.412
Dan: 0.4
DocBrown: 0.39

Biggest Foes:

CharlieDriggs: -0.332
sonofsamiam: -0.126
Nassim: -0.087

Balloons:

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me): +30
Van Halen - Jump: +27
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows: +17
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time: +15
U2 - Bad: +15
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long: +12
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer: +12
Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April: +10

Anchors:

Prince - When You Were Mine: -8

stone37

Best Friends:

Henry: 0.493
Rocky Raccoon: 0.485
Live in Phoenix: 0.426

Biggest Foes:

Brad: -0.324
CharlieDriggs: -0.32
Nassim: -0.292

Balloons:

Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise: +19
The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up: +16
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes: +15
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: +15
Prince - Raspberry Beret: +14
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time: +12
Van Halen - Jump: +12
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over: +11
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long: +10
Prince - Kiss: +10

Anchors:

Billy Bragg - A New England: -10
Sugarcubes - Birthday: -10
Tom Waits - Time: -9
The Church - Under the Milky Way: -8
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding: -8
The Replacements - I Will Dare: -8
Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble: -8
XTC - Dear God: -8

TimmyWing

Best Friends:

Otisredding: 0.267
sonofsamiam: 0.235
Brad: 0.21

Biggest Foes:

Bruno: -0.249
Henry: -0.168
Miguel: -0.136

Balloons:

The Cure - Pictures of You: +31
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle: +22
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody): +22
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen: +19
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name: +10

Anchors:

Tom Waits - Time: -10
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: -9
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over: -8
Tom Petty - Free Fallin': -8
The Replacements - I Will Dare: -8
U2 - Bad: -8
Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream: -8

[Henrik]

Great stats, Moonbeam! I loved the balloons and anchors!

[Mindrocker]

Uh-oh, I only appear in the foes sections.

Anyway, nice statistics Moonbeam, and thanks once more for hosting the 80s poll.

[Henrik]

Uh-oh, I only appear in the foes sections.

Anyway, nice statistics Moonbeam, and thanks once more for hosting the 80s poll.

You almost appeared in my friends section though, and I am proud to be in yours!

[Miguel]

Uh-oh, I only appear in the foes sections.

I'm not better than you. Yes, I have a friend, only one, (Personne ne m'aime, c'est vrai. Pas comme vous le faites .... Monsieur Lejeune ) but a lot of foes.

And thanks, Moonbeam and Listyguy, for your excellent work.

[Mindrocker]

Uh-oh, I only appear in the foes sections.

Anyway, nice statistics Moonbeam, and thanks once more for hosting the 80s poll.

You almost appeared in my friends section though, and I am proud to be in yours!

[Henry]

Live In Phoenix and I appear to be especially well-aligned for this poll.

The surprise for me was how closely I matched Moonbeam. I can assure you that the Henry-Moonbeam alignment will not be nearly as impressive in any 1960's or 1970's poll

[Jirin]

I don't see the shift in this forum as toward mainstream as much as away from the Pitchfork sort of music out in every other direction like genre music and every other unexplored nook of the rock universe.

I know Pitchfork bashing is becoming trendy but I really disagree with this and consider we have been much less adventurous than they are.

56 of our top 150 was included in the Pitchfork 500 lists (I don't know how many 80s songs were in there but since the yearly repartition was relatively even, I'd say about 170). It also needs to be said that they had a limitation of 1 song per album and 4 songs per artists, so no possibility to have 9 Prince songs or 3 tracks from Thriller.

Though some of the songs in common are from critical darlings (3 Smiths Songs, 2 Talking Heads, 3 Prince...) a lot of them are part of what I guess people consider the "mainstream turn" of the poll : Boys of Summer, Don't You Forget About Me, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Like a Prayer, Tainted Love, 2 U2 tracks... (and they have some pop hits we don't, from Hall and Oates or Frankie Goes to Hollywood for example)

What do we have that they don't ? Mostly rock.
Let's not count Metallica, Iron Maiden or Kraftwerk for which they picked other songs from the same albums as we did, or any song from artists already included in their 80s list.
Here is what's left (with in italic artists that are mentioned in the Pitchfork 500 but not with a 80s song)

Au Pairs - Headache for Michelle
Blondie - Call Me
Bowie, David - Ashes to Ashes
Bregovic, Goran - Ederlezi
Chapman, Chapman - Fast Car
Church, The - Under the Milky Way
Cohen, Leonard - Everybody Knows
Collins, Phil - In the Air Tonight
Cooder, Ry - Paris, Texas
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Faith No More - Epic
Gabriel, Peter - In Your Eyes
Gaye, Marvin - Sexual Healing
Gun Club, The - She's Like Herion to Me
Isaak, Chris - Wicked Game
Marley, Bob - Redemption Song
Michael, George - Careless Whisper
Nicely, Nick - Hilly Fields
Pärt, Arvo - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Petty, Tom - Free Fallin'
Piazzolla, Astor - Oblivion
Police, The - Every Breath You Take
Prefab Sprout - Goodbye Lucille #1
Psychedelic Furs, The - Pretty in Pink
Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away
Rolling Stones, The - Start Me Up
Soft Verdict - Struggle for Pleasure
Stranglers, The - Golden Brown
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Van Halen - Jump
XTC - Dear God
Young, Neil - Rockin' in the Free World

I guess we can assume that Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen are not completely considered crap by Pitchfork (just look at their 70s albums list or their 60s songs lists)
So in the end we are left with :

- a few really adventurous picks "on unexplored nooks of the rock universe" with 1 classical music piece, a couple world music songs, a soundtrack piece and a couple real oddities (Struggle for Pleasure and Hilly Fields)
- some mainstream hits (Phil Collins, Tear for Fears, Police, Crowded House)
- And some band that I would assume would have been considered as the equivalent of "Pitchforky" back then : Psychedelic Furs, Au Pairs, the Gun Club, Prefab Sprout...

On the other hand we have :
one single electronic music song (so no house or detroit techno)
5 hip hop songs, covering only 3 bands
very little metal, punk, hard rock and post punk (except Joy Division) and only ranked at the very bottom of our list
no hardcore punk, twee, noise, ambient or industrial music...


So if you mean "we don't have as many Pixies and Sonic Youth songs as we used to and don't have any proto-shoegaze stuff like Jesus and Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine", that's true but that's both a narrow vision of the changes on the poll and a very narrow view of Pitchfork !
I personaly consider the 80s part of the Pitchfork 500 the most adventurous and interesting 80s song list I have seen, this forum included (which doesn't mean our list isn't great too, just not as great in my opinion).

I think some of that though is because our list is the average of everybody's list, whereas in Pitchfork individual people get to push for specific songs to be included.

Pitchfork has more pop and rap representation certainly, but if you want to see what kind of list we'd come up with if we used the same approach to listmaking they did, look no further than the BMAA draw. If you look at individual lists in this site you get just as much variety as the staff's individual lists at Pitchfork, only more genre-inclusive and less Anglocentric, and certainly the average mood of a song on our lists would be much happier.

And why do you think there are all these oddball inclusions on our lists? Because games like BMAA and Unacclaimed Song proliferated all our individual knowledge of more obscure tracks. Nick Nicely, Arvo Part, Astor Piazolla, these are all here because one person loved them enough to nominate them in a forum game and then everybody else got to hear them.

We should make a collaborative list like this. Like, we limit ourselves to one song per artist, and we have some kind of way for individuals to champion specific songs. We'd come up with a way more diverse list than this one or anything Pitchfork has ever done. And certainly a much smaller sadness ratio.

[Live in Phoenix]

Live In Phoenix and I appear to be especially well-aligned for this poll.

The surprise for me was how closely I matched Moonbeam. I can assure you that the Henry-Moonbeam alignment will not be nearly as impressive in any 1960's or 1970's poll

Don't know how the '70s will turn out, but it looks like we were the BFFs of this poll!

[jamieW]

Awesome display of statistics, Moonbeam! I'm really honored to be listed in the friends section of 4 voters (including you). But I'm even happier to not be listed as anyone's foe, since there isn't a single member of this great forum who hasn't introduced me to at least a few favorites that I never would've discovered otherwise. I can't wait to see (and hear) the surprises the 70's poll will bring!

[Romain]

Thanks you to all of us. Just for these two good discoveries I made, this game deserve to exist

Au Pairs - Headache for Michelle and Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields are both very great songs.