Classic Pop Top 100 Singles Of The 80's

[o.m.]

Classic Pop magazine is the ultimate celebration of great pop and chart music across the decades with in-depth interviews with top artists, features, news and reviews. From pop to indie and new wave to electronic music – it's all here...
https://www.classicpopmag.com/2014/03/t ... e-80s-5-1/

[StevieFan13]

They paying you or what?

[StevieFan13]

(I kid - that's just the same description you used for the albums list and it sure sounds like an ad for the magazine)
100. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
99. All About Eve - Martha's Harbour
98. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
97. The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture of You
96. Jim Diamond - I Should Have Known Better
95. Japan - Ghosts
94. Culture Club - The War Song
93. ABC - The Look of Love
92. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
91. Adam & the Ants - Dog Eat Dog
90. Eurythmics - Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
89. Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
88. Blondie - Atomic
87. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
86. Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
85. Prince - Purple Rain
84. a-ha - Hunting High and Low
83. The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
82. Wham! - Everything She Wants
81. Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
80. George Michael - A Different Corner
79. Duran Duran - Girls on Film
78. ABC - Poison Arrow
77. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
76. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
75. Madonna - Like a Prayer
74. ABC - All of My Heart
73. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
72. Freez - I.O.U.
71. Madonna - Crazy for You
70. Toto - Africa
69. Depeche Mode - Leave in Silence
68. The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
67. The Housemartins - Happy Hour
66. Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
65. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
64. Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
63. Michael Jackson - Thriller
62. Mari Wilson - Just What I Always Wanted
61. The Human League - Open Your Heart
60. Tears for Fears - Mad World
59. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
58. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
57. Blondie - Call Me
56. Howard Jones - New Song
55. Heaven 17 - Temptation
54. King - Love and Pride
53. Talk Talk - It's My Life
52. Hazel O'Connor - Will You
51. Toyah - Thunder in the Mountains
50. Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
49. Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
48. Depeche Mode - Strangelove
47. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
46. Depeche Mode - New Life
45. Associates - Party Fears Two
44. Yazoo - Don't Go
43. Prince - When Doves Cry
42. Madonna - Borderline
41. Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
40. Electronic - Getting Away with It
39. Japan - Visions of China
38. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
37. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
36. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
35. Duran Duran - Rio
34. Orchestra Maneouvres in the Dark - Souvenir
33. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
32. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
31. Duran Duran - The Reflex
30. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Power of Love
29. Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
28. ABBA - The Winner Takes It All
27. Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind
26. Kim Wilde - Kids in America
25. Erasure - Sometimes
24. Wham! feat. George Michael - Careless Whisper
23. New Order - Blue Monday
22. Duran Duran - Planet Earth
21. Erasure - A Little Respect
20. David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
19. Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
18. Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark - Maid of Orleans
17. Ultravox - Vienna
16. Furniture - Brilliant Mind
15. Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark - Enola Gay
14. a-ha - Take on Me
13. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
12. Yazoo - Only You
11. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
10. Propaganda - Duel
9. Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
8. a-ha - The Sun Always Shines on TV
7. Adam & the Ants - Stand and Deliver
6. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
5. Visage - Fade to Grey
4. New Order - True Faith
3. Madonna - Into the Groove
2. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
1. The Human League - Don't You Want Me

I dig this list! Some obvious picks not where you'd expect them to place mixed with a lot of cool, less obvious songs (albeit with an understandable leaning toward British New Wave and dance music - lots of Duran Duran and Depeche Mode). But you better post this in the undecided lists thread with all the rest of yours! You post almost as many of these as I do!

[VacantJoy]

aha

[Henrik]

It actually was a readers’ list, as determined by the comment to #86 ”It’s a Sin”

https://web.archive.org/web/20211025172 ... 80s-90-86/

Not a Pet Shop Boys favourite at Classic Pop towers, for this was the moment that Neil and Chris dropped the musical subtlety and mystery in favour of the biggest, heaviest and most obvious slice of Euro disco that, even now, you could possibly imagine. But it sold by the bucket-load – going to number one in the UK and around Europe, and reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 – and is thus forever lodged in readers’ conscious as a result.

[VacantJoy]

It actually was a readers’ list, as determined by the comment to #86 ”It’s a Sin”

https://web.archive.org/web/20211025172 ... 80s-90-86/

Not a Pet Shop Boys favourite at Classic Pop towers, for this was the moment that Neil and Chris dropped the musical subtlety and mystery in favour of the biggest, heaviest and most obvious slice of Euro disco that, even now, you could possibly imagine. But it sold by the bucket-load – going to number one in the UK and around Europe, and reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 – and is thus forever lodged in readers’ conscious as a result.

its says https://www.classicpopmag.com/2014/03/t ... 80s-95-91/ by classic pop
they also have included Pet shop boys in other lists like this for example https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/v ... hp?t=13298

[VacantJoy]

Classic Pop magazine is the ultimate celebration of great pop and chart music across the decades with in-depth interviews with top artists, features, news and reviews. From pop to indie and new wave to electronic music – it's all here...
https://www.classicpopmag.com/2014/03/t ... e-80s-5-1/

(UK) (2014)