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The Best of 1980: (a few of the songs might be older, but the lists include songs I discovered in a particular year)

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Rock Lobster	B-52s
2	Games Without Frontiers	Peter Gabriel
3	Fame	David Bowie
4	Whip It	Devo
5	I Wanna Be Sedated	Ramones
6	Life During Wartime (This Ain't No Party...)	Talking Heads
7	Heart Of Glass	Blondie
8	Pop Muzik	M
9	What I Like About You	Romantics
10	Cars	Gary Numan
11	Changes	David Bowie
12	De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da	Police
13	Just What I Needed	Cars
14	Watching The Detectives	Elvis Costello
15	Private Idaho	B-52s
16	Making Plans For Nigel	XTC
17	Another One Bites The Dust	Queen
18	Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)	Squeeze
19	One Way Or Another	Blondie
20	Bela Lugosi's Dead	Bauhaus
21	Money (That's What I Want)	Flying Lizards
22	Video Killed The Radio Star	Buggles
23	Train In Vain (Stand By Me)	Clash
24	Another Brick In The Wall	Pink Floyd
25	Turning Japanese	Vapors
26	Rebel Rebel	David Bowie
27	Tide Is High	Blondie
28	Message In A Bottle	Police
29	I Don't Like Mondays	Boomtown Rats
30	Robots	Kraftwerk
31	One Step Beyond	Madness
32	Planet Claire	B-52s
33	Fade To Grey	Visage
34	Freedom Of Choice	Devo
35	Love Is The Drug	Roxy Music
36	I Got You	Split Enz
37	Fashion	David Bowie
38	Call Me	Blondie
39	Psycho Killer	Talking Heads
40	I Want You To Want Me	Cheap Trick
41	My Sharona	Knack
42	Cool For Cats	Squeeze
43	Let's Go	Cars
44	Lost In The Supermarket	Clash
45	Roxanne	Police
46	Golden Years	David Bowie
47	Love Will Tear Us Apart	Joy Division
48	Generals And Majors	XTC
49	Accidents Will Happen	Elvis Costello
50	Model	Kraftwerk
51	Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?	Ramones
52	Quiche Lorraine	B-52s
53	Take Me, I'm Yours	Squeeze
54	Enola Gay	OMD
55	Good Times Roll	Cars
56	Mystery Achievement	Pretenders
57	Space Oddity	David Bowie
58	Girl U Want	Devo
59	Take Me To The River	Talking Heads
60	Alison	Elvis Costello
61	Walk On The Wild Side	Lou Reed
62	Forest	Cure
63	London Calling	Clash
64	Atomic	Blondie
65	Rock N Roll High School	Ramones
66	Is She Really Going Out With Him?	Joe Jackson
67	I Only Want To Be With You	Tourists
68	Dance This Mess Around	B-52s
69	Radio Radio	Elvis Costello
70	Life Begins At The Hop	XTC
71	My Best Friend's Girl	Cars
72	Jean Genie	David Bowie
73	Tears Of A Clown	English Beat
74	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Devo
75	Lust For Life	Iggy Pop
76	Crazy Little Thing Called Love	Queen
77	Blitzkrieg Bop	Ramones
78	It's Still Rock & Roll To Me	Billy Joel
79	Dreaming	Blondie
80	Solsbury Hill	Peter Gabriel
81	Young Americans	David Bowie
82	Sultans Of Swing	Dire Straits
83	Get Up, Stand Up	Bob Marley
84	Trans Europe Express	Kraftwerk
85	Can't Stand Losing You	Police
86	Pump It Up	Elvis Costello
87	Dangerous Type	Cars
88	Comfortably Numb	Pink Floyd
89	Dance Away	Roxy Music
90	C-30 C-60 C-90, Go!	Bow Wow Wow
91	Boys Keep Swinging	David Bowie
92	Give Me Back My Man	B-52s
93	I Don't Remember	Peter Gabriel
94	Jumping Someone Else's Train	Cure
95	Surrender	Cheap Trick
96	Rat Race	Specials
97	Ca Plane Pour Moi	Plastic Bertrand
98	(Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes	Elvis Costello
99	Danger	Motels
100	Brass In Pocket (I'm Special)	Pretenders
101	Heroes	David Bowie
102	Autobahn	Kraftwerk
103	Let My Love Open The Door	Pete Townsend
104	Cruel To Be Kind	Nick Lowe
105	Nightclubbing	Iggy Pop
106	Another Nail In My Heart	Squeeze
107	Guns Of Brixton	Clash
108	So Lonely	Police
109	Love Stinks	J Geils Band
110	Sunday Papers	Joe Jackson
111	Coming Up	Paul McCartney
112	Lucky Number	Lene Lovich
113	It's All I Can Do	Cars
114	Israel	Siouxsie & Banshess
115	Walking On The Moon	Police
116	Don't Do Me Like That	Tom Petty
117	Teenage Kicks	Undertones
118	Run Like Hell	Pink Floyd
119	(What's So Funny Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding	Elvis Costello
120	I Fought The Law	Clash
121	Emotional Rescue	Rolling Stones
122	Warm Leatherette	Normal
123	Werewolves Of London	Warren Zevon
124	That's Entertainment	Jam
125	Anarchy In The UK	Sex Pistols
126	Don't Eat The Yellow Snow	Frank Zappa
127	Sheena Is A Punk Rocker	Ramones
128	Beat The Clock	Sparks
129	Message To Rudy	Specials
130	Are Friends Electric?	Gary Numan
131	It's Different For Girls	Joe Jackson
132	Are You Experienced?	Devo
133	Christine	Siouxsie & Banshees
134	Looking For Clues	Robert Palmer
135	Dream Police	Cheap Trick
136	Skateaway	Dire Straits
137	Ever Fallin In Love (With Somebody You Shouldn't)?	Buzzcocks
138	X Offender	Blondie
139	Man Who Sold The World	David Bowie
140	Perfect Day	Lou Reed
141	Refugee	Tom Petty
142	Hong Kong Garden	Siouxsie & Banshees
143	Touch And Go	Cars
144	Mind Of A Toy	Visage
145	Chuck E's In Love	Rickie Lee Jones
146	When You Were Mine	Prince
147	Magnificent Seven	Clash
148	Clubland	Elvis Costello
149	Suffragette City	David Bowie
150	Sweet Jane	Velvet Underground
151	Here Comes My Girl	Tom Petty
152	Strobe Light	B-52s
153	She's Lost Control	Joy Division
154	Los Angeles	X
155	Down In The Park	Gary Numan
156	Empire State Human	Human League
157	On Your Radio	Joe Jackson
158	Start!	Jam
159	Pretty Vacant	Sex Pistols
160	Clampdown	Clash
161	Dancin Fool	Frank Zappa
162	Jocko Homo	Devo
163	Passenger	Iggy Pop
164	Killing An Arab	Cure
165	Man With The Child In His Eyes	Kate Bush
166	Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)	Robert Palmer
167	Candy-O	Cars
168	(I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear	Blondie
169	Over You	Roxy Music
170	Rappers Delight	Sugarhill Gang
171	This Is Pop?	XTC
172	Look Sharp	Joy Jackson
173	Do It Clean	Echo & The Bunnymen
174	Kid	Pretenders
175	Hey You	Pink Floyd
176	Dirty Mind	Prince
177	Clean Clean	Buggles
178	Just Keep Walking	INXS
179	(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)	Stranglers
180	Being Boiled	Human League
181	Romeo & Juliette	Dire Straits
182	I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down	Elvis Costello
183	Kings Of The Wild Frontier	Adam Ant
184	Imitation Of Christ	Psychedelic Furs
185	Fools In Love	Joe Jackson
186	Even The Losers	Tom Petty
187	Wuthering Heights	Kate Bush
188	Too Nice To Talk To	English Beat
189	Money Changes Everything	Brains
190	God Save The Queen	Sex Pistols
191	Spirit Of Radio	Rush
192	Living In The Plastic Age	Buggles
193	Stop Your Sobbing	Pretenders
194	Rat Trap	Boomtown Rats
195	Sister Europe	Psychedelic Furs
196	Good Girls Don't	Knack
197	This Beat Goes On/Switching To Glide	Kings
198	Local Girls	Graham Parker
199	Homocide	999
200	2-4-6-8 Motorway	Tom Robinson Band

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The Best of 1981:  (not the best year in music, this list gets pretty sketchy about midway through)

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Once In A Lifetime	Talking Heads
2	Girls On Film	Duran Duran
3	Our Lips Are Sealed	Go-Gos
4	Dancing With Myself	Billy Idol
5	Rapture	Blondie
6	Shake It Up	Cars
7	Just Can't Get Enough	Depeche Mode
8	Mirror In The Bathroom	English Beat
9	Under Pressure	Queen & David Bowie
10	Sound Of The Crowd	Human League
11	This Is Radio Clash	Clash
12	Don't Stand So Close To Me	Police
13	O Superman	Laurie Anderson
14	Stand And Deliver	Adam Ant
15	Beautiful World	Devo
16	Tempted	Squeeze
17	Pretty In Pink	Psychedelic Furs
18	Message Of Love	Pretenders
19	Hey Nineteen	Steely Dan
20	We Got The Beat	Go-Gos
21	Private Eyes	Hall & Oates
22	Planet Earth	Duran Duran
23	Breakup Song (They Don't Write Em...)	Greg Kihn Band
24	Tears Are Not Enough	ABC
25	Start Me Up	Rolling Stones
26	Hit Me With Your Best Shot	Pat Benatar
27	Boys Don't Cry	Cure
28	Music For Boys	Suburbs
29	Mony Mony	Billy Idol
30	Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic	Police
31	I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)	Hall & Oates
32	Up All Night	Boomtown Rats
33	People Who Died	Jim Carroll Band
34	Only A Lad	Oingo Boingo
35	Wordy Rappinghood	Tom Tom Club
36	Bette Davis Eyes	Kim Carnes
37	Working On A Coal Mine	Devo
38	Antmusic	Adam Ant
39	Homosapien	Pete Shelley
40	Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)	David Bowie
41	Urgent	Foreigner
42	I Will Follow	U2
43	Computer Love	Kraftwerk
44	Computer Games	Mi-Sex
45	In The Air Tonight	Phil Collins
46	History Never Repeats	Split Enz
47	Ghost Town	Specials
48	Vienna	Ultravox
49	When The World Is Running Down...	Police
50	Super Freak	Rick James
51	Abacab	Genesis
52	To Cut A Long Story Short	Spandau Ballet
53	Atmosphere	Joy Division
54	Electricity	OMD
55	Primary	Cure
56	Centerfold	J Geils Band
57	Driven To Tears	Police
58	Chariots Of Fire	Vangelis
59	Upside Down	Diana Ross
60	Games People Play	Alan Parsons Project
61	Kiss On My List	Hall & Oates
62	Trouble	Lindsey Buckingham
63	Talk Of The Town	Pretenders
64	While You See A Chance	Steve Winwood
65	Waiting On A Friend	Rolling Stones
66	Chant #1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)	Spandau Ballet
67	Lawnchairs	Our Daughter's Wedding
68	Prince Charming	Adam Ant
69	Voice	Ultravox
70	Voice	Moody Blues
71	Magic	Olivia Newton-John
72	Young Turks	Rod Stewart
73	Dreaming Of Me	Depeche Mode
74	Lunatic Fringe	Red Rider
75	You Better You Bet	Who
76	Burnin For You	Blue Oyster Cult
77	Penthouse And Pavement	Heaven 17
78	This Town	Go-Gos
79	Jam Was Moving	Debby Harry
80	Funkytown	Lipps, Inc
81	You Make My Dreams	Hall & Oates
82	Stop Dragging My Heart Around	Stevie Nicks
83	Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)	Fun Boy Three
84	Kick In The Eye	Bauhaus
85	Little Girls	Oingo Boingo
86	Waiting For A Girl Like You	Foreigner
87	Controversy	Prince
88	All Of This And Nothing	Psychedelic Furs
89	Harden My Heart	Quarterflash
90	Ashes To Ashes	David Bowie
91	Talk To Ya Later	Tubes
92	Too Much Time On My Hands	Styx
93	Jerkin Back And Forth	Devo
94	Pocket Calculator	Kraftwerk
95	Transmission	Joy Division
96	Arc Of A Diver	Steve Winwood
97	New Life	Depeche Mode
98	Gulity	Classix Nouveaux
99	Pull Up To The Bumper	Grace Jones
100	Physical	Olivia Newton-John
101	Jesse's Girl	Rick Springfield
102	Gloria	U2
103	Art Of Parties	Japan
104	Cold Life	Ministry
105	Canary In A Coal Mine	Police
106	Find Your Way Back	Jefferson Starship
107	Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me)	XTC
108	On The Outside	Oingo Boingo
109	New Toy	Lene Lovich
110	Everything's Gone Green	New Order
111	Misunderstanding	Genesis
112	Funny Face	Sparks
113	Beat Crazy	Joe Jackson
114	Winning	Santana
115	Destroyer	Kinks
116	I've Done Everything For You	Rick Springfield
117	(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing	Heaven 17
118	Backfired	Debbie Harry
119	Passion	Rod Stewart
120	Charlotte Sometimes	Cure
121	Xanadu	Olivia Newton-John
122	We Can Get Together	Icehouse
123	Flash	Queen
124	White Girl	X
125	Good Year For The Roses	Elvis Costello
126	My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)	Chilliwack
127	Tom Sawyer	Rush
128	Spellbound	Siouxsie & The Banshees
129	Precious To Me	Phil Seymour
130	Adulteress	Pretenders
131	No Reply At All	Genesis
132	Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag	Pigbag
133	Musclebound	Spandau Ballet
134	Elephant Talk	King Crimson
135	Waiting	Tom Petty
136	What's He Got?	Producers
137	Ceremony	New Order
138	Jumpin Jive	Joe Jackson
139	Happy Birthday	Altered Images
140	Time	Alan Parsons Project
141	Don't Want To Wait Anymore	Tubes
142	Call Box	Wall Of Voodoo
143	Janitor	Suburban Lawns
144	What We All Want	Gang Of Four
145	Souvenir	OMD
146	Ah Leah	Donnie Iris
147	Wild Thing	Creatures
148	Is That Love?	Squeeze
149	Dog Eat Dog	Adam Ant
150	We Want The Airwaves	Ramones
151	Turn It On Again	Genesis
152	She Talks In Stereo	Gary Myrick
153	Reward	Teardrop Explodes
154	Never Gonna Cry Again	Eurythmics
155	Follow The Leaders	Killing Joke
156	Private Life	Grace Jones
157	Tower Of London	XTC
158	Nasty Habits	Oingo Boingo
159	All Stood Still	Ultravox
160	Joan Of Arc	OMD
161	Teacher Teacher	Rockpile
162	11 O'Clock Tick Tock	U2
163	Unguarded Moment	Church
164	It's Going To Happen	Undertones
165	Dreams Never End	New Order
166	Friends Of Mr Cairo	Vangelis
167	Icehouse	Icehouse
168	Love Song	Simple Minds
169	What Does Sex Mean To Me?	Human Sexual Response
170	From A Whisper To A Scream	Elvis Costello
171	Limelight	Rush
172	Back In Flesh	Wall Of Voodoo
173	Sleepwalk	Ultravox
174	She Is Mine	Psychedelic Furs
175	TV Party	Black Flag
176	Just Between You And Me	April Wine
177	Mad-Eyed Screamer	Creatures
178	Stay Young	INXS
179	Nag Nag Nag	Cabaret Voltaire
180	Hardest Part	Blondie
181	Hold Onto Something	Great Buildings
182	Happy House	Siouxsie & The Banshees
183	In Quintessence	Squeeze
184	Messages	OMD
185	Work (N.O. Nah No! No! My Daddy Don’t)	Bow Wow Wow
186	Angel Say No	Tommy Tutone
187	Echo Beach	Martha & The Muffins
188	Are You Ready For The Sex Girls?	Gleaming Spires
189	I Have The Skill	Sherbs
190	Dumb Waiters	Psychedelic Furs
191	Can Can	Bad Manners
192	Too Much Pressure	Selecter
193	Upstairs	Sparks
194	Food For Thought	UB40
195	Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)	Tom Petty
196	Sex Junkie	Plasmatics
197	Nick The Stripper	Birthday Party
198	Linda Blair	Redd Kross
199	It's My Party	Dave Stewart
200	In Shreds	Chameleons

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The Best of 1982:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Hungry Like The Wolf	Duran Duran
2	I Ran (So Far Away)	Flock Of Seagulls
3	Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?	Soft Cell
4	Don't You Want Me?	Human League
5	Rock The Casbah	Clash
6	Look Of Love	ABC
7	Mickey	Toni Basil
8	Goody Too Shoes	Adam Ant
9	I Want Candy	Bow Wow Wow
10	Destination Unknown	Missing Persons
11	Shock The Monkey	Peter Gabriel
12	Genius Of Love	Tom Tom Club
13	Situation	Yaz
14	Senses Working Overtime	XTC
15	Should I Stay Or Should I Go?	Clash
16	In The Name Of Love	Thompson Twins
17	Vacation	Go-Gos
18	867-5309 (Jenny)	Tommy Tutone
19	1999	Prince
20	Down Under	Men At Work
21	Love Plus One	Haircut 100
22	Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?	Culture Club
23	Da Da Da (You Don't Love Me, I Don't Love You)	Trio
24	Kids In America	Kim Wilde
25	I Love Rock N Roll	Joan Jett
26	Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime...)	Flirts
27	Pale Shelter	Tears For Fears
28	Talk Talk	Talk Talk
29	I Know There's Something Going On	Frida
30	Steppin Out	Joe Jackson
31	I Know What Boys Like	Waitresses
32	Sex Dwarf	Soft Cell
33	Cool Jerk	Go-Gos
34	Town Called Malice	Jam
35	Who Can It Be Now?	Men At Work
36	Don't Go	Yaz
37	Avalon	Roxy Music
38	Twilight Zone	Golden Earring
39	Goodbye To You	Scandal
40	Sirius/Eye In The Sky	Alan Parsons Project
41	I Love A Man In Uniform	Gang Of Four
42	Only The Lonely	Motels
43	Words	Missing Persons
44	Stand Or Fall	Fixx
45	Space Age Love Song	Flock Of Seagulls
46	House Of Fun	Madness
47	It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do It	Bananarama
48	Hot In The City	Billy Idol
49	Mad World	Tears For Fears
50	Radio Free Europe	REM
51	Johnny, Are You Queer?	Josie Cotton
52	Never Say Never	Romeo Void
53	Pass The Dutchie	Musical Youth
54	My City Was Gone	Pretenders
55	Let's Go To Bed	Cure
56	What Do All Of The People Know?	Monroes
57	Spirits In The Material World	Police
58	That's Good	Devo
59	Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)	Haircut 100
60	Valley Girl	Frank Zappa
61	Nowhere Girl	B-Movie
62	Black Coffee In Bed	Squeeze
63	Freeze-Frame	J Geils Band
64	I Predict	Sparks
65	Back On The Chain Gang	Pretenders
66	Six Months In A Leaky Boat	Split Enz
67	More Than This	Roxy Music
68	Only You	Yaz
69	I Have The Touch	Peter Gabriel
70	Abracadabra	Steve Miller Band
71	Stray Cat Strut	Stray Cats
72	Save It For Later	English Beat
73	Say Hello, Wave Goodbye	Soft Cell
74	IGY (What A Beautiful World)	Donald Fagen
75	Sexual Healing	Marvin Gaye
76	Maneater	Hall & Oates
77	Edge Of Seventeen (One-Winged Dove)	Stevie Nicks
78	Promised You A Miracle	Simple Minds
79	Dirty Laundry	Don Henley
80	Planet Rock	Afrika Baambaataa
81	Love Action (I Believe In Love)	Human League
82	Eyes Of A Stranger	Payolas
83	Blue Spark	X
84	Pressure	Billy Joel
85	Lust To Love	Go-Gos
86	Rock This Town	Stray Cats
87	Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)	Rod Stewart
88	It's Raining Again	Supertramp
89	Take The L	Motels
90	Atlantic City	Bruce Springsteen
91	Heart Attack	Olivia Newton-John
92	Eaten By The Monster Of Love	Sparks
93	Beat Surrender	Jam
94	Someday, Someway	Marshall Crenshaw
95	Hold Me	Fleetwood Mac
96	I Keep Forgettin	Michael McDonald
97	Iko Iko	Belle Stars
98	Telecommunication	Flock Of Seagulls
99	Do You Wanna Touch Me?	Joan Jett
100	Atomic Dog	George Clinton
101	I'm So Excited	Pointer Sisters
102	Flamethrower	J Geils Band
103	Flaming Desire	Bill Nelson
104	I Need You	Paul Carrack
105	Since You're Gone	Cars
106	Africa	Toto
107	Valerie	Steve Winwood
108	President Gas	Psychedelic Furs
109	Living On The Ceiling	Blancmange
110	Gypsy	Fleetwood Mac
111	You Should Hear How She Talks About You	Melissa Manchester
112	Ball And Chain	XTC
113	You Got Lucky	Tom Petty
114	Under The Boardwalk	Tom Tom Club
115	Hanging Garden	Cure
116	(He Was) Really Saying Something	Bananarama
117	I Confess	English Beat
118	Wot	Captain Sensible
119	Peek-A-Boo	Devo
120	Cat People (Putting Out Fires)	David Bowie
121	He Could Be The One	Josie Cotton
122	Nip It In The Bud	B-52s
123	Wild Sex (In The Working Class)	Oingo Boingo
124	Allentown	Billy Joel
125	Meaning Of Love	Depeche Mode
126	Don't Talk To Strangers	Rick Springfield
127	You Can Do Magic	America
128	Talking Back To The Night	Steve Winwood
129	Get Up And Go	Go-Gos
130	Somebody's Baby	Jackson Browne
131	Harry's Game	Clannad
132	I Could Be Happy	Altered Images
133	Shakin	Eddie Money
134	Real Men	Joe Jackson
135	Ziggy Stardust	Bauhaus
136	Make A Move On Me	Olivia Newton-John
137	Modern Love Is Automatic	Flock Of Seagulls
138	Message	Grand Master Flash
139	Everywhere That I'm Not	Translator
140	Eminence Front	Who
141	Rosanna	Toto
142	Seconds	Human League
143	Happy Talk	Captain Sensible
144	See You	Depeche Mode
145	Island Of Lost Souls	Blondie
146	Gloria	Laura Branigan
147	Goodbye, Goodbye	Oingo Boingo
148	Man Out Of Time	Elvis Costello
149	Uncertain Smile	The The
150	Secret Journey	Police
151	Fantasy	Aldo Nova
152	Mesopotamia	B-52s
153	Gardening At Night	REM
154	Someone Somewhere In Summertime	Simple Minds
155	Spirit	Bauhaus
156	Hurts So Good	John Mellencamp
157	Crimson And Clover	Joan Jett
158	Maid Of Orleans	OMD
159	Images Of Heaven	Peter Godwin
160	Leave In Silence	Depeche Mode
161	Juke Box Hero	Foreigner
162	Think I'm In Love	Eddie Money
163	Grey Matter	Oingo Boingo
164	Baby Oh No	Bow Wow Wow
165	Buffalo Gals	Malcom McLaren
166	Jack And Diane	John Mellencamp
167	Young Guns (Go For It)	Wham!
168	Insecure Me	Soft Cell
169	All Of My Heart	ABC
170	Dancing In The Street	Van Halen
171	You Don't Want Me Anymore	Steel Breeze
172	Party Fears Two	Associates
173	Glittering Prize	Simple Minds
174	Christian	China Crisis
175	Hold On	Santana
176	On The Loose	Saga
177	New World Man	Rush
178	Private Life	Oingo Boingo
179	Beatnik Beach	Go-Gos
180	Slow Dive	Siouxsie & The Banshees
181	Mental Hopscotch	Missing Persons
182	Today	Talk Talk
183	Open Your Eyes	Lords Of The New Church
184	Lost Planes	Fixx
185	Hungry Wolf	X
186	Water On Glass	Kim Wilde
187	Sat In Your Lap	Kate Bush
188	Shavin My Neck	Gene Loves Jezebel
189	Hey Little Girl	Icehouse
190	Paperlate	Genesis
191	Stool Pigeon	Kid Creole & Coconuts
192	Subdivisions	Rush
193	No Easy Street	Psychedelic Furs
194	U-Men	Front 242
195	No Thugs In Our House	XTC
196	My Girl Lollipop (My Boy Lollipop)	Bad Manners
197	Working Girl	Members
198	Love Shadow	Fashion
199	She Sheila	Producers
200	Burning Down One Side	Robert Plant

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The Best of 1983:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Burning Down The House	Talking Heads
2	Rio	Duran Duran
3	Blue Monday	New Order
4	Everything Counts	Depeche Mode
5	Everyday I Write The Book	Elvis Costello
6	Sweet Dreams	Eurythmics
7	Lies	Thompson Twins
8	Der Kommissar	After The Fire
9	Love My Way	Psychedelic Furs
10	One Thing Leads To Another	Fixx
11	One Thing	INXS
12	Time (Clock Of The Heart)	Culture Club
13	Poison Arrow	ABC
14	Union Of The Snake	Duran Duran
15	Safety Dance	Men Without Hats
16	White Wedding	Billy Idol
17	Let's Dance	David Bowie
18	She Blinded Me With Science	Thomas Dolby
19	Sex (I'm A...)	Berlin
20	Saved By Zero	Fixx
21	Our House	Madness
22	Walking In LA	Missing Persons
23	Promises, Promises	Naked Eyes
24	Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)	Flock Of Seagulls
25	(Keep Feeling) Fascination	Human League
26	Send Me An Angel	Real Life
27	Middle Of The Road	Pretenders
28	Politics Of Dancing	Re-Flex
29	99 Luftballoons	Nena
30	Every Breath You Take	Police
31	Holiday	Madonna
32	Electric Avenue	Eddy Grant
33	I'll Tumble For Ya	Culture Club
34	Modern Love	David Bowie
35	Is There Something I Should Know?	Duran Duran
36	Girls Just Want To Have Fun	Cyndi Lauper
37	Let Me Go	Heaven 17
38	Desperate But Not Serious	Adam Ant
39	Gone Daddy Gone	Violent Femmes
40	Red Skies	Fixx
41	Puttin On The Ritz	Taco
42	New Year's Day	U2
43	Metro	Berliln
44	Mexican Radio	Wall Of Voodoo
45	Confusion	New Order
46	Too Shy	Kajagoogoo
47	In A Big Country	Big Country
48	Love Cats	Cure
49	Major Tom (Coming Home)	Peter Schilling
50	Karma Chameleon	Culture Club
51	Always Something There To Remind Me	Naked Eyes
52	Syncronicity II	Police
53	Work For Love	Ministry
54	Temple Of Love	Sisters Of Mercy
55	China Girl	David Bowie
56	Love Is A Battlefield	Pat Benatar
57	Power And The Passion	Midnight Oil
58	Girlfriend Is Better	Talking Heads
59	This Is The Day	The The
60	Little Red Corvette	Prince
61	Gold	Spandau Ballet
62	Talking In Your Sleep	Romantics
63	Be Good Johnny	Men At Work
64	Change	Tears For Fears
65	Blister In The Sun	Violent Femmes
66	Jeopardy	Greg Kihn Band
67	Our Lips Are Sealed	Fun Boy Three
68	Love Is A Stranger	Eurythmics
69	Don't Change	INXS
70	I Melt With You	Modern English
71	I Eat Cannibals	Total Coelo
72	Breaking Us In Two	Joe Jackson
73	Overkill	Men At Work
74	Bang The Drum All Day	Todd Rundgren
75	King Of Pain	Police
76	Shiny Shiny	Haysi Fantayzee
77	True	Spandau Ballet
78	China	Red Rockers
79	Industrial Disease	Dire Straits
80	Shipbuilding	Elvis Costello
81	Reap The Wild Wind	Ultravox
82	Sunday Bloody Sunday	U2
83	Walk	Cure
84	Kiss Off	Violent Femmes
85	Come On Eileen	Dexy's Midnight Runners
86	AEIOU Sometimes Y	Ebn Ozn
87	Slipping Away	Dave Edmunds
88	Oblivious	Aztec Camera
89	This Is Not A Love Song	Public Image Limited
90	Suddenly Last Summer	Motels
91	Let The Music Play	Shannon
92	Cool Places	Sparks
93	Sign Of Fire	Fixx
94	It's A Mistake	Men At Work
95	Stand Back	Stevie Nicks
96	One Of Our Submarines	Thomas Dolby
97	Come Dancing	Kinks
98	Revenge	Ministry
99	Doot Doot	Freur
100	That's All	Genesis
101	She Works Hard For The Money	Donna Summer
102	Underground	Men At Work
103	My Own Way	Duran Duran
104	Love On Your Side	Thompson Twins
105	Church Of The Poison Mind	Culture Club
106	Photograph	Def Leppard
107	Rockit	Herbie Hancock
108	Big Log	Robert Plant
109	Burning Up	Madonna
110	Mama	Genesis
111	Synchronicity I	Police
112	Add It Up	Violent Femmes
113	This Charming Man	Smiths
114	Get The Balance Right	Depeche Mode
115	Owner Of A Lonely Heart	Yes
116	She's A Beauty	Tubes
117	Temptation	Heaven 17
118	When The Walls Came Down	Call
119	Family Man	Hall & Oates
120	Say, Say, Say	Paul McCartney
121	I'm Still Standing	Elton John
122	Just A Job To Do	Genesis
123	Break My Stride	Matthew Wilder
124	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Specimen
125	Age Of Consent	New Order
126	Maniac	Michael Sembello
127	Hold Back The Rain	Duran Duran
128	Nightmares	Flock Of Seagulls
129	Mirror Man	Human League
130	Nobody's Diary	Yaz
131	Can't Shake Loose	Agnetha Faltskog
132	Song For A Future Generation	B-52s
133	Annie Get Your Gun	Squeeze
134	Million Miles Away	Plimsouls
135	I Don't Care Anymore	Phil Collins
136	Mr Roboto	Styx
137	Tour De France	Kraftwerk
138	It Must Be Love	Madness
139	Never Never	Assembly
140	Lawyers In Love	Jackson Browne
141	When The Lights Go Out	Naked Eyes
142	Whammy Kiss	B-52s
143	Europa And The Pirate Twins	Thomas Dolby
144	Nothing Bad Ever Happens To Me	Oingo Boingo
145	In The Mood	Robert Plant
146	Telephone Operator	Pete Shelley
147	Slang Teacher	Wide Boy Awake
148	Love In Itself	Depeche Mode
149	State Farm	Yaz
150	She's In Parties	Bauhaus
151	Twist Of Fate	Olivia Newton-John
152	Legal Tender	B-52s
153	Get Out Of London	Intaferon
154	Is It Love?	Gang Of Four
155	Home By The Sea	Genesis
156	Say It Isn't So	Hall & Oates
157	Never Stop	Echo & Then Bunnymen
158	I Want You Back	Hoodoo Gurus
159	Dance With Me	Lords Of The New Church
160	Delirious	Prince
161	Don't Pay The Ferryman	Chris DeBurgh
162	Seconds	U2
163	Dr Heckyl & Mr Jive	Men At Work
164	Der Kommissar	Falco
165	Undercover Of The Night	Rolling Stones
166	Institutionalized	Suicidal Tendencies
167	Masquerade	Berlin
168	Cutter	Echo & Then Bunnymen
169	(I'm Not An) Effigy	Ministry
170	Talk About The Passion	REM
171	(Na Na Hey Hey) Kiss Him Goodbye	Bananarama
172	Make A Circuit With Me	Polecats
173	Swear	Tim Scott
174	We Are Detective	Thompson Twins
175	This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)	Talking Heads
176	Belly Of A Whale	Burning Sensations
177	We Live So Fast	Heaven 17
178	White Lines (Don't Do It)	Grandmaster Flash
179	Doctor Detroit	Devo
180	Baby Jane	Rod Stewart
181	Just Got Lucky	JoBoxers
182	Two Hearts Beat As One	U2
183	Rock You Up	Romantics
184	Radio Waves	OMD
185	Change Of Heart	Tom Petty
186	Whirly Girl	OXO
187	She's Sexy & 17	Stray Cats
188	Windows	Missing Persons
189	Way You Are	Tears For Fears
190	Remember The Nights	Motels
191	New York, New York	Nina Hagen
192	Who Do You Want To Be?	Oingo Boingo
193	Transfer Affection	Flock Of Seagulls
194	Shy Boy (Don’t It Make You Feel Good?)	Bananarama
195	Black And White	INXS
196	Chicken Outlaw	Wide Boy Awake
197	Working With Fire And Steel	China Crisis
198	Miss The Girl	Creatures
199	Every Word Means No	Let's Active
200	Puss N Boots	Adam Ant

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The Best of 1984:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Here Comes The Rain Again	Eurythmics
2	When Doves Cry	Prince
3	Cruel Summer	Bananarama
4	Ghost In You	Psychedelic Furs
5	Relax	Frankie Goes To Hollywood
6	Eyes Without A Face	Billy Idol
7	It's My Life	Talk Talk
8	What Is Love?	Howard Jones
9	Missed Me Blind	Culture Club
10	Out Of Touch	Hall & Oates
11	Hold Me Now	Thompson Twins
12	Smalltown Boy	Bronski Beat
13	Dance Hall Days	Wang Chung
14	Reflex	Duran Duran
15	Blasphemous Rumours	Depeche Mode
16	Erotic City	Prince
17	Original Sin	INXS
18	Don't Tell Me	Blancmange
19	Sexcrime (1984)	Eurythmics
20	Rebel Yell	Billy Idol
21	Everyday Is Halloween	Ministry
22	Come Back And Stay	Paul Young
23	Deeper And Deeper	Fixx
24	No More Words	Berlin
25	Close (To The Edit)	Art Of Noise
26	Hyperactive	Thomas Dolby
27	New Moon On Monday	Duran Duran
28	Head Over Heels	Go-Gos
29	White Horse	Laid Back
30	I Send A Message	INXS
31	Sunglasses At Night	Corey Hart
32	Pride (In The Name Of Love)	U2
33	Tenderness	General Public
34	Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly)	Icicle Works
35	Who's That Girl?	Eurythmics
36	Wouldn't It Be Good	Nik Kershaw
37	Are We Ourselves?	Fixx
38	Doctor, Doctor	Thompson Twins
39	She Bop	Cyndi Lauper
40	You Might Think	Cars
41	Go!	Tones On Tail
42	Two Tribes	Frankie Goes To Hollywood
43	Flesh For Fantasy	Billy Idol
44	Love Is The Law	Suburbs
45	Heaven	Psychedelic Furs
46	Only When You Leave	Spandau Ballet
47	You Can't Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want)	Joe Jackson
48	Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)	Romeo Void
49	New Song	Howard Jones
50	Lebanon	Human League
51	Strip	Adam Ant
52	Wild Boys	Duran Duran
53	Sunshine In The Shade	Fixx
54	Warrior	Scandal
55	Drive	Cars
56	Dancing In The Dark	Bruce Springsteen
57	Killing Moon	Echo & The Funnymen
58	Caterpillar	Cure
59	Burn For You	INXS
60	Blue Jean	David Bowie
61	Since Yesterday	Strawberry Switchblade
62	Wrapped Around Your Finger	Police
63	Big In Japan	Alphaville
64	It's A Miracle	Culture Club
65	Nobody Told Me	John Lennon
66	Boys Of Summer	Don Henley
67	Romancing The Stone	Eddy Grant
68	Beat Box	Art Of Noise
69	Melting In The Sun	INXS
70	Magic	Cars
71	Better Be Good To Me	Tina Turner
72	What Difference Does It Make?	Smiths
73	Radio Ga Ga	Queen
74	I Would Die 4 U	Prince
75	Right By Your Side	Eurythmics
76	Time After Time	Cyndi Lauper
77	More You Live, The More You Love	Flock Of Seagulls
78	My Ever Changing Moods	Style Council
79	Show Me	Pretenders
80	Eighties	Killing Joke
81	Why?	Bronski Beat
82	Bad	U2
83	Dancing With Tears In My Eyes	Ultravox
84	Only Flame In Town	Elvis Costello
85	That Was Then But This Is Now	ABC
86	I Can Dream About You	Dan Hartman
87	Hello Again	Cars
88	Doubleplusgood	Eurythmics
89	Tesla Girls	OMD
90	What's Love Got To Do With It?	Tina Turner
91	They Don't Know	Tracy Ullman
92	Heartbeat	Psychedelic Furs
93	Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun (Everybody Run)	Julie Brown
94	Red Red Wine	UB40
95	Somebody	Depeche Mode
96	I Feel For You	Chaka Khan
97	Money Changes Everything	Cyndi Lauper
98	Don't Let Go	Wang Chung
99	Less Cities, More Moving People	Fixx
100	Let's Go Crazy	Prince
101	Like A Virgin	Madonna
102	Infatuation	Rod Stewart
103	Catch My Fall	Billy Idol
104	Waterfront	Simple Minds
105	Pink Cadallac	Bruce Springsteen
106	Wake Me Up (Before You Go-Go)	Wham!
107	Gap	Thompson Twins
108	Jump	Van Halen
109	Jump	Aztec Camera
110	Rock You Like A Hurricane	Scorpions
111	Blind Vision	Blancmange
112	Glamorous Life	Sheila E
113	Boderline	Madonna
114	Careless Whisper	Wham!
115	Born In The USA	Bruce Springsteen
116	Easy Lover	Phil Collins
117	Locomotion	OMD
118	You Take Me Up	Thompson Twins
119	Modern Day Delilah	Van Stephenson
120	So Central Rain (I'm Sorry)	REM
121	We Belong	Pat Benatar
122	(What) In The Name Of Love…?	Naked Eyes
123	Lucky Star	Madonna
124	Gratitude	Oingo Boingo
125	Turn To You	Go-Gos
126	Strut	Sheena Easton
127	Hot You're Cool	General Public
128	10-9-8	Face To Face
129	Catch Me, I'm Falling	Real Life
130	Leave It	Yes
131	Somebody's Watching Me	Rockwell
132	Wire	U2
133	(Don't Go Back To) Rockville	REM
134	Jungle Love	Time
135	Fields Of Fire	Big Country
136	Hero Takes A Fall	Bangles
137	Purple Rain	Prince
138	Thieves Like Us	New Order
139	Blue Highway	Billy Idol
140	I Love You, Suzanne	Lou Reed
141	Boys Do Fall In Love	Robin Gibb
142	General Public	General Public
143	Dear Prudence	Siouxsie & The Banshees
144	All Through The Night	Cyndi Lauper
145	Go Insane	Lindsey Buckingham
146	Pearl In The Shell	Howard Jones
147	Lights Out	Peter Wolf
148	Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now	Smiths
149	Heaven (Must Be There)	Eurogliders
150	Cover Me	Bruce Springsteen
151	One In A Million	Romantics
152	Ministry Of Love	Eurythmics
153	Anywhere With You	Rubber Rodeo
154	Dancing In Berlin	Berlin
155	New Day	Killing Joke
156	Ccccan't You See?	Vicious Pink
157	Thin Line Between Love And Hate	Pretenders
158	Going Down To Liverpool	Bangles
159	Distant Early Warning	Rush
160	I Will Dare	Replacements
161	I Want A New Drug	Huey Lewis & The News
162	Be My Number Two	Joe Jackson
163	This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)	Peter Gabriel
164	State Of Shock	Jacksons
165	Speed Your Love To Me	Simple Minds
166	Longest Time	Billy Joel
167	Such A Shame	Talk TalkS
168	68 Guns	Alarm
169	Apollo 9	Adam Ant
170	Free Nelson Mandela	Specials
171	Room 101	Eurythmics
172	What's Gone Wrong?	Untouchables
173	Mistake #3	Culture Club
174	State Of The Nation	Industry
175	It's Like That	Run DMC
176	Self Control	Laura Branigan
177	Lifeline	pandau Ballet
178	Up On The Catwalk	Simple Minds
179	Sister Of Mercy	Thompson Twins
180	You're The Best Thing	Style Council
181	Heart Of Rock & Roll	Huey Lewis & The News
182	2000 Miles	Pretenders
183	Sensoria	Cabaret Voltaire
184	Julia	Eurythmics
185	Pretty Persuasion	REM
186	Sugar Walls	Sheena Easton
187	William, It Was Really Nothing	Smiths
188	Wild Life	Bananarama
189	Hand On My Heart	Shriekback
190	Red Sector A	Rush
191	Illegal Alien	Genesis
192	Dazzle	Siouxsie & The Banshees
193	Give	Missing Persons
194	Watusi Rodeo	Guadalcanal Diary
195	Wonderland	Big Country
196	Communication	Spandau Ballet
197	Passion Planet	Thompson Twins
198	War Song	Culture Club
199	Robert DeNiro's Waiting	Bananarama
200	Stand	Alarm

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The Best of 1985:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)	Dead Or Alive
2	Running Up That Hill	Kate Bush
3	Don't You (Forget About Me)	Simple Minds
4	People Are People	Depeche Mode
5	And She Was	Talking Heads
6	How Soon Is Now?	Smiths
7	Lay Your Hands On Me	Thompson Twins
8	Be Near Me	ABC
9	Close To Me	Cure
10	Things Can Only Get Better	Howard Jones
11	One Night In Bangkok	Murray Head
12	Obsession	Animotion
13	Alive And Kicking	Simple Minds
14	Shout	Tears For Fears
15	Dead Man's Party	Oingo Boingo
16	Love Vigilantes	New Order
17	Kiss Me	Tin Tin
18	If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free	Sting
19	19	Paul Hardcastle
20	Stay Up Late	Talking Heads
21	Into The Groove	Madonna
22	Take The Skinheads Bowling	Camper VanBeethoven
23	Master And Servant	Depeche Mode
24	Everybody Wants To Rule The World	Tears For Fears
25	Party At Ground Zero	Fishbone
26	Oh Yeah	Yello
27	In Between Days (Without You)	Cure
28	Weird Science	Oingo Boingo
29	World Destruction	Time Zone
30	Ball Of Confusion ()	Love & Rockets
31	Let's Go All The Way	Sly Fox
32	Take On Me	a-ha
33	Perfect Way	Scritti Politti
34	Shame	Motels
35	Election Day	Arcadia
36	Save A Prayer	Duran Duran
37	Get It On (Bang A Gong)	Power Station
38	Would I Lie To You?	Eurythmics
39	Shake The Disease	Depeche Mode
40	Voices Carry	Til Tuesday
41	Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)	Mike + The Mechanics
42	To Live And Die In LA	Wang Chung
43	Raspberry Beret	Prince
44	Strength	Alarm
45	Head Over Heels	Tears For Fears
46	Tarzan Boy	Baltimora
47	Welcome To The Pleasure Dome	Frankie Goes To Hollywood
48	Moments In Love	Art Of Noise
49	So In Love	OMD
50	Life In A Northern Town	Dream Academy
51	Sweetest Taboo	Sade
52	Johnny Come Home	Fine Young Cannibals
53	Sun Always Shines On TV	a-ha
54	Some Like It Hot	Power Station
55	View To A Kill	Duran Duran
56	Everytime You Go Away	Paul Young
57	Slave To Love	Bryan Ferry
58	Love Like Blood	Killing Joke
59	She Sells Sanctuary	Cult
60	Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves	Eurythmics
61	Material Girl	Madonna
62	Nemesis	Shriekback
63	Invincible	Pat Benatar
64	Invisible	Alison Moyet
65	Road To Nowhere	Talking Heads
66	We Close Our Eyes	Go West
67	Who Needs Love Like That?	Erasure
68	Forever Young	Alphaville
69	Can't Get There From Here	REM
70	Perfect Kiss	New Order
71	Life In One Day	Howard Jones
72	We Don't Need Another Hero	Tina Turner
73	There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)	Eurythmics
74	Tonight She Comes	Cars
75	Sun City	Artists United Against Apartheid
76	New Attitude	Patti LaBelle
77	Don't Stop The Dance	Cult
78	Rain	Bryan Ferry
79	Cloudbusting	Kate Bush
80	Fortress Around Your Heart	Sting
81	Walking On Sunshine	Katrina & The Waves
82	Sex As A Weapon	Pat Benatar
83	Pop Life	Prince
84	Shock	Motels
85	Bring On The Dancing Horses	Echo & The Bunnymen
86	Secret	OMD
87	I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down	Paul Young
88	88 Lines About 44 Women	Nails
89	Boy In The Box	Corey Hart
90	Cry	Godley & Creme
91	Smooth Operator	Sade
92	Television Man	Talking Heads
93	This Time	INXS
94	Don't Mess With Doctor Dream	Thompson Twins
95	Take Me With U	Prince
96	Cannonball	Supertramp
97	Little By Little	Robert Plant
98	When Your Heart Is Weak	Cock Robin
99	Slave To The Rhythm	Grace Jones
100	Money For Nothing	Dire Straits
101	Goonies R Good Enough	Cyndi Lauper
102	Stay	Oingo Boingo
103	Love Resurrection	Alison Moyet
104	Beat So Lonely	Charlie Sexton
105	Free Yourself	Untouchables
106	Angel	Madonna
107	Freeway Of Love	Aretha Franklin
108	All She Wants To Do Is Dance	Don Henley
109	Burning House Of Love	X
110	Beat Of A Heart	Scandal
111	Bitchin Camaro	Dead Milkmen
112	Love And Pride	King
113	Like To Get To Know You Well	Howard Jones
114	Lover Come Back To Me	Dead Or Alive
115	Broken Wings	Mr Mister
116	Conga	Miami Sound Machine
117	Never Ending Story	Limahl
118	Hit That Perfect Beat	Bronski Beat
119	Duel	Propaganda
120	Sub-Culture	New Order
121	Don't Lose My Number	Phil Collins
122	Boys And Girls	Bryan Ferry
123	Imagination	Belouis Some
124	Never Surrender	Corey Hart
125	Don’t Come Around Here No More	Tom Petty
126	Miami Vice Theme	Jan Hammer
127	Just Another Night	Mick Jagger
128	And We Danced	Hooters
129	Hounds Of Love	Kate Bush
130	Glory Days	Bruce Springsteen
131	One Of The Living	Tina Turner
132	Too Late For Goodbyes	Julian Lennon
133	Walk Of Life	Dire Straits
134	Let Him Go	Animotion
135	Lady Don't Mind	Talking Heads
136	Dress You Up	Madonna
137	Whole Of The Moon	Waterboys
138	Boy With A Thorn In His Side	Smiths
139	Viva Le Rock	Adam Ant
140	I Got You Babe	UB40
141	Take Me Now	Vicious Pink
142	You’re Only Human (Second Wind)	Billy Joel
143	I Love You Like A Ball And Chain	Eurythmics
144	Say It Isn't So	Outfield
145	Night Like This	Cure
146	Living In America	James Brown
147	Day By Day	Hooters
148	I'm On Fire	Bruce Springsteen
149	Blue Kiss	Jane Wiedlin
150	It's Called A Heart	Depeche Mode
151	Object Of My Desire	Starpoint
152	Sort Of Homecoming	U2
153	King Of Rock	Run DMC
154	Heavenly Action	Erasure
155	This Is Not America	David Bowie
156	Everything She Wants	Wham!
157	Love Is The Seventh Wave	Sting
158	Face The Face	Pete Townsend
159	When Love Breaks Down	Prefab Sprout
160	It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)	Eurythmics
161	Big Money	Rush
162	Say It Again	Danse Society
163	All You Zombies	Hooters
164	Universal Radio	Nina Hagen
165	Why Can't I Have You?	Cars
166	Sidewalk Talk	Jellybean
167	Everything That Rises Must Converge	Shriekback
168	Your Love Is King	Sade
169	Walk Away	Sisters Of Mercy
170	Creatures Of Love	Talking Heads
171	Axel F	Harold Faltermeyer
172	Unforgettable Fire	U2
173	Some People	Belouis Some
174	Revolution	Thompson Twins
175	Loving The Alien	David Bowie
176	Love Bizarre	Sheila E
177	Marlene On The Wall	Suzanne Vega
178	Driver 8	REM
179	Fire In The Twilight	Wang Chung
180	Lonely Ol Night	John Mellencamp
181	Sussudio	Phil Collins
182	King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up)	China Crisis
183	Communication	Power Station
184	Flexible	Depeche Mode
185	Just Like Honey	Jesus & Mary Chain
186	Endicott	Kid Creole & The Coconuts
187	Black Planet	Sisters Of Mercy
188	Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby	Colourfield
189	Test Of Time	Romantics
190	Dancing In The Street	Mick Jagger
191	You’re A Friend Of Mine	Jackson Browne
192	Kino	Cabaret Voltaire
193	Manhattan Project	Rush
194	Will The Wolf Survive?	Los Lobos
195	Kiss On The Bus	Replacements
196	Fetish	Vicious Pink
197	Steady	Jules Shear
198	Wake Up (Next To You)	Graham Parker
199	Like A Virgin	Lords Of The New Church
200	Kayleigh	Marillion

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The Best of 1986:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Bizarre Love Triangle	New Order
2	Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)	Pet Shop Boys
3	Missionary Man	Eurythmics
4	Cities In The Dust	Siouxsie & The Banshees
5	Dear God	XTC
6	King For A Day	Thompson Twins
7	In Your Eyes	Peter Gabriel
8	(How To Be A) Millionaire	ABC
9	You Know I Love You...Don't You?	Howard Jones
10	Walk This Way	Run DMC
11	What You Need	INXS
12	West End Girls	Pet Shop Boys
13	American Soviets	CCCP
14	Desire (Come And Get It)	Gene Loves Jezebel
15	Everybody Have Fun Tonight	Wang Chung
16	Rock Me Amadeus	Falco
17	Sledgehammer	Peter Gabriel
18	If You Leave	OMD
19	Wild Wild Life	Talking Heads
20	Medicine Show	Big Audio Dynamite
21	Notorious	Duran Duran
22	Pleasure And Pain	Divinyls
23	Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades	Timbuk 3
24	Hanging On A Heart Attack	Device
25	Boy	Book Of Love
26	Venus	Bananarama
27	Big Time	Peter Gabriel
28	I Still Believe (Great Design)	Call
29	Love Comes Quickly	Pet Shop Boys
30	Panic	Smiths
31	Walk Like An Egyptian	Bangles
32	Listen Like Thieves	INXS
33	You Be Illin	Run DMC
34	Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)	Dramarama
35	(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right	Beastie Boys
36	Open Your Heart	Madonna
37	Word Up	Cameo
38	Real Wild Child (Wild One)	Iggy Pop
39	I Touch Roses	Book Of Love
40	Built For The Future	Fixx
41	Human	Human League
42	Something About You	Level 42
43	Suburbia	Pet Shop Boys
44	Brand New Lover	Dead Or Alive
45	Way It Is	Bruce Hornsby
46	Take My Breath Away	Berlin
47	Manic Monday	Bangles
48	Mothers Talk	Tears For Fears
49	C'est La Vie	Robbie Nevil
50	No One Is To Blame	Howard Jones
51	Captain Of Her Heart	Double
52	I Can't Wait	Stevie Nicks
53	I Can't Wait	Nu Shooz
54	Love For Sale	Talking Heads
55	Higher Love	Steve Winwood
56	Land Of Confusion	Genesis
57	Telephone Call	Kraftwerk
58	To Be A Lover	Billy Idol
59	Vanity Kills	ABC
60	Fly On The Windscreen	Depeche Mode
61	Sweet Love	Anita Baker
62	E=MC2	Big Audio Dynamite
63	Just Another Day	Oingo Boingo
64	Life's What You Make It	Talk Talk
65	Superman	REM
66	Mad About You	Belinda Carlisle
67	Kiss	Prince
68	Shellshock	New Order
69	Left Of Center	Suzanne Vega
70	Big Mouth Strikes Again	Smiths
71	I Didn't Mean To Turn You On	Robert Palmer
72	Don't Leave Me This Way	Communards
73	Goodbye Is Forever	Arcadia
74	Paranoimia	Art Of Noise
75	Don't Get Me Wrong	Pretenders
76	Move Away	Culture Club
77	I Wanna Be A Cowboy	Boys Don't Cry
78	Digging Your Scene	Blow Monkeys
79	Infected	The The
80	Emotion In Motion	Ric Ocasek
81	True Colors	Cyndi Lauper
82	Love Parade	Dream Academy
83	Life Is Like	Suburbs
84	Peter Gunn	Art Of Noise
85	Secret Separation	Fixx
86	You Give Love A Bad Name	Bon Jovi
87	No Promises	Icehouse
88	Rise	Public Image Limited
89	Sanctify Yourself	Simple Minds
90	Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)	INXS
91	Invisible Touch	Genesis
92	Everywhere I Go	Call
93	Suspicious Minds	Fine Young Cannibals
94	Bottom Line	Big Audio Dynamite
95	Your Love	Outfield
96	Change Of Heart	Cyndi Lauper
97	(Forever) Live And Die	OMD
98	But Not Tonight	Depeche Mode
99	Musique Non-Stop	Kraftwerk
100	Children Of The Revolution	Violent Femmes
101	Livin On A Prayer	Bon Jovi
102	Sometimes	Erasure
103	Language Is A Virus	Laurie Anderson
104	Welcome To The Boomtown	David & David
105	Addicted To Love	Robert Palmer
106	Vienna Calling	Falco
107	Happy Hour	Housemartins
108	Spirit In The Sky	Doctor & The Medics
109	Legs	Art Of Noise
110	Question Of Lust	Depeche Mode
111	Love Missile F1-11	Sigue Sigue Sputnik
112	Too Much Or Nothing	General Public
113	Thorn In My Side	Eurythmics
114	Take Me Home Tonight	Eddie Money
115	Ask	Smiths
116	Control	Janet Jackson
117	All The Things She Said	Simple Minds
118	Freedom Overspill	Steve Winwood
119	I Do What I Do	John Taylor
120	You Can Call Me Al	Paul Simon
121	Typical Male	Tina Turner
122	Earn Enough For Us	XTC
123	Blood And Roses	Smithereens
124	French Kissing The USA	Debbie Harry
125	Black Celebration	Depeche Mode
126	Papa Don't Preach	Madonna
127	Out Of Mind Out Of Sight	Models
128	Away	Bolshoi
129	There Is A Light That Never Goes Out	Smiths
130	Fall On Me	REM
131	What Have You Done For Me Lately?	Janet Jackson
132	State Of The Nation	New Order
133	Final Solution	Peter Murphy
134	All The Love In The World	Outfield
135	What About Love	Til Tuesday
136	Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)	Glass Tiger
137	Oh L'Amour	Erasure
138	Cross The Border	Icehouse
139	Mountains	Prince
140	ROCK In The USA	John Mellencamp
141	I'm Not The One	Cars
142	Kind Of Magic	Queen
143	Candy Man	Siouxsie & The Banshees
144	Warriors (Of The Wasteland)	Frankie Goes To Hollywood
145	Holding Back The Years	Simply Red
146	Nasty	Janet Jackson
147	Living On Video	Trans-X
148	Right And Wrong	Joe Jackson
149	Split Decision	Steve Winwood
150	Absolute Beginners	David Bowie
151	Live To Tell	Madonna
152	Behind A Wall Of Sleep	Smithereens
153	Look Away	Big Country
154	Every Time You Cry	Outfield
155	Stripped	Depeche Mode
156	I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)	Grace Jones
157	Dreamtime	Daryl Hall
158	8:15 To Nowhere	Vicious Pink
159	Come Again	General Public
160	Sweet Freedom	Michael McDonald
161	Never As Good As The First Time	Sade
162	Two Of Hearts	Stacy Q
163	When Problems Arise	Fishbone
164	Throw Your Arms Around Me	Hunters & Collectors
165	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood	Elvis Costello
166	If She Knew What She Wants	Bangles
167	Mystic Rhythms	Rush
168	Heartache	Gene Loves Jezebel
169	All Day	Ministry
170	Question Of Time	Depeche Mode
171	Someday	Glass Tiger
172	Summer Of Love	B-52s
173	Caravan Of Love	Housemartins
174	Anything	Damned
175	Rage Hard	Frankie Goes To Hollywood
176	Take Me Home	Phil Collins
177	Is It A Crime?	Sade
178	Like Flames	Berlin
179	I Need Your Loving	Human League
180	Russians	Sting
181	All I Need Is A Miracle	Mike + The Mechanics
182	Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland	B-52s
183	So Far Away	Dire Straits
184	Money$ Too Tight To Mention	Simply Red
185	Greetings To The New Brunette	Billy Bragg
186	More Than Physical	Bananarama
187	Calling America	ELO
188	Somebody Put Something In My Drink	Ramones
189	Right Between The Eyes	Wax
190	Harlem Shuffle	Rolling Stones
191	Love's Easy Tears	Cocteau Twins
192	Leaving Me Now	Level 42
193	I Can't Think About Dancing	Missing Persons
194	Nothing In Common	Thompson Twins
195	Rain On The Scarecrow	John Mellencamp
196	Good Heart	Feargal Sharkey
197	Poison Street	New Model Army
198	Souvenir	Rubber Rodeo
199	Trick Of The Night	Bananarama
200	Puzzlin Evidence	Talking Heads

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The Best of 1987:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	True Faith	New Order
2	Strangelove	Depeche Mode
3	Need You Tonight/Mediate	INXS
4	Why Can't I Be You?	Cure
5	No New Tale To Tell	Love & Rockets
6	Sign O The Times	Prince
7	Lips Like Sugar	Echo & The Bunnymen
8	It's A Sin	Pet Shop Boys
9	Never Let Me Down Again	Depeche Mode
10	Just Like Heaven	Cure
11	This Corrosion	Sisters Of Mercy
12	I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	U2
13	We Care A Lot	Faith No More
14	Good Times	INXS
15	Don't Dream It's Over	Crowded House
16	Heartbreak Beat	Psychedelic Furs
17	Touched By The Hand Of God	New Order
18	Hourglass	Squeeze
19	I Need A Man	Eurythmics
20	I Go Crazy	Flesh For Lulu
21	Brass Monkey	Beastie Boys
22	Girlfriend In A Coma	Smiths
23	What Have I Done To Deserve This?	Pet Shop Boys
24	Motion Of Love	Gene Loves Jezebel
25	We'll Be Together	Sting
26	Hazy Shade Of Winter	Bangles
27	Big Love	Fleetwood Mac
28	Rain In The Summertime	Alarm
29	Mandinka	Sinead O'Connor
30	Luka	Suzanne Vega
31	One I Love	REM
32	With Or Without You	U2
33	When Smokey Sings	ABC
34	Pop Goes The World	Men Without Hats
35	No Sleep Til Brooklyn	Beastie Boys
36	Honeythief	Hipsway
37	Suspicion	Gene Loves Jezebel
38	Don't Let's Start	They Might Be Giants
39	One Simple Thing	Stabilizers
40	Ship Of Fools (Save Me From Tomorrow)	World Party
41	Holiday	Other Ones
42	Join In The Chant	Nitzer Ebb
43	I Don't Mind At All	Bourgeious Tagg
44	I Heard A Rumour	Bananarama
45	Brilliant Disguise	Bruce Springsteen
46	(I Just Died) In Your Arms	Cutting Crew
47	Crazy	Icehouse
48	Night You Murdered Love	ABC
49	Jane's Getting Serious	Jon Astley
50	World Shut Your Mouth	Julian Cope
51	Heaven Is A Place On Earth	Belinda Carlisle
52	Where The Streets Have No Name	U2
53	Day In, Day Out	David Bowie
54	It's Tricky	Run DMC
55	La Bamba	Los Lobos
56	Sweet Sixteen	Billy Idol
57	I Want Your Sex	George Michael
58	Pump Up The Volume	M/A/R/R/S
59	Little Lies	Fleetwood Mac
60	U Got The Look	Prince
61	Limbo	Bryan Ferry
62	Lessons In Love	Level 42
63	1963	New Order
64	Tonight, Tonight, Tonight	Genesis
65	Living In A Box	Living In A Box
66	Right On Track	Breakfast Club
67	Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)	Eurythmics
68	You Keep Me Hanging On	Kim Wilde
69	Wanted Dead Or Alive	Bon Jovi
70	Something So Strong	Crowded House
71	Faith	George Michael
72	Coming Up Close	Til Tuesday
73	Solitude Standing	Suzanne Vega
74	Let's Go (Nothing For Me)	New Order
75	Never Let Me Down	David Bowie
76	Got My Mind Set On You	George Harrison
77	Breakout	Swing Out Sister
78	Let's Go	Wang Chung
79	Don't Give Up	Peter Gabriel
80	All In My Mind	Love & Rockets
81	Catch Me, I'm Falling	Pretty Poison
82	Don't Sniff Coke	Pato Banton
83	What's Going On?	Cyndi Lauper
84	Pain	Oingo Boingo
85	Funkytown	Pseudo Echo
86	Don Quichotte	Magazine 60
87	Dominoes	Robbie Neville
88	I Wanna Be A Flintstone	Screaming Blue Messiahs
89	Get That Love	Thompson Twins
90	Tunnel Of Love	Bruce Springsteen
91	Everywhere	Fleetwood Mac
92	Red Rain	Peter Gabriel
93	Don't Need A Gun	Billy Idol
94	C'mon Every Beatbox	Big Audio Dynamite
95	Hymn For Her	Pretenders
96	Time Stand Still	Rush
97	Always The Sun	Stranglers
98	Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance To Anything)	Dead Milkmen
99	Things I Do For Money	Northern Pikes
100	Smoking Gun	Robert Cray
101	I Knew You Were Waiting For Me	Aretha Franklin
102	Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)	Los Lobos
103	Mercy Street	Peter Gabriel
104	Sheila Take A Bow	Smiths
105	Behind The Sun	Red Hot Chili Peppers
106	Don't Look Down - The Sequel	Go West
107	Seven Wonders	Fleetwood Mac
108	Something In My House	Dead Or Alive
109	Heart And Soul	T'Pau
110	Dude Looks Like A Lady	Aerosmith
111	Who's That Girl?	Madonna
112	Dragnet	Art Of Noise
113	Skin Trade	Duran Duran
114	Come On, Let's Go	Los Lobos
115	Say You Will	Foreigner
116	Mary's Prayer	Danny Wilson
117	La Isla Bonita	Madonna
118	Big Decision	That Petrol Emotion
119	Big Hollow Man	Danielle Dax
120	Touch Of Grey	Grateful Dead
121	Looking For A New Love	Jody Watley
122	Should I See?	Frozen Ghost
123	Walking Down Your Street	Bangles
124	Come As You Are	Peter Wolf
125	Here I Go Again	Whitesnake
126	I Can't Help It	Bananarama
127	That Voice Again	Peter Gabriel
128	Hypnotize Me	Wang Chung
129	Shoplifters Of The World Unite	Smiths
130	Alone Again Or	Damned
131	Causing A Commotion	Madonna
132	Bullet The Blue Sky	U2
133	Since You've Been Gone	Outfield
134	Why You Treat Me So Bad?	Club Nouveau
135	Wild Flower	Cult
136	Way You Make Me Feel	Michael Jackson
137	Trampoline	Julian Cope
138	Sanity	Killing Joke
139	This Wheel's On Fire	Siouxsie & The Banshees
140	Midnight Blue	Lou Gramm
141	All I Want	Howard Jones
142	Finer Things	Steve Winwood
143	Rent	Pet Shop Boys
144	My Bag	Lloyd Cole
145	Fairytale Of New York	Pogues
146	Never Gonna Give You Up	Rick Astley
147	Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head	They Might Be Giants
148	Don't Shed A Tear	Paul Carrack
149	Love Removal Machine	Cult
150	Paper In Fire	John Mellencamp
151	Everything I Own	Boy George
152	Dance Along The Edge	Concrete Blonde
153	My Baby	Pretenders
154	Ahead	Wire
155	Time Will Crawl	David Bowie
156	Lean On Me	Club Nouveau
157	Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before	Smiths
158	Alex Chilton	Replacements
159	Passenger	Siouxsie & The Banshees
160	Deep And Wide And Tall	Aztec Camera
161	Elvis Is Everywhere	Mojo Nixon
162	Sweet Bird Of Truth	The The
163	Right Stuff	Bryan Ferry
164	What You Get Is What You See	Tina Turner
165	Still In Hollywood	Concrete Blonde
166	Learning To Fly	Pink Floyd
167	Running Away	Colourfield
168	Not My Slave	Oingo Boingo
169	April Skies	Jesus & Mary Chain
170	Force Ten	Rush
171	Right Thing	Simply Red
172	In God's Country	U2
173	World Where You Live	Crowded House
174	Somewhere In My Heart	Aztec Camera
175	Jammin Me	Tom Petty
176	I Think We're Alone Now	Tiffany
177	Ready Or Not	Lou Gramm
178	Wasteland	Mission UK
179	She Was A Hotel Detective	They Might Be Giants
180	Twenty Killer Hurts	Gene Loves Jezebel
181	Should’ve Known Better	Richard Marx
182	Sold	Boy George
183	Please	Bolshoi
184	24 Hour Party People	Happy Mondays
185	You Are The Girl	Cars
186	What's It To Ya?	Robbie Nevil
187	Living In A Dream	Pseudo Echo
188	Body	Public Image Limited
189	Happy When It Rains	Jesus & Mary Chain
190	Fight Like A Brave	Red Hot Chili Peppers
191	One Slip	Pink Floyd
192	Cut The Tree	Wolfgang Press
193	Gorgeous	Gene Loves Jezebel
194	Private Revolution	World Party
195	Mirror People	Love & Rockets
196	Live My Life	Boy George
197	Hell In A Bucket	Grateful Dead
198	What's My Scene?	Hoodoo Gurus
199	Heartland	The The
200	Seattle	Public Image Limited

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The Best of 1988:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	What's On Your Mind? (Pure Energy)	Information Society
2	Headhunter	Front 242
3	Peek-A-Boo	Siouxsie & The Banshees
4	Chains Of Love	Erasure
5	Doctorin The Tardis	Timelords
6	Route 66	Depeche Mode
7	Great Commandment	Camouflage
8	New Sensation	INXS
9	Beds Are Burning	Midnight Oil
10	I Want Your Hands On Me	Sinead O'Connor
11	Ana Ng	They Might Be Giants
12	New York, New York	Micro-Chip League
13	Hot Hot Hot	Cure
14	It's The End Of The World As We Know It...	REM
15	Be Still My Beating Heart	Sting
16	I Don't Want Your Love	Duran Duran
17	Devil Inside	INXS
18	Balloon Man	Robyn Hitchcock
19	I'm An Adult Now	Pursuit Of Happiness
20	What I Am	Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
21	Like The Weather	10,000 Maniacs
22	Fast Car	Tracy Chapman
23	In Your Room	Bangles
24	Crash	Primitives
25	Wishing Well	Terence Trent D'Arby
26	Breakaway	Big Pig
27	Never Tear Us Apart	INXS
28	Orange Crush	REM
29	Dominion/Mother Russia	Sisters Of Mercy
30	Under The Milky Way	Church
31	Promise	When In Rome
32	Desire	U2
33	Alphabet Street	Prince
34	Wild Wild West	Escape Club
35	Behind The Wheel	Depeche Mode
36	Kiss And Tell	Bryan Ferry
37	Underneath The Radar	Underworld
38	Paradise	Sade
39	Domino Dancing	Pet Shop Boys
40	Kiss	Art Of Noise
41	Shattered Dreams	Johnny Hates Jazz
42	Dead Heart	Midnight Oil
43	Birth, School, Work, Death	Godfathers
44	Little Respect	Erasure
45	Charlotte Anne	Julian Cope
46	I Beg Your Pardon	Kon Kan
47	Dreaming	OMD
48	Only A Memory	Smithereens
49	Tell That Girl To Shut Up	Transvision Vamp
50	Sweet Child O Mine	Guns & Roses
51	Never Can Say Goodbye	Communards
52	Tears Run Rings	Marc Almond
53	I Say Nothing	Voice Of The Beehive
54	Rev It Up	Jerry Harrison
55	All Night Long	Peter Murphy
56	Always On My Mind	Pet Shop Boys
57	People Are Strange	Echo & The Bunnymen
58	Somewhere Down The Crazy River	Robbie Robertson
59	Bring Me Some Water	Melissa Etheridge
60	What's The Matter Here?	10,000 Maniacs
61	Def Con One	Pop Will Eat Itself
62	Angel Of Harlem	U2
63	Motorcrash	Sugarcubes
64	Get Started, Start A Fire	Graham Parker
65	Guns In The Sky	INXS
66	Electric Blue	Icehouse
67	Reptile	Church
68	All She Wants Is	Duran Duran
69	Pretty Boys & Pretty Girls	Book Of Love
70	Sweet Jane	Cowboy Junkies
71	Walking Away	Information Society
72	Presence Of Love	Alarm
73	Stigmata	Ministry
74	Better Be Home Soon	Crowded House
75	(Nothing But) Flowers	Talking Heads
76	Valley Road	Bruce Hornsby
77	Killing Jar	Siouxsie & The Banshees
78	Englishman In New York	Sting
79	Liar, Liar	Debby Harry
80	Jane Says	Jane's Addiction
81	Monkey	George Michael
82	Lucretia My Reflection	Sisters Of Mercy
83	Dance Little Sister	Terence Trent D'Arby
84	Wild Life	INXS
85	Suedehead	Morrissey
86	I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That	Elton John
87	Like The Way I Do	Melissa Etheridge
88	Pleasure, Little Treasure	Depeche Mode
89	Call Me Blue	House
90	House We Used To Live In	Smithereens
91	Father Figure	George Michael
92	Blue-Eyed Pop	Sugarcubes
93	Shark Walk	Shriekback
94	Sell My Soul	Midnight Oil
95	King Of Emotion	Big Country
96	Don't Rush Me	Taylor Dayne
97	Mystify	INXS
98	Ship Of Fools	Robert Plant
99	Put This Love To The Test	Jon Astley
100	Finish What Ya Started	Van Halen
101	Sign Your Name	Terence Trent D'Arby
102	Inside Out	Mighty Lemon Drops
103	Welcome To Paradise	Front 242
104	All That Money Wants	Psychedelic Furs
105	Finest Work Song	REM
106	Piano In The Dark	Brenda Russell
107	Put A Little Love In Your Heart	Annie Lennox
108	Situations	Cetu Javu
109	Wild Thing	Tone Loc
110	I Hate Myself For Loving You	Joan Jett
111	Tall Cool One	Robert Plant
112	Wish Away	Wonder Stuff
113	You Don't Know	Scarlet And Blackx
114	People Have The Power	Patti Smith
115	Pour Some Sugar On Me	Def Leppard
116	New Day For You	Basia
117	Anchorage	Michelle Shocked
118	Theme From S'Express	S'Express
119	Jump In The River	Sinead O'Connor
120	Peace Train	10,000 Maniacs
121	I Don't Wanna Be A Hero	Johnny Hates Jazz
122	When Love Comes To Town	U2
123	Caroline's Fingers	Cocteau Twins
124	Don't Believe The Hype	Public Enemy
125	Forever Young	Rod Stewart
126	Straight Up	Paula Abdul
127	Bread And Butter	Devo
128	Beat Of Love	Voice Of The Beehive
129	Mary Mary	Run DMC
130	Talkin Bout A Revolution	Tracy Chapman
131	Time And Tide	Basia
132	Dignity	Deacon Blue
133	Back To The Wall	Divinyls
134	Wheels Turning	Woodentops
135	Roll With It	Steve Winwood
136	Airhead	Thomas Dolby
137	Indigo Eyes	Peter Murphy
138	Everyday Is Like Sunday	Morrissey
139	Freddie's Dead	Fishbone
140	Blind	Talking Heads
141	Hot Dog	Martini Ranch
142	Jerusalem	Siouxsie & The Banshees
143	God OD	Meat Beat Manifesto
144	Hysteria	Def Leppard
145	Simply Irresistible	Robert Palmer
146	Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)	Cyndi Lauper
147	Handle With Care	Traveling Wilburys
148	Kidney Bingos	Wire
149	Birthday	Sugarcubes
150	Kick	INXS
151	Keep Looking	Sade
152	Rush Hour	Jane Wiedlin
153	Never Be The Same	Crowded House
154	Tomorrow People	Ziggy Marley
155	Cruella DeVille	Replacements
156	Apron Strings	Everything But The Girl
157	Cat House	Danielle Dax
158	Put Down That Weapon	Midnight Oil
159	Christine	House Of Love
160	Don't Be Cruel	Cheap Trick
161	Wild World	Maxi Priest
162	Until Death (Us Do Part)	Front 242
163	Tower Of Strength	Mission UK
164	America	Killing Joke
165	Last Beat Of My Heart	Siouxsie & The Banshees
166	Love Changes Everything	Climie Fisher
167	Stop This Car	Woodentops
168	Cross My Heart	Eighth Wonder
169	Heaven Knows	Robert Plant
170	Don't Talk	10,000 Maniacs
171	Shake For The Sheik	Escape Club
172	Baby Can I Hold You?	Tracy Chapman
173	Are You Sure?	So
174	Been There, Done That	Jon Astley
175	Mountain Song	Jane's Addiction
176	Nothing Can Come Between Us	Sade
177	Way Behind Me	Primitives
178	There Is No Love Between Us Anymore	Pop Will Eat Itself
179	Just Play Music!	Big Audio Dynamite
180	Bedbugs And Ballyhoo	Echo & The Bunnymen
181	I Get Weak	Belinda Carlisle
182	Strange But True	Times Two
183	Galbi	Ofra Haza
184	Intoxication	Shriekback
185	Coldsweat	Sugarcubes
186	Mercedes Boy	Pebbles
187	King Of Rock & Roll	Prefab Sprout
188	Early In The Morning	Robert Palmer
189	Boom There She Was	Scritti Politti
190	Dreamworld	Midnight Oil
191	You Came	Kim Wilde
192	Heaven In My Hands	Level 42
193	Spy In The House Of Love	Was (Not Was)
194	Wrote For Luck	Happy Mondays
195	Eye Of Fatima	Camper Van Beethoven
196	I Want Your Love	Transvision Vamp
197	Rescue Me	Alarm
198	Circle In The Sand	Belinda Carlisle
199	Hairdresser On Fire	Morrissey
200	Don't Go	Hothouse Flowers

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The Best of 1989:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Sowing The Seeds Of Love	Tears For Fears
2	Personal Jesus	Depeche Mode
3	Fascination Street	Cure
4	Round And Round	New Order
5	Love Shack	B-52s
6	So Alive	Love & Rockets
7	Stand	REM
8	She Drives Me Crazy	Fine Young Cannibals
9	Down In It	Nine Inch Nails
10	Mayor Of Simpleton	XTC
11	Let Love Rule	Lenny Kravitz
12	Closer To Fine	Indigo Girls
13	Love Song	Cure
14	Here Comes Your Man	Pixies
15	Veronica	Elvis Costello
16	Cult Of Personality	Living Colour
17	Disappointed	Public Image Limited
18	Woman In Chains	Tears For Fears
19	Imagination	Xymox
20	Batdance	Prince
21	Bring Me Edelweiss	Edelweiss
22	Channel Z	B-52s
23	Lullabye	Cure
24	Good Thing	Fine Young Cannibals
25	Monkey Gone To Heaven	Pixies
26	Everlasting Love	Howard Jones
27	Trouble Me	10,000 Maniacs
28	Between Something And Nothing	Ocean Blue
29	Contact	Big Audio Dynamite
30	Stop!	Jane's Addiction
31	Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)	Enya
32	Roam	B-52s
33	No Myth	Michael Penn
34	Love Is A Shield	Camouflage
35	Sick Of It	Primitives
36	Walk The Dinosaur	Was (Not Was)
37	Happy	Public Image Limited
38	She Gives Me Love	Godfathers
39	God Is A Bullet	Concrete Blonde
40	I'll Be You	Replacements
41	Prisoner	Howard Jones
42	Standing There	Creatures
43	King For A Day	XTC
44	Obsession	Xymox
45	Fine Time	New Order
46	Buffalo Stance	Neneh Cherry
47	Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)	Q-Feel
48	Come Anytime	Hoodoo Gurus
49	Pop Song '89	REM
50	Sold Me Down The River	Alarm
51	Express Yourself	Madonna
52	Punk Rock Girl	Dead Milkmen
53	Girl Like You	Smithereens
54	Love And Anger	Kate Bush
55	Fire Woman	Cult
56	Back To Life	Soul II Soul
57	Change Your Mind	Gary Numan
58	I Want That Man	Debby Harry
59	Twist In My Sobriety	Tanita Tikarim
60	She Bangs The Drum	Stone Roses
61	Look	Roxette
62	God, Part II	U2
63	Change The Weather	Underworld
64	Sugar Daddy	Thompson Twins
65	Suboceana	Tom Tom Club
66	Drama!	Erasure
67	James Brown	Big Audio Dynamite
68	Way Of The World	Max Q
69	Pictures Of Matchstick Men	Camper Van Beethoven
70	I Won't Back Down	Tom Petty
71	Babydoll	Laurie Anderson
72	Downtown	One 2 Many
73	Blue From A Gun	Jesus & Mary Chain
74	Left To My Own Devices	Pet Shop Boys
75	Dirty Blvd	Lou Reed
76	Like A Prayer	Madonna
77	Bombers In The Sky	Thompson Twins
78	Secrets	Primitives
79	Warrior	Public Image Limited
80	Last Of The Famous International Playboys	Morrissey
81	Voices Of Babylon	Outfield
82	Cosmic Thing	B-52s
83	I'm Not The Man I Used To Be	Fine Young Cannibals
84	That Smiling Face	Camouflage
85	I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)	Proclaimers
86	Dear God	Midge Ure
87	Vox	Sarah McLachlan
88	Eardrum Buzz	Wire
89	Regina	Sugarcubes
90	Driven Out	Fixx
91	Dangerous	Roxette
92	Queen Of The USA	Thompson Twins
93	Let The Day Begin	Call
94	No Big Deal	Love & Rockets
95	Hey Ladies	Beastie Boys
96	Me, Myself & I	De La Soul
97	Don't Look Back	Fine Young Cannibals
98	I Drove All Night	Cyndi Lauper
99	Beat(en) Generation	The The
100	See A Little Light	Bob Mould
101	Miss You Much	Janet Jackson
102	Dizzy	Throwing Muses
103	Now You're In Heaven	Julian Lennon
104	Line Between The Devil's Teeth...	Peter Murphy
105	Knock Me Down	Red Hot Chili Peppers
106	Cherish	Madonna
107	Don't Ask Me Why	Eurythmics
108	Similar Features	Melissa Etheridge
109	Circle	Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
110	World Leader Pretend	REM
111	Eternal Flame	Bangles
112	Good Life	Inner City
113	Self!	Fuzzbox
114	Can You Dig It?	Pop Will Eat Itself
115	Ouija Board, Ouija Board	Morrissey
116	Fight The Power	Public Enemy
117	I Wanna Be Adored	Stone Roses
118	Edie Ciao Baby	Cult
119	My Paradise	Outfield
120	Janie's Got A Gun	Aerosmith
121	Different Story (World Of Lust & Crime)	Peter Schilling
122	Armageddon Days (Are Here Again)	The The
123	Taste The Pain	Red Hot Chili Peppers
124	Glamour Boys	Living Colour
125	Thing Called Love	Bonnie Raitt
126	Bust A Move	Young MC
127	Big Big Sky	Screaming Blue Messiahs
128	Drifting, Falling	Ocean Blue
129	Big Fun	Inner City
130	Partyman	Prince
131	Keep On Movin	Soul II Soul
132	All I Want Is You	U2
133	Last Cigarette	Dramarama
134	On The Greener Side	Michelle Shocked
135	Higher Ground	Red Hot Chili Peppers
136	Rhythm Nation	Janet Jackson
137	When The Hammer Came Down	House Of Freaks
138	Proud To Fall	Ian McCulloch
139	Madonna Of The Wasps	Madonna Of The Wasps
140	I Will Not Go Quietly	Don Henley
141	Lay All Your Love On Me	Information Society
142	Stand Up	Underworld
143	I Don't Want A Lover	Texas
144	Free World	Kirsty MacColl
145	Tweeter And The Monkey Man	Traveling Wilburys
146	Funky Cold Medina	Tone Loc
147	Praying To A New God	Wang Chung
148	Oh Daddy	Adrian Belew
149	Pink Sunshine	Fuzzbox
150	Get Up	REM
151	Opposites Attract	Paula Abdul
152	Little Miss S	Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
153	Wise Up Sucker	Pop Will Eat Itself
154	Come Home With Me Baby	Dead Or Alive
155	When The Night Comes	Joe Cocker
156	We Didn't Start The Fire	Billy Joel
157	They'll Need A Crane	They Might Be Giants
158	Good Life	Firetown
159	Kingdom Of Rain	Sinead O'Connor
160	Pet Semetary	Ramones
161	Right Here Waiting	Richard Marx
162	Love Crushing	Fetchin Bones
163	House	Psychedelic Furs
164	You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet	Figures On A Beach
165	King Kong 5	Mano Negra
166	Cold Hearted Snake	Paula Abdul
167	Turn You Inside Out	REM
168	Hallelujah	Happy Mondays
169	Do You Believe In Shame?	Duran Duran
170	Patience	Guns & Roses
171	Dressed For Success	Roxette
172	Eat For Two	10,000 Maniacs
173	Let’s Go Round There	Darling Buds
174	Versatile	Fuzzbox
175	Rock & A Hard Place	Rolling Stones
176	Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria)	Figures On A Beach
177	Radio PWEI	Pop Will Eat Itself
178	Heroine	Shakespeare's Sister
179	Don’t Make Me Dream About You	Chris Isaak
180	I Was Born In A Laundromat	Camper Van Beethoven
181	Room To Move	Animotion
182	Devolution Workin Man Blues	Alarm
183	Happy Birthday	Concrete Blonde
184	Gravitate To Me	The The
185	My My, Baby's Gonna Cry	Eurythmics
186	Human Cannonball	Webb Wilder
187	Always Saturday	Guadalcanal Diary
188	Give Give Give Me More More More	Wonder Stuff
189	It's Only Love	Simply Red
190	Paradise City	Guns & Roses
191	One Better World	ABC
192	Radio Silence	Boris Grebenshikov
193	Busload Of Faith	Lou Reed
194	Shaking The Tree	Youssou N'Dour
195	Crossroads	Tracy Chapman
196	When I Win The Lottery	Camper Van Beethoven
197	U-Li La-Lu	Poi Dog Pondering
198	Stupid Question	New Model Army
199	Dirty Ol Town	David Byrne
200	Look Who's Dancing	Ziggy Marley

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

*(alpause)*  Heavy on Cars. "Let's Go" is my #1 song of all time. #1 for 1979. #3 for 1980 and #7 for 1981. 3 years on my weekly list.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

send me p.m when you get done with each list.

[H.]

GREAT list!

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thanks...I have 200 songs per year for every year since...it'll take some time to get them all posted though

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The Best of 1990:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)	They Might Be Giants
2	Enjoy The Silence	Depeche Mode
3	I'm Free	Soup Dragons
4	Suicide Blonde	INXS
5	Cuts You Up	Peter Murphy
6	Step On	Happy Mondays
7	Head On	Jesus & Mary Chain
8	Birdhouse In Your Soul	They Might Be Giants
9	Head Like A Hole	Nine Inch Nails
10	Policy Of Truth	Depeche Mode
11	Hello	Beloved
12	Nothing Compares 2 U	Sinead O'Connor
13	Been Caught Stealing	Jane's Addiction
14	Blue Sky Mine	Midnight Oil
15	Fools Gold	Stone Roses
16	Everybody Knows	Concrete Blonde
17	Epic	Faith No More
18	World In My Eyes	Depeche Mode
19	Room At The Top	Adam Ant
20	Don't Ask Me	Public Image Limited
21	Vogue	Madonna
22	Disappear	INXS
23	More	Sisters Of Mercy
24	Dig For Fire	Pixies
25	Particle Man	They Might Be Giants
26	Tom's Diner	Suzanne Vega
27	Halo	Depeche Mode
28	Getting Away With It	Electronic
29	Sin	Nine Inch Nails
30	Candy	Iggy Pop
31	Only One I Know	Charlatans UK
32	Pure	Lightning Seeds
33	Bloodletting (Vampire Song)	Concrete Blonde
34	Jealous	Gene Loves Jezebel
35	Come Together	Primal Scream
36	Falling	Julee Cruise
37	Think	Information Society
38	Crystal Clear	Darling Buds
39	Emperor's New Clothes	Sinead O'Connor
40	Cradle Of Love	Billy Idol
41	Hippychick	Soho
42	Twisting	They Might Be Giants
43	Never Enough	Cure
44	Joey	Concrete Blonde
45	Type	Living Color
46	Rubber Glove Seduction	PTP
47	Heaven Or Las Vegas	Cocteau Twins
48	Kool Thing	Sonic Youth
49	Stop!	Jane's Addiction
50	Road To Hell	Chris Rea
51	Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World	Johnny Clegg
52	Deadbeat Club	B-52s
53	Pineapple Face	Revenge
54	Mother Universe	Soup Dragons
55	November Spawned A Monster	Morrissey
56	Elvis Is Dead	Living Color
57	Forgotten Years	Midnight Oil
58	Kiss This Thing Goodbye	Del Amitri
59	All For Love & Love For All	Lilac Time
60	Blues Before And After	Jesus & Mary Chain
61	Steady On	Shawn Colvin
62	Commercial Rain	Inspiral Carpets
63	Out Of Control	Oingo Boingo
64	So Hard	Pet Shop Boys
65	Metropolis	Church
66	Into The Night	Julee Cruise
67	Everything Is Different Now	Exotic Birds
68	Biting My Nails	Renegade Soundwave
69	Ringfinger	Nine Inch Nails
70	Pictures Of You	Cure
71	King Of Wishful Thinking	Go West
72	Blue Savannah	Erasure
73	Heart Like A Wheel	Human League
74	Where Do We Go From Heaven?	Mighty Lemon Drops
75	I Am Stretched On Your Grave	Sinead O'Connor
76	Just The Way It Is, Baby	Rembrandts
77	Driving	Everything But The Girl
78	Dangerous	Depeche Mode
79	Life In Detail	Robert Palmer
80	I Built This Garden For Us	Lenny Kravitz
81	Gas Stop (Who Do You Think You Are?)	Boxcar
82	Deeper Shade Of Soul	Urban Dance Squad
83	Here's Where The Story Ends	Sundays
84	Deliverance	Mission UK
85	Jealous Again	Black Crowes
86	All Around The World	Lisa Stansfield
87	Kooler Than Jesus	My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
88	I Don't Know Why I Love You	House Of Love
89	Annie's Gone	Redd Kross
90	Brother And Sister	Erasure
91	God Tonight	Real Life
92	Fury Eyes	Creatures
93	Loaded	Primal Scream
94	Here I Am (Come And Take Me)	UB40
95	King Of The Mountain	Midnight Oil
96	Close To You	Maxi Priest
97	I'm Not Satisfied	Fine Young Cannibals
98	Helter Skelter	Meat Beat Manifesto
99	Lightning Man	Nitzer Ebb
100	Hard To Handle	Black Crowes
101	Justify My Love	Madonna
102	Deep Ocean, Vast Sea	Peter Murphy
103	Looking For Atlantis	Prefab Sprout
104	King Is Half Undressed	Jellyfish
105	Advice For The Young At Heart	Tears For Fears
106	Black Velvet	Alanah Myles
107	This Woman's Work	Kate Bush
108	Living In Oblivion	Anything Box
109	Truth Is Out Of Style	MC 900ft Jesus
110	Freedom Train	Lenny Kravitz
111	Don't Wanna Fall In Love	Jane Child
112	Beautiful Girl	Robyn Hitchcock
113	Year Of The Knife	Tears For Fears
114	Way You Do The Things You Do	UB40
115	Merry Go Round	Replacements
116	Onion Skin	Boom Crash Opera
117	Psyche-Out	Meat Beat Manifesto
118	Way Down Now	World Party
119	911 Is A Joke	Public Enemy
120	All I Want	Lightning Seeds
121	Killer	Adamski
122	Caroline	Concrete Blonde
123	Dysfunctional Relationship	Consolidated
124	Star	Erasure
125	Weeping Song	Nick Cave
126	Keep It Together	Madonna
127	Sweet Soul Sister	Cult
128	Shine On	House Of Love
129	Show Me Your Soul	Red Hot Chili Peppers
130	Story Of My Life	Social Distortion
131	And So It Goes	Billy Joel
132	Be	Lenny Kravitz
133	Falling To Pieces	Faith No More
134	Don't Let Me Down Gently	Wonder Stuff
135	She Talks To Angels	Black Crowes
136	World In Motion	New Order
137	Sometimes	Max Q
138	Then	Charlatans UK
139	I'm Going Straight To Heaven	MC 900ft Jesus
140	Hello, I Love You	Cure
141	Ball And Chain	Social Distortion
142	When The Lights Go Out	Oingo Boingo
143	Iceblink Luck	Cocteau Twins
144	Piccadilly Palare	Morrissey
145	Fun To Be Had	Nitzer Ebb
146	Cruising For A Bruising	Basia
147	Dark Hill	Hinterland
148	Strange Kind Of Love	Peter Murphy
149	Welcome To The Terrordome	Public Enemy
150	Hammer And A Nail	Indigo Girls
151	Set Sails Free	Origin
152	Heaven Give Me Words	Propaganda
153	Every Beat Of The Heart	Railway Children
154	Respectfully King Of Rain	Rave-Ups
155	Post Post-Modern Man	Devo
156	You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)	Jimmy Sommerville
157	Kinky Afro	Happy Mondays
158	Doctor Jeep	Sisters Of Mercy
159	Put Your Message In A Box	World Party
160	Classic Girl	Jane's Addiction
161	Baby It's Tonight	Jude Cole
162	Night And Day	U2
163	All For You	David Baerwald
164	It Makes No Difference	Darling Buds
165	Book Of Dreams	Suzanne Vega
166	That Is Why	Jellyfish
167	Crying Scene	Aztec Camera
168	Yesterday Girl	Smithereens
169	Radio Ass Kiss	Wonder Stuff
170	Sensual World	Kate Bush
171	One Love	Stone Roses
172	Butterfly On A Wheel	Mission UK
173	I'll Be Your Chauffeur	David J
174	Celebrate	Emotional Fish
175	Velouria	Pixies
176	Power	Snap!
177	Downtown Lights	Blue Nile
178	Kiss Of Life	Gene Loves Jezebel
179	When The River Runs Dry	Hunters & Collectors
180	Mr Cab Driver	Lenny Kravitz
181	Hey Venus	That Petrol Emotion
182	Tragedy For You	Front 242
183	Mama Help Me	Edie Brickell
184	Bikini Girls With Machine Guns	Cramps
185	Your Racist Friend	They Might Be Giants
186	Something Happened On The Way To Heaven	Phil Collins
187	Heavenly Pop Hit	Chills
188	Come Back Down	Toad The Wet Sprocket
189	Move Mountains	Jesus Jones
190	New Orleans Is Sinking	Tragically Hip
191	Summer Rain	Belinda Carlisle
192	You Keep It All In	Beautiful South
193	Dreamtime	Heart Throbs
194	Good Morning Britain	Aztec Camera
195	Love Don't Come Easy	Alarm
196	It Must've Been Love	Roxette
197	Dub Be Good To Me	Beats International
198	Serious	Duran Duran
199	This And That	Michael Penn
200	Pretty Pink Rose	Adrian Belew

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The Best of 1991:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Mysterious Ways	U2
2	Crazy	Seal
3	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Nirvana
4	Unbelievable	EMF
5	Losing My Religion	REM
6	Groovy Train	Farm
7	Give It Away	Red Hot Chili Peppers
8	Cubik	808 State
9	I Touch Myself	Divinyls
10	Right Here, Right Now	Jesus Jones
11	Move Any Mountain	Shamen
12	Fly	U2
13	Globe	Big Audio Dynamite
14	Chorus (Fishes In The Sea)	Erasure
15	Sadeness	Enigma
16	It Ain't Over Til It's Over	Lenny Kravitz
17	Kiss Them For Me	Siouxsie & The Banshees
18	Tighten Up	Electronic
19	Shiny Happy People	REM
20	Wicked Game	Chris Isaak
21	Elevate My Mind	Stereo MCs
22	Sex On Wheelz	My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
23	What Time Is Love?	KLF
24	Movin On Up	Primal Scream
25	Rush	Big Audio Dynamite
26	Pandora's Box	OMD
27	There's No Other Way	Blur
28	Real, Real, Real	Jesus Jones
29	There She Goes	La's
30	Get The Message	Electronic
31	Lies	EMF
32	Carpe Diem	Bigod 20
33	Three Strange Days	School Of Fish
34	Walking Down Madison	Kirsty MacColl
35	This Is How It Feels	Inspiral Carpets
36	X, Y & Zee	Pop Will Eat Itself
37	Fear Of The Unknown	Siouxsie & The Banshees
38	Cloud 8	Frasier Chorus
39	Valerie Loves Me	Material Issue
40	How Much Is Enough?	Fixx
41	Plain Unhappy	Mussolini Headkick
42	Love To Hate You	Erasure
43	All This Time	Sting
44	Feel Every Beat	Electronic
45	Shining Star	INXS
46	All Together Now	Farm
47	Make Out Alright	Divinyls
48	Future Love Paradise	Seal
49	Coast Is Clear	Curve
50	Love Rears Its Ugly Head	Living Colour
51	That's A Lie!	Too Much Joy
52	Cream	Prince
53	3am Eternal	KLF
54	Bob's Yer Uncle	Happy Mondays
55	Little Fluffy Clouds	Orb
56	I've Got You Under My Skin	Neneh Cherry
57	Come Inside	Thompson Twins
58	Imagination	Exotic Birds
59	See The Lights	Simple Minds
60	Radio Song	REM
61	Human Nature	Gary Clail
62	Detonation Blvd	Sisters Of Mercy
63	Top Of The Pops	Smithereens
64	Knife And A Fork	Information Society
65	Bitter Tears	INXS
66	Lily Was Here	Dave Stewart
67	Sit Down	James
68	What Are We Gonna Do?	Dramarama
69	Miss Free Love 69	Hoodoo Gurus
70	For What It's Worth	Candy Skins
71	Caribbean Blue	Enya
72	Oh Well	Joe Jackson
73	Safe From Harm	Massive Attack
74	Mea Culpa	Enigma
75	Man In The Box	Alice In Chains
76	Insect	Boxcar
77	Higher Than The Sun	Primal Scream
78	Consolidated	Consolidated
79	Love Your Money	Daisy Chainsaw
80	Groove On	Thompson Twins
81	Joyride	Roxette
82	Europe	Mussolini Headkick
83	Heartbeat Like A Drum	Exotic Birds
84	It's Only Natural	Crowded House
85	Obvious Song	Joe Jackson
86	Children	EMF
87	Joan	Erasure
88	Until She Comes	Psychedelic Furs
89	Gangster	Electronic
90	You Could Be Mine	Guns & Roses
91	Make It Mine	Shamen
92	Texarkana	REM
93	Heaven (I Want You)	Camouflage
94	International Bright Young Thing	Jesus Jones
95	Good Things	BoDeans
96	Go	Mobyç
97	Sailing The Seven Seas	OMD
98	Something Got Me Started	Simply Red
99	Soon	My Bloody Valentine
100	Soul Cages	Sting
101	People Are Still Having Sex	LaTour
102	End Of The Beginning	Darling Buds
103	But Anyway	Blues Traveller
104	Monsters And Angels	Voice Of The Beehive
105	Suck My Kiss	Red Hot Chili Peppers
106	How Long	Information Society
107	Divine Intervention	Matthew Sweet
108	Cry	Siouxsie & The Banshees
109	Patience Of A Saint	Electronic
110	All Is Fair	Fixx
111	Strawberry Fields Forever	Candyskins
112	Don't Let My Love (Push You Away)	T-4-2
113	Size Of A Cow	Wonder Stuff
114	Diane	Material Issue
115	Other Side Of Summer	Elvis Costello
116	Chocolate Cake	Crowded House
117	Tell Me When Did Things Go So Wrong?	Smithereens
118	Stranger Than Fiction	Joe Jackson
119	American Music	Violent Femmes
120	Always On The Run	Lenny Kravitz
121	LFO	LFO
122	Crush Story	Too Much Joy
123	Welcome Back Victoria	Jesus Jones
124	Baby's Coming Back	Jellyfish
125	Caught In My Shadow	Wonder Stuff
126	Set Adrift On Memory Bliss	PM Dawn
127	All I Need Is You	Blue Train
128	Tomorrow Never Knows	Danielle Dax
129	Hurdy Gurdy Man	Butthole Surfers
130	She's So High	Blur
131	Black Or White	Michael Jackson
132	Shadowtime	Siouxsie & The Banshees
133	Bounce Around The Room	Phish
134	This Love	Daniel Ash
135	Near Wild Heaven	REM
136	Like A Drug	They Eat Their Own
137	Alice Everyday	Book Of Love
138	Phoenix Of My Heart	Xymox
139	Daydreaming	Massive Attack
140	Sax And Violins	Talking Heads
141	Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)	Crystal Waters
142	Big Blue 82	Danielle Dax
143	Dance Of The Mad Bastards	Pop Will Eat Itself
144	International Pop Overthrow	Material Issue
145	Fall At Your Feet	Crowded House
146	Planet Love	Dylans
147	Stand By Love	Simple Minds
148	Stand By Your Woman	Lenny Kravitz
149	Dangerous Sex	Tackhead
150	Sexuality	Billy Bragg
151	Winds Of Change	Scorpions
152	Don't Drop The Baby	Judybats
153	Silent Lucidity	Queensryche
154	Ballerina Out Of Control	Ocean Blue
155	Get Off	Prince
156	Monster In My Pants	Fred Schneider
157	It Won’t Be Long	Alison Moyet
158	Touched By The Hand Of Cicciolina	Pop Will Eat Itself
159	She Comes In The Fall	Inspiral Carpets
160	Everyday Sunshine	Fishbone
161	Number One Dominator	Top
162	So You Think You're In Love	Robyn Hitchcock
163	Rocket Man	Kate Bush
164	Bring The Noize	Public Enemy
165	Love And Happiness	John Mellancamp
166	Fading Like A Flower	Roxette
167	Haven't Got A Clue	Dramarama
168	Something To Talk About	Bonnie Raitt
169	Kill Your Television	Ned's Atomic Dustbin
170	Whether With You	Crowded House
171	Temptation	Corina
172	Jerry Was A Race Car Driver	Primus
173	Sing Your Life	Morrissey
174	Why Should I Cry For You?	Sting
175	Cool Dry Place	Traveling Wilburys
176	I Believe	EMF
177	Family Man	Nitzer Ebb
178	Caravan	Inspiral Carpets
179	Damaged	Primal Scream
180	Wild Hearted Son	Cult
181	Rocking Back Inside My Heart	Julee Cruise
182	You're Not Very Well	Charlatans UK
183	Heavy Fuel	Dire Straits
184	Don't Fix What Ain't Broke	Gang Of Four
185	Take 5	Northside
186	Grey Matter	Emotional Fish
187	I Give To You	Nitzer Ebb
188	No Kid	Urban Dance Squad
189	I Want More	Dave Wakeling
190	Jesus Built My Hotrod	Ministry
191	Satan	Orbital
192	Cerulean	Ocean Blue
193	Can You Dig It?	Mock Turtles
194	Get Back Together	Everything But The Girl
195	That’s Entertainment	Morrissey
196	I Just Wanna B With U	Transvision Vamp
197	Pearl	Chapterhouse
198	She’s A Girl And I’m A Man	Lloyd Cole
199	Sheriff Fatman	Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
200	Timebomb	Royal Crescent Mob

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The Best of 1992: (i was much more Sunscreem & much less Pearl Jam this year, so i'm sure this particular list will be very different than most others in this forum)

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	One	U2
2	Not Enough Time	INXS
3	Crucify	Tori Amos
4	Something Good	Utah Saints
5	Blood Makes Noise	Suzanne Vega
6	Stay	Shakespeare's Sister
7	Divine Thing	Soup Dragons
8	Justified And Ancient	KLF
9	Weirdo	Charlatans UK
10	Into The Fire	Sarah McLachlan
11	Ebeneezer Goode	Shamen
12	Two Worlds Collide	Inspiral Carpets
13	Love U More	Sunscreem
14	So Whatchya Want?	Beastie Boys
15	Digging In The Dirt	Peter Gabriel
16	Hit	Sugarcubes
17	7	Prince
18	Friday, I'm In Love	Cure
19	Midlife Crisis	Faith No More
20	Come As You Are	Nirvana
21	Take A Chance On Me	Erasure
22	Ordinary World	Duran Duran
23	Far Gone And Out	Jesus & Mary Chain
24	Fait Accompli	Curve
25	Steam	Peter Gabriel
26	You Think You Know Her	Cause & Effect
27	Tomorrow	Morrissey
28	Taste It	INXS
29	99.9 F	Suzanne Vega
30	100%	Sonic Youth
31	Walking On Broken Glass	Annie Lennox
32	Even Better Than The Real Thing	U2
33	Face To Face	Siouxsie & The Banshees
34	Pleasure	Soup Dragons
35	Under The Bridge	Red Hot Chili Peppers
36	No Ordinary Love	Sade
37	Disappointed	Electronic
38	Sweetest Drop	Peter Murphy
39	Born Of Frustration	James
40	Someday?	Concrete Blonde
41	Tennessee	Arrested Development
42	Until The End Of The World	U2
43	It's A Fine Day	Opus III
44	Silent All These Years	Tori Amos
45	Dizz Knee Land	Dada
46	They're Here	EMF
47	We Are Each Other	Beautiful South
48	Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)	Tears For Fears
49	Trout	Neneh Cherry
50	These Are Days	10,000 Maniacs
51	My Lovin (Never Gonna Get It)	En Vogue
52	Good Stuff	B-52s
53	Ms Robinson	Lemonheads
54	Temple Of Dreams	Messiah
55	Glamorous Glue	Morrissey
56	Pressure	Sunscreem
57	Pretend We're Dead	L7
58	Always The Last To Know	Del Amitri
59	Get Out Of Control	Daniel Ash
60	Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover	Sophie B Hawkins
61	Love, Sex, Intelligence	Shamen
62	Salome	U2
63	Constant Craving	kd lang
64	Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead	XTC
65	Revolution Earth	B-52s
66	Crucified	Army Of Lovers
67	All I Want	Toad The Wet Sprocket
68	We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful	Morrissey
69	City Sleeps	MC 900ft Jesus
70	Candy Everybody Wants	10,000 Maniacs
71	Remedy	Black Crowes
72	Too Much Passion	Smithereens
73	Girlfriend	Matthew Sweet
74	Jump Around	House Of Pain
75	Even Flow	Pearl Jam
76	Jump	Kris Kross
77	I Palindrome I	They Might Be Giants
78	Pain Lies On The Riverside	Live
79	Life Of Riley	Lightning Seeds
80	It's A Shame About Ray	Lemonheads
81	Little Miss Can't Be Wrong	Spin Doctors
82	Mr Wendal	Arrested Development
83	Gold	Sugarcubes
84	Walking In London	Concrete Blonde
85	Heaven Sent	INXS
86	Free Your Mind	En Vogue
87	NWO	Ministry
88	Peace & Love, Inc	Information Society
89	If You Don't Love Me	Prefab Sprout
90	High	Cure
91	Mama Told Me Not To Come	Wolfgang Press
92	Nearly Lost You	Screaming Trees
93	Not Sleeping Around	Ned's Atomic Dustbin
94	Drive	REM
95	Why?	Annie Lennox
96	Lift Me Up	Howard Jones
97	Small Victory	Faith No More
98	Walk On The Ocean	Toad The Wet Sprocket
99	Would?	Alice In Chains
100	Jeremy	Pearl Jam
101	Another Minute	Cause & Effect
102	Tell It Like It T-I-Is	B-52s
103	Safari	Breeders
104	Dyslexic Heart	Paul Westerberg
105	Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)	Cracker
106	I'd Die Without You	PM Dawn
107	Stars	Simply Red
108	What Can You Do For Me?	Utah Saints
109	Edge Of No Control	Meat Beat Manifesto
110	In Bloom	Nirvana
111	Love Song For A Vampire	Annie Lennox
112	Last Train To Transcentral	KLF
113	Bad Luck	Social Distortion
114	People Everyday	Arrested Development
115	Witch	Cult
116	That’s What I Think	Cyndi Lauper
117	Spiritual High (State Of Independence)	Moodswings
118	Killer	Seal
119	Hello Cruel World	E
120	Lithium	Nirvana
121	Erotica	Madonna
122	Girl Like You	Wolfgang Press
123	Stinkin Thinkin	Happy Mondays
124	Desire	T-4-2
125	It's Alright	25th Of May
126	Life Is A Highway	Tom Cochrane
127	Seen The Doctor	Michael Penn
128	Honeydrip	Ian McCulloch
129	Ghost Of A Texas Ladies Man	Concrete Blonde
130	Pass The Mic	Beastie Boys
131	If I Had A Million Dollars	Barenaked Ladies
132	Money Don't Matter 2Nite	Prince
133	Only Love Can Break Your Heart	Saint Etienne
134	Black Metallic	Catherine Wheel
135	Human Touch	Bruce Springsteen
136	Statue Got Me High	They Might Be Giants
137	Leash Called Love	Sugarcubes
138	Miss Chatelaine	kd lang
139	I've Been Waiting	Matthew Sweet
140	Almost Gold	Jesus & Mary Chain
141	Sweater	Meryn Cadell
142	Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?	U2
143	Sheila-Na-Gig	PJ Harvey
144	Love	Sundays
145	Galileo	Indigo Girls
146	Chef	Billy Goat
147	Somebody To Shove	Soul Asylum
148	Breaking The Girl	Red Hot Chili Peppers
149	Letter To Elise	Cure
150	November Rain	Guns & Roses
151	Faithful	Go West
152	Guitar	They Might Be Giants
153	James Brown Is Dead	LA Style
154	Blue Room	Orb
155	Real Cool World	David Bowie
156	Deeper And Deeper	Madonna
157	57 Channels (& Nothing On)	Bruce Springsteen
158	Everlasting	Soup Dragons
159	Johnny Have You Seen Her?	Rembrandts
160	Doing The Unstuck	Cure
161	Wild Horses	Sundays
162	Glad	Spaghetti Head
163	I Talk To The Wind	Opus III
164	Lay All Your Love On Me	Erasure
165	What's Good?	Lou Reed
166	Right Now	Van Halen
167	If I Can’t Change Your Mind	Sugar
168	Television, Drug Of A Nation	Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
169	Halcyon	Orbital
170	Alive	Pearl Jam
171	First We Take Manhattan	REM
172	Covered	Public Image Limited
173	Horror Head	Curve
174	Thorn In My Pride	Black Crowes
175	You’re Gonna Need Someone On Your Side	Morrissey
176	Visions Of You	Jah Wobble
177	Sunshine And Ecstacy	Tom Tom Club
178	Eastern Bloc	Thomas Dolby
179	You're So Close	Peter Murphy
180	Hunger Strike	Temple Of The Dog
181	Daughters Of The Kaos	Luscious Jackson
182	What You Do To Me	Teenage Fanclub
183	Next Is The E	Moby
184	Reverence	Jesus & Mary Chain
185	Wendy Time	Cure
186	Boss Drum	Shamen
187	Josephina	Gene Loves Jezebel
188	What Do You See?	Cause & Effect
189	Sunshine And Love	Happy Mondays
190	Old Red Eyes Is Back	Beautiful South
191	I'm Too Sexy	Right Said Fred
192	Evangaline	Matthew Sweet
193	In Or Out	Ani DiFranco
194	Please Yourself	Darling Buds
195	Lifetime Piling Up	Talking Heads
196	Tough It Out	Webb Wilder
197	Walkabout	Sugarcubes
198	Path Of Thorns	Sarah McLachlan
199	Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home	Sinead O'Connor
200	Operation Spirit	Live

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The Best of 1993:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Creep	Radiohead
2	Cannonball	Breeders
3	Connected	Stereo MCs
4	Loser	Beck
5	Regret	New Order
6	Dreams	Cranberries
7	Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)	US3
8	Walking In My Shoes	Depeche Mode
9	Human Behavior	Bjork
10	Everybody Hurts	REM
11	Come Undone	Duran Duran
12	If I Ever Lose My Faith In You	Sting
13	Break It Down Again	Tears For Fears
14	Truganini	Midnight Oil
15	World (Price Of Love)	New Order
16	Detachable Penis	King Missile
17	Insane In The Brain	Cypress Hill
18	My Sister	Juliana Hatfield
19	Little Bird	Annie Lennox
20	Devil You Know	Jesus Jones
21	Crying Game	Boy George
22	Two Princes	Spin Doctors
23	Can You Forgive Her?	Pet Shop Boys
24	Step It Up	Stereo MCs
25	Mr Jones	Counting Crows
26	Sweet Lullaby	Deep Forest
27	I Feel You	Depeche Mode
28	Found Out About You	Gin Blossoms
29	Laid	James
30	Disarm	Smashing Pumpkins
31	Ghost At Number One	Jellyfish
32	Lemon	U2
33	Purple Haze	Cure
34	Push The Lil Daisies	Ween
35	Beautiful Girl	INXS
36	Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?	Revolting Cocks
37	Under The Gun	Sisters Of Mercy
38	Sweet Harmony	Beloved
39	Fields Of Gold	Sting
40	All Apologies	Nirvana
41	All That She Wants	Ace Of Base
42	Too Much Information	Duran Duran
43	Into Your Arms	Lemonheads
44	Buddy X	Neneh Cherry
45	Believe	Lenny Kravitz
46	Kiss Of Life	Sade
47	Feed The Tree	Belly
48	Sleeping Satellite	Tasmin Archer
49	Hang Onto Your Ego	Frank Black
50	No Rain	Blind Melon
51	Rain	Madonna
52	Numb	U2
53	Sublime	Ocean Blue
54	Dogs Of Lust	The The
55	Are You Gonna Go My Way?	Lenny Kravitz
56	You Got Me Floatin	PM Dawn
57	Go West	Pet Shop Boys
58	10x10	808 State
59	Right Decision	Jesus Jones
60	Low	Cracker
61	Speed	Alpha Team
62	Today	Smashing Pumpkins
63	Pets	Porno For Pyros
64	Your Town	Deacon Blue
65	Plush	Stone Temple Pilots
66	White Love	One Dove
67	Linger	Cranberries
68	None Of The Above	Duran Duran
69	Injected With A Poison	Praga Khan
70	Mercy In You	Depeche Mode
71	Water From A Vine Leaf	William Orbit
72	Rubberband Girl	Kate Bush
73	Runaway Train	Soul Asylum
74	What's Up?	4 Non-Blondes
75	Man On The Moon	REM
76	It's My Life	Dr Alban
77	Hey Jealousy	Gin Blossoms
78	Wishing Well	INXS
79	Jump They Say	David Bowie
80	Heart-Shaped Box	Nirvana
81	Packet Of Peace	Lionrock
82	Zooropa	U2
83	Surround	Dada
84	Outbreak Of Love	Midnight Oil
85	Kite	Nick Heyward
86	Deep Forest	Deep Forest
87	Los Angeles	Frank Black
88	Time	INXS
89	Without A Trace	Soul Asylum
90	Easy	Faith No More
91	Kiss That Frog	Peter Gabriel
92	Soul To Squeeze	Red Hot Chili Peppers
93	Dim	Dada
94	Stand Above Me	OMD
95	Daughter	Pearl Jam
96	Cowgirl	Underworld
97	Spooky	New Order
98	One In Ten	808 State
99	Rape Me	Nirvana
100	Mary Jane's Last Dance	Tom Petty
101	Eat The Music	Kate Bush
102	Creation	Stereo MCs
103	Higher Love	Depeche Mode
104	Higher Ground	UB40
105	Black Gold	Soul Asylum
106	Bigscaryanimal	Belinda Carlisle
107	Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me)	Chris Isaak
108	Moses	808 State
109	Killer Inside Me	MC 900ft Jesus
110	Because The Night	10,000 Maniacs
111	Fever	Madonna
112	Fade To Black	His Boy Elroy
113	Jimmy Olsen's Blues	Spin Doctors
114	Here Today, Gone Tomorrow	Dada
115	Wicked Garden	Stone Temple Pilots
116	What Is Love?	Haddaway
117	Is It Like Today?	World Party
118	Delicate	Terence Trent D'Arby
119	Communication	INXS
120	Drums Of Heaven	Midnight Oil
121	If	Janet Jackson
122	Life's A Beat	Plan B
123	Waiting For The Sun	Jayhawks
124	Ruined In A Day	New Order
125	Stop Whispering	Radiohead
126	Oh Carolina	Shaggy
127	I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing	Pet Shop Boys
128	We Are The Normal	Goo Goo Dolls
129	Someday I Suppose	Mighty Mighty Bosstones
130	Everyday Is Like Sunday	10,000 Maniacs
131	Sing Hallelujah	Dr Alban
132	Chains	His Boy Elroy
133	Dream All Day	Posies
134	Questions	INXS
135	Rush	Depeche Mode
136	Going Going Gone	Information Society
137	Thing Of Beauty	Hothouse Flowers
138	Confetti	Lemonheads
139	My Umberella	Tripping Daisy
140	Can't Help Falling In Love	UB40
141	I Can See Clearly Now	Debbie Harry
142	Being Simple	Judybats
143	Sunshine Smile	Adorable
144	She Kissed Me	Terence Trent D'Arby
145	Gift	INXS
146	Playing With Fire	Stereo MCs
147	I Should've Known	Aimee Mann
148	Never Said	Liz Phair
149	My Name Is Mud	Primus
150	Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite	REM
151	That's The Way Love Goes	Janet Jackson
152	Bittersweet	Big Head Todd & The Monsters
153	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Tori Amos
154	Who Was In My Room Last Night?	Butthole Surfers
155	In Your Room	Depeche Mode
156	Heroin	Billy Idol
157	Gepetto	Belly
158	In The Name Of The Father	Gavin Friday
159	Sexual Healing	Soul Asylum
160	Why Does The Sun Shine? (Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas)	They Might Be Giants
161	Shamrocks And Shenanigans	House Of Pain
162	Ubiquitous Mr Lovegroove	Dead Can Dance
163	Love Is Stronger Than Death	The The
164	Dragging Me Down	Inspiral Carpets
165	Metal Mickey	Suede
166	Bad Girl	Madonna
167	You’re The One For Me Fatty	Morrissey
168	Locked Out	Crowded House
169	Love See No Colour	Farm
170	Sex Type Thing	Stone Temple Pilots
171	Devil's Johnson	Ethyl Meatplow
172	Miles From The Sun	T-4-2
173	Heal It Up	Concrete Blonde
174	Religion	Front 242
175	Elemental	Tears For Fears
176	Can’t Stop Killing You	Kirsty MacColl
177	American Jesus	Bad Religion
178	Chemical World	Blur
179	Carnival Is Over	Dead Can Dance
180	Leave It Alone	Living Colour
181	Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In)	Michael Penn
182	Stay (Faraway, So Close!)	U2
183	Sister Havana	Urge Overkill
184	Uh-Huh, Oh Yeah	Paul Weller
185	Nightswimming	REM
186	Mr Vain	Culture Beat
187	Crazy Mary	Pearl Jam
188	Anyone Can Play Guitar	Radiohead
189	Broken Hearted Savior	Big Head Todd & The Monsters
190	Tones Of Home	Blind Melon
191	One Caress	Depeche Mode
192	Courage	Tragically Hip
193	If It's Real	Information Society
194	Drug Against War	KMFDM
195	Twiggy, Twiggy	Pizzicato Five
196	How Does It Feel?	Electroset
197	Don't You Want Me?	Farm
198	Cursed Female	Porno For Pyros
199	World Class Fad	Paul Westerberg
200	Start Choppin	Dinosaur Jr

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The Best of 1994:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Closer	Nine Inch Nails
2	Girls & Boys	Blur
3	God	Tori Amos
4	Black Hole Sun	Soundgarden
5	Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me)	Portishead
6	Possession	Sarah McLachlan
7	Seether	Veruca Salt
8	More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get	Morrissey
9	If I Only Had A Brain	MC 900ft Jesus
10	Absolutely Fabulous	Pet Shop Boys
11	Prayer For The Dying	Seal
12	All I Wanna Do	Sheryl Crow
13	Big Time Sensuality	Bjork
14	I'll Take You There	General Public
15	Spoonman	Soundgarden
16	It's Over Now (It's Alright)	Cause & Effect
17	Supersonic	Oasis
18	Self Esteem	Offspring
19	Always	Erasure
20	I'll Stand By You	Pretenders
21	Welcome To My Mind	Psychosonic
22	Labour Of Love	Frente
23	Rocks	Primal Scream
24	Protection	Massive Attack
25	Cornflake Girl	Tori Amos
26	Moving On Up	M People
27	Bull In The Heather	Sonic Youth
28	Streets Of Philadelphia	Bruce Springsteen
29	Am I Wrong?	Love Spit Love
30	When I Come Around	Green Day
31	Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm	Crash Test Dummies
32	Parklife	Blur
33	That's Just What You Are	Aimee Mann
34	Return To Innocence	Enigma
35	Doll Parts	Hole
36	Open Up	Leftfield
37	Bang And Blame	REM
38	Bizarre Love Triangle	Frente
39	Past The Mission	Tori Amos
40	Interstate Love Song	Stone Temple Pilots
41	100% Pure Love	Crystal Waters
42	Selfish	Other Two
43	Heaven Help	Lenny Kravitz
44	Love Spreads	Stone Roses
45	Zombie	Cranberries
46	Joy	Staxx
47	7 Seconds	Neneh Cherry
48	18 Strings	Tinman
49	Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)	Counting Crows
50	Come Out And Play (Keep Em Separated)	Offspring
51	Right Beside You	Sophie B Hawkins
52	Meet The Flintstones	B-52s
53	Fall Down	Toad The Wet Sprocket
54	U R The Best Thing	D:Ream
55	Sabotage	Beastie Boys
56	Secret	Madonna
57	Whispering Your Name	Alison Moyet
58	Night In My Veins	Pretenders
59	Run To The Sun	Erasure
60	No Excuses	Alice In Chains
61	I'm The Only One	Melissa Etheridge
62	Fade Into You	Mazzy Starr
63	There's More To Life Than This	Bjork
64	Sometimes Always	Jesus & Mary Chain
65	Leaving Las Vegas	Sheryl Crow
66	Sign	Ace Of Base
67	Somethings Always Wrong	Toad The Wet Sprocket
68	Everything Zen	Bush
69	Swamp Thing	Grid
70	Rain King	Counting Crows
71	One Night In Heaven	M People
72	She Don't Use Jelly	Flaming Lips
73	Get Off This	Cracker
74	Fantastic Voyage	Coolio
75	About A Girl	Nirvana
76	Don't Turn Around	Ace Of Base
77	What's The Frequency Kenneth?	REM
78	Here We Go	Stakka Bo
79	Whole World Lost Its Head	Go-Gos
80	Selling The Drama	Live
81	Newborn Friend	Seal
82	Wild Night	John Mellencamp
83	Pretty	Cranberries
84	Violently Happy	Bjork
85	Supernova	Liz Phair
86	Here Comes The Hotstepper	Ini Kamoze
87	Say Something	James
88	Lucky You	Lightning Seeds
89	I Love Saturdays	Erasure
90	Please (You Got That...)	INXS
91	Living In Danger	Ace Of Base
92	Come To My Window	Melissa Etheridge
93	Stay (I Missed You)	Lisa Loeb
94	Round Here	Counting Crows
95	Longview	Green Day
96	Most Beautiful Girl In The World	Prince
97	Undone (Sweater Song)	Weezer
98	Shine	Collective Soul
99	Landslide	Smashing Pumpkins
100	Better Man	Pearl Jam
101	You Gotta Be	Des'ree
102	I Want It All	Eve's Plumb
103	Backwater	Meat Puppets
104	Bad Reputation	Freedy Johnston
105	Can’t Get Out Of Bed	Charlatans UK
106	Another Night	Real McCoy
107	Gotta Get Away	Offspring
108	Fell On Black Days	Soundgarden
109	If That’s Your Boyfriend (He Wasn’t Last Night)	Me'shell Ndegeocello
110	Vasoline	Stone Temple Pilots
111	Murder Of One	Counting Crows
112	Least Complicated	Indigo Girls
113	13 Steps Lead Down	Elvis Costello
114	Headache	Frank Black
115	Buddy Holly	Weezer
116	Sex Drive	Glam
117	Afternoons & Coffeespoons	Crash Test Dummies
118	Voodoo People	Prodigy
119	Good Enough	Sarah McLachlan
120	Basket Case	Green Day
121	21st Century Digital Boy	Bad Religion
122	Things Can Only Get Better	D:Ream
123	Venus As A Boy	Bjork
124	Mamouna	Bryan Ferry
125	Until I Fall Away	Gin Blossoms
126	Creep	TLC
127	Suffocate Me	Angelfish
128	Snail Shell	They Might Be Giants
129	Sure Shot	Beastie Boys
130	Love Is Strong	Rolling Stones
131	I'll Remember	Madonna
132	Karmacoma	Massive Attack
133	Ich Bin Ein Auslander	Pop Will Eat Itself
134	All I Am	Dada
135	Not For You	Pearl Jam
136	Lucas With The Lid Off	Lucas
137	Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon	Urge Overkill
138	Beercan	Beck
139	Cure For Pain	Morphine
140	I Alone	Live
141	Happy Nation	Ace Of Base
142	Love Sneaking Up On You	Bonnie Raitt
143	Hey!	Oingo Boingo
144	Looking For A Song	Big Audio Dynamite
145	Ping Pong	Stereolab
146	Tribe	Babble
147	Down To This	Soul Coughing
148	Renegade Soundwave	Renegade Soundwave
149	Cleopatra's Cat	Spin Doctors
150	Cut Your Hair	Pavement
151	Hold My Hand	Hootie & The Blowfish
152	Debonair	Afghan Whigs
153	When You Made The Mountain	Opus III
154	Citysong	Luscious Jackson
155	You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart	Sinead O'Connor
156	Gentleman Who Fell	Milla
157	House Of Love	East 17
158	Strong Enough	Sheryl Crow
159	Watch The Girl Destroy Me	Possum Kingdom
160	Last Goodbye	Jeff Buckley
161	Do You Remember The First Time?	Pulp
162	Distant Sun	Crowded House
163	Euro-Trash Girl	Cracker
164	Liar	Henry Rollins
165	Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town	Pearl Jam
166	New Age Girl	Dead Eye Dick
167	Gentleman	Afghan Whigs
168	Miss World	Hole
169	Big Gay Heart	Lemonheads
170	Welcome To Paradise	Green Day
171	Love Is All Around	Wet Wet Wet
172	You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast	Spin Doctors
173	Take Me Away	Babble
174	Kim The Waitress	Material Issue
175	Grace	Jeff Buckley
176	The Key, The Secret	Urban Cookie Collective
177	Tempted	Waterlillies
178	Trip And Glide	Love & Rockets
179	Rakim	Dead Can Dance
180	Conspiracy	Black Crowes
181	Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe	Whale
182	Speed	Billy Idol
183	Angel	David Byrne
184	Angels	Kirsty MacColl
185	Insanity	Oingo Boingo
186	Baby Come Back	Pato Banton
187	Far Behind	Candlebox
188	Allison Road	Gin Blossoms
189	Slowly, Slowly	Magnapop
190	If You Don’t Love Me (I’ll Kill Myself)	Pete Droge
191	Never Get Enough	Waterlillies
192	Great Big No	Lemonheads
193	Your Favorite Thing	Sugar
194	Can't Even Tell	Soul Asylum
195	Feel The Pain	Dinosaur Jr
196	Ease My Mind	Arrested Development
197	Messiah	Farm
198	Coming Down (Drug Tongue)	Cult
199	Let Her Down Easy	Terence Trent D'Arby
200	Corduroy	Pearl Jam

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The Best of 1995: (the top 4, and 7 of the top 11, all have femaie vocals)

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Missing	Everything But The Girl
2	You Oughta Know	Alanis Morissette
3	Just A Girl	No Doubt
4	Connection	Elastica
5	Natural One	Folk Implosion
6	Kiss From A Rose	Seal
7	1979	Smashing Pumpkins
8	Queer	Garbage
9	Hurt	Nine Inch Nails
10	Wonderwall	Oasis
11	Hunter Gets Captured By The Game	Massive Attack
12	Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me	U2
13	It's Oh So Quiet	Bjork
14	Time Bomb	Rancid
15	What Would You Say?	Dave Matthews
16	Poison	Prodigy
17	All I Really Want	Alanis Morissette
18	Down By The Water	PJ Harvey
19	Wonderful	Adam Ant
20	Carnival	Natalie Merchant
21	Lump	Presidents Of The USA
22	Tell Me When	Human League
23	In The Name Of The Father	Black Grape
24	Bullet With Butterfly Wings	Smashing Pumpkins
25	Live Forever	Oasis
26	Set U Free	Planet Soul
27	I Know	Dionne Farris
28	Ironic	Alanis Morissette
29	More Human Than Human	White Zombie
30	Going South	Wolfgang Press
31	Ladder	Joan Osborne
32	Hold On	Sarah McLachlan
33	December	Collective Soul
34	Little Things	Bush
35	High And Dry	Radiohead
36	Here And Now	Letters To Cleo
37	Trigger Happy Jack	Poe
38	Lightning Crashes	Live
39	Friends Of P	Rentals
40	Hearts Filthy Lesson	David Bowie
41	Scream	Michael Jackson
42	Downtown Venus	PM Dawn
43	Saint Theresa	Joan Osborne
44	Universal Heartbeat	Juliana Hatfield
45	Army Of Me	Bjork
46	Hand In My Pocket	Alanis Morissette
47	Street Spirit	Radiohead
48	Car Song	Elastica
49	Dancing Days	Stone Temple Pilots
50	World I Know	Collective Soul
51	Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)	Bucketheads
52	Girl Like You	Edwyn Collins
53	Run-Around	Blues Traveller
54	Lovely Jane	Dag
55	Hyperballad	Bjork
56	No More 'I Love You's	Annie Lennox
57	Good	Better Than Ezra
58	Just	Radiohead
59	Wonder	Natalie Merchant
60	Hypnotized	Simple Minds
61	One Of Us	Joan Osborne
62	Til I Hear It From You	Gin Blossoms
63	Crossing The River	Devlins
64	Hey Man, Nice Shot	Filter
65	Heaven Beside You	Alice In Chains
66	I'll Be There For You	Rembrandts
67	In The Meantime	Spacehog
68	These Are Days	Human League
69	My Friends	Red Hot Chili Peppers
70	Perfect Day	Duran Duran
71	You'll See	Madonna
72	Do You Sleep?	Lisa Loeb
73	Comedown	Bush
74	Santa Monica (Watch The World Die)	Everclear
75	Man Who Sold The World	Nirvana
76	I Kissed A Girl	Jill Sobule
77	Your Little Secret	Melissa Etheridge
78	And Fools Shine On	Brother Cane
79	Juke Joint Jezebel	KMFDM
80	Say It Ain't So	Weezer
81	Beautiful Life	Ace Of Base
82	Name	Goo Goo Dolls
83	She's A River	Simple Minds
84	Can't Cry Anymore	Sheryl Crow
85	Vow	Garbage
86	Waterfalls	TLC
87	O Baby	Siouxsie & The Banshees
88	Glycerine	Bush
89	Gel	Collective Soul
90	I'll Stick Around	Foo Fighters
91	I Will Remember You	Sarah McLachlan
92	Destination Eschaton	Shamen
93	Breakfast At Tiffany’s	Deep Blue Something
94	Hook	Blues Traveler
95	Hallo Spaceboy	David Bowie
96	Boombastic	Shaggy
97	Rock N Roll Lifestyle	Cake
98	There Is A Light	Nick Cave
99	Only Wanna Be With You	Hootie & The Blowfish
100	Morning Glory (What’s The Story?)	Oasis
101	Gangsta's Paradise	Coolio
102	She Came On	Super Deluxe
103	Satellite	Dave Matthews
104	Rock And Roll Is Dead	Lenny Kravitz
105	Secret Garden	Bruce Springsteen
106	Run Away	Real McCoy
107	Date Rape	Sublime
108	White Lines	Duran Duran
109	Possum Kingdom	Toadies
110	Fake Plastic Trees	Radiohead
111	Bedtime Story	Madonna
112	Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing	Chris Isaak
113	Better Than Nothing	Jen Trynin
114	Stutter	Elastica
115	Tomorrow	Silverchair
116	As I Lay Me Down	Sophie B Hawkins
117	Empire	Bomb The Bass
118	Misery	Soul Asylum
119	Hit And Run Holiday	My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
120	Crush With Eyeliner	REM
121	I Wish	Skee-Lo
122	In The Blood	Better Than Ezra
123	Stop To Think	Dionne Farris
124	Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer’s Day)	Erasure
125	Sick Of Myself	Matthew Sweet
126	Human Nature	Madonna
127	Fairground	Simply Red
128	Roll To Me	Del Amitri
129	Evidence	Faith No More
130	Charmless Man	Blur
131	Moon June Spoon	Spot
132	God's Mistake	Tears For Fears
133	You Make Me Feel Like A Whore	Everclear
134	Ants Marching	Dave Matthews
135	I Go Wild	Rolling Stones
136	Fu-Gee-La	Fugees
137	Ruby Soho	Rancid
138	Rosealia	Better Than Ezra
139	Ode To My Family	Cranberries
140	This Is A Call	Foo Fighters
141	Whiter Shade Of Pale	Annie Lennox
142	I Got A Girl	Tripping Daisy
143	Naked	Goo Goo Dolls
144	All Over You	Live
145	Box Full Of Letters	Wilco
146	Molly (16 Candles)	Sponge
147	Go Walking Down There	Chris Isaak
148	Common People	Pulp
149	Send Me On My Way	Rusted Root
150	Ridiculous Thoughts	Cranberries
151	Sometimes I Miss You So Much	PM Dawn
152	We Are Family	Babes In Toyland
153	Pearl's Girl	Underworld
154	Honey White	Morphine
155	Boxers	Morrissey
156	Dreamer	Livin Joy
157	Ride	Pretty & Twisted
158	Control	Traci Lords
159	Angel	Gavin Friday
160	Raoul And The Kings Of Spain	Tears For Fears
161	Open Your Heart	M People
162	Rainy Days	General Public
163	Vibrator	Terence Trent D'Arby
164	Time	Hootie & The Blowfish
165	Somebody’s Crying	Chris Isaak
166	Runaway	Janet Jackson
167	Country House	Blur
168	Star 69	REM
169	Sweet 69	Babes In Toyland
170	Isobel	Bjork
171	Mr Personality	Gillette
172	Disco 2000	Pulp
173	Smash It Up	Offspring
174	Carnival	Cardigans
175	Warped	Red Hot Chili Peppers
176	Total Eclipse Of The Heart	Nikki French
177	Life Is Sweet	Chemical Brothers
178	I Turned Out A Punk	Big Audio Dynamite
179	Uninvited	Ruth Ruth
180	She	Green Day
181	Heartbeat	Jimmy Sommerville
182	Stay With Me	Erasure
183	Space Cowboy	Jamiroquai
184	Haunted	Shane McGowan
185	Strange Currencies	REM
186	I Believe	Blessid Union Of Souls
187	Working For The Man	PJ Harvey
188	Supermodel Sandwich	Terence Trent D'Arby
189	Miss Sarajevo	Passengers
190	I Got Id	Pearl Jam
191	Be My Lover	La Bouche
192	Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver	Primus
193	Good Intentions	Toad The Wet Sprocket
194	No More Love	God Lives Underwater
195	JAR	Green Day
196	Every Little Thing I Do	Soul For Real
197	Complicated	Poi Dog Pondering
198	Marta’s Song	Deep Forest
199	Bright Yellow Gun	Throwing Muses
200	Starseed	Our Lady Peace

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The Best of 1996:

RANK	SONG	ARTIST
1	Firestarter	Prodigy
2	Lovefool	Cardigans
3	Stupid Girl	Garbage
4	Love Rollercoaster	Red Hot Chili Peppers
5	Devil's Haircut	Beck
6	Ready To Go	Republica
7	Hello	Poe
8	Tattva	Kula Shaker
9	Sweet Lover Hangover	Love & Rockets
10	Mother Mother	Tracy Bonham
11	Mission Impossible Theme	Adam/Larry Clayton/Mullen
12	Super Bon Bon	Soul Coughing
13	Where It's At	Beck
14	Spiderwebs	No Doubt
15	Only Happy When It Rains	Garbage
16	Whoever You Are	Geggy Tah
17	Naked Eye	Luscious Jackson
18	Setting Sun	Chemical Brothers
19	Scooby Snacks	Fun Lovin Criminals
20	Trippin On A Hole In A Paper Heart	Stone Temple Pilots
21	One Headlight	Wallflowers
22	Your Lucky Day In Hell	Eels
23	Distance	Cake
24	Pepper	Butthole Surfers
25	Champagne Supernova	Oasis
26	Love Has No Name	Babble
27	Emergency's About To End	Possum Dixon
28	Trigger Hippie	Morcheeba
29	Tiny Meat	Ruby
30	You Learn	Alanis Morissette
31	All Mixed Up	311
32	What I Got	Sublime
33	Novocaine For The Soul	Eels
34	Don't Speak	No Doubt
35	Tonight, Tonight	Smashing Pumpkins
36	Spaceman	Babylon Zoo
37	Reverend Black Grape	Black Grape
38	Dangerous Type	Letters To Cleo
39	Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth…	Primitive Radio Gods
40	Killing Me Softly	Fugees
41	Counting Blue Cars	Dishwalla
42	Too Much	Dave Matthews
43	So Low	Self
44	Boy Or A Girl	Imperial Drag
45	Damage I've Done	Heads
46	Inside	Patti Rothberg
47	Radiation Vibe	Fountains Of Wayne
48	Ladykillers	Lush
49	Tahitian Moon	Porno For Pyros
50	Beautiful People	Marilyn Manson
51	Caught A Lite Sneeze	Tori Amos
52	Big Bang Baby	Stone Temple Pilots
53	Down	311
54	Shadowboxer	Fiona Apple
55	So Much To Say	Dave Matthews
56	Drop Dead Gorgeous	Republica
57	Soundtrack To Mary	Soul Coughing
58	Tramazi Party	Black Grape
59	Santeria	Sublime
60	Machinehead	Bush
61	You're One	Imperial Teen
62	Angry Johnny	Poe
63	Here In Your Bedroom	Goldfinger
64	Lie On Lie	Chalk Farm
65	Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind	Lenny Kravitz
66	Flood	Jars Of Clay
67	Born Slippy	Underworld
68	Christiansands	Tricky
69	Wrong	Everything But The Girl
70	Popular	Nada Surf
71	Guilty	Gravity Kills
72	Box	Orbital
73	Head Over Feet	Alanis Morissette
74	Wax Ecstatic	Sponge
75	Crash Into Me	Dave Matthews
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