Released : 1987 To many it seemed Björk Guðmundsdóttir first appeared like some pixie who’d floated in from the bottom … More
Category: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #56 Dinosaur Jr. – Freak Scene
Released : 1988 We tend to be quite parochial, so the history of indie rock usually gets told from the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #101 Lone Justice – Ways To Be Wicked
Editors Note: This was originally going to be in the top #100 but looking at the remaining list, it just wasn’t going to cut it in the position it found itself in. It’s still a great song though and the piece was already written, so….
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #57 A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
Released : 1989 Gerald Simpson had been a staple amongst Manchester’s jazzdance, electro and crew scenes since the early 1980’s … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #58 U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Released : 1983 There was a time when U2 didn’t split public opinion almost down the middle – latter day … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #70 Japan – Ghosts
Released : 1982 By the early months of the new decade the Musicians Union had seen enough: worried by the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #60 N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton
. Dr Dre’s ‘You are about to witness the power of street knowledge’ was the most ominous first line of … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #61 Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding
Released: 1982 Confined to a wheelchair following an accident in 1973, former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt made for an … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #62 Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Geno
Released : 1980 Not for the first time in this decade the fallout from punk created a new and vibrant, … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #63 Fugazi – Waiting Room
Released : 1988 “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off”. Minor Threat’s dissolution in … More
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