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Category: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #75 Cabaret Voltaire – The Crackdown
Released : 1983 Whilst some of the lines of early electronic music were clean, symmetrical and unquestionably pop, underneath the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #76 Belouis Some – Imagination
Released : 1986 There’s no magic formula for creating a hit, otherwise everyone who wanted one could have one. Neville … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #77 Echo and The Bunnymen – The Cutter
Released : 1983 Ian McCulloch was never shy about Echo and The Bunnymen’s credentials, declaring them without a trace of … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #78 Fini Tribe – De Testimony
Whilst The Shamen’s In Gorbachev We Trust straddled that boundary between indie and electronic, Detstimony was a tougher beast altogether, relying on a clanging church bell phrase and atonal vocals, splicing industrial clatter with techno phrasing before most even knew what it was. @finitribe @shamen1
The 100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s – The Playlist #100 – #71
Over the year the list will be regularly updated. Find it without the blurb here. Or read on… For all … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #81 Thomas Dolby – Airwaves
Released : 1981 Briefly, it seemed that the meek might inherit the earth. Engineered by futuristic lab natives like Kraftwerk … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s #82 Black Flag – Six Pack
Released: 1981 Michael Azerrad’s beyond essential book Our Band Could Be Your Life tells the story of how a handful … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #83 Grace Jones – Slave To The Rhythm
Released : 1985 There was always a danger that the Grace Jones brand – if such terminology had even been … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s #84 Momus – A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy, Parts 17-24
Released : 1988 The 1980’s was a decade whose pop glamour attracted many to it, novices staring through the window … More
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