100 Greatest Songs of The 80’s #11 Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)

Released : 1982 One person is always first to the moment. Whilst Morrissey was singing about being ill and Bono … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #12 The Associates – Party Fears Two

Released : 1982 Patience is a virtue that doesn’t always pay dividends, but the story of how Alan Rankine and … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #13 The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary

Released : 1985 Language changes over time; when the term “Sell out” was applied in 1976 it referred to the … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #14 This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren

Released : 1983 There are cult record labels, and then there is 4AD, the London based imprint who became so … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #15 Joy Division – Isolation

Released : 1980 Almost every book you read about Joy Division or Ian Curtis seems to have the same remarkable … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #16 Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Perfect Skin

Released : 1984 If timing is everything, fewer migrations could’ve been more blessed with that gift than Lloyd Cole’s relocation … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #17 Madonna – Into The Groove

Released : 1985 If it was good enough for Prince – and Bowie before that – then the number one … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #18 The Human League – Love Action (I Believe In Love)

Released : 1981 1981 was the decade’s most turbulent year, gut punched in the middle by a series of riots … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #19 Happy Mondays – Wrote For Luck

Released : 1988 So concerned was Tony Wilson about the Happy Mondays increasingly chemical lifestyle at home in Manchester that … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #20 Metallica – Seek & Destroy

Released : 1983 Released a couple of years ago in demo form on the No Life ‘Til Leather EP, Seek … More