100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #23 Soul II Soul ft. Caron Wheeler – Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)

Released: 1989 It’s not always wise to take a song’s title literally, but according to Soul II Soul’s Caron Wheeler, … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #21 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes

Released : 1980 The 1970’s had been a decade of profound musical upheaval by the time they concluded, but only … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #22 The Jesus & Mary Chain – Never Understand

Released: 1985 Straight outta’ East Kilbride, the brothers Reid were like nothing Britain had ever heard or seen before, a … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #24 ABC – Poison Arrow

Released : 1982 Not every band from Sheffield – a heavily industrialised city in the neglected northern end of England … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #25 Pet Shop Boys – King’s Cross

Released: 1987 The 1980’s opened up a divide in Britain which owed much more to money than geography. As the … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #26 Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It

Released : 1986 The outpouring of grief which the death of former Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis in 2019 was, … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #27 Scritti Politti – Absolute

Released : 1984 There’s a certain conceit to putting the year of release into an album’s title, but if Green … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #29 Electronic – Getting Away With It

Released : 1989 The idea of supergroups was something which punk had largely seen off; surely nothing worse it was … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #30 Gang of Four – I Love A Man In A Uniform

Released: 1982 Retrospectively, this was such a halcyon period for British music that it almost at the time seemed to … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #31 Hüsker Dü – Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely

Released : 1986 The apparent masters of self-sabotage, Hüsker Dü’s transition to a major label after five years releasing their … More