100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #54 The Stranglers – Golden Brown

Released: 1982 If music is in part of the reflection of the drugs taken by the people who make it, … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #55 The Sugarcubes – Birthday

Released : 1987 To many it seemed Björk Guðmundsdóttir first appeared like some pixie who’d floated in from the bottom … More

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

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #64 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message

Released : 1982 Anybody who ever tells you crime doesn’t pay should take some time out to speak with Joseph … More