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100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #65 Celtic Frost – Into The Crypts of Rays

Released : 1984 People often refer to the exportation of soccer violence to the rest of the world as the … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Black Metal, Celtic Frost, Into The Crypts of Rays, Thrash Metal, Tom Warrior

100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s #66 EPMD – Strictly Business

Released: 1988 EPMD – short for Errick and Parrish Making Dollars  – may have ridden the rap “Craze” as the … More

#Rap, 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Bob Marley, EPMD, Hip-Hop, Strictly Business

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #67 Joe Smooth – Promised Land

Released : 1987 (US) They were only there if you looked for them, but there were some discernible straight lines … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Chicago House, House, Joe Smooth, Promised Land

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #68 Fine Young Cannibals – Funny How Love Is

Released : 1985 Following on from the disintegration of The Beat, in search of a new singer Andy Cox and … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Fine Young Cannibals, Funny How Love Is, Roland Gift

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #69 Primal Scream – Velocity Girl

Released : 1986 There were fewer more pronounced transformations in rock than the one which teleported Primal Scream from the … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Bobby Gillespie, C86, Indie, Primal Scream, Velocity Girl

The 100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s – The Playlist

Originally posted on The Voice Of Unreason:
Over the year the list will be regularly updated. Find it without the blurb here. Or…

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Dexys Midnight Runners, EPMD, Fine Young Cannibals, Grandmaster Flash, Japan, NWA, Primal Scream

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #72 Tom Tom Club – Genius of Love

Released : 1981 Sometimes great outcomes happen by accident: Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz had booked dub reggae luminary Lee … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Chris Frantz, Genius of Love, Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth, Tom Tom Club

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, 1985, Belouis Some, Chic, David Bowie, Funk, Imagination

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, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cutter

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

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Detestimony, Edinburgh, Finitribe, House, Industrial, Techno

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