pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Farmer and Central America songs...that's what the 80s were all about, man. I was there, Goddamnit!!!

and i cannot forget from where it is i come from

one PSB track.. hm.

Top Charity Singles Accompanied By "Check Your Ego At The Door" Videos Of The 1980s

If this were 2005, they would have included "Come On, Eileen"

Even worse though, if this were 2005 they would have included "Don't Stop Believing."

i don't have a problem with multiple songs by artists on a list like this. i would have three wide boy awake songs on any top 200 songs of the 80's that i did.

Someone might have, but not Pitchfork. Not in 2005.

just noticed that WHAM/ Everything She Wants sneaks in the 'See Also' bit under Hall And Oats. not sure if that makes it better or worse.

xp "DSB" is one of the '80s picks in The Pitchfork 500 (published in 2008).

glad 2 see that the pitchfork list has launched successfully

xp oops!

(I'd honestly forgotten that THe Pitchfork 500 even existed.)

journey, don henley, paul simon all among the artists on the pitchfork 500 not on this list. tears for fears went from zero songs on the list to two!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pitchfork_500#1980.E2.80.931982

i would also substitute carly track with cruisers creek and fugazi track with oblivious. oblivious should really be in the top ten.

specific song selections/order aside, i like list! (well enough)
afaict (maybe missed it) biggest omission for me is 80s the fall, i mean really
(more subjectively, wd've like to see the clean, but at least chills are there)

also (maybe missed it) nothing in spanish?
tbh don't know what i'd include; all my favorite salsa is from the 70s

(ha xp with scott)

For comparison's sake, our own 80s tracks poll (which is ten years old now): ****************THIS IS A JOURNEY INTO SOUND - IT'S THE ILX 1980s SINGLES POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN WHAMBAM FOOFARAW****************

1. Prince and the Revolution – "When Doves Cry"
2. Joy Division – "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
3. Michael Jackson – "Billie Jean"
4. New Order – "Temptation"
5. Madonna – "Into the Groove"
6. New Order – "Blue Monday"
7. Talking Heads – "Once in a Lifetime"
8. The Smiths – "There is a Light that Never Goes Out"
9. Sonic Youth – "Teenage Riot"
10. The Cure – "Just Like Heaven"
11. Pixies – "Debaser"
12. Public Enemy – "Fight the Power"
13. Pet Shop Boys – "West End Girls"
14. The Smiths – "This Charming Man"
15. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock – "It Takes Two"
16. The Smiths – "How Soon Is Now?"
17. Prince – "Little Red Corvette"
18. Prince and the Revolution – "Kiss"
19. Public Enemy – "Bring the Noise"
20. New Order – "Bizarre Love Triangle"
21. M/A/R/R/S – “Pump Up the Volume"/"Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)"
22. A-ha – “Take On Me”
23. Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force – “Planet Rock”
24. Human League – “Don’t You Want Me”
25. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five – “The Message”
26. Madonna – “Like a Prayer”
27. The Specials – “Ghost Town”
28. Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill”
29. Prince – “1999”
30. Go-Gos – “Our Lips Are Sealed”
31. Dexys Midnight Runners – “Come On Eileen”
32. R.E.M. – “Radio Free Europe”
33. Salt ‘n’ Pepa – “Push It”
34. Joy Division – “Atmosphere”
35. The Jesus and Mary Chain – “Just Like Honey”
36. My Bloody Valentine – “You Made Me Realise”
37. Funky Four + 1 – “That’s the Joint”
38. New Order – “Ceremony”
39. Grandmaster and Melle Mel – “White Lines (Don’t Do It)”
40. Cyndi Lauper – “Time After Time”
41. Prince and the Revolution – “Raspberry Beret”
42. The Cure – “InBetween Days”
43. The Clash – “Rock the Casbah”
44. The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl – “Fairytale of New York”
45. Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield – “What Have I Done To Deserve This?”
46. Queen & David Bowie – “Under Pressure”
47. Pet Shop Boys – “Always On My Mind”
48. Madonna – “Borderline”
49. Motorhead – “Ace of Spades”
50. Madonna – “Holiday”
51. Guns ‘n’ Roses – “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
52. Michael Jackson - "Beat It"
53. Talking Heads - "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)"
54. Soft Cell - "Tainted Love"
55. Cameo - "Word Up"
56. Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy"
57. George Clinton - "Atomic Dog"
58. Tom Tom Club - "Genius of Love"
59. Lipps Inc. - "Funkytown"
60. Eric B. & Rakim - "Paid In Full"
61. New Order - "Age of Consent"
62. Duran Duran - "Rio"
63. The Stones Roses - "Fools Gold 9.53"
64. Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun"
65. N.W.A. - "Express Yourself"
66. Blondie - "Call Me"
67. Cybotron - "Clear"
68. Depeche Mode - "Never Let Me Down"
69. The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Never Understand"
70. Public Enemy - "Night of the Living Baseheads"
71. Pixies - "Monkey Gone To Heaven"
72. Fugazi - "Waiting Room"
73. Pixies - "Gigantic"
74. De La Soul - "Me Myself and I"
75. R.E.M. - "Fall On Me"
76. Rick James - "Super Freak"
77. New Order - "True Faith"
78. The Smiths - "Ask"
79. Hall & Oates - "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)"
80. Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force - "I Wonder If I Take You Home"
81. The Smiths - "Bigmouth Strikes Again"
82. Young MC - "Bust a Move"
83. The La's - "There She Goes"
84. Soft Cell - "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"
85. Echo & the Bunnymen - "The Killing Moon"
86. Associates - "Party Fears Two"
87. Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over"
88. The Beat - "Save It For Later"
89. Young Marble Giants - "Final Day"
90. The Cure - "A Forest"
91. The Primitives - "Crash"
92. Modern English - "I Melt With You"
93. Don Henley - "The Boys of Summer"
94. Guns 'N' Roses - "Welcome to the Jungle"
95. The Fall - "The Classical"
96. Morrissey - "Suedehead"
97. Prince - "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"
98. Shannon - "Let the Music Play"
99. Eric B. & Rakim - "Follow the Leader"
100. Grandmaster Flash - "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel"

this exercise has taught me that "karma chameleon" isn't 80s canon

ridiculous amount of New Order in that ILM poll

Wanna Be Startin'.. not even featured!

those ilm poll results are like... good songs, but all super predictable/boring as a list, all the way down to the ones barely scraping the bottom of the top 100. have the normalizing forces of 'the canon' become so powerful even that far back that ppl were not aware of anything else from the time to vote for? i feel like ilm poll results tend to have a few more 'surprises' or w/e

i am sure the p4k list is just as bad if not worse but i don't really care enough to find out

ha yeah I guess there were only 2 good metal songs in the 80s, both of them by Guns'n'Roses.

What's Ace of Spades?

oh is the list called "The Only 200 Good Songs of the Entire 1980s"? I missed that.

glad I brought you up to speed (was talking about the ILM 100 tho)

omg canonical list is canonical someone call the cops

No Sugar Walls, no credibility

did ilxors really vote for "Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)"

It was probably just nominated that way, idk

i basically hated "ace of spades" from the first time i heard it and was surprised when i found out it was like widely respected/canon

Oh man, then Motorhead is not for you. 80% of their songs sound just like Ace of Spades.

im not a motorhead fan but when i was a kid and first heard ace of spades on the radio it was hands down the most exciting thing i had ever heard.

ace of spades should be on every 80's list. also, make a circuit with me by the polecats.

true dat

ilx did get the best New Order song right at least

P4k list definitely preferable to that ILX list, though maybe ILX 101-200 was more interesting.

but the rollout is only ever the top 100 if youre lucky on an ILX poll. Which is the least interesting part of polls imo

the rap entries on the ILX list are embarassing. not that they're bad per se - a lot of them are fun - but they are not generally representative of the amazing shit coming out of hop hop in the 80s. NWA is represented by Express Yourself, which is above Rakim I mean come on

I assume the majority of ballots were from Britishes tbh

hophop was the best

i doubt it. New Order is popular allover ILM plus a bunch of the UK posters jumped ship by then.

amazing shit coming out like hop hop

ban all lists

shit bangs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__WZAi286xk

^^ reet good comp that

i loved the new wave of british heavy menthol

would have expected live to tell on the ilx list

there ought to be one or more congressional hearings on the all-round lack of French pop but such is the world we live in I guess

im sure an 80s poll now would be different (ie have more new order songs)

any specific tracks?

I've just been informed that Pitchfork have done a list of the best songs of the '80s. I love the music of that decade and will defend a lot of it like crazy when I come across folks (and I still do, incredibly) who (wrongly) think that the '80s is the decade that taste forgot. However, I haven't read this list and I probably won't because it's Pitchfork and I don't give a fuck.

(See also: Pazz & Jop, Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone and various other things that mean absolutely nothing to me)