Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1985 poll

THREE Jesus and Mary Chain songs in the Top 20? And they're all pretty much the same frickin' song!

"Addicted to Love", although if #44's Randy Travis had gotten higher, I would have voted for it.

First time I've opened one of these threads, looked at the #1 on the list, and thought it would probably be lying to vote for anything else.

snrub otm

Anyways this is really Raspberry Beret vs. DV69 but I voted Crazy For You just bcz its been that kind of day

needs a spotify asap

pretty positive i'm the only one voting for "The Show" here

Amusingly, the artists I couldn't find on US Spotify were Kate Bush, USA for Africa and Artists United Against Apartheid. So I ain't gonna find Sun City, I guess. (Not that anyone's voting for that or "We Are The World" anyway. I assume.)

I love this list a LOT less than prior years. Kind of a two-way race between Tears for Fears and Sonic Youth here, with the 'Mats a close third and Kate Bush, The Cure and Husker Du all runners-up.

http://open.spotify.com/user/pdennison1/playlist/13egCG3nRRZroeAD94oT1C

1 219 Madonna - Into the Groove
2 311 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
3 381 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
4 456 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
7 834 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
8 836 LL Cool J - I Can't Live Without My Radio
9 1037 The Cure - In Between Days
12 1128 Doug E. Fresh - The Show
13 1179 Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
14 1245 The Cure - Close to Me
15 1256 Prince and The Revolution - Raspberry Beret
16 1277 Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love
17 1296 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
19 1368 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
20 1384 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
22 1530 Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
23 1577 Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69
30 1799 Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
31 1802 LL Cool J - Rock the Bells
32 1849 The Smiths - The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
33 1887 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force - I Wonder if I Take You Home
34 1896 Siouxsie and The Banshees - Cities in Dust
36 1979 Doug E. Fresh - La-Di-Da-Di
37 2061 Madonna - Crazy for You
38 2229 Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
40 2278 New Order - The Perfect Kiss

I have a lot of time for all of these songs

DJP - you left TENOR SAW off that list. I don't even know what to say.

voted Lisa Lisa so nerrrrr

I don't dislike Tenor Saw, I just never listen to it

'In Btw Days' or 'The Show' I guess.

La-di-da-di

Too hard. Think I'm going for Wayne Smith. Sorry Kate, J&MC, Sonic Youth, Madonna et al.

voted 'west end girls'. if it had been 'cloudbusting' rather than those two kate songs then i'd prob have gone for that.

You're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

My top 5:

Running Up That Hill
West End Girls
Into the Groove
Makes No Sense at All
Hounds of Love

Went with Siouxsie very narrowly over the Ramones,

Voted for Barrington Levy.

Good stuff here, Siouxsie over Kate, though I thought "Cities In Dust" came out in 86?

I remember living through this year and thinking it was boring, but this list looks better than 1984's.

1: Lisa Lisa
2. Madonna
3. Kate Bush, "Running Up That Hill"
4. Siouxsie

I meant Madonna, "Into the Groove" of course

Seriously, if you were driving around listening to the radio in the summer of '85 you'd be hearing stuff like "St. Elmo's Fire" by John Parr and "Go For Soda" by Kim Mitchell and "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis. It wasn't a good time.

"Go for Soda"!

I like St Elmo's Fire and The Power of Love!

Don't need no credit card to ride this train.

1985 was the first year where i discovered my music. before this year it was just pop radio type of stuff or what my friends (at the time) listened to. this was the year i started to buy records. a brand new world opened up and i was hooked. i liked music before but now i loved music because for the first time it really was mine.

this is insane

had no idea that critics liked "addicted to love"

voted "running up that hill"

btw, this is the last one for awhile, as i'm taking the holiday off next week.

Going to have to go with "Don't You (Forget About Me)." One of the best drum sounds in history. Love the drum machine & synth version in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, as well.

Voted to Whitney, for pure pop pleasure.

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so i said: "Running Up That Hill" (which knowing ILM, will probably walk in this poll).

:-)

which, truth be told, i forgot about "West End Girls" after posting that remark, i thought maybe it would give Kate Bush a run for her money.