Since all voting has now been done (bar any reshuffling) on the 1980s top 40 rates, who's willing to share their ultimate top 40s (i.e. which record did you vote number one for each position?)

 

Here's mine...

 

1 The Specials - Ghost Town

2 neil - Hole in my Shoe

3 New Order - Blue Monday

4 Erasure - A Little Respect

5 Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf

6 S'Express - Hey Music Lover

7 Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling

8 The Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies

9 Black Lace - Superman (Gica Jouer)

10 808 State - Pacific

11 The Clash - London Calling

12 A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray

13 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

14 Phil Lynott - Yellow Pearl

15 The Cure - In Between Days

16 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peek-a-Boo

17 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Happy House

18 New Order - Thieves Like Us

19 The Wonder Stuff - Don't Let Me Down, Gently

20 New Order - Touched By The Hand of God

21 Furniture - Brilliant Mind

22 De La Soul - Me Myself and I

23 Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves

24 The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

25 Prince - Raspberry Beret

26 The Smiths - Big Mouth Strikes Again

27 Midge Ure - Call of the Wild

28 New Order - Shellshock

29 New Order - Temptation

30 The Clash - Rock the Casbah

31 The Cure - A Forest

32 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From a Gun

33 The Wedding Present - Kennedy

34 Joy Division - Atmosphere

35 Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding

36 The Selecter - The Whisper

37 Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles

38 Pop Will Eat Itself - Can U Dig It?

39 Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator

40 The Wonder Stuff - It's Yer Money I'm After Baby

 

41-75 Happy Mondays - WFL

Edited July 10, 201510 yr by richie

1 Abba - The Winner Takes It All

2 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

3 Abba - One Of Us

4 Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices

5 Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies

6 ABC - Poison Arrow

7 Abba - Lay All Your Love On Me

8 Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

9 Echo And The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

10 Prince - Sign O The Times

11 Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)

12 Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer

13 OMD - Messages

14 Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (yes I switched to Dusty in the play-off! :lol: )

15 Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town

16 Dusty Springfield - Nothing Has Been Proved

17 Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

18 Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

19 Godley & Creme - Cry

20 Bucks Fizz - One Of Those Nights

 

21 Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust

22 Christians - Forgotten Town

23 Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation

24 The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

25 Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

26 Abba - Under Attack

27 Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

28 ELO - Calling America

29 Mory Kante - Ye Ke Ye Ke

30 ELO - Twilight

 

31 Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble

32 Abba - The Day Before You Came

33 The Monkees - The Monkees EP

34 Bucks Fizz - I Hear Talk

35 Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

36 AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie

37 Fleetwood Mac - Sarah

38 Icehouse - Crazy

39 ABC - SOS

40 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Dance Stance

41-75 Hey Jude - The Beatles

 

Abba - 5

Pet Shop Boys - 2 (plus a Dusty)

Fleetwood Mac - 2 (plus a Lindsey)

ELO - 2

Bucks Fizz - 2

Kate Bush - 2

ABC - 2

 

OK not totally Indie, but then I'm very mainstream :P

1 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

2 Adam & The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier

3 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence

4 Prince & The Revolution - When Doves Cry

5 Kate Bush - Babooshka

6 Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

7 Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

8 OMD - Enola Gay

9 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

10 A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)

 

11 The Clash - London Calling

12 Duran Duran - Planet Earth

13 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

14 Siouxsie & The Banshees - This Wheel's On Fire

15 Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

16 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo

17 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Happy House

18 Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink

19 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Back Of Love

20 The Sisters Of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection

 

21 Furniture - Brilliant Mind

22 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound

23 Kate Bush - Experiment IV

24 David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind

25 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains

26 Bauhaus - She's In Parties

27 The Cure - Catch

28 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Swimming Horses

29 The The - Heartland

30 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Sidewalking

 

31 John Foxx - Underpass

32 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Arabian Knights

33 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dazzle

34 Joy Division - Atmosphere

35 Fields Of The Nephilim - Psychonaut

36 Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To f***

37 Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie - The Rattler

38 AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

39 Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free

40 John Foxx - Europe After The Rain

 

40-75 The Sugarcubes - Birthday

 

 

I've filled in the blanks for the ones I missed.

Pretty much nothing from the rather awful late 80s :lol:

 

And yes, I think Siouxsie & The Banshees are one of the best bands ever. What of it?

Edited July 9, 201510 yr by Severin

01. Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time

02. Madonna - Crazy For You

03. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

04. Sister Sledge - Lost In Music (Remix)

05. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know

06. Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together

07. Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love

08. Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All

09. Jaki Graham - Round And Round

10. Whitney Houston - Love Will Save The Day

11. Sister Sledge -Thinking Of You

12. Cyndi Lauper - True Colours

13. Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy

14. Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go

15. Diana Ross - Muscles

16. Dionne Warwick & Friends - That's What Friends Are For

17. Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual

18. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

19. Janet Jackson - Nasty

20. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

21. Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror

22. Janet Jackson - Miss You Much

23. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation

24. Janet Jackson - Pleasure Principle

25. Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

26. Tina Turner - Private Dancer

27. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

28. Princess - After The Love Has Gone

29. Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again

30. Clash - Rock The Casbah

31. Sade - The Sweetest Taboo

32. Jennifer Holliday - And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going

33. Abba - Thank You For The Music

34. Barbra Streisand - Memory

35. Bangles - In Your Room

36. Sade - When Am I Going To Make A Living

37. Kate Bush - The Big Sky

38. Bryan Adams - Heaven

39. Blondie - War Child

40. Tina Turner - Help

 

41-75 Tina Turner - I Can't Stand The Rain

 

I didn't vote in all of them but I filled in the gaps. Basically anything Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson or Kate Bush got my vote.

1. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

2. Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On

3. Kim Wilde - You Came

4. Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before

5. Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent

6. Liza Minnelli - Losing My Mind

7. Eighth Wonder - I'm Not Scared

8. Visage - Fade To Grey

9. Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall

10. Bucks Fizz - When We Were Young

11. Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)

12. Electronic - Getting Away With It

13. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

14. Bananarama - I Heard A Rumour

15. Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

16. Divine - You Think You're A Man

17. Dollar - Videotheque

18. Sheila & B Devotion - Spacer

19. Dollar - Hand Held In Black And White

20. Adventures - Broken Land

21. Propaganda - Duel

22. Spitting Image - Santa Claus Is On The Dole

23. Dead Or Alive - My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor)

24. Scarlet Fantastic - No Memory

25. Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down

26. Abba - Under Attack

27. Propaganda - Dr Mabuse

28. Teena Marie - I Need Your Lovin'

29. Altered Images - Bring Me Closer

30. Clash - Rock The Casbah

31. Dead Or Alive - Brand New Lover

32. Abba - The Day Before You Came

33. Elbow Bones & The Racketeers - A Night In New York

34. Bucks Fizz - London Town

35. Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

36. Eartha Kitt - Where Is My Man

37. Kate Bush - The Big Sky

38. Belinda Carlisle - La Luna

39. Blondie - War Child

40. Theatre Of Hate - Do You Believe In The Westworld

 

41-75. Yello Feat Shirley Bassey - The Rhythm Divine