It is time to reveal my favourite songs for each year of the 1980's.

Let's start with 1980. I'm much into post-punk, new wave and Ska, so it is no wonder that this kind of stuff tops my chart for the biggest songs of 1980. However, some other styles also found it's way into my Top 50. My favourite band of the year is Joy Division, who appear three times and have my favourite album of the year. It is so sad that Ian Curtis died that early - he was such a genius and his voice was so remarkable and unique. Song of the year is "Enola Gay" by OMD, such a groundbreaking song for Synth-Pop and among my Top 10 of all time.

Playlist

I will also put the top 50 as countdown on mixcloud sourced from my CD collection, but this will take some time.

Hope you like this compilation - more to come! All comments are welcome!

Here is the mixcloud countdown from 50 to 1

Great selection for 1980, one of my favourite years for music. 'Enola Gay', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', 'Going Underground' and 'Atomic' are all in my top 10 too. I only included UK Top 40 hits, but nice to see some representation from Closer, 'Isolation' is my favourite track from it.

Fantastic start, we share seven of the same top ten for this year - my own looks like this:

1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

2. Blondie - Atomic

3. The Jam - Going Underground

4. ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

5. The Cure - A Forest

6. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

7. David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

8. Blondie - Call Me

9. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

10. Adam and the Ants - Antmusic

So consider me part of the Joy Division appreciation society forming in this thread.

Hyped for your 1981 list as I'm particularly fond of that year.

32 minutes ago, jimwatts said:

Great selection for 1980, one of my favourite years for music. 'Enola Gay', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', 'Going Underground' and 'Atomic' are all in my top 10 too. I only included UK Top 40 hits, but nice to see some representation from Closer, 'Isolation' is my favourite track from it.

1980 indeed is fantastic. I mainly also focussed my charts on UK Top 40 hits, but Closer is such a masterpiece, that I had to include some further songs from the album.

15 minutes ago, Jade said:

Fantastic start, we share seven of the same top ten for this year - my own looks like this:

1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

2. Blondie - Atomic

3. The Jam - Going Underground

4. ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

5. The Cure - A Forest

6. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay

7. David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

8. Blondie - Call Me

9. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

10. Adam and the Ants - Antmusic

So consider me part of the Joy Division appreciation society forming in this thread.

Hyped for your 1981 list as I'm particularly fond of that year.

That is a great intersection. "A Forest" also appears in my charts. Unfortunately I got a bit tired of "The Winner Takes It All", so that it ended up outside my Top 50. Somehow I don't feel "Antmusic" that much , but I really like Adam's later stuff particularly "Stand And Deliver".