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the best singles of the 80’s
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NEW ORDER
Blue Monday
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1983
Factory FAC 73
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VISAGE
Fade To Grey
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1980
Polydor POSP 194
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CURE
A Forest
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1980
Fiction FICS 10
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STRANGLERS
Golden Brown
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1981
UA/Liberty BP 407
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SMITHS
How Soon Is Now
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1985
Rough Trade RT 176
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DEPECHE MODE
Never Let Me Down Again
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1987
Mute BONG 14
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SMITHS
Bigmouth Strikes Again
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1986
Rough Trade RT 192
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DEPECHE MODE
Stripped
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1986
Mute BONG 10
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Happy House
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1980
Polydor POSP 117
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NEW ORDER
True Faith
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1987
Factory FAC 183
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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
The Mercy Seat
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1988
Mute MUTE 52
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JOY DIVISON
Love Will Tear Us Apart
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1980
Factory FAC 23
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SMITHS
There’s A Light That Never Goes Out
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1987
Virgin 90299
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BAUHAUS
She’s In Parties
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1983
Beggars Banquet BEG 9
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TEARS FOR FEARS
Shout
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1984
Mercury IDEA 8
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Israel
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1980
Polydor POSP 205
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SMITHS
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
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1986
Teldec/Zensor 14656
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CURE
Charlotte Sometimes
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1981
Fiction FICS 14
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TALK TALK
Such A Shame
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1984
EMI 5433
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HOUSE OF LOVE
Shine On
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1987
Creation CRE 043
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SOFT CELL
Tainted Love
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1981
Some Bizarre BZS 2
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YAZOO
Don’t Go
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1982
Mute YAZ 1
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KILLING JOKE
Love Like Blood
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1985
EG EGO 20
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TEARS FOR FEARS
Pale Shelter
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1982
Mercury IDEA 2
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DEPECHE MODE
Get The Balance Right
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1983
Mute BONG 2
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TEARS FOR FEARS
Mad World
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1982
Mercury IDEA 3
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Christine
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1980
Polydor 2059249
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U2
New Years Day
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1983
Island WIP 6848
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TALK TALK
It’s My Life
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1984
EMI 5443
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STONE ROSES
Fools Gold
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1989
Silvertone ORE 13
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Cities In Dust
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1985
Wonderland SHE 9
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JAPAN
Nightporter
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1982
Virgin VS 554
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Overground [The Thorn EP]
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1984
Wonderland SHEEP 8
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DEPECHE MODE
Shake The Disease
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1985
Mute BONG 8
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CURE
Inbetween Days
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1985
Fiction FICS 22
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Spellbound
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1981
Polydor POSP 273
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DAVID BOWIE
Ashes To Ashes
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1980
RCA BOW 6
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CURE
A Night Like This [Quadpus EP]
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1985
Fiction FICST 23
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NO MORE
Suicide Commando
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1981
TLR 004
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CURE
The Hanging Garden
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1982
Fiction FICS 15
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R.E.M.
The One I Love
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1987
I.R.S. IRS 53171
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STRANGLERS
Strange Little Girl
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1982
UA/Liberty BP 412
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DEPECHE MODE
Blasphemous Rumours
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1984
Mute BONG 7
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CURE
Lovesong
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1989
Fiction FICS 30
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DEPECHE MODE
Leave In Silence
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1983
Mute BONG 1
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IDEAL
Eiszeit
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1981
Eitel Imperial 18896
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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Dazzle
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1984
Wonderland SHE 7
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CURE
Primary
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1981
Fiction FICS 12
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CHILLS
Pink Frost
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1984
Flying Nun FNCOLD 002
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JAPAN
Ghosts
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1982
Virgin VS 472
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KATE BUSH
Cloudbusting
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1985
EMI KB 2
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YAZOO
Nobody’s Diary
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1983
Mute YAZ 3
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TALK TALK
Life’s What You Make It
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1986
EMI 5540
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STONE ROSES
I Wanna Be Adored
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1989
Silvertone 1301
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TALKING HEADS
Once In A Lifetime
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1980
Sire SIR 4048
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BRONSKI BEAT
Smalltown Boy
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1984
Forbidden Fruit BITE 1
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DEPECHE MODE
See You
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1982
Mute MUTE 18
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JOHN FOXX
Underpass
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1980
Metal Beat/Virgin VS 318
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NEW ORDER
Temptation
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1982
Factory FAC 63
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DEPECHE MODE
Everything Counts
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1983
Mute BONG 3
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MY BLOODY VALENTINE
You Made Me Realise
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1988
Creation CRE 055
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HOUSE OF LOVE
Christine
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1988
Creation CRE 053
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CLASH
Rock The Casbah
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1982
CBS A 2429
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DURAN DURAN
Save A Prayer
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1982
EMI 5327
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ICEHOUSE
Hey Little Girl
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1982
Regular RRSP 721
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TALKING HEADS
Burning Down The House
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1983
WEA W 9565
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ANNE CLARK
Our Darkness
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1984
Ink INK 125
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