Top 100 Songs of the 80s
| No. | Song | Artist | Album | Year |
| 1 | Where is my Mind? | Pixies | Surfer Rosa | 1988 |
| 2 | How Soon is Now? | The Smiths | B-Side: William, it was Really Nothing | 1984 |
| 3 | Don't you Forget about me | Simple Minds | Soundtrack: Breakfast Club | 1985 |
| 4 | Gouge away | Pixies | Doolittle | 1989 |
| 5 | The Riddle | Nik Kershaw | The Riddle | 1984 |
| 6 | Just like Heaven | The Cure | Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me | 1987 |
| 7 | Always Something There to Remind me (Cover) | Naked Eyes | Burning Bridges | 1983 |
| 8 | That Joke isn't Funny Anymore | The Smiths | Meat is Murder | 1985 |
| 9 | History Lesson - Part II | Minutemen | Double Nickels on the Dime | 1984 |
| 10 | TRUE | Spandau Ballet | TRUE | 1983 |
| 11 | The Promise | When in Rome | When in Rome | 1988 |
| 12 | All Cats are Grey | The Cure | Faith | 1981 |
| 13 | Take my Breath Away | Berlin | Soundtrack: Top Gun | 1986 |
| 14 | Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) | Pixies | B-Side: Here comes your Man | 1989 |
| 15 | I Melt with you | Modern English | After the Snow | 1982 |
| 16 | Pride | U2 | The Unforgettable Fire | 1984 |
| 17 | The Boy with the Thorn in his Side | The Smiths | The Queen is Dead | 1986 |
| 18 | I Wanna be Adored | Stone Roses | The Stone Roses | 1989 |
| 19 | Love will Tear us Apart | Joy Division | Single | 1980 |
| 20 | Don't Stop Believin' | Journey | Escape | 1982 |
| 21 | Never Let me down Again | Depeche Mode | Music for the Masses | 1987 |
| 22 | This is the Day | The The | Soul Mining | 1983 |
| 23 | Debaser | Pixies | Doolittle | 1989 |
| 24 | Another Day in Paradise | Phil Collins | ...But Seriously | 1989 |
| 25 | Everyday is like Sunday | Morrissey | Viva Hate | 1988 |
| 26 | You Spin me Round | Dead or Alive | Youthquake | 1985 |
| 27 | Cheri Cheri Lady | Modern Talking | Let's Talk About Love | 1985 |
| 28 | Crash | The Primitives | Lovely | 1988 |
| 29 | I Just Called to Say I Love you | Stevie Wonder | The Woman in Red | 1984 |
| 30 | Mad World | Tears for Fears | The Hurting | 1983 |
| 31 | Ashes to Ashes | David Bowie | Scary Monsters | 1980 |
| 32 | Gigantic | Pixies | Surfer Rosa | 1988 |
| 33 | The Classical | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour | 1982 |
| 34 | Smalltown Boy | Bronski Beat | The Age of Consent | 1984 |
| 35 | Beds are Burning | Midnight Oil | Diesel and Dust | 1987 |
| 36 | Sweet Dreams | Eurythmics | Sweet Dreams | 1983 |
| 37 | Careless Whisper | George Michael/Wham | Make it Big | 1985 |
| 38 | Young Turks | Rod Stewart | Tonight I'm your's | 1981 |
| 39 | These Dreams | Heart | Heart | 1985 |
| 40 | Wouldn't it be Good | Nik Kershaw | Human Racing | 1983 |
| 41 | Chains of Love | Erasure | Innocents | 1988 |
| 42 | With or Without you | U2 | The Joshua Tree | 1987 |
| 43 | Lose my Breath | My Bloody Valentine | Isn't Anything | 1988 |
| 44 | Bizarre Love Triangle | New Order | Brotherhood | 1986 |
| 45 | She Drives me Crazy | Fine Young Cannibals | The Raw and the Cooked | 1989 |
| 46 | Monkey gone to Heaven | Pixies | Doolittle | 1989 |
| 47 | Come Anytime | Hoodoo Gurus | Magnum Cum Louder | 1989 |
| 48 | I can Dream About you | Dan Hartman | I can Dream About you | 1984 |
| 49 | Come on Eileen | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Too-Rye-Ay | 1982 |
| 50 | Blue Thunder | Galaxie 500 | On Fire | 1989 |
| 51 | Head like a Hole | Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine | 1989 |
| 52 | You can Call me Al | Paul Simon | Graceland | 1986 |
| 53 | Soul in Isolation | The Chameleons | Strange Times | 1986 |
| 54 | Blue Monday | New Order | Power, Corruption & Lies | 1983 |
| 55 | Hey | Pixies | Doolittle | 1989 |
| 56 | Sacrifice | Elton John | Sleeping with the Past | 1989 |
| 57 | Flashdance | Irene Cara | Soundtrack: Flashdance | 1983 |
| 58 | For whom the Bell Tolls | Metallica | Ride the Lightning | 1984 |
| 59 | The 3rd Time we Opened the Capsule | Kitchens of Distinction | Love is Hell | 1989 |
| 60 | Down Under | Men at Work | Business as Usual | 1982 |
| 61 | Love Song | The Cure | Disintegration | 1989 |
| 62 | Kokomo | Beach Boys | Soundtrack: Cocktail | 1988 |
| 63 | I Still haven't Found | U2 | The Joshua Tree | 1987 |
| 64 | Like a Prayer | Madonna | Like a Prayer | 1989 |
| 65 | Big Mouth Strikes Again | The Smiths | The Queen is Dead | 1986 |
| 66 | You're my Heart, You're my Soul | Modern Talking | 1st Album | 1984 |
| 67 | Everything Counts | Depeche Mode | Construction Time Again | 1983 |
| 68 | Lay all your Love on me | ABBA | Super Trooper | 1980 |
| 69 | Like a Virgin | Madonna | Like a Virgin | 1984 |
| 70 | Several Girls Galore | My Bloody Valentine | Isn't Anything | 1988 |
| 71 | Love my Way | The Psychedelic Furs | Forever Now | 1982 |
| 72 | I want to Know what Love is | Foreigner | Agent Provocateur | 1984 |
| 73 | Tainted Love (Cover) | Soft Cell | Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 1981 |
| 74 | Karma Chameleon | Culture Club | Colour by Numbers | 1983 |
| 75 | Spanish Eyes | Madonna | Like a Prayer | 1989 |
| 76 | Lucky | Til Tuesday | Everything's Different Now | 1988 |
| 77 | The Post | Dinosaur Jr. | Bug | 1988 |
| 78 | Waiting for a Girl like you | Foreigner | 4 | 1981 |
| 79 | Pump up the Jam | Technotronic | Pump up the Jam | 1989 |
| 80 | Sweet Child O' Mine | Guns n' Roses | Appetite for Destruction | 1987 |
| 81 | Everytime you go Away (Cover) | Paul Young | The Secret of Association | 1985 |
| 82 | Africa | Toto | Toto IV | 1982 |
| 83 | Never Say Never | Romeo Void | Benefactor | 1982 |
| 84 | Parking Lot | Galaxie 500 | Today | 1988 |
| 85 | A Groovy Kind of Love (Cover) | Phil Collins | Soundtrack: Buster | 1988 |
| 86 | Shout | Tears for Fears | Songs from the Big Chair | 1985 |
| 87 | One More Night | Phil Collins | No Jacket Required | 1985 |
| 88 | La Isla Bonita | Madonna | True Blue | 1986 |
| 89 | Caution | The Chameleons | Strange Times | 1986 |
| 90 | Hurts so Good | John Mellencamp | American Fool | 1982 |
| 91 | We Belong | Pat Benatar | Tropico | 1984 |
| 92 | Birds Fly | Icicle Works | The Icicle Works | 1984 |
| 93 | Radio Free Europe | REM | Murmur | 1983 |
| 94 | Same Old Lang Syne | Dan Fogelberg | The Innocent Age | 1981 |
| 95 | Anything, Anything | Dramarama | Cinema Verite | 1985 |
| 96 | Primitive Painters | Felt | Ignite the Seven Cannons | 1985 |
| 97 | Boys of Summer | Don Henley | Building the Perfect Beast | 1984 |
| 98 | Ship of Fools | World Party | Private Revolution | 1986 |
| 99 | I Guess that's why they Call it the Blues | Elton John | Too Low for Zero | 1983 |
| 100 | Doot Doot | Freur | Doot Doot | 1983 |
| Updated on 5/27/11 by the Rock Czar |