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Top 191 Songs of the 80s The 91X Fat 500 Countdown (1999)

The 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988

Ranking

Artist Name

Song Title

Album Title

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1.

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Peek-a-Boo

Peepshow

Peek-A-Boo

2.

U2

Desire

Rattle And Hum

Desire

3.

Midnight Oil

Beds are Burning

Diesel And Dust

Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust - Beds Are Burning

4.

Information Society

What's On Your Mind?

-

-

5.

Erasure

A Little Respect

The Innocents

A Little Respect

6.

Morrissey

Suedehead

Viva Hate

Suedehead

7.

Depeche Mode

Route 66

-

Depeche Mode - Singles Box 4 - Route 66 (Single Version)

8.

UB40

Where Did I Go Wrong?

UB40

UB40 - UB40 - Where Did I Go Wrong

9.

Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

What I Am

-

-

10.

Camouflage

The Great Commandment

-

-

11.

Erasure

Chains of Love

The Innocents

Chains of Love

12.

Tracy Chapman

Fast Car

-

-

13.

The Church

Reptile

-

-

14.

R.E.M.

Orange Crush

Green

Orange Crush

15.

Tone Loc

Wild Thing

-

-

16.

The Sugarcubes

Delicious Demon

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good - Delicious Demon

17.

10,000 Maniacs

Like the Weather

In My Tribe

Like the Weather

18.

Marc Almond

Tears Run Rings

-

-

19.

Escape Club

Wild Wild West

-

-

20.

Midnight Oil

The Dead Heart

Diesel And Dust

Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust - The Dead Heart

21.

10,000 Maniacs

What's the Matter Here?

In My Tribe

What's the Matter Here?

22.

Siouxsie and the Banshees

The Killing Jar

Peepshow

The Killing Jar

23.

Ziggy Marley

Tomorrow People

-

-

24.

The Primitives

Crash

-

-

25.

Duran Duran

I Don't Want Your Love

Big Thing

Duran Duran - Big Thing - I Don't Want Your Love

26.

UB40

Breakfast in Bed

UB40

UB40 & Chrissie Hynde - UB40 - Breakfast In Bed

27.

Sinead O'Connor

Mandinka

The Lion And The Cobra

Mandinka

28.

The Church

Under the Milky Way

-

-

29.

Sinead O'Connor

I Want Your (Hands on Me)

The Lion And The Cobra

I Want Your (Hands On Me)

30.

Morrissey

Everyday is Like Sunday

Viva Hate

Everyday Is Like Sunday

31.

Oingo Boingo

Winning Side

Boingo Alive

Winning Side

32.

David Lindley

Werewolves of London

-

-

33.

Information Society

Walking Away

-

-

34.

The Timelords

Doctorin' the Tardis

-

-

35.

U2

God Part II

Rattle And Hum

God, Pt. 2

36.

Talking Heads

(Nothing But) Flowers

Naked

(Nothing But) Flowers

37.

Maxi Priest

Wild World

-

-

38.

U2

Angel of Harlem

Rattle And Hum

Angel of Harlem

39.

Morrissey

Hairdresser on Fire

Viva Hate

Hairdresser On Fire

40.

Jane's Addiction

Jane Says

Nothing's Shocking

Jane Says

41.

Mission UK

Tower of Strength

-

-

42.

The Sugarcubes

Birthday

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good - Birthday

43.

Midnight Oil

Dream World

Diesel And Dust

Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust - Dreamworld

44.

Duran Duran

All She Wants Is

Big Thing

Duran Duran - Big Thing - All She Wants Is

45.

New Order

Touched By the Hand of God

-

-

46.

The Sugarcubes

Motorcrash

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good - Motorcrash

47.

New Order

Blue Monday '88

-

-

48.

Guns N' Roses

Sweet Child o' Mine

-

-

49.

Cocteau Twins

Carolyn's Fingers

-

-

50.

Mighty Lemon Drops

Inside Out

-

-

51.

Sisters of Mercy

This Corrosion

-

-

52.

Book of Love

Tubular Bells

-

-

53.

They Might Be Giants

Ana Ng

-

-

54.

Tracy Chapman

Talkin' About a Revolution

-

-

55.

Peter Murphy

All Night Long

-

-

56.

Patti Smith

People Have the Power

-

-

57.

10,000 Maniacs

Don't Talk

In My Tribe

Don't Talk

58.

The Bangles

In Your Room

Everything

-

59.

Sinead O'Connor

Jump in the River

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

-

60.

Camper Van Beethoven

Eye of Fatima

-

-

61.

Pet Shop Boys

Domino Dancing

Introspective

Pet Shop Boys - Introspective - Domino Dancing

62.

Transvision Vamp

Tell that Girl to Shutup

-

-

63.

Deborah Harry

Liar Liar

-

-

64.

OMD

Dreaming

-

-

65.

The Alarm

Rescue Me (Live)

Electric Folklore: Live

The Alarm - Electric Folklore (Live 1987-1988) [Remastered] - Rescue Me

66.

Fairground Attraction

Perfect

-

-

67.

The Psychedelic Furs

All That Money Wants

All That Money Wants

-

68.

Peter Murphy

Indigo Eyes

-

-

69.

Voice of the Beehive

I Say Nothing

-

-

70.

Underworld

Underneath the Radar

-

-

71.

Big Country

King of Emotion

Peace in Our Time

Big Country - The Best of Big Country - King of Emotion

72.

Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

Balloon Man

-

-

73.

U2

When Love Comes to Town

Rattle And Hum

When Love Comes to Town

74.

Shona Laing

Soviet Snow

-

-

75.

Julian Cope

Charlotte Anne

-

-

76.

Guns N' Roses

Used to Love Her

-

-

77.

Big Pig

Break Away

-

-

78.

A House

Call Me Blue

-

-

79.

Talking Heads

Blind

Naked

Blind

80.

Iggy Pop

Cold Metal

Instinct

-

81.

Sim Kinison

Wild Thing

-

-

82.

Thomas Dolby

Airhead

-

-

83.

They Might Be Giants

Don't Let's Start

-

-

84.

Hothouse Flowers

Don't Go

-

-

85.

Robert Palmer

Simply Irresistible

-

-

86.

Danielle Dax

Big Hollow Man

-

-

87.

The Smithereens

House We Used to Live In

Green Thoughts

The Smithereens - Green Thoughts - House We Used to Live In

88.

Midnight Oil

Sometimes

Diesel And Dust

Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust - Sometimes

89.

The Godfathers

Birth, School, Work, Death

-

-

90.

Circus of Power

Motor

-

-

91.

Ziggy Marley

Tumblin' Down

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-