I took a liking to these top 30 lists of late and since I am quite a music nerd I have done just another list - a top 30 trax/songs of 1981 - yes, right, 1981
(I compiled this from charts and reviews of old music mags I used to collect).
so here we go:
DAF - Der Räuber und der Prinz
Yarborough and Peoples - Don't Stop The Music
Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
Generation X - Dancing with Myself
OMD - Enola Gay
Throbbing Gristle - Something Came Over Me
Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
Visage - Fade to Gray
Ultravox - Vienna
Blondie - Rapture
The Cure - A Forest
Visage - Mind Of A Toy
Joy Division - Love will Tear Us Apart
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
DAF - Der Mussolini
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
The Specials - Ghost Town
Andreas Dorau - Fred vom Jupiter
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Human League - Love Action
Altered Image - Happy Birthday
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
Kraftwerk - The Model
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Gary Numan - Love Needs No Disguise
Kim Wilde - Cambodia
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
(I compiled this from charts and reviews of old music mags I used to collect).
so here we go:
DAF - Der Räuber und der Prinz
Yarborough and Peoples - Don't Stop The Music
Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
Generation X - Dancing with Myself
OMD - Enola Gay
Throbbing Gristle - Something Came Over Me
Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
Visage - Fade to Gray
Ultravox - Vienna
Blondie - Rapture
The Cure - A Forest
Visage - Mind Of A Toy
Joy Division - Love will Tear Us Apart
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
DAF - Der Mussolini
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
The Specials - Ghost Town
Andreas Dorau - Fred vom Jupiter
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Human League - Love Action
Altered Image - Happy Birthday
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
Kraftwerk - The Model
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Gary Numan - Love Needs No Disguise
Kim Wilde - Cambodia
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
Music critic for the Tally Ho