The September 3 Thursday Morning Show will be a special on the music of thirty years ago, 1985. We will count down the results this Thursday morning. The list here is not a comprehensive list of every 1985 song; it is some of the top sellers, some of most acclaimed songs, and WMNF hits from 1985. Please rate them according to the criteria. If you have never heard the song, don't rate it. If you know more great 1985 songs that should be on the lists, add them in the comments.

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* 1. Score these songs....based on timelessness and influence; do they make you tune up or turn off the radio, your desert island songs; your personal favorites.....Only rate songs that you have heard.

  3) Love it; a favorite of mine; an important song. Turn it up! 2) Like it; good song ; 1) OK ; I enjoy hearing it occasionally Don't like ; makes me turn off my radio
Albert Collins/Johhny Copeland/Robert Cray - She's Into Something
Patti Larkin - If I Were made of Metal
Bob Dylan - I'll Keep It With Mine
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
REM - Driver 8
Billy Bragg - Between The Wars
Phranc - Life Lover
The Replacements - Kiss On The Bus
Sade - is It A Crime?
The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
USA For Africa - We Are The World
George Strait - The Chair
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
The Ramones - Bonzo Goes To Bitburg
Bryan Ferry - Slave To Love
The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart
Aha - Take On Me
Sam Cooke - Somebody Have Mercy (live)
Talking Heads - And She Was
Christy Moore - Ordinary Man
Loudon Wainwright III - One Man Guy
Husker Du - Makes No sense At All
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Eurythmics Would I Lie To You
Kate Wolf - Give Yourself To Love
George Clinton - Do Fries Go With That Shake
Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
The Cult- She Sells Sanctuary
Trapezoid - I'll Be Here in the Morning
The Cure - In Between Days
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions - Brand New Friend
New Order - Love Vigilantes
Tom Waits - Time
Prince and the Revolution - Raspberry Beret
Chris Isaak - Dancin'
Suzanne Vega - Marlena on The Wall
Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Kornog - Helen of Kirkconnel
The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
Bill Staines - Sourdough/Miner's Song
Run-D.M.C. - King of Rock
John Cougar Mellencamp - Small Town
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Yousou N'Dour - Nelson Mandela
Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69
Huey Lewis and the News - Power of Love
Madness - Yesterday's Man
Barrington Levy - Here I Come
Eurythmics with Aretha Franklin - Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
Prefab Sprout - Appetite
The Roches - Love Radiates Around
Madonna - Crazy For You
The Clash - This Is England
LL Cool J - I Can't Live Without My Radio
Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling
Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm
Christine Lavin - Damaged Goods
Katrina and the Waves - Walking On Sunshine
George Thorogood - I Drink Alone
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Jungle Man
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
Madonna - Into The Groove
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Say What
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
John Fogerty - Centerfield
'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro

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* 2. Your age: