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

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