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The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 240 to 231
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The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 250 to 241
I knew it was a Prince song, and I wanted to do a great job on it
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 260 to 251
Bragg always had a knack for exposing the often-unseen trials and burdens that come with being a woman in modern society
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a drunken hymn for those with broken dreams and abandoned hopes
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three minutes of infectious power pop
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I hope tomorrow you’ll find better things
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A mixture of warm nostalgia, affectionate wit and subtle pathos
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“They were plastered and kept talking to me about trying to get famous— they didn’t say it in those words exactly. I never thought they cared.”
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 320 to 311
a plea from a wounded man
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I was curled up in the fetal position. He programmed this rhythm. It sounded so good. I couldn’t resist it.
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an electronic band with a heavy rock guitarist
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When Lester Bangs was found dead in his New York apartment, The Human League’s ‘Dare!’ album was playing on his stereo
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Bowie at his catchiest and most nihilistic
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“Most peculiar, mama…ROLL!”
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she gave me a nice hug once.
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It’s a song that says don’t be crushed
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obnoxiously, almost gleefully irritating
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“If I was in your blood, then you wouldn’t be so ugly.”
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one doesn’t have to be versed or even interested in political history to recognize that it’s an absolute gem of a tune
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as tough and hard a song as you will ever heaR
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takes the head off of Elvis and fills Fred Flintstone up to his pelvis
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It defined his career and established his brand
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“When I was just seventeen, sex no longer held a mystery/I saw it as a commodity to be bought and sold, like rock ‘n’ roll.”
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 490 to 481
the quintessential new wave song
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Disgusted, disenchanted, and occasionally in love
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reflects the true wounds of betrayal
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 520 to 511
his slow, steady breakthrough continued with the Kent Robbins composition
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a disgruntled finger of the dissenting working class
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 540 to 531
‘Is this the record you were looking for?’
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 550 to 541
dreams, flowers, and a lover’s voice
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 580 to 571
overdose, expire from disease, get murdered, and get pushed off the top of a building
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 590 to 581
He was a beautiful guy, as well as the best singer I’ve ever heard
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 600 to 591
as soon as he thinks he’s got me, the fish jumps off the hook
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not lacking in the colloquial charm department
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They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of Montgomery
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caustic but impassioned polemic about Thatcherism
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 640 to 631
Tilbrook’s gift for compositional complexity and Difford’s ambiguously poetic lyrics
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 650 to 641
“homo superior/in my interior.”
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Please, please, PLEASE, try this
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I got a knock on my door from a very inebriated Billy Idol.
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at first, we were all pretty thrilled.
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it was really only 30 minutes of my life
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a subversive tug
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“Sammy Hagar never could have pulled any of this off”
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I just want faster metabolism
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The most important part of these songs was that they all had a break. A funky, funky break
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a funky dance number
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If y’all don’t do it, we’re gonna give it to the radio and fuck everything up
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Chic with Bob Dylan over it
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made up from steel girders being hit with a hammer