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

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