About three months ago*, Pitchfork, the online music magazine, put out their list of the top 200 songs of the 1980s. As a child of the 80s, I was intrigued.
But before looking at their list to see how much they got "right," I thought it would be fun to come up with my own informal list. So I started scribbling down an “off the top of my head” collection of what I considered some of the seminal songs of the decade. Before I knew it, I was up around 60 or 70 songs. So I figured, what the heck, I’ll go up to 100 and post them with links to the songs. Nostalgic fun, right?
But the
more songs I added, the more that new ones occurred to me. Eventually the list
exceeded Pitchfork’s total. I finally had to stop at 300. There were a lot of
good songs in the 1980s.
