Awesome so far! I'm happy to see Eurythmics make the top 40, and Prince is doing very, very well!

I could literally cry right now. It turns out I've included Snusmumrik's song rankings as album rankings as well, which I didn't notice on my final check because he didn't submit any album rankings at all. You can imagine that this changes a lot of ranks; mostly just 1-3 spots, but practically everything besides the top 10 changed slightly and sometimes up to 8 spots.

I am really sorry about yet another screw-up. I've got the presentation for the last 20 (in the wrong order) pretty much ready, but it's kinda useless now. I guess I'm just not suited for these kinds of projects, not meticulous enough or something. I'll go bang my head against a few walls now. Fuck.

Hey Stephan: Don't worry about it. Just the fact that you agreed to do this is good enough. Plus, great choice for a #1 song (would have been mine too).

Stephan, your presentation has been great and if you list an adjusted #21-100 it doesn't matter at all that the youtube clips were in the wrong order. No need to worry about this!

I still don't get why Joshua Tree is more highly regarded than War. In my mind it's the album where they lost the feel of energy and spontaneity they had before and gained that self conscious grandiosity that stuck with them till now.

'Swhy Sunday Bloody Sunday was in my top ten and I put With or Without You way lower.

Of course,neither come close to 'Achtung Baby' but that's another story...

Stephan, I'm really, really sorry I didn't cry out when I noticed that I was being credited with having voted for certain songs when in fact I didn't succeed in making a song list at all.

I just thought that you had plenty to worry about as it was, and that most likely it was just something inadvertently cut-and-pasted from the wonderful album list presentation and had nothing to do with the actual ranking. Clear-cut head-in-the-sand politics on my part.

If anyone's to blame, blame me. But it's a wonderful job anyway, and as Henrik said, you can just post a brief revised 100-21 list, and those whose favourites go up a notch will have a chance to say I told you so ...

Nah, it's not your fault. I should have seen two identical rows in the two tabs. I'll post the revised list in a little bit and then post the remaining 20 songs today.

The previous rank is between brackets.

100) AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (100)
99) Rolling Stones, The - Start Me Up (99)
98) Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver (98)
97) Metallica - Master Of Puppets (96)
96) Replacements, The - Alex Chilton (97)
95) Jesus And Mary Chain, The - Some Candy Talking (94)
94) Church, The - Under The Milky Way (95)
93) Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (93)
92) Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (92)
91) Replacements, The - I Will Dare (91)
90) Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (90)
89) Metallica - One (89)
88) Anderson, Laurie - O Superman (88)
87) Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way (87)
86) Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (86)
85) Bragg, Billy - A New England (85)
84) Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (75)
83) Jam, The - That's Entertainment (83)
82) R.E.M. - So. Central Rain (84)
81) Stone Roses, The - Fools Gold (82)
80) Clash, The - Rock The Casbah (78)
79) Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype (81)
78) Costello, Elvis - I Want You (80)
77) Springsteen, Bruce - Born In The U.S.A. (72)
76) Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (77)
75) Roxy Music - More Than This (76)
74) Public Enemy - Bring The Noise (79)
73) Madonna - Into The Groove (66)
72) Dylan, Bob - Blind Willie McTell (74)
71) Talking Heads - Burning Down The House (73)
70) Gaye, Marvin - Sexual Healing (71)
69) Waits, Tom - Time (70)
68) New Order - Ceremony (68)
67) This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (61)
66) Squeeze - Tempted (67)
65) Smiths, The - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (69)
64) Smiths, The - Bigmouth Strikes Again (64)
63) Police, The - Every Breath You Take (65)
62) De La Soul - Me Myself And I (63)
61) New Order - Temptation (62)
60) Wyatt, Robert - Shipbuilding (60)
59) Replacements, The - Unsatisfied (59)
58) Pixies - Gigantic (57)
57) Soft Cell - Tainted Love (58)
56) Sugarcubes, The - Birthday (56)
55) R.E.M. - Fall On Me (54)
54) Gabriel, Peter - Sledgehammer (53)
53) Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun (55)
52) Joy Division - Atmosphere (52)
51) Springsteen, Bruce - Atlantic City (51)
50) R.E.M. - The One I Love (47)
49) Chapman, Tracy - Fast Car (50)
48) R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend (49)
47) XTC - Dear God (48)
46) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (38)
45) Prince - Little Red Corvette (42)
44) Cure, The - Lullaby (44)
43) Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (45)
42) Cure, The - A Forest (43)
41) Jesus And Mary Chain, The - Just Like Honey (46)
40) Smiths, The - This Charming Man (40)
39) Marley, Bob & The Wailers - Redemption Song (39)
38) Jam, The - Going Underground (41)
37) R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (35)
36) Pixies - Where Is My Mind? (36)
35) Young, Neil - Rockin' In The Free World (34)
34) Prince - Let's Go Crazy (33)
33) U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) (37)
32) New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (32)
31) Prince - Raspberry Beret (31)
30) Waits, Tom - Downtown Train (29)
29) R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (30)
28) Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven (28)
27) Cure, The - Just Like Heaven (27)
26) Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message (26)
25) Cure, The - Inbetween Days (19)
24) U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (25)
23) Public Enemy - Fight The Power (23)
22) Stone Roses, The - I Am The Resurrection (17)
21) Prince - Kiss (22)

Unfortunately for The Cure and The Stone Roses, that means they dropped out of the top 20.

#25

The Cure - Inbetween Days (1985)

Score: 1143 points

Biggest fans:
pop elton (#3), Nicolas (#5), Honorio (#13), Midaso (#15), Greg (#21)

Comments:
Robert Smith knows how to make a perfect pop song, sweet, bright and danceable but incredibly sad too. “Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die”. (Honorio)

Place in the 1985 poll: 3

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 246








#17

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection (1989)

Score: 1169 points

Biggest fans:
tremolo (#3), Mo (# , Fred (#9), Midaso (#10), Sonofsamiam (#11), LonesomePanda (#11)

Comments:
Out of everything on their debut, this has always been The One. Goes from ultra-cocky, assured Brit-pop blueprint into fuckin' ass-shakin' mega-rock-jam breakdown, it's worth every second of its 8+ minutes. I'd been going through a classic rock and prog phase – this was a prime mover in at least partially turning that tide. (Sonofsamiam)

Place in the 1989 poll: 4

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 275