Simar's Favourite Singles: The Eighties 
    
    
Top Of the Pops!
The Eighties
 (and a few choice late 70s selections!)
A Certain Ratio: Do the Du
(1981)(Factory)
A Certain Ratio: Forced Laugh
(1981)(Factory)
Altered Images: Dead Pop Stars
(1981)(Epic)
Aztec Camera: Pillar To Post
(1982)(Rough Trade)
Aztec Camera: Oblivious
(1983)(Rough Trade)
Aztec Camera: Walk Out To Winter
(1983)(Rough Trade)
Bauhaus: Kick In the Eye (Searching For Satori)/ Harry
(1982)(Beggars Banquet)
Bauhaus: She's In Parties
(1983)(Beggars Banquet)
Blancmange: Game Above My Head
(1983)(Decca)
Cabaret Voltaire: Sensoria
(1984)(Virgin)
Cabaret Voltaire: I Want You/ Drink Your Poison
(1985)
China Crisis: Working With Fire and Steel
(1983)(Virgin)
Chris and Cosey: October (Love Song)
(1982)(Rough Trade)
Chrome: New Age
(1980) (Siren)
Chrome: Inworlds (In A Dream/ Dangerzone)
(1981)(Siren)
The Church: Electric Lash
(1883)(EMI)
The Church: Under the Milky Way/ Musk/ Warm Spell
(1988)(Arista)
Clan Of Xymox: A Day
(1985)(4AD)
Clock DVA: 4 Hours
(1981)(Fetish)
Julian Cope: Sunshine Playroom
(1983)(Polydor)
Julian Cope: Charlotte Anne
(1988)(Island)
The Cure: A Forest
(1980) (Fiction)
The Cure: Let's Go To Bed
(1982)(Fiction)
The Cure: The Walk
(1983 )(Fiction)
The Cure: The Lovecats
(1983 )(Fiction)
Current 93: Crowleymass
(1987)(Maldoror)
Darling Buds: Burst/Big Head/ Just Say So
(1988)(Native/CBS)
Darling Buds: Let's Go Round There
(1989)(Native/CBS)
Death In June: Heaven Street
(1981)(NER)
Death In June: Come Before Christ and Murder Love/ Torture By Roses
(1985)(NER)
Death In June: To Drown A Rose/Europa../Zimmerit
(1987)(NER)
Depeche Mode: See You
(1982)(Mute)
Depeche Mode: Love In Itself/ Fools (Bigger)
(1983)(Mute)
Depeche Mode: Master and Servant/ (Set Me Free)Remotivate Me
(1984)(Mute)
Depeche Mode: Stripped
(1986)(Mute)
Depeche Mode: Question Of Time
(1986)(Mute)
Depeche Mode: Behind the Wheel/ Route 66
(1986) (Mute)
Depeche Mode: Little 15
(1988)(Mute)
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Liebe Auf den Ersten Blick
(1981)(Virgin)
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Brothers
(1985)(Illuminated)
Devo: Girl U Want
(1980)(Warner Brothers)
Die Krupps: Wahre Arbeit, Wahrer Lohn
(1982)(ZickZack)
Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf
(1982)(Harvest/EMI)
Duran Duran: Rio/ The Chauffeur
(1982)(Harvest/EMI)
Duran Duran: New Moon On Monday
(1984)(EMI)
Echo and the Bunnymen: The Pictures On My Wall/ Read It In Books
(1979)(Zoo)
Echo and the Bunnymen: The Back Of Love
(1982)(Korova)
Echo and the Bunnymen: The Cutter
(1983)(Korova)
Einstürzende Neubauten: Yü Güng (Fütter Mein Ego)
(1984)(Some Bizarre)
Eyeless In Gaza: Kodak Ghosts Run Amok/ The Feelings Mutual
(1980)(cherry Red)
Eyeless In Gaza: Veil Like Calm
(1982)(Cherry Red)
Eyeless In Gaza: New Risen/ Bright Play Of Eyes/ Scent On Evening Air/ Drumming the Beating Heart
(1983)(Cherry Red)
The Fall: How I Wrote Elastic Man
(1980)(Rough Trade)
The Fall: Lie Dream Of a Casino Soul/ Fantastic Life
(1981)(Kamera)
The Fall: Look, Know/ I'm Into C.B!
(1982)(Kamera)
The Fall: The Man Whose Head Expanded
(1983)(Rough Trade)
The Fall: C.R.E.E.P/ Pat-Trip Dispenser
(1983)(Beggars Banquet)
The Fall: Living Too Late/ Hot Aftershave Bop
(1986)(Beggars Banquet)
The Fall: Big New Prinz
(1988)(Beggars Banquet)
John Foxx: Europe After the Rain/ You Were There
(1982)(Virgin)
Heaven 17: We Live So Fast
(1983)(Virgin)
Heaven 17: Come Live With Me
(1983)(Virgin)
Heaven 17: Crushed By the Wheels Of Industry
(1983)(Virgin)
Human League: Empire State Human
(1979)(Virgin)
The Jam: Town Called Malice/ Precious
(1982)(Polydor)
The Jam: Beat Surrender
(1982)
Japan: Life In Tokyo
(1979)(Hansa)
Japan: Quiet Life
(1979)(Hansa)
Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids
(1980)(Virgin)
Japan: European Son
(1982)(Hansa)
Joy Division: Digital/ Glass
(1978)(Factory)
Joy Division: Transmission
(1980)(Factory)
Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart/ These Days
(1980)(Factory)
Joy Division: She's Lost Control/ Atmosphere
(1980)(Factory)
Kraftwerk: Tour de France
(1983)(Warner Brothers)
Laibach: Panorama/ Decree
(1984)(Cherry Red)
Laibach: Geburt Einer Nation
(1987)(Mute)
Love and Rockets: Kundalini Express
(1986)(Beggars Banquet)
Love and Rockets: No New Tale To Tell
(1987)(Beggars Banquet)
Martha and the Muffins: Echo Beach
(1980)(Dindisc)
Midnight Oil: The Dead Heart
(1988)(Columbia)
The Names: Nightshift
(1981)(Factory)
New Order: Blue Monday/ The Beach
(1983)(Factory)
Gary Numan: Down In the Park
(1979)(Beggars Banquet)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Electricity/ Almost
(1979)(Dindisc)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Red Frame/ White Light
(1980)(Dindisc)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Enola Gay/ Annex
(1980)(Dindisc)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans)
(1981)(Dindisc)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Genetic Engineering
(1983)(Telegraph)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Talking Loud and Clear/ Julia's Song
(1984)(Virgin)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark: Tesla Girls
(1984)(Virgin)
Pet Shop Boys: One More Chance
(1984)(ZYX)
Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls
(1985)(EMI)
Pet Shop Boys: Opportunities/ In the Night
(1985)(EMI)
Pet Shop Boys: It's a Sin
(1987)(EMI)
Pet Shop Boys: Rent
(1987)(EMI)
Pet Shop Boys: Left To My Own Devices
(1988)(EMI)
Pink Industry: Don't Let Go/ Ticket To Heaven
(198 )(Cathexis)
The Police: Spirits In the Material World
(1981)(A & M)
Psychedelic Furs: Sister Europe
(1980)(Columbia)
Psychedelic Furs: Love My Way
(1982)(Columbia)
Psychic TV: Godstar
(1985)(Temple)
Renegade Soundwave: Biting My Nails
(1988)(Mute)
Section 25: Sakura
(1982)(Factory)
Section 25: Looking From a Hilltop
(1984)(Factory)
The Smiths: What Difference Does It Make?
(1984)(Warner Brothers)
The Smiths: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
(1985)(Warner Brothers)
The Smiths: Bigmouth Strikes Again
(1986)(Warner Brothers)
The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone
(1989)(Silvertone)
The Stone Roses: What the World Is Waiting For/ Fool's Gold
(1989)(Silvertone)
The Stranglers: Golden Brown
(1981)(EMI)
The Stranglers: Strange Little Girl
(1982)(EMI)
The Stranglers: European Female
(1982)(EMI)
Strawberry Switchblade: Since Yesterday
(1984)(Korova)
The Style Council: My Ever Changing Moods
(1984)(Polydor)
The Sugarcubes: Deus/ Luftgitar/ Night of Steel
(1988)(One Little Indian)
David Sylvian: Red Guitar/ Forbidden Colours
(1984)(Virgin)
David Sylvian: Pop Song
(1989)(Virgin)
Taco: Puttin' On the Ritz
(1982)(BMG Ariola)
Talk Talk: It's My Life/ Does Caroline Know?
(1984)(EMI)
Tears For Fears: Mad World
(1982)(Mercury)
Tears For Fears: Change
(1983)(Mercury)
The Teardrop Explodes: Treason/ Books
(1980)(Zoo)
The The: Uncertain Smile
(1983) (Some Bizzare)
The The: This Is the Day
(1983) (Some Bizzare)
The Times: I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
(1982)(Artpop!)
Tin Tin: Kiss Me
(1983)(Virgin)
Tones On Tail: Lions/ Go!
(1984)(Beggars Banquet)
Tuxedomoon: What Use
(1980)(Ralph)
Ultravox: Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1977)(Island)
Vapors: Turning Japanese
(1980)(United Artists)
Visage: Fade To Grey
(1980)(Polydor)
The Walker Brothers: The Electrician
(1978)(GTO)
Wall of Voodoo: Mexican Radio/ Call Of the West
(1983)(IRS)
Wire: Ahead/ Vivid Riot Of Red (live)
(1987)(Mute)
Yello: I Love You
(1983)(Elektra)
Yello: Vicious Games
(1986)(Elektra)
And onward to the Nineties