like to check out this website now and then....it compiles music critic lists of the best music ever released and makes lists for people who like lists (like me ).....have discovered lots of great music i would never have discovered without this website.....check it out....http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/
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here is one of their lists.....the top 50 rock and pop acts of the 80's
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The Top 50 Artists of the 80s


1 Prince

2 The Smiths

3 U2

4 R.E.M.

5 Bruce Springsteen

6 Public Enemy

7 Pixies

8 New Order

9 Madonna

10 Talking Heads

11 Michael Jackson

12 Sonic Youth

13 The Cure

14 Elvis Costello

15 Run-D.M.C.

16 Joy Division

17 Hüsker Dü

18 Tom Waits

19 Beastie Boys

20 The Jesus and Mary Chain

21 The Stone Roses

22 Guns N' Roses

23 Grandmaster Flash

24 The Police

25 Peter Gabriel

26 The Replacements

27 Metallica

28 Echo and the Bunnymen

29 Eric B. & Rakim

30 N.W.A.

31 Pretenders

32 The Jam

33 AC/DC

34 Nick Cave

35 De La Soul

36 Dexys Midnight Runners

37 The Pogues

38 Pet Shop Boys

39 Kate Bush

40 The Human League

41 Paul Simon

42 The Clash

43 Motörhead

44 X

45 XTC

46 Depeche Mode

47 David Bowie

48 The Specials

49 Violent Femmes

50 Dinosaur Jr.

http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/
[Edited 11/6/09 5:04am]

a well deserved #1,

since we had no less than 9 brilliant Prince albums in the 1980s.. 10 if you count the Black album too.

WTF! No Queen? No Genesis?! this is why I don't care for Lists!