The 80s Underground has jumped on the latest list bandwagon! Here is the first segment from a 4-part weekly series that counted down the Top 100 80s underground singles. Who made the cut for #100 - #76? Listen and find out!

(originally broadcast Oct 7, 2015)

XTC - Dear God (Skylarking) 1986

THE BONGOS - Roman Circus (Phantom Train) 1986

LET'S ACTIVE - Room With a View (Afoot) 1983

INXS - Golden Playpen (Shabooh Shoobah) 1982

SPLIT ENZ - I Got You (True Colours) 1980

THE PLIMSOULS - How Long Will It Take (Everywhere at Once) 1983

THE LUCY SHOW - Land and the Life (Mania) 1986

DRAGON - Rain (single) 1983

PETE SHELLEY - XL-1 (XL-1) 1983

SPARKS - All You Ever Think About is Sex (In Outer Space) 1983

YAZ - Sweet Thing (You & Me Both) 1983

NEW ORDER - 1963-1994 (single) 1986

SPOONS - Nova Heart (Arias & Symphonies) 1982

OMD - Messages (10" single) 1980

KRAFTWERK - Computer World (Computer World) 1981

NEW MODEL ARMY - White Coats (single) 1987

UNDER TWO FLAGS - The Day After Dub (10" single) 1984

JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Down on Me (Darklands) 1987

XYMOX - Stranger (Clan of Xymox) 1985

THE CURE - Primary (single) 1981

LONDON COWBOYS - Dance Crazy (Relapse) 1988

THE CULT - Judith (Revolution EP) 1985

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - Upstairs (Promise) 1983

DANCING HOODS - Wild & The Lonely (12 Jealous Roses) 1985

SCRUFFY THE CAT - My Baby She's Alright (Tiny Days) 1987

THE YANKS - We Call Each Other Mine (Made in The States) 1983

SWING SET - Blackout (Life Speeds Up) 1986

LOVE & ROCKETS "Ball of Confusion" from Express 1986

PLAY DEAD "Isabel" from From The Promise Land 1985

CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE "Soldier" from This Can't Be Heaven EP

FOR AGAINST "Shine" from Echelons 1987

ULTRAVOX "Reap the Wild Wind" from Hymn 1982

XYMOX "Evelyn" from Twist Of Shadows 1989

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL "Heartache" from Discover 1986

PINK INDUSTRY "Don't Let Go" from Low Technology 1983

LITTLE HEROES "Whose Turn to Cry" from Watch the World 1983

COMSAT ANGELS "After the Rain" from Fiction 1982

RED ROCKERS "Just Like You" from Schizophrenic Circus 1984

THE ALARM "Strength" from Strength 1985

LIONS & GHOSTS "Wild Garden" from Wild Garden 1989

DREAMS SO REAL "Rough Night In Jericho" from Rough Night In Jericho 1988

ARMS AKIMBO "Dominique" from Arms Akimbo 1984

GUADALCANAL DIARY "Litany (Life Goes On)" from 2X4 1987

HOODOO GURUS "What's My Scene?" from Blow Your Cool 1987

GREEN "Curry Your Favor" from Green 1986

RAIN PARADE "You Are My Friend" from Explosions in the Glass Palace 1984

R.E.M. "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" from Chronic Town - EP 1982

RANK AND FILE "Rank & File" from Sundown 1982

JASON & THE SCORCHERS "Absolutely Sweet Marie" from Fervor 1983

THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS "Work Was New" from Blast Of Silence 1986

SONIC YOUTH "Candle" from Daydream Nation 1988

DAS DAMEN "Noon Daylight" from Mousetrap 1989

JANE'S ADDICTION "Had a Dad" from Nothing's Shocking 1988

COMSAT ANGELS - On The Beach (Waiting for a Miracle) 1980

NEW ORDER - Way of Life (Brotherhood) 1986

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - The Game (s/t)

THE CHURCH - Dropping Names (Seance) 1983

MOEV - Yeah, Whatever (Yeah, Whatever) 1988

DANSE SOCIETY - Heaven Is Waiting (Heaven Is Waiting) 1984

VISAGE - Blocks on Blocks (s/t EP) 1981

THE MOOD - Watching Time (Singles) 1982

ROXY MUSIC - Same Old Scene (Flesh+Blood) 1980 *request*

FURNITURE - Brilliant Mind (single) 1986 *request*

RE-FLEX - Something About You (Politics of Dancing) 1983

PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Like a Stranger (1984)

THE CALL - There's a Heart Here (s/t) 1982

RED ROCKERS - Come on in to My House (Good As Gold) 1983

THE DRONGOS - Ghost Ship (s/t) 1984

XTC - Love on a Farm Boy's Wages (Mummer) 1983

SQUEEZE - Another Nail for the Heart (Argybargy) 1980

THE REAL IMPOSSIBLES - Turn My World (4x4 EP) 1986

THE REPLACEMENTS - Color Me Impressed (Hootenanny) 1983

HUSKER DU - Pink Turns to Blue (Zen Arcade) 1984

R.E.M. - Sitting Still (Murmur) 1983

THE REIVERS - In Your Eyes (Saturday) 1987

NOT SHAKESPEARE - Turnaround (s/t EP) 1986

BUFFALO TOM - Sunflower Suit (s/t) 1988

THE SILOS - Mary's Getting Married (Cuba) 1987

THE REDUCERS - Fashion of the Times (Let's Go) 1984

THE SILVER TEARS - High Life (s/t EP) 1984

THE SIDEWINDERS - Solitary Man (Witchdoctor) 1989

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES "Song from the Edge of the World" from 12" single 1987

DANSE SOCIETY "Red Light (Shine)" from Heaven Is Waiting 1984

KILLING JOKE "Sanity" from Brighter Than a Thousand Suns 1986

WIRE "A Serious of Snakes" from The Ideal Copy 1987

GIRLS FROM TAHITI "No Reply" from Tower Of Love 1984

CABARET VOLTAIRE "Don't Argue" from Code 1987

HEAVEN SEVENTEEN "Let Me Go" from Heaven Seventeen 1982

TALK TALK "Serious" from The Party's Over 1982

CLAN OF XYMOX "A Day" from Clan of Xymox 1985

THE DAMNED "In Dulce Decorum" from Anything 1986

THE BOLSHOI "Someone's Daughter" from Friends 1986

YAZ "Walk Away From Love" from You And Me Both 1983

BONE SYMPHONY "It's a Jungle Out There" from Bone Symphony 1983

BRONSKI BEAT "Why?" from The Age of Consent 1984

IT BITES "Calling All the Heroes" from The Big Lad In the Windmill 1986

THOMAS DOLBY "Dissidents" from The Flat Earth 1984

YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA "Key" from Technodelic 1981

THE PASSAGE "Drugface" from Enflame 1983

PETER MURPHY "Crystal Wrists" from Deep 1989

THE SMITHS "Half A Person" from Louder Than Bombs 1986

ULTRA VIVID SCENE "Crash" from Ultra Vivid Scene 1988

THE FIELD MICE "Sensitive" from Single 1989

EASTERHOUSE "Whistling In the Dark" from Contenders 1986

McCARTHY "Red Sleeping Beauty" from That's All Very Well But? 1986

JASMINE MINKS "Cut Me Deep" from Another Age 1988

JAMES "What For" from Strip-Mine 1988

NEW ORDER - Leave Me Alone (Power Corruption & Lies) 1983

COMSAT ANGELS - Be Brave (Sleep No More) 1981

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - The Passenger (Through the Looking Glass) 1987

THE DAMNED - Shadow Of Love (Phantasmagoria) 1985

DANIELLE DAX - Big Hollow Man (Dark Adapted Eye) 1988 *request*

KILLING JOKE - Fire Dances (Fire Dances) 1983

EASTERHOUSE - To Live Like This (Contenders) 1986

WALL OF VOODOO - Big City (Seven Days in Sammystown) 1985

ADAM ANT - Stand & Deliver (Prince Charming) 1981

THE JAM - Funeral Pyre (single) 1981

ENGLISH BEAT - Get a Job (Wha'ppen) 1981

PETER SCHILLING - Major Tom (single) 1983

OINGO BOINGO - Wake Up It's 1984 (Good For Your Soul) 1983

B-52s - Strobe Light (Wild Planet) 1980

MIDNIGHT OIL - Dreamworld (Diesel & Dust) 1988

THE EURYTHMICS - Belinda (In The Garden) 1981

THE FIXX - Built For The Future (Walkabout) 1986

SQUARE ROOT OF NOW - Between the Light (Bent Around the Corners) 1984

YAZ - Sweet Thing (You and Me Both) 1983

COLOUR SCREAM - Across the Sky (Dance No More EP) 1989

THE SMITHS - Ask (Singles) 1987

THE PRIMITIVES - Sick of It (12" single) 1989

BALAAM & THE ANGEL - Love Me (Sun Family) 1986

SAD LOVERS & GIANTS - In Flux (Feeding the Flame) 1983

ROSE OF AVALANCHE - Goddess (12" single) 1985

SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS - Sweet Water Pools (Bikini Red) 1987

SIMPLE MINDS "Love Song" from Sons and Fascination

SPANDAU BALLET "The Freeze" from Singles Collection

JAPAN "Ghosts" from Tin Drum

THE HUMAN LEAGUE "Open Your Heart" from Dare

GARY NUMAN "Crash" from Dance

KRAFTWERK "It's More Fun To Compute" from Computer World

CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE "Cardboard Lamb" from Signals From Pier Thirteen - EP

O.M.D. "Georgia" from Architecture & Morality

POLYROCK "Love Song" from Changing Hearts

DEVO "Through Being Cool" from New Traditionalists

SOFT CELL "Bedsitter" from Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

ICEHOUSE "We Can Get Together" from Icehouse

SLOW CHILDREN "President I Am" from Slow Children

LENE LOVICH "New Toy" from New Toy EP

SCARS "All About You" from Author! Author!

TV21 "Something's Wrong" from A Thin Red Line

THE STRANGLERS "Two Sunspots" from (The Gospel According To) The Meninblack

TELEX "Exercise Is Good For You" from Sex!

HUMANS "Get You Tonight" from Happy Hour

THE VAPORS "Spiders" from Magnets

THE JAM "Funeral Pyre" from Greatest Hits

NINE NINE NINE "So Greedy" from Concrete

THE GUN CLUB "She's Like Heroin to Me" from Fire of Love

X "The Once Over Twice" from Wild Gift

MISSION OF BURMA "This Is Not a Photograph" from Signals, Calls and Marches

ADOLESCENTS "I Hate Children" from Adolescents

BLACK FLAG "TV Party" from Damaged

THE REPLACEMENTS "Shiftless When Idle" from Sorry Ma! Forgot to Take Out the Trash!

AGENT ORANGE "Living in Darkness" from Living In Darkness

THE FIXX - Less Cities More Moving People (Phantoms) 1984

GENERAL PUBLIC - Burning Bright (All The Rage) 1984

THE JAM - Beat Surrender (Beat Surrender EP) 1982

THE CLASH - Hitsville UK (Sandanista!) 1980

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD - Rise (Album) 1985

THE FALL - The Carry Bag Man (The Frenz Experiment) 1988

PETER MURPHY - Indigo Eyes (Love Hysteria) 1988

MAGAZINE - Because You're Frightened (The Correct Use of Soap) 1980

PETE SHELLEY - Homosapien (Homosapien) 1981

KING BLANK - Blind Box (The Real Dirt) 1988

HUNTERS & COLLECTORS - When The River Runs Dry (Ghost Nation) 1989

FLESH FOR LULU - So Strong (s/t) 1984

DRAMARAMA - Scenario (Cinema Verite) 1985

LET'S ACTIVE - Room With a View (Afoot) 1983

FRIENDS AGAIN - State of Art (single) 1983

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Crystal Days (Ocean Rain) 1984

THE SMITHS - Boy With a Thorn in His Side (The Queen Is Dead) 1986

RAILWAY CHILDREN - Somewhere South (Recurrence) 1988

MOEV - Yeah Whatever (single) 1986

WIRE - The Offer (Eardrum Buzz b-side) 1989

DEPECHE MODE - Something To Do (Some Great Reward) 1984

BLANCMANGE - Blind Vision (Mange Tout) 1984

REAL LIFE - Exploding Bullets (Let's Fall In Love) 1989

ICEHOUSE - No Promises (Measure For Measure) 1986

VISAGE - Fade to Grey (s/t) 1980

BAD BRAINS - Pay To Cum (s/t) 1982

ADAM & THE ANTS - Strip (single) 1983

CHAMELEONS UK - Swamp Thing (Strange Times) 1986

RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY - Monkey's On Juice (single) 1985

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Belladonna (Hyaena) 1984

SAD LOVERS & GIANTS - Sex Without Gravity (single) 984

THE THE - Perfect (Soul Mining) 1983

AZTEC CAMERA - Still On Fire (Knife) 1984

CLEANERS FROM VENUS - Julie Profumo (single) 1986

RE-FLEX - Cut It (Breakin' Soundtrack) 1984

U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One (War) 1983

THE CULT - Dreamtime (Dreamtime) 1985

BUSH TETRAS - Too Many Creeps (Single) 1980

THE WAITRESSES - No Guilt (Greatest Hits) 1981

OINGO BOINGO - Not My Slave (Boi-ngo) 1987

HUXTON CREEPERS - Time Heals All Wounds (12 Days to Paris) 1986

THE SMITHEREENS - Strangers When We Meet (Especially For You) 1986

TRANSLATOR - These Old Days (Evening of the Harvest) 1986

SCRUFFY THE CAT - Land of 1000 Girls (High Octane Revival EP) 1987

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - Take the Skinheads Bowling (12" single) 1986

fIREHOSE - Brave Captain (Ragin' Full On) 1986

THE PIXIES - Bone Machine (Surferosa) 1988

HUSKER DU - Green Eyes (Flip Your Wig) 1985

THE RAMONES - My Head is Hanging Upside Down (Animal Boy) 1986

999 - So Greedy (Concrete) 1981

ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE - For You (single) 1982

SUBHUMANS - Pigman (Worlds Apart) 1985

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - Institutionalized (s/t) 1983

THE VANDALS - Lady Killer (When In Rome...) 1984

MOJO NIXON & SKID ROPER - Jesus at McDonalds (s/t) 1985

BILLY BRAGG - Strange Things Happen (Brewing Up) 1984

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - The Cow (Desire 12") 1986

THE CHAMELEONS - As High as You Can Go (Script of the Bridge) 1983

THE LUCY SHOW - Undone (Undone...) 1983

THE OCEAN BLUE - Ask Me Jon (s/t) 1989

ICEHOUSE - Icehouse (s/t) 1981

SPANDAU BALLET - The Freeze (Singles Collection) 1981

FLESH FOR LULU - Postcards From Paradise (Long Live the New Flesh) 1987 *request*

TEARDROP EXPLODES - Ha Ha, I'm Drowning (Kilmanjaro) 1980

INXS - Here Comes (Shabooh Shoobah) 1982

THE MEMBERS - Working Girl (s/t) 1982

ADAM & THE ANTS - Scorpios (Prince Charming) 1981

LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Black Girl White Girl (Is Nothing Sacred?) 1983

SPARKS - Love Scenes (Pulling Rabbits From a Hat) 1984

BLANCMANGE - Feel Me (Happy Families) 1982

MARY GOES ROUND - The Promised Land (Sunset) 1989

FAD GADGET - Stand Up (Gag) 1984

WIRE - Eardrum Buzz (IBTABA) 1989

SPOONS - Radio Heaven (Bridge Over Borders) 1986

RED ROCKERS - Home Is Where The War Is (Good As Gold) 1983

WIRE TRAIN - Certainly No One (Ten Women) 1987

HOODOO GURUS - All The Way (Magna Cum Louder) 1989

R.E.M. - Disturbance at the Heron House (Document) 1987

DRAMARAMA - Scenario (Cinema Verite) 1985

LET'S ACTIVE - Flags For Everything (Cypress) 1984

GAME THEORY - Too Late For Tears (Dead Center) 1984

AGENT ORANGE - Tearing Me Apart (This Is The Voice) 1986

RUTS DC - Despondency (Animal Now) 1981

THE SOUND - Kinetic (Thunder Up) 1987