The Best Alternative Songs Of The '80s, Ranked
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- 1The Smiths
- 2The Cure
- 3Joy Division
- 4New Order
- 5Modern English
- New Order
- 7Echo & The Bunnymen
- 8The Cure
- 9Depeche Mode
- Depeche Mode
- 11Tears for Fears
- 12The Church
- 13Talking Heads
- 14Soft Cell
- 15Pet Shop Boys
- 16The Clash
- 17Talk Talk
- 18The Clash
- 19Kate Bush
- 20The Cure
- 21Depeche Mode
- 22Echo & the Bunnymen
- 23Violent Femmes
- 24Pixies
- 25The Psychedelic Furs
- 26The Cure
- 27Morrissey
- 28Midnight Oil
- 30Depeche Mode
- 31David Bowie
- 32The Human League
- 33Peter Gabriel
- 34Blondie
- 35INXS
- 36The Beat
- A Flock of Seagulls
- 38Pixies
- 39R.E.M.
- 40The Icicle Works
- 41Erasure
- 42Duran Duran
- 43Yazzoo
- 44The Psychedelic Furs
- 45The Jam
- 46Tears for Fears
- 47Dexys Midnight Runners
- 48R.E.M.
- 49Peter Murphy
- 50New Order
- 51Pixies
- 52Love and Rockets
- 53Oingo Boingo
- 54Devo
- 55Nine Inch Nails
- 56The Police
- 57David Bowie
- 58Jane's Addiction
- 59Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- 60New Order