THE iNFOMAN 1982 SINGLES OF THE YEAR
(compiled 1982, revised 1986/2003)

See Those Eyes                                                                                      Temptation

1. Altered Images - See those eyes

2. New Order - Temptation

3. Eurythmics - The walk

4. The Associates - Party fears two

5. The Pretenders - Back on the chain gang

6. The Associates - 18 carat love affair

7. Roxy Music - More than this

8. Roxy Music - Avalon

9. Cocteau Twins - It's all but an ark lark

10. Scritti Politti - Asylums in Jerusalem

11. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Melt

12. The Associates - Club Country

13. Altered Images - Pinky blue

14. Shambeko! Say Wah! - Remember

15. Bow Wow Wow - Go wild in the country

16. Eurythmics - Love is a stranger

17. Echo and the Bunnymen - Back of love

18. Wah! - The story of the blues

19. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Ice cream for crow

20. Jam - A town called Malice

21. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Slow dive

22. Bow Wow Wow - See jungle (Jungle boy)

23. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Fireworks

24. Captain Sensible - Happy talk (from South Pacific)(cover of Mary Martin)

25. Elvis Costello - A man out of time

26. Lene Lovich - It's you, only you (Mein Schmerz)

27. Colourbox - Breakdown

28. Laurie Anderson - Big science

29. Kate Bush - The dreaming

30. Eurythmics - This is the house

31. Fun Boy Three - The telephone always rings

32. B-Movie - Nowhere girl

33. Scritti Politti - Faithless

34. Monsoon - Ever so lonely

35. Kim Wilde - View from a bridge

36. The Beat - Save it for a later

37. Soft Cell - Say hello wave goodbye

38. Fun Boy Three - T'ain't what you do (It's the way that you do it) (cover of Jimmie Lunceford) - with Bananarama

39. Gregory Isaacs - Cool down the pace

40. Blondie - War child

41. Tom Tom Club - Under the boardwalk (cover of the Drifters)

42. Michael Nyman - In re Don Giovanni

43. Carmel - Storm

44. Waitresses - I know what boys like

45. The Damned - Love song

46. John Cooper Clarke - The day my pad went mad

47. Bow Wow Wow - Louis Quatorze

48. Paul Young - Iron out the rough spots (cover of Don Covay)

49. Everything But The Girl - Night and day (cover of Cole Porter)

50. Grace Jones - Apple stretching

Bubbling under:

51. Alexei Sayle - 'Ullo John! Gotta new motor?

52. Monsoon - Shakti (Meaning of within)

53. Dire Straits - Twisting by the pool

54. Roxy Music - Take a chance with me

55. Captain Sensible - Wot!

56. Orange Juice - Felicity

57. Monsoon - Tomorrow never knows (cover of the Beatles)

58. The Beat - I confess

59. Fashion - Love shadow

60. Sheena Easton - Machinery

This page was last updated on 25 January, 2004