THE iNFOMAN 1981 SINGLES OF THE YEAR
(compiled 1985, expanded and corrected 2003)

1. Altered Images - Dead pop stars

2. Laurie Anderson - O Superman

3. The Specials - Ghost town

4. Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood

5. The Pretenders - Message of love

6. Altered Images - I could be happy

7. Roxy Music - Jealous guy (cover of John Lennon)

8. Tom Tom Club - Genius of love

9. The Pretenders - I go to sleep (cover of the Kinks)

10. Birthday Party - Release the bats

11. Altered Images - Happy birthday

12. Scritti Politti - The "sweetest" girl

13. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound

14. Bow Wow Wow - W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah no! My daddy don't)

15. Altered Images - A day's wait

16. The Pretenders - Day after day

17. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Arabian knights

18. Blondie - Rapture

19. Heaven 17 - (We don't need this) Fascist groove thang

20. Grandmaster Flash - The adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel

21. Wah! - Somesay

22. The Creatures - Mad eyed screamer

23. B-52s - Give me back my man

24. The Jam - Funeral pyre

25. Bow Wow Wow - Prince of darkness

26. Eurythmics - Never gonna cry again

27. Girls At Our Best - Fast boyfriends

28. Kim Wilde - Cambodia

29. Rickie Lee Jones - Woody and Dutch on the slow train to Peking

30. Department S - Is Vic there?

31. Kim Wilde - Kids in America

32. Pete Shelley - Homo sapiens

33. Eurythmics - Belinda

34. Department S - Going left right

35. Magazine - About the weather

36. Kate Bush - Sat in your lap

37. Elvis Costello - From a whisper to a scream

38. John Martyn - Johnny Too Bad (cover of the Slickers)

39. Fun Boy Three - The lunatics (have taken over the asylum)

40. Ten Pole Tudor - Swords of a thousand men

41. Revillos - She's fallen in love with a monster man

42. UB40 - Don't slow down

43. The Beat - Doors of your heart

44. Kim Wilde - Chequered love

45. Squeeze - Is that love?

46. Pointer Sisters - Slow hand

47. Christina - Things fall apart

48. Gregory Isaacs - Permanent lover

49. The Who - You better you bet

50. The Jam - Absolute beginners

Bubbling under:

51. Fire Engines - Candy skin

52. Girls At Our Best - Go for gold

53. Wire - Our swimmer

54. Polecats - John, I'm only dancing (cover of David Bowie)

55. Kim Wilde - Water on glass

56. Waitresses - Christmas wrapping

57. Fall - Lie dream of a casino soul

58. Pigbag - Papa's got a brand new pigbag

59. Echo and the Bunnymen - A promise

60. Liliput - Eisiger wind

61. Clash - This is Radio Clash

62. Southern Death Cult - Fat man

63. Passions - I'm in love with a German film star

64. Sheena Easton - For your eyes only

This page was last updated on 25 January, 2004