Top 100 Synth-Pop Hits of the ’80s (First Version)

1. Paul Hardcastle - 19 2. Erasure - A Little Respect 3. Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me 4. Harold Faltermayer - Axel F 5. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes 6. Alphaville - Big in Japan 7. New Order - Blue Monday 8. Gary Numan - Cars 9. Kraftwerk - Computer Love 10. Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days 11. Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes 12. Falco - Der Kommissar 13. Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor 14. Yazoo - Don’t Go 15. Human League - Don’t You Want Me 16. Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse 17. Arcadia - Election Day 18. OMD - Enola Gay 19. Visage - Fade to Grey 20. The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination 21. Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven 22. Secret Service - Flash in the Night 23. Alphaville - Forever Young 24. Icehouse - Great Southern Land 25. Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again 26. Icehouse - Hey Little Girl 27. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now 28. Pete Shelley - Homosapien 29. Animoton - I Engineer 30. Yello - I Love You 31. A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away) 32. Nik Kershaw - I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me 33. Ph.D. - I Won’t Let You Down 34. Midge Ure - If I Was 35. Freeez - . 36. Pet Shop Boys - It’s a Sin 37. Talk Talk - It’s My Life 38. OMD - Joan of Arc 39. Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Get Enough 40. Thompson Twins - Lay Your Hands on Me 41. The Buggles - Living in the Plastic Age 42. Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling 43. Trans-X - Living on Video 44. The Human League - Love Action 45. King - Love and Pride 46. Eurythmics - Love Is a Stranger 47. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 48. Tears for Fears - Mad World 49. OMD - Maid of Orleans 50. Peter Schilling - Major Tom 51. Michael Sembello - Maniac 52. The Assembly - Never Never 53. Yazoo - Nobody’s Diary 54. Animotion - Obsession 55. Erasure - Oh L’amour 56. Yazoo - Only You 57. Depeche Mode - People Are People 58. M - Pop Muzik 59. Taco - Puttin’ on the Ritz 60. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax 61. Duran Duran - Rio 62. Duran Duran - Save a Prayer 63. Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 64. Real Life - Send Me an Angel 65. Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease 66. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science 67. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 68. The Communards - So Cold the Night 69. Erasure - Sometimes 70. Alphaville - Sounds Like a Melody 71. A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song 72. Talk Talk - Such a Shame 73. Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night 74. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams 75. Soft Cell - Tainted Love 76. A-ha - Take on Me 77. Heaven 17 - Temptation 78. Camouflage - The Great Commandment 79. ABC - The Look of Love 80. Kraftwerk - The Model 81. Duran Duran - The Reflex 82. Nik Kershaw - The Riddle 83. Men without Hats - The Safety Dance 84. Matia Bazar - Ti Sento 85. Spandau Ballet - To Cut a Long Story Short 86. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams 87. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy 88. New Order - True Faith 89. Steve Winwood - Valerie 90. Yello - Vicious Games 91. The Buggles - Video Killed the Radiostar 92. Ultravox - Vienna 93. Desireless - Voyage Voyage 94. Kim Carnes - Voyeur 95. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 96. Howard Jones - What Is Love 97. Devo - Whip It 98. A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) 99. FR David - Words 100. Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) The songs are in alphabetical order. Song snippets are kept short due to copyright reasons.
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