Favourite Singles of 1986:

1. REM Fall on Me
2. Midnight Oil The Dead Heart
3. Stranglers Always the Sun
4. Suzanne Vega Left of Center
5. David Bowie Absolute Beginners
6. Paul Simon You Can Call Me Al
7. Suzanne Vega Gypsy
8. Bangles If She Knew What She Wants
9. Bangles Walk Like an Egyptian
10. Paul Simon Graceland
11. Leonard Cohen Take This Waltz
12. Kinks How Are You
13. Kate Bush Hounds of Love
14. Smiths There is a Light that Never Goes Out
15. Smiths Bigmouth Strikes Again
16. Smiths Ask
17. Beach Boys California Dreaming
18. Rick Nelson Dream Lover
19. Smiths Panic
20. REM Superman
21. David Bowie When the Wind Blows
22. Pretenders Hymn to Her
23. Smiths Some Girls are Bigger than Others
24. Nena Du Kennst die Liebe Nicht
25. Cindy Lauper True Colours
26. REM I Believe
27. Jennifer Warnes First We Take Manhattan
28. Crowded House World Where you Live
29. Eurythmics Thorn in My Side
30. Crowded House Now We’re Getting Somewhere
31. Left Banke And One Day
32. Eno Backwater
33. Rolling Stones One Hit
34. Steve Winwood Higher Love
35. David Bowie Underground
36. Van Morrison Ivory Tower
37. Sandie Shaw Are You Ready to be Heartbroken
38. Elvis Costello I Want You
39 Eurythmics When Tomorrow Comes
40. Cindy Lauper Change of Heart
41. Queen Friends Will be Friends
42. Crowded House Something so Strong
43. Dire Straits Your Latest Trick
44. Crowded House Mean to Me
45. Nena Mondsong
46. Elton John Slow Rivers
47. Rick Nelson You Know What I Mean
48. Rolling Stones Harlem Shuffle
49. Ray Davies Quiet Life
50. Pretenders Don’t Get Me Wrong
51. Jethro Tull Conorach
52. Genesis Throwing it All Away
53. Rick Nelson Stood Up
54. Los Lobos Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes
55. John Fogerty Change in the Weather
56. Bangles Walking Down the Street
57. Tom Petty Needles and Pins
58. Elvis Costello Tokyo Storm Warning
59. Moody Blues Your Wildest Dreams
60. Moody Blues The Other Side of Life
61. Richard Thompson Valerie
62. George Harrison Shanghai Surprise
63. REM Femme Fatale
64. Genesis In Too Deep
65. John Fogerty Eye of the Zombie
66. Rolling Stones Winning Ugly
67. Queen A Kind of Magic
68. David Bowie Magic Dance
69. Elton John Cry to Heaven
70. John Lennon Rock and Roll People
71. Genesis In the Glow of the Night
72. Paul Simon Homeless
73. Sandie Shaw Frederick
74. Neil Young Old Ways
75. Stranglers Nice in Nice
76. Elvis Costello Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
77. Til Tuesday Coming Up Close
78. Graham Nash Innocent Eyes
79. Lou Reed Video Violence
80. John Paul Young Spain
81. Beach Boys Rock’n Roll Rescue
82. Steve Miller Band I Want to Make the World Turn Round
83. Stranglers Big in America
84. Charlotte Gainsbourg Elastique
85. Til Tuesday What About Love
86. Queen Princess of the Universe
87. Van Morrison Got to Go Back
88. Queen One Year of Love
89. Lou Reed Soul Man
90. Kinks Rock’n Roll Cities
91. Monkees That was then This is Now
92. Lou Reed Original Wrapper
93. Flamin' Groovies Kicks
94. Queen Who Wants to Live Forever
95. Alex Chilton No Sex
96. Queen Pain is so Close to Pleasure
97. Francoise Hardy VIP
98. Til Tuesday Voices Carry
99. Everly Brothers Born Yesterday
100. Flamin' Groovies Way Over My Head

Bubbling under:
Lou Reed - No Money Down
Moody Blues - Running Out of Love
NeilYoung - Touch the Night
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Bruce Springsteen - War
Shocking Blue – The Jury and the Judge
Genesis – Do the Neurotic
Genesis – Invisible Touch
Joe Cocker – You Can Leave Your Hat on
Elvis Costello – Seven Day Weekend

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