To coincide with our just-posted Top 100 songs of 1981 readers poll results, we’ve created this accompanying Spotify playlist. As you can see (and hear), the playlist is bookended by Depeche Mode, with “Just Can’t Get Enough” at No. 1 and “Photographic” at No. 100, and 97 songs in between. What’s missing? Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which isn’t on Spotify.
Oh, and, no, The Specials’ “Ghost Town” isn’t on here twice.
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So here are nearly 7 hours of great songs from 1981 for your streaming pleasure:
very nice…streaming it right now
Thank you for putting this together!
Guilty pleasure but Rick Springfield???
We dont have Spotify in South Africa – but we do have Deezer. With your permission I am going to put this list on Deezer also (They DO have the Joan Jett song, but there might be others they dont have.)
An excellent list and well chosen by all the Slicing Up Eyeballs readers!
For those interested http://www.deezer.com/playlist/1207207411?utm_source=deezer&utm_content=playlist-1207207411&utm_term=686360211_1429081565&utm_medium=web
When do we commence 1982 voting?
I’m really enjoying 1981 a lot more than 1980…
There is a lot of bad music there.
Well, yeah, Rick. The decade wasn’t perfect.
Hey – I know this is 3 years too late, but “I Love RnR” by Joan Jett is now on Spotify so you can have a completed 1981 playlist – tell me i just made your weekend, go ahead, do it!
Can you update with Joan Jett now?
As of 20200901, there are only 97 songs in the playlist. So which two songs (plus the missing Joan Jett) dropped off Spotify?