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.

Pardon our (more than) slight delay, but we’re back, after copious number-crunching, with the second installment in our new Best of the ’80s Redux series, the Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll that has now determined our collective ranking of the Top 100 songs of 1981.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by The Cult, Rose of Avalanche, Soft Cell, New Model Army, Front 242, Kissing the Pink, Comsat Angels, The Bolshoi, Chris Connelly, Section 25, Julian Cope, Ministry and more.

We’ve posted a number of memorable clips over the years as part of our “120 Minutes” Rewind feature, but this is a true rarity: some 35 minutes of J.J. Jackson-hosted footage from the earliest-known recording of an episode of MTV’s seminal Sunday night music-video show that took viewers “two hours into the future” every week.

Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured music by Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, The Naked and the Dead, Lard, Camouflage, The Lucy Show, Danielle Dax, Death in June, The Essence, Xmal Deutschland, Alien Sex Fiend, Skeletal Family and more.

Morrissey tonight announced that he will return to the U.S. this June and July to continue promoting his withdrawn album World Peace Is None of Your Business with a new 18-date tour of theaters, arenas and amphitheaters, a trek that includes a stop at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

On May 5, Wayne Hussey, frontman of The Mission, will release a 2DVD/1CD set Songs of Candlelight & Razorblades Live that chronicles his tour last year in support of his latest solo effort, and he’s teasing the upcoming project with a live stream of one of its tracks: a live cover of George Michael’s “Careless Whisper.”