A year ago, The Arkive — the archival wing of the Beggars Group — launched a 50-song curated playlist spotlighting some of the classic music as well as the deeper cuts released throughout the 1980s by its labels 4AD, Beggars Banquet, Situation Two and more. Check out the full 3½ hour playlist right here.

We’ve created a Spotify playlist to accompany our just-posted Top 100 songs of 1985 readers poll results. As you can see (and hear), the playlist opens with The Cure’s “Inbetween Days” and closes with Felt’s “Primitive Painters” — with 98 more songs in between. Yes, this time, all 100 of our selections are streaming on Spotify.

As is custom, we’ve created a Spotify playlist to accompany our just-posted Top 100 songs of 1984 readers poll results. As you can see (and hear), the playlist opens with Echo & The Bunnymen’s “The Killing Moon” and closes with The Strangers’ “Skin Deep” — with 93 more songs in between. Listen right here.

The Arkive — the archival wing of the Beggars Group — today launches a new 50-song, 3 1/2-hour curated playlist spotlighting some of the classic music, and deeper cuts, released throughout the 1980s by its labels 4AD, Beggars Banquet, Situation Two and more. Listen to it right here.

As is the custom in these parts, we’ve created a Spotify playlist to accompany our just-posted Top 100 songs of 1983 readers poll results. As you can see (and hear), the playlist opens with New Order’s “Blue Monday” and closes with China Crisis’s “Working with Fire and Steel.” Check out the full 7-hour playlist right here.

Now that we’ve revealed the results of our latest Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll — one that ranks all 176 songs recorded by Siouxsie and the Banshees — it’s only natural we’d throw together a Spotify playlist of the ranked countdown. Well, minus the 48 songs (mostly missing B-sides) that aren’t on the streaming service.

To coincide with our just-posted Top 100 songs of 1982 readers poll results, we’ve created this accompanying Spotify playlist. As you can see (and hear), the playlist opens with The Jam and closes with Tom Petty, and includes everything on our list except Peter Gabriel’s “Shock the Monkey” and two Thomas Dolby songs.