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Best of '85

1	New Order--Low-Life
2	The Cure--The Head On The Door
3	Kate Bush--Hounds Of Love
4	Tears For Fears--Songs From The Big Chair
5	Propaganda--A Secret Wish
6	Simple Minds--Once Upon A Time
7	The Smiths--Meat Is Murder
8	Prefab Sprout--Two Wheels Good
9	Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD)--Crush
10	The Waterboys--This Is The Sea
11	Bryan Ferry--Boys And Girls
12	Love And Rockets--Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven
13	The Cult--Love
14	China Crisis--Flaunt The Imperfection
15	The Dream Academy--The Dream Academy
16	Talking Heads--Little Creatures
17	Shriekback--Oil And Gold
18	Howard Jones--Dream Into Action
19	Jane Siberry--The Speckless Sky
20	The Style Council--Internationalists
21	R.E.M.--Fables Of The Reconstruction
22	The Stranglers--Aural Sculpture
23	Echo and the Bunnymen--Songs To Learn And Sing
24	Depeche Mode--Catching Up With Depeche Mode
25	The Colourfield--Virgins and Philistines
26	Images In Vogue--In The House
27	Sting--The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
28	Lloyd Cole & The Commotions--Rattlesnakes
29	Midge Ure--The Gift
30	Big Audio Dynamite--This Is Big Audio Dynamite
31	Level 42--World Machine
32	Paul Young--The Secret Of Association
33	Artists United Against Apartheid--Sun City
34	Rational Youth--Heredity
35	Dire Straits--Brothers In Arms
36	Strange Advance--2wo
37	Yello--Stella
38	A-ha--Hunting High And Low
39	Cocteau Twins--Treasure / Aikea Guinea
40	The Box	--All The Time, All The Time, All The Time…
41	Ministry--All Day / Everyday (Is Hallowe'en)
42	Skinny Puppy--	Bites
43	Thomas Leer--Scale Of Ten
44	Kid Creole And The Coconuts--In Praise Of Older Women And Other Crimes
45	Killing Joke--Night Time
46	The Alarm--Strength
47	Pet Shop Boys--Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)
48	Gene Loves Jezebel--Immigrant
49	Dead Or Alive--Youthquake
50	Scritti Politti--Cupid & Psyche '85
51	The Sisters Of Mercy--First And Last And Always
52	Everything But The Girl--Love Not Money
53	Darkroom--A Test Of Time
54	INXS--Listen Like Thieves
55	Simple Minds--Don't You (Forget About Me)
56	Alison Moyet--Alf
57	Moral Support--Insanity
58	The Boomtown Rats--In The Long Grass
59	Pete Townshend--White City - A Novel
60	The Jesus And Mary Chain--Psychocandy
61	Tones On Tail--The Album Pop
62	Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder--Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
63	Xymox--Clan Of Xymox
64	Husker Du--Flip Your Wig
65	Gowan--Strange Animal
66	Siouxsie and the Banshees--Cities in Dust
67	UB40--Little Baggariddim
68	Colourbox--The Moon Is Blue
69	The Art Of Noise--Legs
70	Kissing The Pink--What Noise?
71	David Bowie/Pat Metheny Group--This Is Not America
72	FM--Con-test
73	U2--Wide Awake In America
74	Kirsty MacColl--A New England
75	Red Box--Lean On Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)
76	Nik Kershaw--Don Quixote
77	The Danse Society--Say It Again
78	The Damned--Phantasmagoria
79	Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy --The Ups and Downs
80	Associates--Perhaps
81	Scary Thieves--Tell Me Girl
82	Saga--Behaviour
83	The Fountainhead--Rhythm Method
84	John Foxx--In Mysterious Ways
85	Guadalcanal Diary--Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man

NOTE: CFNY always had a devil-may-care attitude towards charts, freely
listing albums and singles together. Accordingly, the original chart listed
the year's best MUSIC from 1-85, regardless of whether that music was issued 
in the LP, 7" or 12" format. 

Contributed by: K.A. Scott (Sunday, 2014-08-03)