Year End Charts

for Tuesday, December 31, 1985

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. O.M.D. · 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 Sculptures
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 and 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
41. Ministry · All Day/Everyday Is Halloween
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
48. Gene Love Jezebel · Immigrant
49. Dead or Alive · Youthquake
50. Scritti Politti · Cupid and 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
60. The Jesus and Mary Chain · Psychocandy
61. Tones on Tail · Pop
62. Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder · Philip Oakey and 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 Metheney · This Is Not America
72. FM · Contest
73. U2 · Wide Awake In America
74. Kirst Maccoll · A New England
75. Red Box · Lean On Me
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. The 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