FACE - Best of 1984

A FACE MAGAZINE, bíblia da cultura pop nos anos 80, entretanto desaparecida em 2004, publicava em 1984 uma lista com os 60 melhores singles, 20 melhores LPs e 10 melhores temas de dança. Isto, claro está, na opinião da equipa da desaparecida publicação.

Aqui ficam as escolhas:

"BEST SINGLES OF '84"

1 - Free Nelson Mandela - Special AKA

2 - When Doves Cry - Prince & The Revolution

3 - I Feel For You - CHaka Khan

4 - No Sell Out - Malcom X

5 - Cockney Translation - Smiley Culture

6 - Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan

7 - Venceremos - Working Week

8 - Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba) - Julie & Company

9 - Wood Beez - Scritti Politti

10 - What Difference Does It Make - The Smiths

11 - Somebody Elses's Guy - Jocelyn Brown

12 - Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat

13 - Don't Look Any Further - Dennis Edwards

14 - Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

15 - Dr. Mabuse - Propaganda

16 - Automatic - Pointer Sisters

17 - What Presence - Orange Juice

18 - We Need Money - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers

19 - Wanna Be Loved - Elvis Costello

20 - Caught You In a Lie - Louisa Marks

21 - Change Your Heart - Change

22 - You're The Best Thing - Style Council

23 - Glamours Life -Sheila E.

24 - Stay With Me Tonight - Jeffrey Osbourne

25 - Renegades of Funk - Afrika Bambaataa

26 - Toda Menina Bahaiana - Gilberto Gil

27 - Love Ressurection - Alison Moyet

28 - Love Wars - Womack & Womack

29 - Rockbox - Run D.M.C.

30 - Medecine Song - Stepahanie Mills

31 - Don't Go Loose It Baby - Hugh Masakela

32 - The Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto

33 - Why? - Bronski Beat

34 - Small Town Credd - Kane Gang

35 - Ave Maria - West India Company

36 - Room 123 (She's Strange) - Cameo

37 - Long Enough - Last Poets

38 - It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls

39 - Lip Service - Beatmaster

40 - (Return of the Valley) Out Come The Freaks - Was Not Was

41 - Hello - Lionel Richie

42 - Diorella Du Fontaine - Lightnin' Rod

43 - Re-Ron - Gil Scott-Heron

44 - Give Me Tonight - Shannon

45 - You Think You're a Man - Divine

46 - Hand In Glove - The Smiths

47 - Let's Stay Together - Tina Turner

48 - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable- The Smiths

49 - Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions

50 - Let It Blow - Dazz Band

51 - Smooth Operator - Sade

52 - Your Love Is King - Sade

53 - Menergy - Sylvester

54 - The Reflex - Duran Duran

55 - Master and Servant - Depeche Mode

56 - The Day Before You Came - Blancmange

57 - Me God, Me King - Papa Levi

58 - Slippery People - Staple Singers

59 - Strike - Enemy Within

60 - Praxis - Bill Laswell

"Best LP's of '84"

1 - Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution

2 - Diamond Life - Sade

3 - Love Wars - Womack & Womack

4 - In The Studio - Special AKA

5 - Hallowed Ground - Violent Femmes

6 - Eden - Everything But The Girl

7 - Swordfishtrombone - Tom Waits

8 - The Smiths - The Smiths

9 - Cafe Blue - Style Council

10 - Last Poets - Last Poests

11 - Soca Train - V/A

12 - Hole - Scraping Foetus Off The Wall

13 - Age of Consent - Bronski Beat

14 - Decoy - Miles Davis

15 - Shango Funk Theology - Shango

16 - Raindance - David Lasley

17 - Monkey time - Major Lance

18 - Wild Bunch - The Wild Bunch

19 - Like A Virgin - Madonna

20 - Sleep It Off - Cristina

"Best Dancefloor Tracks '84"

1 - Where's The Beef - The Chiefs

2 - Nelson Mandela - Special AKA

3 - No Sell Out - Malcom X

4 - Lesson Two (James Brown Mix) - Double Dee & Steinski

5 - We Need Some Money - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers

6 - I Feel For You - Chaka Khan

7 - Dr. Beat - Miami Sound Machine

8 - Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown

9 - Strike - The Enemy Within

10 - What People Do For Money - Divine Sounds