List Monday - Best of the '80's

Ahhh....musical nirvana.  Where to start?  Too...many...good...songs...to choose from.  Well, if I had to pick my top 10 of my favorite decade:

1. Icicle Works - Whisper to a Scream
2. U2 - I will follow
3. OMD - Forever Live and Die
4. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
5. Housemartins - Happy Hour
6. Furniture - Brilliant Mind
7. Prince - Purple Rain
8. Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
9. Erasure - Oh L'amour
10. ABC - Look of Love
11. Lightning Seeds - Pure

honorable mentions:  depeche mode, devo, human league, yaz, inxs, cure, thompson twins