EDT Friday, May 1, and results will be posted at some point thereafter - after which we’ll launch the 1988 poll and take it from there. Any ballots submitted with more than two songs by the same artist will be disqualified.ĭEADLINE: Voting will be open through 5 p.m. To prevent one-note fans from, say, simply listing every track off Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, you may only vote for a maximum of two songs by the same artist when filling out your Top 25. For the song polls, vote for whatever you want. Not the case anymore - although that’s still likely how the results will skew. With the album polls, acknowledging the theme of this website, we limited voting to artists that fall under the very loose and ill-defined “alternative” banner, generally acts from the punk, post-punk, goth, college rock, indie, synthpop, industrial, New Wave and related genres.Just as we allowed R.E.M.’s twice-released debut single to be voted on in two different years, we’ll let people vote twice for songs that are re-released in re-recorded versions - such as a-ha’s “Take On Me” and Pet Shop Boys’ “West End Girls,” which made the 19 lists. Splitting hairs? Sure, but we have to draw the line somewhere. That makes it eligible for the 1987 poll only. For example, The Church’s “Under the Milky Way” was released as a single in Australia and New Zealand in 1987, but nowhere else until 1988, after which it became a hit. To be eligible, songs must have been released in some format - whether it be on an album, EP or a single - somewhere in the world for the first time during the year 1987.It’s all fill-in-the-blanks, not multiple choice. You may vote for any songs you’d like - singles, B-sides, album cuts, etc. So for the song polls, it’s a (mostly) free-for-all. We inevitably missed titles, and some argued this skewed the results. VOTING: For the album polls (and our subsequent artist discography polls), we presented a list, sometimes hundreds of titles long, to choose from, plus the ability to offer write-ins.

But in 2018 we resurrected the series, and relaunched it with polls over the last two years that ranked the best songs of 1982, 1983, 1984, 19. The Best of the ’80s Redux polls launched in 2015 and covered 19 before fizzling out (the whole site went on hiatus for almost two years). We’re nearing the home stretch of our Best of the ’80s Redux series of year-by-year song polls as we move on to the year 1987, giving Slicing Up Eyeballs readers the chance to vote for their 25 favorites as we rank the 100 best songs released that year.

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