1985 in rock music
Singles
The Boy With the Thorn in His Side The Smiths
Just Like Honey The Jesus and Mary Chain
Life's What You Make It Talk Talk
Love Like Blood (song) Killing Joke
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore The Smiths
A Pair of Brown Eyes The Pogues
The Headmaster Ritual The Smiths
The Whole of the Moon The Waterboys
Never Understand The Jesus and Mary Chain
Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Unforgettable Fire (song) U2
Appetite Prefab Sprout
Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears
Brothers in Arms (song) Dire Straits
Head over Heels (Tears for Fears song) Tears for Fears
Makes No Sense at All Hüsker Dü
Primitive Painters Felt
When Love Breaks Down Prefab Sprout
Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds
Bring on the Dancing Horses Echo & the Bunnymen
Barbarism Begins at Home The Smiths
Pop Life Prince and The Revolution
Cruiser's Creek The Fall
Shout (Tears for Fears song) Tears for Fears
Tupelo Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Johnny and Dee Dee The Eastern Dark
Don't Stop the Dance Bryan Ferry
Desire Yello
A Day Clan of Xymox
Marlene on the Wall Suzanne Vega
Faron Young Prefab Sprout
Lost Weekend Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Shakespeare's Sister The Smiths
When You Were Mine Cyndi Lauper
Out in the Fields Gary Moore and Phil Lynott
You Trip Me Up The Jesus and Mary Chain
Fortress Around Your Heart Sting
Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La) Ramones
Foggy Notion (edit)/I Can't Stand It The Velvet Underground
Going Down to Liverpool The Bangles