All My Favorite Songs 037 by Robert Smith - Top 30 Favorite Songs From The 80s

Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the rock band the Cure, which he co-founded in 1978. He was also the lead guitarist for the band Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984, and was part of the short-lived group the Glove in 1983.

Smith is known for his guitar-playing style, distinctive voice, and fashion sense, with the latter—a pale complexion, smeared red lipstick, black eye-liner, a dishevelled nest of wiry black hair, and all-black clothes—being highly influential on the goth subculture that rose to prominence in the 1980s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cure in 2019.

In this episode Smith's top 30 favorite songs of the 1980s (in alphabetical order) as selected by himself for a special two-hour show he hosted on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave channel on May 24, 2009.

Lineup:
ABC, The Associates, Fun Boy Three, Bananarama, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, Cristina, DAF, Depeche Mode, Dinosaur Jr., Echo & the Bunnymen, Peter Gabriel, The Human League, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Chaka Khan, Madness, Mel & Kim, my bloody valentine, New Order, Yoko Ono, Danny Tenaglia, Pixies, Pretenders, Prince, The Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, The Sugarcubes, Suzanne Vega, Tom Waits