The Cure's Robert Smith described Just Like Heaven as a couple kissing with such passion that they pass out.

Yé ké yé ké is performed in Mandinka, a language spoken by the Mandkina people in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea.

Beds Are Burning addresses the injustice that has plagued the land since European settlers first arrived in the early 17th century.

Birthday reminded me of Björk’s later work as a solo artist, especially Hyperballad, with a sumptuous melody but peculiar lyrics.

Pump Up the Volume from M|A|R|R|S was a milestone of sorts in music history. It became an example of acid house which derived from Chicago.

Pet Shop Boys singer, Neil Tennant, wrote It’s a Sin as a way of exorcising demons from a Catholic school he went to as a child.

New Order's True Faith centres around drug addiction but juxtaposes the benefits with the dangers of narcotics.

Bring the Noise is said to have been written in part as a response to reviews of Public Enemy's debut album.

Push It has been interpreted by some listeners as concerning sex but the reality is actually they are looking at dancing here.

From what I could garner the song concerns Ali Farka Toure trying to woo a woman through the sheer power of his music.

The music kicks in and there's a desire to sing the Camarón of the title, as you would after a good meal and a few glasses of wine, I'm sure.

This Corrosion takes the idea that Sisterhood were essentially churning out mediocre substitutes of The Sisters of Mercy.

Bamboléo is actually reworked from Simon Diaz’s Cabalo vejo which appeared on our list back in 1980 if you can believe.

The Church's Under the Milky Way boasts images of the stars and a time of uncertainty, with the narrator in love and searching for someone.

Attencion Na SIDA was Franco’s epic commentary on a new threat to society that had become increasingly prevalent throughout the 1980s - AIDS.

Kiss made Prince’s record label nervous, convinced it wasn’t hit material, given the musical arrangement and indeed the great man’s vocals.

Hüsker Dü's song, Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely, is a break up song simply bursting with pain and anguish.

Controversial upon release, XTC's Dear God is from the perspective of an agnostic who has begun to lean down the path towards atheism

Love Can’t Turn Around is all about unrequited love i.e. the worst kind. The narrator sings about a girl he loves but it's not reciprocated.

I knew nothing of Public Image Ltd prior to starting this challenge; now I'm intrigued. It's fascinating to see the development of John Lydon.