** = funk/soul/hiphop/jazz/reggae/world/ska/or combinations
*** = ambient
no stars = something else

My top 12 of favorite songs of the year 1984 (out of 22 listed here):

1. Special A.K.A. – (What I like most about you is your) girlfriend **
2. Mink Deville – Demasiado corazon **
3. Luc Van Acker & Anna Domino – Zanna
4. Matt Bianco – Half a minute
5. Matt Bianco – More than I can bear
6. Thomas Dolby – I scare myself
7. The Everly Brothers – On the wings of a nightingale
8. Scritti Politti – Absolute
9. Paolo Conte – Gli impermeabili (Note: 3 years later a Dutch hit)
10. Shannon – Let the music play
11. Tullio De Piscope – Stop bajon
12. King – Love & pride

My other favorites, the ‘subtop’ part (above is the potential ‘all time top 500′ stuff):

• The Art Of Noise – Beat box
• Astaire – The power of love
• Chaka Khan – I feel for you
• Dead Or Alive – You spin me round (like a record)
• Evelyn Thomas – High energy
• Kleer – Intimate connection **
• Matt Bianco – Get out of your lazy bed
• Nick Lowe – Half a boy and half a man
• Steve Roach – Structures from silence ***
• Tony Esposito – Kalimba de luna