A few years back, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature. This came as a surprise to many seeing how the award appears based on his song lyrics that “created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” I, for one, gave pause and rubbed my chin. I have no issue with Dylan getting the award as some of my other author friends. His lyrics are poetical and speak to the human condition in pointed folkish terms. Raw emotion flows through them and exemplar

Below is a solid list from Robert Smith #TheCure of the songs that he most admires from the 1980s (excluding his own, of course). “Persephone” by #CocteauTwins is the most literary of the bunch. These unrelenting driving forces of the New Wave genre are not to be missed. ABC, “Look of Love” The Associates, “Tell Me It’s Easter on Friday” David Bowie, “Let’s Dance” Kate Bush, “Cloudbursting” Cocteau Twins, “Persephone” Christina, “Things Fall Apart” D.A.F., “Sex Unter Wasser”