Songs · Skopia

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6 songs

Personal Jesus

1989 · From Violator

Priscilla Presley's memoir gave Gore the idea, Flood cut it in Milan, and Cash later called it evangelical.

★ 7.6

1984

The band rejected Eddie's Oberheim riff for two years, until Templeman turned it into their only American number one.

★ 7.5

1980

Justman, the band's keyboardist, wrote it, and his synth hook took a Worcester blues band to six weeks at number one.

★ 5.0

1981

Dean found an empty beach midweek and wondered where everyone was; Reno turned waiting for the weekend into working.

★ 4.9

Mr. RobotoStyx

1983

DeYoung wrote it for a rock opera about outlawed music; Stan Winston designed the suit, the vocoder did the rest.

★ 4.1

1985

Reversed cymbal into synth bass, John Lang's lyric drawn from Kahlil Gibran, and Page's voice soaring over it.

★ 3.6