80's Music
- R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) [1987]
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Maybe not "fine" but at least drunk :)
- Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
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What are words worth? Hopsasa that typewriter baby.
- Ellis, Beggs & Howard - Big Bubbles, No Troubles
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Minor hit, I liked it for the unique basslines and groove.
- Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
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First single I bought.
- Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
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Absolute dominant force in anything she does, Grace Jones.
- Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
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The late Bernie Worrell in this registration, he being one of the foundations of Funkadelic and Parliament, with George Clinton.
- George Clinton - Do Fries Go With That Shake
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P Funk master. The Parliaments, Funkadelic, Parliament, Clinton oozing the funk. Hit ut on the one.
- Herbie Hancock - Rockit
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Grandmaster Caz is on this (among other DJ's) on the wheels of steel.
- Pat Metheny Group featuring Bowie - This Is Not America (1985)
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I never got into the Falcon and the Snowman, but this track imo is awesome. Also as a musician, this track always starts a note lower than I recall it.
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust
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From their album Tinderbox, the most awesome album ever made (in my humble opinion).
- Joe Jackson - Cha Cha Loco
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Something different on the menu today...from his album, Body and Soul, released 1984.
- Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
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Massive hit here in the Lowlands in '85
- Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
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From their debut album Surfer Rosa back in 1988.
- The Stranglers - Golden Brown
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Released in '81, from their sixth studio album La Folie
- The Stone Roses, Fools Gold Live at Heaton Park.
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Track was originally released in 1989. It references "The treasure of the Sierra Madre", a movie with Humphrey Bogart that also inspired the DLC Dead Money in Fallout New Vegas. Anyhow this live registration imo is awesome, from the "Madre of Stone" DVD. I hope you enjoy.
- Suzanne Vega - Freeze Tag
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Cycling to school, this on my walkman.
- The Alan Parsons Project - Games People Play
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This song from the Turn of a Friendly Card Album, I was in boarding school when I heard it for the first time, in that time when you had "mental problems" your ass was kicked out of the house to boarding school.
My son has autism as well and did not encounter these misunderstandings from us. He likes to be at home.
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Candyman
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John Valentine Carruthers is a.guitar hero of mine. Just listen to his riffs on this one. Awesome.
- The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
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From their debut album released in May a1989.
- The Cure - A Forest
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Robert Smith, former member of Siouxie and the Banshees
- Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
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From his 1982 album Night and Day, a song inspired by New York City night life.
- [No hobo] the verse in Whitesnake's #1 hit "Here I Go Again" was originally sung as "like a hobo I was born to walk alone" in the '82 version. The band changed it to "drifter" in the 1987 re-recording
>The 1982 video features the band performing the song onstage, with drummer Cozy Powell sitting in for Ian Paice, who originally played on the track. This version is more bluesy, raw and understated than the later versions and includes the line “like a hobo I was born to walk alone," which was later replaced by “like a drifter …” because Coverdale was worried that the word “hobo” could be misheard as “homo."
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- L'Trimm - Cars That Go Boom! (Official Music Video)
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- The Damned - Life Goes On
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There was this minor fued back in the day between Nirvana and Killing Joke about Nirvana nicking the guitar riff from 'Love like Blood' (1985) on the track ‘Come as You Are'. Well listen to the guitar riff on this one…(1982)
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"This video is a celebration of the north of England's most famous punk rock outfit. We're Mad captures the band at their best. Not so much a set of songs as a series of short stories. Packed full of witty lyrics and mad machine-gun guitar licks"
- Breakfast Club - Right On Track
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RIP Shelly Duvall. Her husband Dan Gilroy singing on this track.
Top 40 hit in the Netherlands.
- Kate Bush - Blow Away (For Bill)
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From the album "Never for Ever". The song is dedicated to her lighting engineer, the late Bill Duffield. Sometimes this one brings me to tears, it is wonderful. The youtube video not so much btw
- Siouxie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
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From the album Tinderbox, imo the whole album is great. Songs like Candyman, Party's Fall, Sweetest Chill, Carruthers being a guitar player I admire who did not do much after 2 albums with the Banshees. Did a killer riff on Candyman.
- Fox the Fox - Precious Little Diamond
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Dutch funk band Fox the Fox made an international hit with this track, you might recognize this as the Weekend sampled it for his track Wanderlust from his debut album.