We call this “unclogging the pipes.” I have probably 20 mixes in various partial states of repair, and it’s high time I start publishing them so that I can make room for the real stuff.
So here are two—maybe, dare I hope, my last two—80s mixes. As always, the first one is the stuff I’m ashamed (and secretly happy) to remember, while the second one is stuff I would have been proud to listen to had I known about it while I was growing up.
Your Scary 80s 7
- Be near Me – ABC (How to Be a Zillionaire)
- Always Something There to Remind Me – Naked Eyes (The Best of Naked Eyes)
- She Blinded Me With Science – Thomas Dolby (The Golden Age of Wireless)
- Your Love – The Outfield (Play Deep)
- Spies Like Us – Paul McCartney (Press to Play)
- Your Wildest Dreams – The Moody Blues (Anthology: the Moody Blues)
- Rain In the Summertime – The Alarm (Eye of the Hurricane (Remastered))
- Africa – Toto (Toto IV)
- No One Is To Blame – Howard Jones (Dream Into Action)
- The Captain of Her Heart – Double (The Captain of Her Heart)
- Life In a Northern Town – The Dream Academy (Rhino Hi-Five: The Dream Academy – EP)
- Tonight, Tonight, Tonight – Genesis (Genesis: The Hits – Turn It On Again)
- Sanctify Yourself – Simple Minds (Once Upon a Time)
- Higher Love (Full) – Steve Winwood (Back in the High Life)
- I Wanna Be a Cowboy – Boys Don’t Cry (Boys Don’t Cry)
- Pump Up the Volume (USA 12) – Colourbox (Best of Colourbox: 1982-1987)
- The Reflex – Duran Duran (Duran Duran: Greatest)
Your Scary 80s 8
- Gardening At Night – R.E.M. (Dead Letter Office)
- Alive and Kicking – Simple Minds (Once Upon a Time)
- You Be Illin’ – Run-DMC (Raising Hell)
- Do You Really Want 2 Hurt Me – Culture Club (Culture Club (Box Set))
- West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys (Please)
- Moments in Love – Art of Noise ((Who’s Afraid Of) The Art Of Noise?)
- Let the Day Begin – Michael Been AKA The Call (The Best of the Call)
- The Perfect Kiss – New Order (Low-Life)
- Fire Woman – The Cult (Sonic Temple)
- One Thing Leads to Another – The Fixx (20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Fixx (Remastered))
- Banned in D.C. – Bad Brains (Bad Brains)
- Rise Above – Black Flag (Damaged)
- Small Man, Big Mouth – Minor Threat (First Two 7″s)
- Kinky Sex Makes the World Go ‘Round – Dead Kennedys (Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death)
- I Want You Back – Hoodoo Gurus (Stoneage Romeo)
- Red – Mission Of Burma (Signals, Calls, And Marches)
- You Are My Friend – The Rain Parade (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip: Explosions In The Glass Palace)
- Jetfighter – Three O’Clock (Sixteen Tambourines/Baroque Hoedown)
- I Love Rock N’ Roll – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (I Love Rock N’ Roll)
- Beat Box – Art of Noise (Into Battle with the Art of Noise)