Artist	Song	Buy
Art of Noise	Closing
Yes	Cinema
Police	Regatta De Blanc
Rush	YYZ
Colourbox	Fast Dump
KMFDM	Oh Look
Revolting Cocks	Big Sexy Land
Renaldo & the Loaf	Bali Whine
Chris & Cosey	Impulse
David Van Tieghem	The Skyway
Human League	Toyota City
Patrick Cowley	Primitive World
Art of Noise	Slip of the Tongue
Peter Gabriel	Birdy's Flight
Stewart Copeland	Archie David in Overtime
Yello	Take It All
Yello	The Evening's Young
Yello	She's Got a Gun
Midnight Oil	Outside World
Propaganda	Frozen Faces
Keith Forsey	Breakfast Club Love Theme
Simple Minds	Somebody Up There Likes You

Comment:

This is my tribute to the instrumental music of the 1980s -- the kind of stuff that came out in the wake of all the new, synthetic production techniques being used by new wave bands. This is the kind of music that most excited me when I was in high school. As much as I appreciated bands who wrote straightforward songs, I was more impressed with creative arrangements, strange timbres, atypical percussion, and layered noise. There's a little bit of all of those things represented on these 4 volumes, which include some of my favorite oddities from the era -- with a special emphasis on The Art of Noise, who pioneered the cause of creative instrumental pop music, and proved that just because something is "industrial" doesn't mean it can't also be fun to listen to.

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