Artist	Song
Joy Division	Love Will Tear Us Apart
David Bowie	Ashes to Ashes
The Cure	In Between Days
Echo & The Bunnymen	The Killing Moon
The Style Council	Shout to the Top
ABC	Valentine's Day
Prefab Sprout	When Love Breaks Down
Prince	Pop Life
New Order	True Faith
Pet Shop Boys	West End Girls
Robert Wyatt	Shipbuilding
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Pills And Soap
Morrissey	Everyday Is Like Sunday
Steely Dan	Hey Ninteen
The Pretenders	Brass In Pocket
Iggy Pop	Candy
Roxy Music	More Than This
The Smiths	There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Jesus and Mary Chain	Just Like Honey

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This one is actually the starting point of my 15plus-CD-"Decades"-project , trying to make a mix that combines some sort of pop-musical overview of a decade, include some of my favorite songs from that period and still come up with something that doesn't sound too much like a sterile history lesson but like a good mixtape (well, CD in fact) instead. I did a slightly different version of this mix some time ago after finally confronting that decade that had music-wise been slightly ruined for me by listening to Phil Collins, Queen's 80s output and Brian Adams as a 10-year-old back in '88 as well as several 'revival'-parties in the late 90s. Starting from The Smiths, Bowie, Prince and The Cure, which for me used to stand out as lonely islands in that decade, I started to connect the dots.

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