Other Mixes By tjarrett
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Alternative - College Rock
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Mixed Genre
Playlist
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Alternative - College Rock
Playlist
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Mixed Genre
MP3 Playlist
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Mixed Genre
your scary 80s 5
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| The Clash | Should I Stay Or Should I Go? | |
| Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers |
I Won't Back Down 
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| Duran Duran |
A View To A Kill
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| Expose | Point of No Return | |
| Nu Shooz |
I Can't Wait
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| Phil Collins |
Sussudio
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| Madonna |
Express Yourself
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| INXS |
What You Need
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| Bruce Hornsby |
The Valley Road
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| Go Gos | Vacation | |
| Simple Minds |
Don't You (Forget About Me)
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| The Bangles |
Hazy Shade of Winter
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| Terence Trent D'arby |
Wishing Well
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| Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | What I Am | |
| Genesis |
In Too Deep
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| Simply Red |
Holding Back the Years
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| Sting | Message In A Bottle (Acoustic) | |
| The Church |
Under The Milky Way
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| The Blue Nile |
Let's Go Out Tonight
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Comment:
The fifth volume in a growing list of the music that I'm either ashamed that I remember or ashamed that I don't. Like all odd-numbered albums in this series, this mix is mostly the former, except the first and last tracks. In point of fact, I can tell you where I was the first time I heard every one of these songs during the 80s...The Sting cut is from the Amnesty International benefit program, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, shamefully unavailable except on old VHS and vinyl. If you have to ask about any of the other songs, you must be the same age as the cute girl who told me once as she cut my hair, "Depeche Mode? No, I don't remember them... I wasn't alive then."
Feedback:
I was 10 in 1980, so I grew up w/ all of this. track 11 was on the car radio when I skipped school w/ friends. we went to the mall. good stuff, tjarrett.
Nice. I agree completely re: the failure to release the Amnesty International benefits on CD, if for nothing else for the sublime Joan Armatrading doing "I Love It When You Call Me Names" which is SO much the superior as a solo acoustic over the studio (IMHO, of course...) Of course, "2-4-6-8 Motorway" would be nice, or the acoustic "Won't Get Fooled Again."
You're ashamed to love INXS? Oh, how that hurts my heart. Well... perhaps I can forgive you since I was about 1 yr old at the time they came out with What You Need. Lol. To anyone alive and of an age to listen to thaem at the time they were making that music COULD be a tad embarrassing. lol! :)
Ashamed to remember the Clash? Oh me oh my. And ProphecyGirl, there was absolutely nothing embarrassing about listening to INXS! No really, no really.
Ok, the Clash weren't a band generally that I was ashamed to remember. If I'm ashamed about anything there, it is that until sometime in the mid 90s the only song I knew from them was "Should I Stay or Should I Go"--thanks to the fact that I got a ride home from school once with a cute girl who was blaring it from her car's cassette player.
A View to A Kill is one of the best songs to ever grace humanity.
Holding Back the Years is also amazing. And I looove Su-su-sudio, oh oh. Point of Not Return ain't half bad. But I HATE "Under the Milky Way", sorry.
Thanks for making me wish I had a pensieve to get these songs out of my head. Again. Although you want to talk shame...I *own* the Terence Trent D'Arby album that "Wishing Well" comes from.