Artist	Song
A Flock Of Seagulls	I Ran
Duran Duran	Hungry Like A Wolf
Human League	Don't You Want Me
Buggles	Video Killed The Radio Star
Cyndi Lauper	Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Frankie Goes To Hollywood	Relax
Crowded House	Don't Dream It's Over
Soft Cell	Tainted Love
Loverboy	Working For The Weekend
Katrina & The Waves	Walking On Sunshine
Wang Chung	Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Tommy Tutone	867-5309 (Jenny)
Devo	Whip It
Simple Minds	Don't You (Forget About Me)
Dexy's Midnight Runners	Come On Eileen
A-Ha	Take On Me
Tears For Fears	Shout
Tracy Ullman	They Don't Know
Nena	99 Luftballons
Madness	Our House
George Michael	Faith

Comment:

This mix is all about 80's mainstream (one hit wonders and guilty pleasures in particular). Alternative college rock may come on a later mix. Random notes: pretty much every single from the 80's repeats the chorus to infinity and fades. "Come On Eileen" and "Our House" are closely related cousins in their key changing extravagance and Broadway-esque jauntiness. "They Don't Know" is not only one of the two best singles released in the 80's (the other, "Ask" by the Smiths, also includes Kirsty MacColl on background vocals - coincidence?), but is one of the greatest love songs ever written. The phrase "everybody's working for the weekend" is inexplicably translated by my mind as "everybody's jerking off the milkman." Katrina & The Waves is as tasteless a post-hurricane band name as "It's Raining Men" was post-World Trade Center. I still have no clue how to Wang Chung; I think it's just a synonym for having fun seeing as how they both rhyme. Trends in pop culture come in 20 year shifts; in the middle of the Naughties, the Eighties are tres chic. Based on previous evidence of this theory, I predicted the rise of Eighties revivalism at the end of the Nineties, so the trend continues unabated. What does this mean? All aspiring young musicians need to form grunge bands now to predict the coming of the next Nirvana at the start of the Tens.

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