Artist	Song
Toni Basil	Mickey
Cindy Lauper	Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Culture Club	Church of the Poison Mind
Loverboy	Working for the Weekend
Men at Work	Who Can It Be Now?
JoBoxers	Just Got Lucky
Katrina & The Waves	Walking on Sunshine
Alex Call	Just Another Saturday Night
Quarterflash	Harden My Heart
Rick James	Super Freak
The Innocents	Directly from the Heart
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance
Wall of Voodoo	Mexican Radio
The The	This is the Day
Talk Talk	Talk Talk
Modern English	I Melt with You
Frank Zappa	Valley Girl
Queen & David Bowie	Under Pressure
Kajagoogoo	Too Shy
The Motels	Only the Lonely
Spandau Ballet	True

Comment:

Disc 3 in "The Beat," a series of alt. pop mixes covering ca. 1981-84. This particular disc's angle (to the degree it has one) is "New Wave Goes Mainstream and Vice Versa."

The series was inspired by the 1982 K-Tel album "The Beat" (my expanded take on that comp is disc 1 in the series), and excludes the ridiculous crap bloating the many commercial multi-disc new wave comps. The period 1979-1981 is covered in my series "Rock 80" (inspired by the 1980 K-Tel comp of the same name).

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