Artist	Song
REM	Radio Free Europe
Squeeze	Tempted
The Jam	Town Called Malice
Garland Jeffreys	96 Tears
The Suburbs	Love Is The Law
The Cure	The Love Cats
Aztec Camera	Oblivious
Let's Active	Every Word Means No
Translator	Everywhere That I'm Not
Stray Cats	Rock This Town
Marshall Crenshaw	Some Day, Some Way
The Smiths	This Charming Man
Icicle Works	Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Fear of Strangers	Volts
Josie Cotton	Johnny, Are You Queer?
The Flirts	Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)
The Pretenders	Back on the Chain Gang
The English Beat	Save It For Later
Madness	Our House
The Plimsouls	A Million Miles Away
the dB's	Love Is for Lovers
Wire Train	Chamber of Hellos
The Bangles	Tell Me

Comment:

Disc 2 in "The Beat," a series of alt. pop mixes covering ca. 1981-84. This particular disc's angle (to the degree it imperfectly has one) is "Indie / Jangle Pop ca. 1982-83." A certain debt is also owed to the Valley Girl soundtrack.

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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