Artist	Song
Tears for Fears	Change
Violent Femmes	Gone Daddy Gone
Bauhaus	Ziggy Stardust
Gang of Four	I Love a Man in Uniform
The Police	Spirits in the Material World
Horizontal Brian	Everybody Wants to Be American
INXS	The One Thing
The Church	For a Moment We're Strangers
Burning Sensation	Belly of the Whale
Todd Rundgren	Bang the Drum All Day
Musical Youth	Pass the Dutchie
Eddy Grant	Electric Avenue
The Specials	Ghost Town
The Replacements	Buck Hill
The Cramps	Goo Goo Muck
The Alarm	The Stand
U2	Sunday Bloody Sunday
Roman Holliday	Don't Try to Stop It
Elvis Costello	Every Day I Write the Book
Joe Jackson	Steppin' Out
Novo Combo	Up Periscope
Roxy Music	More Than This

Comment:

Disc 5 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 "Aussie/Brit Pop, Roots Rock, Reggae."

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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