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Musical Memories of 1983
| Artist | Song | |
| The Fixx |
One Thing Leads to Another (#4) 
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| After the Fire | Der Kommissar (#5) | |
| Naked Eyes | Promises, Promises (#11) | |
| REM | Talk About the Passion | |
| The Police | King of Pain (#3) | |
| Joe Jackson | Breaking Us inTwo (#18) | |
| Elvis Costello | Everyday I Write the Book (#36) | |
| David Bowie | Criminal World | |
| Don Henley | Dirty Laundry (#3) | |
| Talking Heads | Swamp | |
| Prince | Delirious (#8) | |
| Todd Rundgren | Bang The Drum All Day (#63) | |
| Billy Joel | Uptown Girl (#3) | |
| REM | Radio Free Europe (#78) | |
| Naked Eyes | Always Something There to Remind Me (#8) | |
| Prince | Little Red Corvette (#6) | |
| Hall & Oates | One On One (#7) | |
| Kajagoogoo | Too Shy (#5) | |
| Talking Heads | This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (#62) | |
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Songs were a bit longer than say in the early '60s, when you could fit over thirty songs on a CD. This CD is 79m30s long with an average song length of 4m11s.Hit movies this year were Return of the Jedi, Trading Places, War Games, and Superman III. Also noteworthy were the movies Terms of Endearment and The Big Chill. Cabbage Patch Kids were a big toy craze. President Reagan proposed his Star Wars, space based missle nuclear defense system. This is also the year the Soviets shot down a Korean civilian airliner, killing everyone on board, MASH had it's final episode on TV and Dallas, Dynasty and the A-Team were hits in that venue. Songs that didn't make the cut this time around included Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart, Cyndie Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Dexy's Midnight Runners Come on Eileen, Donna Summer's She Works Hard for the Money, Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue, the Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Madness' Our House, Michael Sembello's Maniac, Phillip Glass' Cloudscape or Koyaanisqatsi, The Tubes She's a Beauty, Yes' Owner of a Lonely Heart, David Bowie's Modern Love, The Police's Synchronicity II, Rickie Lee Jones' Rainbow Sleeves, and ZZ Tops Sharp Dressed Man or Gimmie All Your Lovin'. This mix was put together while I was suffering from a pretty bad cold; think the mix came out pretty good all things considered (also since it wasn't the best year for music either).Feedback:
Here's a Quiz for you Joe. Which two tracks featured here hit No1 in the UK. I was 7 in 1983 and beginning to really get into music and Charts etc.. Some fine tracks here, the Prince, Bowie and the two from REM and Talking Heads in particular...
Mixed bag hear for me R.J., almost a love hate thing. Loving Talk About the Passion, King of Pain, Breaking Us in Two, Everyday I Write the Book, Bang The Drum All Day, Uptown Girl, Radio Free Europe, Little Red Corvette and still trying to forget the rest. I hope you feel better soon.
Have to agree with hemizen: some of this would go into my Hall of Fame, others could just go away. Forever. Some of your outtakes would have worked better for me...
You pulled another Record Store Challenge on us, Joe - always a serious pleasure. Your older mixes are more intriguing for being less familiar and hence so novel, but I can relate better to something like this. There is some fantastic music on here, although like everyone else and I suppose just generally symptomatic of all '80s music, there are also a few painful inclusions (I'm sure, had I attempted this, there'd have been far more, so your rate of success is about as good as it gets). For one thing I wouldn't wish Hall & Oates on anyone. But there's plenty of ace material to balance it out...was "Superman III" really a hit? Wow. Seriously, wtf? And lastly, of the ones you omitted, at least the first TEN should have had a guaranteed spot on your mix - how did you decide to reject classics like "Come on Eileen", "Sweet Dreams" and the like? Guess it's all a matter of taste. No room for a sequel, though? ;)
Hi All, thanks for your comments... First, Mike, since you had the longest comment, Come on Eileen is good in funny kind of way, so I think that I am subconsciously saving that for a Guilty Pleasures II mix. I felt I had to include the Hall & Oates song as probably one of their best efforts and they were still an accepted group at the time. Sweet Dreams I'm afraid was played a bit too much and I tend to shy away from such songs (unless maybe they are by the Stones) and I'm not a big Eurythmics fan either.Another reason for some of the questionable deletions from the mix was that they just didn't mix right with the rest of the songs I decided to include. I would have liked to include at least one Phillip Glass song, but it just didn't fit. Perhaps if I had omitted a couple of songs like that Hall & Oates one I made have made room for such at the end. The Ricky Lee song is good, but it always makes me want to cry and that wasn't the intent of this mix.Thanks Sammyg123 for your first and most upbeat comments. And the tracks you were referring to were 13 & 18 and I admit I didn't know that without looking it up, but it didn't surprise me either. Ok, this should top Mike in comment length.Look forward to better mixes in this venue, which today happens to be my 3rd year anniversary here!
One last comment I wish to make. It is thought by many, I think hemizen included, that the '60s were aces musically. It would be generally regarded as better than the '70s but the '60s and '70s were better than the '50s or '80s. I recently made a mix of songs from '57 and I think it was much less challenging and more rewarding than my mix of '83 tunes (however the later was a challenge I might not have been up to since I was not feeling well at the time). All things considered though, I feel that the last 4 years of the '50s was much better than the first 4 years of the '80s. But then maybe I'm just biased, since I believe that music reached it's peak from 1957-1975.
Cool. One of the reasons I know these songs so well is that they all got heavy rotation during the early days of MTV, when the station only had a limited amount of videos to play. Now they have hundreds of thousands of videos at their disposal, but they never play them! Oh well. Nice job. Thanks for making me feel nostalgic.
Moe - What is "MTV"? Anything like youtube?
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Joe - Happy 3rd anniversary!
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Joe - Happy 3rd anniversary!
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I like the first ten or so here, I do agree with Mike on the two gems. I think 15 is the best version of that song. 9 and 11 are my least favorite hits by those artists. Electric Avanue would have been nice. Actually all those that you said didn't make might have been the best ones of all...
The 80's in general were a lost decade musically for me but you hit me about 50% here, 4-8, 10-14, 16 and 19 all hit the spot.
most of these singles are in my collection of 45s from the '80s, but I don't think I've heard that Todd Rundgren song before. it's great. I like the early '80s tunes since I first became addicted to pop radio in 1981 when I was 12. but some of the music is pretty silly. that said, I think R&B from 1979 to 1983 is some of the best stuff there is.