wibble

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Member Since: 9/18/2007
Total Mixes: 6
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Other Mixes By wibble

20 Reasons why the 80's weren't all that bad really
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  • Submit Date: 8/29/2008
  • Format: MP3 Playlist
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20 Reasons why the 80's weren't all that bad really

Artist Song
A-ha  Take On Me 
Blancmange  Living On The Ceiling 
Gary Numan  Cars 
Fiction Factory  (Feels Like) Heaven 
The Lotus Eaters  The First Picture Of You 
The Dream Academy  Life In A Northern Town 
Teardrp Explodes  Bouncing Babies 
Echo & The Bunnymen  The Cutter 
Julian Cope  An Elegant Chaos 
Furniture  Brilliant Mind 
Carmel  Bad Day 
Robert Wyatt  Shipbuilding 
The Cure  Just Like Heaven 
Soft Cell  Tainted Love 
ABC  The Look Of Love 
Blondie  Call Me 
Joy Division  Love Will Tear Us Apart 
Smiths  There Is a Light That Never Goes Out 
New Order  Blue Monday 
Westworld  Sonic Boom Boy 

Comment:

This is not a definitive list of the 80's, just 20 tracks in a playlist that's on my MP3 player that I like and that seem to fit together, even though, at times, they probably shouldn't. There could have been a 100 other tracks, and maybe there will be over time. Speeling errors are because the site would not let me use certain words, hence Teardrp Explodes.

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KathrynandRupert
Date: 8/29/2008
You're being too kind to the 80's as both Bouncing Babies and Cars were released in 1979. Despite that technical fault it's a strong list of top tunes.
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DJ Abstract
Date: 8/29/2008
Great list. I agree that there could be 100 more tracks. Gary Numan alone deserves about ten and I'd have Soft Cell's "Sex Dwarf" prominently featured :-)
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wibble
Date: 8/29/2008
I did check Cars as I thought it was 79, but the website I found said 1980, checked again and it was a US hit in 80 and UK 79. Bouncing Babies - the version on Wilder, which was 1981 although the original single, a slightly different version was 79. Still, no matter, it was nearly the eighties!
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Rebel Princess
Date: 8/29/2008
Ah, the eighites, what an interesting decade. So many wonderful things (such as this mix), so many horrible, horrble ones. I'm especially fond of track 1 and 18 (did The Smiths do anything wrong, at all?).
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e. buster
Date: 8/30/2008
Nice mix. There are a couple here that I couldn't stomach in the 80's, but mostly these are the songs that I loved then and now. Tainted Love can still make me jump to my feet and dance like I was in a gay bar. :)
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njr
Date: 8/30/2008
True! There is no one decade "better" than another. Lots of overlap, as you note, with the late '70s merging with the early '80s, then the late '80s into the early '90s.
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Mr. Mirage
Date: 8/31/2008
Personally, the 80s were good for me, especially in re: music. Possibly the last great era of the one hit wonders, some being given multiple album contracts.The Dream Academy is a prime example, their 1st and 3rd (last?) discs are among my favorites, but the one track you included is the only one people seem to know. Sad, really, one of David Gilmour's better producing efforts...And in re: the whole date thing... sometimes a decade doesn't really dep3nd on a year. IMHO, for what it is worth, the 80's began in 1979 when Todd Rundgren's group Utopia released Adventures In Utopia... with the exception of Prince, who is, after all, Prince, most of the 80's pop giants sound like they heard AiU many, many times... the rest sound like Prince...Phil Collins tried to copy Prince's poppier confections so often that I think he forgot he was part of one the better/best progrock groups ever...