Artist	Song
men without hats	pop goes the world
nu shooz	should I say yes
lita ford	kiss me deadly
samantha fox	naughty girls need love too
depeche mode	never let me down again
icehouse	crazy
TAMI show	she's only twenty
U2	in god's country
alphaville	forever young
johnny hates jazz	shattered dreams
escape club	wild west
george harrison	I got my mind set on you
for all you dj's, this song follows wild west so very well.
run-d.m.c.	mary, mary
l'trimm	cars that go boom
eria fachin	savin' myself
belinda carlisle	i feel free
eurythmics	you have placed a chill in my heart
information society	what's on your mind (pure energy)
pixies	where is my mind
the cure	just like heaven

Comment:

I have no idea why I made this mix in the early morning hours yesterday. Imperfect nostalgia, I suppose. You stare at the wall for a bit and sometimes things like this happen.

So, these are neither the top songs from 1988 nor are they necessarily the best songs. I didn't want to make a 80's pop mix with the usual pop tunes. I scanned the Billboard charts for songs that didn't make the year's top 100, but that were still apt to be remembered by young people of the era. Most of the songs here fit into that category.

People I knew liked these songs. MTV and Top 40 radio made these tunes part of the 1988 experience. Some were even club hits. I make no apologies for their inclusion, unless someone would feel better if I did make one. Not a huge U2 fan, but U2's most minor hit from their biggest album of the 80's makes the cut because, hey, the Edge could play an interesting guitar sound.

The only song on this mix that was not in Billboard's top 400 for 1988 is the Pixies' "Where is My Mind?" and that was included to show what was taking place in an "alternative universe".

Final thought: 80's pop radio kills 00's pop radio.

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