Martin Byrne

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Member Since: 5/8/2001
Total Mixes: 9
Total Feedback: 1
  • Submit Date: 8/23/2001
  • Format: Mini-Disc
  • Category: Mixed Genre

I Don't Know Why Sometimes I Get Frightened (Yet Another 80's Compilation)

Artist Song
Dexy's Midnight Runners with the Emerald Express  Come On Eileen (1982) 
Paul Hardcastle  19 (1985) 
Yazoo  Don't Go (1982) 
Mental As Anything  Live It Up (1987) 
The Vapors  Turning Japanese (1980) 
Cyndi Lauper  Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1984) 
Robert Palmer  Addicted to Love (1986) 
Kim Wilde  Kids in America (1981) 
Split Enz  I Got You (1980) 
Survivor  Eye of the Tiger (1982) 
Aretha Franklin and George Michael  I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (1987) 
Altered Images  Happy Birthday (1981) 
Dr and the Medics  Spirit in the Sky (1986) 
Pat Benatar  Love Is a Battlefield (1985) 
UB40  Red Red Wine (1983) 
John Waite  Missing You (1984) 
Frankie Goes to Hollywood  Two Tribes (1984) 
The Human League  Don't You Want Me (1981) 
Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder  Ebony and Ivory (1982) 

Comment:

The third in an ongoing series of MDs remembering the 'good old days' of the 80's (you had to be there...) The title is from I Got You by Split Enz. Years given represent when the songs were hits in the UK.

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Rock Vodka
Date: 8/23/2001
I was there and it wasn't good.
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the Hermit
Date: 8/23/2001
Well, I wasn't there and it was great! :)
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Hooha123
Date: 8/23/2001

I Got You is a great song. And Rock Vodka probably didn't like the 80's because he was probably in a drunken stupor 90 percent of the time.
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Rock Vodka
Date: 8/23/2001
I wasn't in a drunken stupor. The years were not so good as you kids think. There were some good sounds and on this tape I can cite maybe 6 songs I will admit enjoying. I was not making a judgement of the music on the tape (even if it isn't my taste, I was talking about life in that awful decade.
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Spockita
Date: 8/23/2001
I can understand what you're saying, Rock Vodka. I assume you're referring to the economic and political situations of the times. If it goes deeper than that, all the way down to personal, I hear you. Oh, and good mix, Martin.
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Hooha123
Date: 8/24/2001

Well, maybe Martin was talking about the good ol days meaning the music of the time. I thought it was a pretty good time to grow up, myself. Every decade had something shitty about it. Also had something great. Maybe it wasn't good for you. Fit me fine.
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paulamoeba
Date: 8/24/2001
it's all about the music -- UB40, Kim Wilde. someone needed to make this mix !
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Martin Byrne
Date: 8/25/2001
Thanks for the comments on my mix, everyone! To clarify what I said about the 'good old days', Hooha has it right: I meant the music mainly, although for me the 80's were better than any other decade I lived through (70's/90's). I realise that it's different for everybody though.

PS - check out my other 80's mixes as well!