I am drooling. Literally. As much as I hold onto a strange fondness for some of the 80s worst cheese, this tape blows out of the water nearly every 80s compilation ever made. Congrats.

This is legitimately praiseworthy, good Fundak. :-)

NICE!! As a fellow "child of the 80's" I share your general dismay over the "re-writing of history" as regards the music of that decade. Nice touch with the Dexy's and Lemonheads songs.

I can't argue with any of your choices Brandt. It seems like every generation romanticizes the decade that came twenty years before. In 2010, everyone will be talking about how great the nineties were. My theory is that society needs that distance in time to appreciate (or scorn) what made that decade unique. Anyway, if you do a volume two (and I'm not saying you should), I would include the Cocteau Twins, Husker Du, the Replacements, X, the English Beat, Echo & the Bunnymen, Aztec Camera and Van Halen. Okay, I'm just kidding about that last one -- everyone knows they reached their peak in the 90s.

Great stuff on their. It annoys me to no end that I didn't hear most of it until the '80s were almost over. Better late than never, I suppose. I'll just spare you the mix of what I was listening to in the '80s!

This is lovely. Yup, a lot of the 80s music was cheese, but the stuff I remember most (& loved the most) was the music that's on this mix. Although I didn't really know much about the indie rock/pop on here, like Unrest, Pastels, & Field Mice until 1990 or so, when I switched from listening to from the "alt rock" radio station to college radio.

if this had lloyd cole's "she's a girl and i'm a man" on it, it would be like my junior year all over again. awesome tape for driving around with the top down, eh?

Great 80s mix. Very true to the decade.