Artist	Song
a certain ratio	all night party
television	the dream's dream
la dusseldorf	ich liebe dich
new order	leave me alone
simple minds	naked eye
david bowie	breaking glass
malaria	your turn to run
bauhaus	paranoia, paranoia
the the	icing up
gary numan	down in the park
siouxsie + the banshees	lunar camel
iggy pop	nightclubbing
kraftwerk	kristallo
david bowie	ashes to ashes
joy division	love will tear us apart
lou reed	berlin
psychedelic furs	sister europe

Comment:

mix made as a synth-tinged new wavy/post-punk soundtrack to this old zine i've been reading called "nonstop malfunction: europe 81". this particular slice of the rambling story opens with our narrator coming down from another night of substance abuse, smoking cigarettes and staring out the kitchen window while indecipherable german tv babbles on, getting in a fight with his girlfriend about his downward spiral, leaving her to hook up with some seedy acquaintances in berlin, copping in the park and getting high before clubhopping. by the end of the night, he's feeling completely alienated and stranded on the wrong continent. not the most uplifting story ever told, to be sure, but it was still fun to try to capture the right vibe (angsty disaffection) with bands i had some serious mis/pre-conceptions about. anyway, the result is actually more fun to listen to than you would think - the instrumentals keep it abstract and listenable enough to make the moody pathos bearable. this whole thing was also somehow motivated by the back story to the making of david bowie's "low" album, as well as by the hypnotizing, raw-looking sore on the pale arm of the lead singer from modern english that i couldn't help but stare at every time i saw the video for "i'll melt with you."

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