Artist	Song
Human Sexual Response	What Does Sex Mean to Me?
Marshall Crenshaw	Someday, Someway
Bow Wow Wow	Do You Wanna Hold Me?
Kid Creole and the Coconuts	Stool Pigeon
Robert Palmer	Looking for Clues
X	Blue Spark
Haircut 100	Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
The Bluebells	Cath
Altered Images	I Could Be Happy
Bad Manners	Samson and Delilah
China Crisis	Working with Fire and Steel
General Public	Tenderness
The Kingbees	My Mistake
Nick Heyward	Whistle Down the Wind
Bangles	Hero Takes a Fall
Split Enz	Six Months in a Leaky Boat
The Jim Carroll Band	People Who Died
Aztec Camera	Oblivious
Yaz	Bad Connection
Tears for Fears	Change
Wide Boy Awake	Chicken Outlaw
Sparks	I Predict

Comment:

Basically, I was having one of those waves of nostalgia that comes around now and again, and it was making me want to listen to 80s music. But I really didn't want to go digging up songs I knew by heart, so I dug through the 15 CD "Just Can't Get Enough" series to find songs I either didn't know or hadn't gotten tired of, and started compiling my favorites (along with a handful of songs from other sources). What this project taught me: "Stool Pigeon" is one of the most dangerously catchy songs ever. I made this mix months ago and the possibility of it cropping up in my head on any given day is still surprisingly high. Also, China Crisis seems to be the best new wave band that I never listened to at all when new wave was still a going concern. (I also came late to Prefab Sprout, the Go-Betweens, and Aztec Camera, but they weren't really new wave. They were proto-90s alternative. And that about covers my semantic hair-splitting for the day.)

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