Artist	Song
INXS	Original Sin
David Bowie & Queen	Under Pressure
Depeche Mode	People Are People
Spandau Ballet	True
Julian Lennon	Too Late for Goodbyes
Howard Jones	Things Can Only Get Better
Arcadia	Election Day
UTFO	Roxanne Roxanne
Roxanne Shante	Roxanne's Revenge
The Kartoon Krew	Inspector Gadget
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince	Parents Just Don't Understand
Beastie Boys	She's Crafty
Cameo	Word Up
Shelia E	The Glamorous Life
Sly Fox	Let's Go All the Way
The Escape Club	Wild, Wild West
Love and Rockets	So Alive
R.E.M.	Get Up

Comment:

Oh yeah, kickin' it old school. Many self explanatory tracks here. Exceptions:

9. The most famous "answer song" to "Roxanne Roxanne," which apparently inspired over 300 replies. This one was done by a 14-year-old high school kid, and despite a little too much repetition in the rhyme, she steps to UTFO quite effectively.

10. I remembered a song from the middle school bus that included a sample of the "Inspector Gadget" theme. I went looking and found this on iTMS, only to realize it wasn't the song I remembered (that would be Doug E. Fresh's "The Show"). No problem, as the samples of Gadget's dialog will send you flashing back to after-school TV much more effectively.

15. Is there a sleazier song? Probably, but not on one of my mixes.

16. What the heck happened to these guys? Oh yeah. Rule #3502 of one-hit wonders: if you want your career to last more than a year, don't make a song in 1989 that includes the line "headin' for the '90s". It's a good way to guarantee that it won't ever get played again.

17. and 18. -- I couldn't pass up the opportunity to put on some unusual songs by bands I actually listen to. "So Alive"--it's hard to imagine the same band (plus Peter Murphy) playing "Bela Lugosi's Dead" ten years previously. And "Get Up"? I'm not sure there's another song in REM's corpus that is so upbeat without being slightly ironic ("Stand") or embarassing ("Shiny Happy People").

One of a brace of new mixes from the decade whose music you love to hate.

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