Side A
Artist	Song
Sisters of Mercy	Temple of Love
X-Mal Deutschland	Qual
Tones on Tail	There's Only One
Gang of Four	Cheeseburger
The Fall	Eat Y'self Fitter
Wire	I Am the Fly
Birthday Party	Zoo-Music Girl
Public Image Ltd	Low-Life
Fang	The Money Will Roll Right In
The Replacements	Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
Naked Raygun	Libido
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Flipper	Sex Bomb
Killing Joke	Let's All Go
Virgin Prunes	Baby Turns Blue
Sex-Gang Children	Sebastiane
The Cure	Caterpillar Girl
The Cramps	Human Fly
Gun Club	Sex Beat
Buzzcocks	Orgasm Addict
The Toy Dolls	Glenda & the Test Tube Baby
GBH	City Baby Attacked by Rats
The Clash	Career Opportunities
March Violets	Walk Into the Sun
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Christine
The Jam	English Rose
The Smiths	Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Comment:

Doing some housecleaning recently I unpacked a box of pix from my college days. A much younger friend saw said pictures and marveled at how "period" the hair and clothes were. Anyway, I put this tape together for her to further contextualize this period. These were all songs that in one way or another were representative of my freshman year (1984-85). Coming from rural Indiana, college was a revelation - there were actually cool people there who listened to great music I had either only read about (in mags like Trouser Press and Flexi-Pop) or had never heard of at all. A lot of these songs were put on some of the first mix tapes I ever received and a lot of them are by artists I still listen to (Buzzcocks, Clash, and The Jam in particular). Many obvious choices, perhaps, but twenty odd years back these songs held a real power for me.

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