Artist	Song
Joy Division	Love Will Tear Us Appart
David Bowie	Ashes to Ashes
The Cure	In Between Days
Echo & The Bunnymen	The Killing Moon
The Style Council	Shout to the Top
ABC	Valentine's Day
Prince	Pop Life
New Order	True Faith
Pet Shop Boys	West End Girls
Robert Wyatt	Shipbuilding
Elvis Costello	Pills & Soap
Morrissey	Every Day is Like Sunday
Talking Heads	Once in a Lifetime
The Go-Betweens	Spring Rain
Steely Dan	Hey Nineteen
Roxy Music	More Than This
The Smiths	There's A Light That Never Goes Out
The Jesus and Mary Chain	Just Like Honey

Comment:

Spending my 80s childhood listening to crappy radio and discovering my parents' record collection - the better part stemming from the 60s and 70s, the rest consisting of older artists' qualitatively quesionable 80s output - I almost completely forgot about that period after my musical declaration of independence (i.e. acquireing a CD player). I had a few Best-of-albums (Prince, Smiths, Cure, and, I have to admit: Genesis) but until about 3 years ago my musical image of that period was influenced mosty by cheap compilations, terrifying revival parties and the word 'retro'. Bit by bit I then discovered that those years actually did have something to offer. So here's a quick snapshot of that time, using a filter of course. It's not a best-of, more like a glimpse of what my (imaginary) favorite radio station could have sounded like back then. Oh, and I included 'More Than This' in homage to my parents' record collection.

PS: now it's the early-to-mid 90s that has become my personal musical wasteland, my first CDs collecing dust on the boards. Maybe in 5-10 years I'll rediscover them and follow up on this mix.

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