Artist	Song
The Soft Boys	Old Pervert
The Fall	The Classical
Sonic Youth	Schizophrenia
Big Black	Steelworker
The Donner Party	Halo
X	Beyond and Back
Minutemen	I Felt Like a Gringo
The Smiths	This Charming Man
Orange Juice	Blue Boy
Galaxie 500	Song in 3
Billy Bragg	A New England
Spacemen 3	Revolution
Minor Threat	Filler
Husker Du	Eight Miles High
Squirrel Bait	Sun God
Meat Puppets	Plateau
The Replacements	Color Me Impressed
The Stone Roses	Sally Cinnamon
The Gun Club	She's Like Heroin to Me
Young Fresh Fellows	Carrothead
The Pogues	The Old Main Drag
Mission of Burma	Academy Fight Song
Beat Happening	Indian Summer
Descendents	Hope
Dinosaur Jr	Freak Scene

Comment:

My '80s indie mix, loosely designed to be listened to in conjunction with my '90s indie mix (You must be on guard against wickedness at all times.) and my "best of the 21st century" mix (This modern thought can get the best of you). I compiled this using "indie" in the strictest sense of the word--all of the songs here were originally released on independent labels. Although I had originally intended for this to be more of a general overview of the decade, I felt that whittling the track listing down to one disc was more than a little daunting and I also felt that I'd done the massive overview thing a few years ago with my "Here's your chance to look me in the eyes" series. That said, I may do a more "mainstream" '80s mix as a companion volume in the not-so-distant future. One minor regret: I didn't use a Grant Hart-penned original tune as my Huskers (my favorite '80s band) choice; however, their cover of "Eight Miles High" is beyond genius and was sonically exactly what I was looking for on this mix. Last tracks cut: "It's You" (the Milkshakes), "Hate the Police" (Mudhoney), and "Cattle and Cane" (the Go-Betweens). Title from the poisonous pen of Mr. Steve Albini (for those of you who know that song, just imagine what other lyrics I could have used...).

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