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001 Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
002 Prince and the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy
003 Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
004 The Time - Jungle Love
005 Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life
006 Apollonia 6 - Sex Shooter
007 Cherrelle - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
008 Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room
009 Dazz Band - Let It All Blow
010 Hugh Masekela - Don't Go Lose It Baby

011 Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
012 The Temptations - Treat Her Like A Lady
013 Dennis Edwards (featuring Siedah Garrett) - Don't Look Any Further
014 Barbara Mason - Another Man
015 Cameo - She's Strange
016 Yasuko Agawa - L.A. Night
017 Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It
018 Louisa Marks - Caught You In A Lie
019 Smiley Culture - Cockney Translation
020 Barrington Levy - Under Me Sensi

021 Frankie Paul - Pass The Tu-Sheng-Peng
022 Yellowman - Wreck A Pum Pum
023 Colourbox - Say You
024 Ofra Haza - Im Nin' Alu
025 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
026 Cocteau Twins - Lorelei
027 Big Black - Racer-X
028 LL Cool J - I Need A Beat
029 T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It's Yours
030 Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic Three - Roof Is On Fire

031 Davy DMX - One For The Treble
032 The Fat Boys - Human Beat Box
033 Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Umzalwane
034 Orchestra Super Mazembe - Shauri Yako
035 Youssou N'Dour - Taaw
036 Ebenezer Obey - Awa Ewe Iwoyi
037 Chico Buarque - Vai Passar
038 Gilberto Gil - Quilombo, O El Dorado Negro
039 DeBarge - Stay With Me
040 Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy

041 Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)
042 Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain
043 The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost In You
044 The Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me
045 The Mighty Wah! - Come Back
046 Pat Benatar - We Belong
047 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
048 Bryan Adams - Run To You
049 Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Perfect Skin
050 John Lennon - Nobody Told Me

051 The Go-Go's - Head Over Heels
052 Redd Kross - Heaven Only Knows
053 Ratt - Round And Round
054 Bon Jovi - Runaway
055 Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
056 Motörhead - Killed by Death
057 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
058 Ronald Reagan - 'My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you...'
059 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Di Eagle An' Di Bear
060 Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Funky AECO

061 David Murray - Morning Song
062 Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - We Need Some Money
063 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Renegades Of Funk
064 U.T.F.O. - Roxanne Roxanne
065 Roxanne Shanté - Roxanne's Revenge
066 Whodini - Five Minutes Of Funk
067 Shannon - Give Me Tonight
068 Aleem - Release Yourself
069 Bananarama - Cruel Summer
070 Madonna - Angel

071 The Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)
072 Van Halen - Jump
073 Slade - Run Runaway
074 Belfegore - All That I Wanted
075 Laid Back - White Horse
076 Newcleus - Jam On It
077 Ray Parker, Jr. - Ghostbusters
078 The Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit)
079 Herbie Hancock - Mega-Mix
080 DJ Chuck Chill Out - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 1

081 Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
082 King Sunny Ade - Gboromiro
083 Laurie Anderson - Sharkey's Day
084 Clarence 'Blowfly' Reid - Electronic Pussy Sucker
085 Rebbie Jackson - Centipede
086 Cold Crush Brothers - Fresh, Fly, Wild & Bold
087 Tony Allen & Afrobeat 2000 - When One Road Close (Another One Go Open)
088 Strafe - Set It Off
089 Jesse Saunders - On And On
090 Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 (edit)

091 Joe Hisaishi - Kaze No Tani No Nausic'a' (Opening)
092 Steve Reich - Sextet, 2nd Movement
093 Brian Eno & Harold Budd (with Daniel Lanois) - Late October
094 Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston (excerpt)
095 Sun City Girls - Caravan of Scars
096 Minutemen - Corona
097 Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
098 Yeah Yeah Noh - Bias Binding
099 Killdozer - A Man's Gotta Be A Man To Be A Man
100 Scratch Acid - Greatest Gift

101 The Fall - Slang King
102 Lou Reed - I Love You, Suzanne
103 Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
104 Philip Bailey (with Phil Collins) - Easy Lover
105 U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
106 .38 Special - If I'd Been The One
107 R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
108 Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)
109 Hüsker Dü - Hare Krsna
110 Minor Threat - Cashing In

111 Big Boys - Which Way To Go
112 Bad Religion - Bad Religion
113 Agnostic Front - Victim In Pain
114 Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - Capitalists Suck
115 High Rise - Induced Depression
116 Glenn Branca - Symphony No. 5, 1st Movement
117 Half Japanese - Hall Of The Mountain King/Louie Louie
118 John Zorn & Sato Michihiro - Yonaka No Hatashiai
119 The Ex - Rabble With A Cause
120 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down

121 The Chills - Pink Frost
122 Echo And The Bunnymen - Seven Seas
123 Jacobites - Kings And Queens
124 Metallica - Fade To Black
125 Coil - Restless Day
126 Salvatore Sciarrino - Lohengrin, Prologo
127 This Kind Of Punishment - From The Diary Of Hermann Doubt
128 This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
129 The Cars - Drive
130 Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

131 John Waite - Missing You
132 Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
133 Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
134 Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
135 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams
136 World Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ
137 General Public - Tenderness
138 The Special A.K.A. - Free Nelson Mandela
139 Baron - Feeling It
140 Franco & TP OK Jazz - Limbisa Ngal

I think you can tell what my REAL priorities were from the first and last ten-twenty tracks. Or maybe not.

The classical pieces In included were composed in 1984, not recorded or released in 1984. This seems fair considering the status of recordings in the classical music world, and the often significant typical lags between a classical work's composition, performance and recording.

Songs I wanted to include but couldn't because they're actually from '83 even though hit biggest in '84: "Borderline," "Say It Isn't So," "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "99 Red Balloons." It seems weird to me to not include "Owner of a Lonely Heart" but include a bunch of songs that sample that orchestral swoop. The Pointer Sisters are here because, for whatever reason, my Billboard comp. copyrights "Jump" in 1984. So there.

There's a couple that are proabably 1983 (or 1985) but I don't care any more. I want to go to bed.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and I used one or two tracks Jess had on his '85 comp. Sorry.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

And the Franco track has been confirmed by the folks at Guiness for holding the world's record for being like the greatest thing ever.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

CDR700 GO! 1984: "Bonjour Monsieur Orwell!"

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus God, wrong thread.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Congrats, such a great year, such a great list.

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 7 December 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

UTFO! yey!

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 7 December 2003 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

haha. my obligatory ommissions list.. (although i'm sure it was a case of either Michael not liking/caring or not knowing it)

Human League "The Lebanon"

New Order "Thieves Like Us" that crazy Arthur Baker instrumental remix

XTC (I'd choose "I Remember The Sun".. fantasticly underrated song by them)

Tall Dwarfs .. god, anything off the Slughairybreathmonster EP. like "The Brain that wouldn't die" or "Crush" (which invented a Strokes songs 16 years ahead of its time)

Severed Heads .. "Goodbye Tonsils" or something from "City Slab Horror", but only I would care about something like this or the previous.. haha

But i want want want this comp.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 December 2003 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I am mentioning this only because I am amazed I actually know it, but "Shauri Yako" is '83.

BEST YEAR EVER. HOLY FUCK.

Michael, check your email pronto.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 7 December 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

um michael i need this immediatement

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 7 December 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Good goddamn!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Human League "The Lebanon"

Ha! I saw the video back in '84 and I remember thinking something like "guh, why isn't this upbeat and catchy like their other stuff?"

New Order "Thieves Like Us" that crazy Arthur Baker instrumental remix

Ooh, the vocals on the original are just so k-awful that I didn't even think a remix might rock.

XTC (I'd choose "I Remember The Sun".. fantasticly underrated song by them)

I haven't heard The Big Express in maybe fifteen years. I think I may have passed XTC over because I thought the CD-R was already getting too Brit.

Tall Dwarfs .. god, anything off the Slughairybreathmonster EP. like "The Brain that wouldn't die" or "Crush" (which invented a Strokes songs 16 years ahead of its time)

I noticed that they had stuff eligible for inclusion but I thought, gah, probably too twee.

Severed Heads .. "Goodbye Tonsils" or something from "City Slab Horror", but only I would care about something like this or the previous.. haha

I did review some Severed Heads tracks for possible inclusion but found them a little too monochrome.

Right now I'm listening to Barbara Mason's "Another Man" which I had only heard vague mentions of now and had no idea it was such a R&B camp classic: Babs discovers that the man she had bragged about stealing in a song prior is, in fact "...not a whole man but a facsimile thereof" (ie gay gay gay)!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: no country, unless .38 Special counts. Everything I heard was either a bland-out or felt like formalist exercises (including George Strait -- sorry Chuck). Most of my knowledge of country comes from the memories of listening to my mom's car radio, and after the urban cowboy thing ran its course, she eventually grew bored, with the final straw being the day in 1983 when David Allen Coe's "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" came on the radio, and she was so fed up I'd be surprised if she's listened to country radio since.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, the title comes from a long-forgotten WNET special on 1/1/84 involving a humongous multi-national telecommunications hook-up with Nam Jun Paik, Merce Cunningham, and a video of the person behind 083 doing "In The Air."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 December 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, this is just...wow.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 7 December 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the first one of these that i've really felt a NEED to hear. the rest have been mostly "appreciation". christ, what a year.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 7 December 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to agree but then I keep seeing "Sex Shooter" and my eyebrow starts twitching.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 December 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

And while we're on the subject of Minneapolis...I don't see anything from my favorite album of all time, I don't think.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 December 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Though to put that in perspective I was thrilled to see "Wood Beez" in there. Baby baoo.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 December 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a beauty mike. I've been hearing the zorn/michihiro sato duo (no 118) and its a fantastic duo (one of thoser I'd recomnmend for ppl if they wanted to listen to improv).

was listening to philip guston just this afternoon. minuteman/husker du yesterday (in bits) (I would have chosen 'pink turns to blue' off 'zen arcade' myself, what made you go for hare krishna).

is there a way to get hold of this comp mike.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

(Does anyone remmber the TV special "Good Morning Mr. Orwell" which included John Cage, Nam June Paik, and the Thompson Twins, among others? It was really dreaful. Cagean "you'll only make it worse" optimism: look it's 1984 and everything is just fine.)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

another man! that record almost single-handedly made me reassess my whole neglect for slick early 80's dancefloor stuff back then.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

(Oh sorry, posted before I read the thread all the way through.)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote:
Tall Dwarfs .. god, anything off the Slughairybreathmonster EP. like "The Brain that wouldn't die" or "Crush" (which invented a Strokes songs 16 years ahead of its time)

You wrote:

I noticed that they had stuff eligible for inclusion but I thought, gah, probably too twee.

TWEE? The EP was about horror movies, diseases, vindiction, and hate!!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 8 December 2003 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

shit db, you are totally OTM about the tall dwarfs/strokes thing

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Listening to the mix right now... this is like some magical rainbow with the occasional monster jumping out in checkerboard clothes, top hat, and cane to make a cameo. It's really lucid and great. (I have this on shuffled mode right now)

Best/fucked up segue: This Kind Of Punishment --> Bananarama

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

the packaging on this is FANTASTIC

i havent even had a chance to listen yet

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ditto all above. roxor roxor roxor. and the sequencing--particularly the GREAT Afropop stretch--is ace.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(hey, jess, email me your address)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

will do.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, most disturbing segue: Ronald Reagan --> Sun City Girls

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

dude this is so great BUT YOU FORGOT Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About You," which I forgive because dude this is so great.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

So did people find the secret stuff?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, bump?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

what secret stuff?

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

If you melt it in an oven then stretch it around a hairbrush it will play 'Everybody Wang Chung Tonight' on your pianola.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Secret artwork, bonus track.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 8 January 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

have not seen either yet. been busy, of course.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Fantastic! Ted Hawkins is '82, but I'm glad to see it there. I might put a plug in for Run-D.M.C., and Easton's "Sugar Walls." And if there were room for some American indie/roots/whatever stuff: Los Lobos, the dBs, the Replacements, the Del-Lords, Ramones.

― dylan (dylan), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my God, you're right, it is '82. Hm. What was I thinking? I could've just as easily ditched it -- I like the song a lot but it was such a pain in the ass to sequence, and out of frustration I eventually put it between two songs (the Minutemen and the Yeah Yeah Noh ones) that would've been much more sympatico together.

I suspect my feelings about "The Message" and "Rock Box" = Jess' feelings about "Hey Ya." I remember "Sugar Walls" being played on MTV and the radio constantly at the time, and yet I can't remember a single thing about it. Never a good song. Roots rock hits me in the most random way when it does at all, and when it doesn't, I can only offer the most non-committal sort of shrug, and even the stuff I thought were going to be for-sure likeable ones by, say, Los Lobos, dBs, Tommy Keene etc. ended up making me feel nothing at all.

I definitely considered "I Can Dream About You" (I bought the single back in '84!) as well as Rod Stewart's "Some Guys Have All the Luck" and Christine McVie's "Got A Hold on Me" but the pleasures I find in them are so sweet and mild that I worried they'd ended up sounding dully generic when stuck in a sequence with other like-minded songs.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Never a good song.

Sign, I mean.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the errors are often as interesting as the inclusions on these things, I find. for example, Nate pointed out me using a funk rarity from the wrong year on '70 (the song was '74) and I'm willing to bet that Sexual Harrassment's "If I Gave You a Party" wasn't actually from '80 proper (though I included it on '80). and Andy K's have a couple of mistakes--"Bombscare" was closer to '91 than '94, while "Beat Bop" isn't till '83. but I like the way these things move, so stuff like that is eminently forgivable. (and I am always AMAZED at how powerfully I respond to "I Can Dream About You," at least the first half, long instro intro through first chorus. and yes, I realize this officially makes me nuts.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you might like "Sugar Walls," probably more than the Del-Lords. I'm pretty sure the Ruben Blades album from that year is pretty good, but maybe it hasn't held up well. Also, did you include "Karma Chameleon" or "Wake Me Up Before You Go GO?" Maybe I missed them.

I really like "I Can Dream About You," too. I didn't care about it at the time, but I heard it at an Embers a few years ago, and it made me very happy. Very well written, I'd say.

― dylan (dylan), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

One intriguing thing about "I Can Dream About You" is that it was mimed by a quartet of black men in the video/movie it was from.

Blades is actually '83. "Karma Chameleon" and "Wake Me Up" are my least favorite Culture Club and Wham! hits. (The favorites are "Time" and "I'm Your Man.")

I also regret not putting in the extended versions of The Mighty Wah's "Come Back" and FGTH's "Two Tribes." Sometimes, you just can't get enough overstatement.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the '80s were definitely a racially weird time, yes.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

My copy of "Buscando America" says 1984 on the back, but maybe it was issued earlier on a different label. Really on "Karma Chameleon." That's a great performance and an even better piece of songwriting! Does anyone remember a Rolling Stone interview with Bob Dylan in which Dylan was said to be covering "Karma?" Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. At about the same time, Rod Stewart was rumored to be considering a cover of the Replacements' "Sixteen Blue."

― dylan (dylan), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's the Kurt Loder Dylan interview, around the time of Infidels. collected in the RS '80s interviews book.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I discuss this at some length: http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/pscholtes/2004/04/12#a783

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(arg, "cdrgo.org" is, um, not quite ready yet)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, and the CDR700 track-listing as posted got changed a little. I am very very flattered though. :)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

This really is a total bonanza.

― Matos W.K., Monday, 16 February 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Not worth a separate thread, and hopefully not considered thread hijackery, with all due respect to MD.

DVD-R Go! 1984

Big Black - Racer-X (Homestead)
Scratch Acid - Cannibal (Rabid Cat)
Naked Raygun - Only in America (Homestead)
Meat Puppets - Split Myself in Two (SST)
Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue (SST)
Minutemen - Viet Nam (SST)
Big Flame - Sometimes (Laughing Gun)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Upside Down (Creation)
Sonic Youth - Death Valley ‘69 (Iridescence)
Savage Republic - Tragic Figure (Independent Project)

Dead Can Dance - Frontier (4AD)
Swans - Your Property (K 422)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Cabin Fever! (Mute)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Red Over White (Polydor)
This Mortal Coil - Holocaust (4AD)
Cocteau Twins - The Spangle Maker (4AD)
Felt - The Stagnant Pool (Cherry Red)
The Chills - Pink Frost (Flying Nun)
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (Sire)
The Go-Betweens - You’ve Never Lived (Sire)

REM - Harborcoat (IRS)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Silver (Sire)
Bangles - Hero Takes a Fall (Columbia)
Pretenders - Middle of the Road (Sire)
Romeo Void - A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing) (Columbia)
Go-Go’s - Head Over Heels (IRS)
INXS - I Send a Message (ATCO)
The Stranglers - Skin Deep (Epic)
The Blue Nile - Tinseltown in the Rain (Linn)
David Sylvian - Red Guitar (Virgin)

The Alan Parsons Project - Prime Time (Arista)
Scott Walker - Track 3 (Virgin)
Lindsey Buckingham - Go Insane (Elektra)
Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! (Capitol)
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart (ATCO)
King Crimson - Sleepless (E’G/Warner Bros)
U2 - Wire (Island)
The Sound - Golden Soldiers (A&M)
Simple Minds - Up on the Catwalk (Virgin)
Talk Talk - It’s My Life (EMI America)

Torch Song - P2E (IRS)
The Art of Noise - Beat Box (ZTT/Island)
Propaganda - Dr Mabuse (ZTT)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (ZTT/Island)
Konk - Your Life (Sleeping Bag)
Chris & Cosey - Driving Blind (Rough Trade)
Tones on Tail - Performance (Beggars Banquet)
Section 25 - Looking from a Hilltop (Factory)
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People (Mute)
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria (Virgin)

Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight (Streetwise)
New Order - Thieves Like Us (Factory)
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (RCA)
Robert Gorl - Darling Don’t Leave Me (Mute/Elektra)
Funky Family - Funky Is On (Third Label)
Alisha - All Night Passion (Vanguard)
Shannon - Give Me Tonight (Emergency)
Carol Lynn Townes - 99 1/2 (Polydor)
Newcleus - Jam on It (Sunnyview)
The Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt (Freak Beat)

Hashim - Al Naayfish (The Soul) (Cutting)
The Future - Nuclear Holocaust (Mirage)
Paul Hardcastle - Rain Forest (Profile)
Captain Rapp - Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It) (Saturn)
Chaka Khan - I Feel for You (Warner Bros)
Xēna - On the Upside (Emergency)
52nd Street - Can’t Afford (Profile)
Colourbox - Shadows in the Room (4AD)
Secession - Touch (Beggars Banquet)
George Kranz - Trommeltanz (Din Daa Daa) (Personal)

Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom (Vanguard)
Slack - Slack (Streetwise)
Aleem - Release Yourself (NIA)
Pointer Sisters - Automatic (Planet)
Barbara Fowler - Come and Get My Lovin’ (Radar)
The System - I Can’t Take Losing You (Mirage)
Angela Bofill - Can’t Slow Down (Arista)
Barbara Mason - Another Man (West End)
Lillo Thomas - Your Love’s Got a Hold on Me (Capitol)
Cheryl Lynn - Encore (Columbia)

Change - Change of Heart (Atlantic)
Thelma Houston - (I Guess) It Must Be Love (MCA)
Cherrelle - I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On (Tabu)
Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else’s Guy (Vinyl Dreams)
Phyllis St James - Candlelight Afternoon (Motown)
Stephanie Mills - The Medicine Song (Mercury)
Sheryl Lee Ralph - In the Evening (New York)
Klinte Jones - In the Heat (Of the Night) (Oh My!)
RJ’s Latest Arrival - Shackles (Golden Boy/Quality)
Midnight Star - No Parking (On the Dance Floor) (Solar)

Jermaine Jackson - Come to Me (One Way or Another) (Arista)
Nuance - Loveride (4th & Broadway)
Cameo - She’s Strange (Atlanta Artists)
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Epic)
The Time - Jungle Love (Warner Bros)
Sheila E - The Glamorous Life (Warner Bros)
Apollonia 6 - Sex Shooter (Warner Bros)
Prince & the Revolution - Erotic City (Warner Bros)
Laid Back - White Horse (Sire)
Bananarama - Cruel Summer (London)

Rebbie Jackson - Centipede (Columbia)
Jellybean - Sidewalk Talk (EMI America)
Answering Service - Call Me Mr Telephone (Third Label)
Kerr - Back at Ya (Tra San)
Evelyn “Champagne” King - Just for the Night (RCA)
The Earons - Land of Hunger (Island)
Junie Morrison - Tease Me (ZE/Island)
Scritti Politti - Hypnotize (Warner Bros)
Madonna - Borderline (Sire)
Melba Moore - Livin’ for Your Love (Capitol)

Dreamboy - Don’t Go (Qwest)
Force MDs - Tears (Tommy Boy)
DeBarge - Love Me in a Special Way (Gordy)
The SOS Band - Just the Way You Like It (Tabu)
Kleeer - Tonight (Atlantic)
Mtume - Prime Time (Epic)
Dennis Edwards - Don’t Look Any Further (Motown)
Patrice Rushen - Feels So Real (Won’t Let Go) (Elektra)
Loose Ends - Choose Me (Rescue Me) (Virgin)
Steve Washington - Please Don’t Go (Streetwave)

Wish - Touch Me (Personal)
New Edition - Cool It Now (MCA)
Pamela Joy - Think Fast (Pizazz)
Teena Marie - Lovergirl (Epic)
Shalamar - Dancing in the Sheets (Solar)
Greg Phillinganes - Behind the Mask (Planet)
Lionel Richie - Running with the Night (Motown)
Wally Badarou - Chief Inspector (Island)
The Staple Singers - Slippery People (Private I)
Davy DMX - One for the Treble (Tuff City)

LL Cool J - I Need a Beat (Def Jam)
Whodini - Five Minutes of Funk (Jive)
Run-DMC - It’s Like That (Profile)
Kurtis Blow - 8 Million Stories (Mercury)
T La Rock - It’s Yours (Partytime)
UTFO - Roxanne Roxanne (Select)
Roxanne Shanté - Roxanne’s Revenge (Pop Art)
The Cold Crush Brothers - Fresh, Wild, Fly and Bold (Tuff City)
The World’s Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ (Island)
Ollie & Jerry - Breakin’… There’s No Stopping Us (Polydor)

Songs released in '83 (or issued on '82 albums!) peaked in the US in '84.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Shame that no one commented on this, cuz it's fuckin great.

I guess that's one downside to these mega-playlist posts--there's not a lit of impetus for discussion beyond congratulations and quibbling over song choices.

― Parenthetical Grillz, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:13 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

84.

I should re-master this and add on some late '83 releases. I'd still keep the Franco track, even though it turns out it was actually '85 (and Franco doesn't play a note on it).

By the way, did ANYONE open up the clamshells for this thing? Because you were supposed to.

― Michael Daddino, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago)

Yes re-master, no to clamshell. Welcome back

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

Put together a playlist of the OP. 97/140 not bad for Spotify.

― pplains, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:10 (eleven years ago)

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