CDR 700 Go: 1985-95

This is a mix I made several years ago that I just found again. iirc, I was trying to encapsulate a bunch of the songs I listened to in that era that brought back the strongest memories of the time. Maybe not my favorites in particular (though some are), but specifically songs that would trigger nostalgia.

Nobody really posts CDR 700s anymore, so I thought I'd kickstart the revival.

1. A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My Wallet in El Segundo (4:05)
2. An Emotional Fish - Change (3:25)
3. Archers of Loaf - Wrong (3:41)
4. Aztec Camera - The Crying Scene (3:35)
5. Banderas - She Sells (4:02)
6. Beastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun (3:28)
7. Blur - Repetition (5:25)
8. Brand Nubian - Slow Down (5:02)
9. Caterwaul - The Sheep's a Wolf (4:21)
10. Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic (7:18)
11. Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow, Wendy (5:06)
12. Curve - Horror Head (3:41)
13. De La Soul - Me, Myself and I (3:44)
14. Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart (3:51)
15. Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel (5:18)
16. Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) (4:21)
17. Dinosaur Jr. - Thumb (5:37)
18. Doughboys - Melt (2:54)
19. Echo and the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (4:37)
20. Echobelly - King of the Kerb (3:59)
21. Electronic - Get the Message (3:54)
22. Erasure - A Little Respect (3:32)
23. Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy (3:55)
24. Front 242 - Welcome to Paradise (5:17)
25. Fugazi - Blueprint (3:52)
26. Fury in the Slaughterhouse - Every Generation Got Its Own Disease (5:31)
27. Garbage - Vow (4:30)
28. Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy (4:59)
29. House of Freaks - When the Hammer Came Down (3:29)
30. In Tua Nua - Seven Into the Sea (3:49)
31. INXS - Devil Inside (5:15)
32. James - Sit Down (4:03)
33. Jane's Addiction - Pigs in Zen (4:30)
34. Jesus Jones - Your Crusade (3:30)
35. John Kilzer - Red Blue Jeans (3:09)
36. John Wesley Harding - If You Have Ghosts (4:02)
37. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (5:00)
38. Killing Joke - Eighties (3:51)
39. Kitchens of Distinction - Quick as Rainbows (3:48)
40. Levitation - Smile (5:31)
41. Lightning Seeds - Pure (3:48)
42. Lime Spiders - Weirdo Libido (3:39)
43. Lloyd Cole - Downtown (5:20)
44. Lone Justice - I Found Love (4:21)
45. Love and Rockets - No New Tale to Tell (3:27)
46. Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses (2:38)
47. Lush - Kiss Chase (3:17)
48. M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up the Volume (4:02)
49. Matthew Sweet - Easy (4:23)
50. Mazzy Star - Halah (3:16)
51. Midnight Oil - Bullroarer (4:58)
52. The Mighty Lemon Drops - Inside Out (3:21)
53. Milltown Brothers - Which Way Should I Jump (3:54)
54. Ministry - Burning Inside (5:20)
55. Moonshake - City Poison (4:07)
56. Morphine - The Other Side (3:54)
57. Morrissey - The Last of the Famous International Playboys (3:37)
58. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes (5:19)
59. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Throwing Things (3:20)
60. New Order - True Faith (4:27)
61. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole (4:59)
62. Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant (6:03)
63. Nymphs - Imitating Angels (4:29)
64. Pale Saints - A Thousand Stars Burst Open (4:38)
65. Pavement - Cut Your Hair (3:06)
66. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up (5:27)
67. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (3:21)
68. Pop Will Eat Itself - Can U Dig it (4:31)
69. Pretenders - When Will I See You (4:54)
70. Public Image Ltd. - Rise (6:18)
71. R.E.M. - The One I Love (3:18)
72. Radiohead - Creep (3:55)
73. Ramones - Pet Sematary (3:34)
74. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Temptation (3:07)
75. Ride - Vapour Trail (4:18)
76. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Balloon Man (3:35)
77. Shakespear's Sister - Stay (3:43)
78. Sinéad O'Connor - Mandinka (3:46)
79. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-A-Boo (3:12)
80. Sloan - Underwhelmed (4:45)
81. Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinocerous (5:53)
82. Something Happens - Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello (Petrol) (3:27)
83. Sonic Youth - Kool Thing (4:06)
84. Squeeze - Letting Go (5:01)
85. Straitjacket Fits - Down in Splendour (3:38)
86. Sugar - Gee Angel (3:56)
87. Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford (4:11)
88. That Petrol Emotion - Hey Venus (3:20)
89. The Charlatans - The End of Everything (5:50)
90. The Chills - Pink Frost (4:00)
91. The Church - Under the Milky Way (4:58)
92. The Connells - '74-'75 (4:37)
93. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (4:16)
94. The Cure - In Between Days (2:56)
95. The Darling Buds - Crystal Clear (3:48)
96. The Heart Throbs - Dreamtime (3:54)
97. The House of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You (3:29)
98. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head on (4:11)
99. The La's - There She Goes (2:35)
100. The Lemonheads - Luka (3:09)
101. The Ocean Blue - Between Something and Nothing (4:02)
102. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (4:31)
103. The Primitives - Crash (2:34)
104. The Railway Children - Every Beat of the Heart (4:06)
105. The Replacements - Alex Chilton (3:15)
106. The Silencers - Razor Blades of Love (4:51)
107. The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection (4:56)
108. The Smithereens - Only a Memory (3:46)
109. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again (3:14)
110. The Soup Dragons - Lovegod (3:39)
111. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (4:51)
112. The Sugarcubes - Birthday (3:58)
113. The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends (3:54)
114. The The - Beyond Love (4:22)
115. They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul (3:20)
116. Throwing Muses - Dio (2:51)
117. Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up (2:31)
118. Transvision Vamp - (I Just Wanna) B With U (4:22)
119. Trash Can Sinatras - Hayfever (3:09)
120. U2 - Bad (Live) (8:03)
121. Voice of the Beehive - Look at Me (3:03)
122. World Party - Ship of Fools (4:30)
123. XTC - Dear God (3:37)
124. Xymox - Obsession (4:12)

If I were remaking this now, there'd definitely be more latin freestyle and perhaps more hair metal/thrash/skate punk. And some big Top 40 hits. Probably enough of that to make a vol. 2.

memories

why not make it a youtube playlist johnny

Ooh, good idea.

Sometimes I feel like all I ever do is sit around waiting for a CDR 700 Go revival.

I started on the youtube playlist btw, but never got very far. Half the songs aren't even available.

But yeah, I'd love for it to become a semi-regular meme again.

I feel like there's so much potential there. I love the year-specific ones, but also genre or label ones could be great too.

Those old threads are such an amazing resource.

I revived MD's '84 thread a couple months ago.

CDR700 GO! 1984: "Bonjour Monsieur Orwell!"

I've been tinkering for years on a series of 100 song playlists/discs for each year of the 00's. Maybe I'll post em here when I finish and open em up for trades or whatever.

I saw that! So dope!

Thanks, PG.

"Couple months," heh -- a year and a couple months, more like.

Great Lush pick at 47. Listened to Split the other day and it fully worked.

Thanks! I just happened to dig out Split the other day too.

I've been tinkering for years on a series of 100 song playlists/discs for each year of the 00's. Maybe I'll post em here when I finish and open em up for trades or whatever.

I've made one of these for each year since 2004. Number of songs per playlist has varied from 70 to 108. It's mostly a personal thing, though: standout tracks from albums I've heard, and any other random songs that have caught my ear. Which is to say, I'm usually not trying to sum up the year in any kind of historical way. I do sequence the mix in a painstaking way, however.

Oh yeah. Sequencing is key.

I should also note, these are time-capsule mixes I make at the end of each year, not mixes that I've made after the fact with perspective. As such, some excellent songs that I managed to avoid hearing during their year of release aren't represented.