mix cd madness: my 80s

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so i made some cds for nancy to capture what i liked most about the 80s (since we've played the cds i made for the 90s to death.) i tried to keep it mostly to singles. (and in terms of "what i liked most", we're talking more a broader thematic than necessarily my top 40 favorite songs.) discuss. also, offer up suggestions for a possible 5th disc.

CD1
1. Pixies – “River Euphrates”
2. The Fall – “Totally Wired”
3. Public Enemy – “Night of the Living Baseheads”
4. The Specials – “Ghost Town”/”Friday Night & Saturday Morning”
5. Loose Joints – “Tell You Today (Vocal Mix)”
6. Prince – “Raspberry Beret”
7. Rob Base & DJ EZ-Rock – “It Takes Two”
8. A Guy Called Gerald – “Voodoo Ray”
9. Tears For Fears – “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”
10. Robert Wyatt – “Shipbuilding”

CD2
1. Boogie Down Productions – “The Bridge Is Over”
2. Nitro Deluxe – “Let’s Get Brutal”
3. Eric B & Rakim – “Follow The Leader”
4. Frankie Goes To Hollywood – “Two Tribes (12” Mix)”
5. Tom Tom Club – “Genius of Love”
6. Wayne Smith – “Under Me Sleng Teng”
7. The Human League – “Don’t You Want Me?”
8. Madonna – “Borderline”
9. My Bloody Valentine – “You Made Me Realize”
10. Chaka Khan – “I Feel For You”

CD3
1. Jesus & Mary Chain – “Just Like Honey”
2. Janet Jackson – “Control”
3. Motley Crue – “Girls, Girls, Girls”
4. Swans – “Raping A Slave”
5. Guns & Roses – “Welcome To The Jungle”
6. Kool & The Gang – “Celebration”
7. Big Country – “In A Big Country”
8. Scritti Politti – “Wood Beez”
9. Michael Jackson – “Wanna Be Startin Something”
10. Cameo – “Word Up”

CD4
1. Einsturzende Neubauten – “Kalte Stern”
2. Gang of Four – “To Hell With Poverty”
3. AC/DC – “Back In Black”
4. Run DMC – “It’s Like That”
5. EPMD – “Strictly Business”
6. De La Soul – “Eye Know”
7. Pet Shop Boys – “West End Girls”
8. The Smiths – “How Soon Is Now?”
9. Mission of Burma – “Trem Two”
10. New Order – “Bizarre Love Triangle (12” Mix)”

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 September 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

things i've realized i've forgotten already: george michael's "father figure", some african pop.

(tom, if you'd like, i'm going to try to cajole her into writing about them for a c90 go. i'm not sure if it's gonna work or not.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 September 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Swans between motley crue and guns and roses immediately catches my eye.

suggestions for a fifth disc.

the last track from the first Fushitsusha album (second disc)(3/4). Minutemen- Vietnam, Firehose- things could turn around and something by DB (paris from aida).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 6 September 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

also: "in the air tonight" and/or "easy lover" (as suggested by maura.com)

julio: um, no. (i mean...maybe the minutemen, but i'm more likely to pick husker du first.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 September 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

toto - africa

― simon trife (simon_tr), Friday, 6 September 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Matos wants read Nancy write Jess mix.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 6 September 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

8. Madonna – “Borderline”
9. My Bloody Valentine – “You Made Me Realize”

Idea for bootleg: "My Bloody Borderline."

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 6 September 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"Atomic Dog." "Somebody's Watchin' Me."

― Matt C., Friday, 6 September 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

No Sugarhill AT ALL?!?! No "Wheels of Steel" or "That's the Joint"? You on crack, boy?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 6 September 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

No Oran 'Juice' Jones? No Mary Jane Girls?

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 6 September 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

matos i know youre friends with patrin and all but

― simon trife (simon_tr), Friday, 6 September 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

but what?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 6 September 2002 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Buggles. ABC. Propaganda.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 6 September 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess- what's wrong with the last track from fushitsusha. what's wrong with guitar rock from japan (the album was released in '89).

I was thinking husker du too: pink turns into blue would be nice.

what abt bailey: aida was released in '80 (once recorded, improv is a song, just a diff kind of song).

don't you like raging full on by firehose?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 6 September 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

also 'all round the world'? isn't that from Lisa stansfield? I'm sure it is...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 6 September 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

R U MADD, Jes(s)?!? Father Figure?!? One of those singles that remind me I never wanna go BACK to the 80s.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 6 September 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

CD 1 Track 6 should be "Little Red Corvette".

That is all.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 6 September 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I did this recently, too, only it was two discs. A lot of the same songs, but you've not ABBA nor Talking Heads!!

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Friday, 6 September 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe what should have followed the "but" was "Grandmaster Flash is OLD and rap created before 1988 is SHIT! Am I right?"

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 6 September 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

actually i meant the 'you on crack, boy?' bit

― simon trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 7 September 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

No no no no I accuse people of being mentally disturbed, not on drugs. You big silly.

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 7 September 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Some sort of segue between Hüsker Dü's "Pink Turns To Blue" & the Chills' "Pink Frost" is urgent & key.
(also jess in someone-other-than-Gl*nn-McD*nald-liking-Big-Country shockah!)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 7 September 2002 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck off Simon. I've been writing like that since before Patrin was born. (no offense, Nate)

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 7 September 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not offended. I am, however, confused: your writing career started at age 3?

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 7 September 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Back on topic: If you got about eight minutes to fill then how about some "Breaker's Revenge" by Arthur Baker?

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 7 September 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

[exaggeration to make point]

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 7 September 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Wasn't "Back In Black" from 1979?

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Saturday, 7 September 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope. Bon Scott was still alive then.

And yeah I know it's exaggeration but the mental picture of Matos as a three year-old calling people baseheads is fucking great. Jim Henson's Rockcrit Babies!

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 7 September 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Couldn't you fit more than 10 songs on one CD? 15 would be good.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 7 September 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

i still need to make the last three. what a shitty boyfriend.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

just a note, i can't reall yfigure what you liked most about the 80s looking at your list. I mean, Neubauten AND Janet Jackson?

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely that's the point.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

for me it just doesn;t "capture what [he] liked most" ...

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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