Remember a few weeks back when I mentioned I was working on a music mix highlighting 1982?
I was having a really hard time with it, because it was such a formative year in my musical appreciation. My original mix was 48 songs long, and I every time I tried to cut something I felt like I was losing a limb. To complicate things, my own musical memories of that year were competing with all the great music I'd discovered and come to appreciate since then.
So I cheated.
Below are TWO mixes from 1982. Vol. 1 represents the music of that year as I remember it, listening to my parents' tiny AM radio in my bedroom in the summer before junior high. Vol. 2 is made up of tunes from 1982 which are both awesome and a part of my psyche, but which didn't become so until later.
You can download them both from a download site I put them on. Download Vol. 1 here, and download Vol. 2 here.
Enjoy!
VOLUME 1
| # | Artist | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dexy's Midnight Runners | The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, Please, Thank You) |
| 2 | ABC | The Look of Love (part one) |
| 3 | Paul McCartney | Take It Away |
| 4 | Haircut 100 | Love Plus One |
| 5 | Duran Duran | Hold Back The Rain |
| 6 | Billy Idol | Hot In The City |
| 7 | The Go-Go's | Get Up And Go |
| 8 | Men At Work | Be Good Johnny |
| 9 | Hall & Oates | I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) |
| 10 | After The Fire | Der Kommisar |
| 11 | Dazz Band | Let It Whip |
| 12 | The Human League | Don't You Want Me |
| 13 | Michael Jackson | P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) |
| 14 | Men Without Hats | The Safety Dance |
| 15 | Asia | Heat Of The Moment |
| 16 | Steel Breeze | You Don't Want Me Anymore |
| 17 | John Cougar | Jack and Diane |
| 18 | Queen | Under Pressure |
| 19 | Squeeze | Black Coffee In Bed |
| 20 | Marvin Gaye | Sexual Healing |
VOLUME 2
| # | Artist | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Who | Eminence Front |
| 2 | Richard & Linda Thompson | Man in Need |
| 3 | The dB's | Amplifier |
| 4 | Dire Straits | Industrial Disease |
| 5 | INXS | The One Thing |
| 6 | Adam Ant | Desperate But Not Serious |
| 7 | The Jam | Town Called Malice |
| 8 | Madness | House Of Fun |
| 9 | The Suburbs | Waiting |
| 10 | Roxy Music | More Than This |
| 11 | Modern English | I Melt With You |
| 12 | Joe Jackson | Steppin' Out |
| 13 | Yaz | Situation |
| 14 | The Time | 777-9311 |
| 15 | Prince | All the Critics Love U In New York |
| 16 | Pete Townshend | Slit Skirts |
| 17 | Violent Femmes | Kiss Off |
| 18 | Scorpions | No One Like You |
| 19 | Iron Maiden | The Number Of The Beast |
Volume 2 looks a LOT like volume 1...
Posted by: Bill | August 07, 2008 at 08:52 PM
DAMMIT! Thanks for catching that, Bill...problem corrected. Now you can finally download that Steel Breeze song you've always wanted...
Posted by: croutonboy | August 08, 2008 at 08:16 AM
Wow. The Scorpions. Just...wow.
Posted by: landismom | August 09, 2008 at 09:08 PM
Cool lists. INXS and Adam Ant are highly underappreciated, much like most of the '80s music grossly overshadowed by '90s grunge. Not that I don't like some from both, but it was a blast growing up in the '80s with all that crazy hair and styles. It had a fun attitude to it and everyone didn't hate themselves or each other. Thanks for sharing this!
Posted by: Jeremy (Discovering Dad) | August 10, 2008 at 08:52 AM
I know you have all kinds of time to tackle 1968, right? A certain Mac Daddy we know is turning 40 on Thursday.
Now read this. http://www.dirtandnoise.com/2008/08/i-feel-just-like-sally-field.html
Posted by: ilinap | August 11, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Wow, great mixes. Maybe I'm biased because I was an impressionable early teen at the time, but I'm convinced that some of the best pop music ever came out right after disco died, circa '80-'82. One-hit wonders, even more so.
Speaking of which, any chance you'll make a mix of the lesser-known (yet cherished) one-hit wonders of that era, a la Steel Breeze's "You Don't Want Me Anymore?"
P.S. Thx for the downloads.
Posted by: FilmFather | August 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Great work.
Posted by: Violet | October 27, 2008 at 02:29 PM