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Priests and Cannibals, Prehistorical Animals...

Mood: Still vaguely ill.
Music: Every Day Is Halloween, Ministry
Game: World of Warcraft (Rogue 54)
Book: The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Muffin: Blueberry Blueberry
Punchline: "...One was a salted."

On Saturday, I decided to make a WLIR/80s playlist from iTunes.

I was feeling like I was getting tired of all the music I had on my iPod...which is no small feat...and I just didn't feel like buying CDs. Amazon has enough of my money, thank you.

So I scoured iTunes for about 3 hours, and picked about 20 songs that I didn't already have in my music collection. (Horrors! How did I not have this? Oh yeah...never replaced the vinyl.....)

I'm now listening to the list, which I have reproduced here for your own purchasing enjoyment.

Alex Chilton - The Replacements : Wasn't a huge Replacements fan until this song was released. Great chorus....

Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes : If you don't have this song on your iPod, it's because you weren't alive/conscious when it was released. Or you don't own an iPod. Definitive 80s electropop.

Birthday - Sugarcubes : Bjork at her finest...lyrically odd and vaguely disturbing. All in Icelandic Pop. One of several Sugarcubes songs that was missing from my collection. Never replaced the vinyl with a CD...or, was more probably stolen.

Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order : Nothing says 80s like New Order.

Coldsweat - Sugarcubes : Crunchy guitar riff. Feels like a blend between Icelandic Pop and Industrial. Nice mix.

Deus - Sugarcubes : Getting tired of Bjork yet? Not me.

Every Day Is Halloween - Ministry : No 80s New Wave playlist is complete without this anthem. Still have the 12" EP of this somewhere...Waxtrax.

Everybody Knows - Concrete Blonde : Definitely not a song to be played during a breakup...except that I did. Over and over. Some people prefer the Leonard Cohen version...I prefer this one sometimes...

Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen : And sometimes I prefer this one. Did Nick Cave ever cover this song?

Friday I'm In Love - Cure : Robert Smith sounds...happy? Fabulous tune and great lyrics make this a cheery song in my book.

I Got You - Split Enz : I - Don't - Know - Why - Some - Times - I - Get - Fright - Ened...

Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies : Was lead to this one off the Repo Man soundtrack...even though I had seen these guys live twice before the movie. Weird. Anyway, all Mike wanted was a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi.

Mama - Sugarcubes : Bet you thought I was done with the Sugarcubes. Nope. Life's Too Good should have been called Album Too Good.

Motorcrash - Sugarcubes : Sorry. I promise I'll stop.

Nemesis - Shriekback : This is that song that you know by heart and had no idea what the title was. Catchy as hell and the woman in the background of the chorus singing in an opera falsetto is awesome.

No New Tale To Tell - Love and Rockets : When you're down, it's a long way up...when you're up, it's a long way down... Probably the best explanation of the teenage psyche I've ever heard. And I was definitely feeling it in High School.

Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat : Euro-electronica. Catchy beat, the clearly defined keyboards...lyrically strong. I love this song.

Step to the Rear - Brand Nubian : Released in 1990...so technically not 80s music. But the delivery and lyrics here, plus the sampled riffs were so great, I had to include it.

What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society : Should be included in every 80s playlist as well. If you'd asked me who sang this, I couldn't have told you until I downloaded it. But I definitely had this on a compilation somewhere....

I also have to admit I threw in some more recent stuff that I wanted at the time....

But this is the heart of the playlist. Go on...download it. You know you want to.

Posted by Glenn at February 8, 2005 09:49 AM