Build me an ultimate early 80's pop mix

[The Groke]

Is it wrong to be considering adding Cindi Lauper: All Through The Night?

Fuckit - it's going in.



I need some Prince as well...

Controversy maybe...

 

[paulhackett]

raspberry beret. please let it be raspberry beret.

 

[The Groke]

Or Little Red Corvette, Purple Rain, 1999, Raspberry Beret....

 

[Griff]

Fuckit - it's going in.



I need some Prince as well...

Controversy maybe...

Let's go Crazy.

 

[The Groke]

heh.

 

[The Groke]

T
Reward - Teardrop Explodes
Everyday i write the Book - Elvis Costello
The Stranglers

Reckon these are in.

I have pretty much everything The Stranglers have done....Would probably choose Skin Deep over Duchess for their "pop" showing...

 

[Griff]

How many tunes did you say you wanted, Swarfega?

The '80s were pretty good really, and this is just pop music.

What happened?

 

[The Groke]

How many tunes did you say you wanted, Swarfega?

Fuck it - I will make a Box Set!

 

[killer b]

Hm - I actually thought they were slightly earlier than that!

I am sticking to my guns so...West End Girls it is.

are you kidding? it should well be opportunities - it's the archetypal yuppie anthem.

have you got another one bites the dust in there yet?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Juicy-Mtume

 

[Griff]

 

[toblerone3]

Oi!

Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie I'm not your Daddy



Has all the early 80s pop ingredients and has aged very well. Not many people would think to make a chorus out the word Onomatopoeia

"Ona Ona Onomatopoeia...Ona Ona Onomatopoeia"

 

[killer b]

the clash - rock the casbah should be on there imo

 

[The Groke]

are you kidding? it should well be opportunities - it's the archetypal yuppie anthem.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one...

have you got another one bites the dust in there yet?

Nope!

I reckon I would choose "Play The Game" over AOBTD anyway.

Also: When was Under Pressure released..?

 

[killer b]

it was on 'hot space', so 83?

<edit - 81>

 

[Maggot]

Oi!

Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie I'm not your Daddy



Has all the early 80s pop ingredients and has aged very well. Not many people would think to make a chorus out the word Onomatopoeia

"Ona Ona Onomatopoeia...Ona Ona Onomatopoeia"

Stoolpigeon is better.

 

[Maggot]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dravinian
"I was in 'Nam....Dagen'Nam."

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sadken
In 2002, the average age of mothers at first birth was 26.2 years old, in Dagenham it was 14, f-f-f-14, 14, f-f-f-f-14, 14

 

[DJ Squelch]

 

[toblerone3]

Stoolpigeon is better.

Maybe... but its not the one that most people will have heard of. Familiarity is important!

I think West End Girls should go in as well.

 

[The Groke]

What is interesting about all of these suggestions so far, is that they have highlighted the sheer variety of sounds and styles that can all be pigeonholed as "80's pop"



You got bands more commonly associated with funk, punk, rock, pop, new wave, electro etc etc all making top notch "pop" songs.

 

[Griff]

 

[dlx1]

did think it was last 70's
Released as a 12" in 1983

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Here's a playlist I put together recently. The criteria: tracks I remember being played at my student union disco. I imagined a night in December 1985, and limited myself to what would have been being played at that time. A couple are a few years old at that point, but were still popular on the dance floor, so they went in.

My kids hate it.

• Master And Servant - Depeche Mode
• She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
• Walk Away - The Sisters Of Mercy
• In Between Days - The Cure
• Cruiser's Creek - The Fall
• Nelson Mandela - Special AKA
• Peppermint Pig [7" Version] - Cocteau Twins
• Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
• Blue Monday - New Order
• Never Understand - The Jesus & Mary Chain
• This Is Not A Love Song - Public Image Ltd.
• V2 - That Petrol Emotion
• Walk This Way - Run-DMC
• Cities In Dust - Siouxsie & the Banshees
• Hand In Glove - Sandie Shaw
• Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag
• I Want You - Cabaret Voltaire
• Like An Angel - The Mighty Lemon Drops
• Seven Seas - Echo & The Bunnymen

Were you the DJ at the Waterfront-a-go-go, Skipton, in 1985 as that was most of his set list Fantastic!

 

[danny la rouge]

Were you the DJ at the Waterfront-a-go-go, Skipton, in 1985 as that was most of his set list Fantastic!

Not guilty. But it's very much a list of an era, isn't it?

 

[Griff]

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Hey you the rock steady crew - The rock steady crew
Safety Dance - Men without Hats
Temptation - Heaven 17
See those eyes - Altered Images
Geno - Dexys Midnight runners
Party Fears Too - The associates

Jesus there must be millions

 

[rhod]

Kraftwerk - Computer Love
Adam & The Ants - Stand & Deliver
Captain Sensible - Happy Talk
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Japan - Visions of China
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House
Fun Boy 3 - Lunatics are taking over the Asylum
Thomas Dolby - Europa & the Pirate Twins
Kuruki - Crocodile Tears
Thompson Twins - We are Detective