1985 MP3 CDR 700MB

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1. Schoolly D - "P.S.K."
2. Einsturzende Neubauten – “Yu-Gung”
3. The Time – “Jungle Love”
4. The Mary Jane Girls – “In My House”
5. Roxanne Shante - "Queen of Rox"
6. Mantronix - "Needle to the Groove"
7. Jan Hammer – “Miami Vice Theme”
8. The Pointer Sisters – “The Neutron Dance”
9. Wayne Smith – “Under Mi Sleng Teng”
10. David Lee Roth – “California Girls”
11. Husker Du – “Makes No Sense At All”
12. New Order – “Love Vigilantes”
13. Bryan Adams – “Summer of 69”
14. Debarge – “Rhythm of the Night”
15. Marley Marl featuring MC Shan - "Marley Marl Scratch"
16. L.L. Cool J - "Rock the Bells"
17. Barrington Levy – “Here I Come (Broader Than Broadway)”
18. Madonna – “Dress You Up”
19. Til Tuesday – “Voices Carry”
20. Cocteau Twins – “Akia-Guinea”
21. The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Just Like Honey”
22. L.L. Cool J - "I Want You"
23. Roxanne Shante - "Bite This"
24. Black Flag – “Annihilate This Week”
25. Slayer – “Hell Awaits”
26. Sonic Youth – “Death Valley 69”
27. The Cult – “She Sells Sanctuary”
28. Simple Minds – “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”
29. A-Ha – “Take On Me”
30. The Smiths – “How Soon Is Now?”
31. Phil Collins – “Susussudio”
32. Run-D.M.C. - "Together Forever (Krush Groove 4)"
33. Kurtis Blow - "If I Ruled the World"
34. Tenor Saw – “Ring The Alarm”
35. Ready For The World – “Oh Sheila”
36. Prince – “Raspberry Beret”
37. Don Henley – “Boys of Summer”
38. The Fall – “L.A.”
39. Art of Noise – “Moments in Love”
40. Sade – “Smooth Operator”
41. Sheena Easton – “Sugar Walls”
42. Too $hort - "Girl"
43. Word of Mouth featuring DJ Cheese - "King Kut"
44. L.L. Cool J - "I Can't Live without My Radio"
45. Madonna – “Material Girl”
46. The Eurythmics – “Would I Lie To You?”
47. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force – “I Wonder If I Take You Home”
48. Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew - "The Show"/ "La Di Da Di"
49. Run-D.M.C. - "King of Rock"
50. Mantronix featuring MC Tee - "Fresh is the Word"
51. “Transfomers Theme”
52. Strafe – “Set It Off”
53. Dire Straits – “Money For Nothing”
54. Aretha Franklin – “Freeway of Love”
55. Scritti Politti – “Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)”
56. The Replacements – “Bastards of Young”
57. The Meat Puppets – “Away”
58. Rites of Spring – “End on End”
59. Honor Role – “Judgement Day”
60. Big Black – “Racer X”
61. Beastie Boys: "Rock Hard"
62. Stetsasonic: "Just Say Stet"
63. Rockmaster Scott & the Dynamic Three: "The Roof is on Fire"
64. Model 500 – “No UFO’s”
65. Yello – “Oh Yeah”
66. Pet Shop Boys – “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)”
67. The It – “Donnie”
68. Duran Duran – “Notorious (Latin Rascals Edit)”
69. Pet Shop Boys – “West End Girls (Shep Pettibone Remix)”
70. Lola – “Wax The Van”
71. Jazzy Jay - "Def Jam"
72. Super Nature - "The Show Stoppa (is Stupid Fresh)"
73. Beastie Boys - "She's on It"
74. 2 Live Crew – “We Want Some Pussy”
75. Dynamix II – “Just Give The DJ A Break”
76. World Class Wreckin Cru – “World Class”
77. Force MD's - "Itchin' for a Scratch"
78. Shannon – “Do You Wanna Get Away”
79. Marshall Jefferson – “Move Your Body”
80. Swans – “Raping A Slave (Live)”
81. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel – “Pigswill”
82. Coil – “Tainted Love”
83. Ministry – “Every Day Is Halloween”
84. Depeche Mode- “Shake The Disease”
85. Grace Jones – “Slave To The Rhythm”
86. Serious Intention – “You Don’t Know”
87. Alexander Robotnik – “Problems D’Amoure”
88. J.M. Silk – “Music Is The Key”
89. Fingers Inc. – “Mysteries of Love”
90. Nile Rodgers – “State Your Mind (Larry Levan Mix)”
91. Madonna – “Crazy For You”
92. The Jesus & Mary Chain – “You Trip Me Up”
93. Bryan Adams – “Heaven”
94. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Tupelo”
95. Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill”
96. Felt – “Primitive Painters”
97. Scritti Politti – “Absolute”
98. Tears For Fears – “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”

gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 04:58 (twenty years ago) link

crikey! 1985 was a pretty damn good year after all

the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link

the rumors of it's underratedness were highly exaggerated, yes!

gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:08 (twenty years ago) link

I can demolish that entire disc's goodness by one further inclusion from that year:

John Parr, "Man in Motion (St. Elmo's Fire)"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:09 (twenty years ago) link

haha well yes, next up is the "1985 (What I Purposefully Left Out" mix

gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link

i want to live in gabbo's alternate universe

rob geary (rgeary), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:16 (twenty years ago) link

er, have lived in...or...dammit, english has no time traveling tense

rob geary (rgeary), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link

for comparison.

gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link

the fact that i think of at least 90% of those songs with fondness says a lot about people who grew up in the 80s, i think.

gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:19 (twenty years ago) link

holy hell, what a bad year for the charts. sadly i know virtually every note of the first 25 or so

rob geary (rgeary), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link

big year for phil collins too.

rob geary (rgeary), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link

*13  CAN'T FIGHT THIS FEELING, REO Speedwagon (Epic) (#1, March)
*14  WE BUILT THIS CITY, Starship (Grunt) (#1, Nov)
*15  THE POWER OF LOVE, Huey Lewis and the News (Chysalis) (#1, Aug)

Good god, it's like a wrestling tag-team of suck. I deeply appreciate the fact, though, that there was a record label going big time with the name 'Grunt'

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link

it's really bizarre to think of a world where rap exists and yet isn't the biggest music ever.

gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:22 (twenty years ago) link

my version i would substitute
61 AXEL F, Harold Faltermeyer (MCA) (#3, June)
for "boys of summer," because i could happily live the rest of my natural life without ever hearing don henley's voice again

rob geary (rgeary), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:24 (twenty years ago) link

it's really bizarre to think of a world where rap exists and yet isn't the biggest music ever.

Now you know how Greil Marcus must have felt looking back in 1973 at charts from 1955.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:29 (twenty years ago) link

wannacopy wannacopy wannacopy (dude, "Jungle Love" is '84--it was in Purple Rain!)

M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

you could probably stick all of The Indestructible Beat of Soweto in sequence somwhere in there too!

M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

oh I see "Jungle Love" peaked in '85. fine then, nevermind

M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:46 (twenty years ago) link

aahh shit Gabbo, you break my heart; i'm overcome with nostalgia. Are you kidding me, this looks like the best year ever!! Actually, this kinda throws into relief the whole '84 is "the best" theme ... cos when I look at that tracklist I realize that this is when I was really irreversably falling in love with music. So much astounding stuff on that list ... and a lotta the release dates, I gotta confess, I had completely WRONG in my head. It's a great track list because it shows how heterogeneous the pop music landscape was, as well as the nascent underground (SY, puppets). I only tend to remember the pop stuff at first blush ... but christ was there a lot of amazing shit getting laid down..

Couple of head-slapping points I had, merely as a result of perusing the tracklist:

-P.S.K. - what a way to start (but what does it mean??)

-Jesus & Mary Chain in 1985 = In -FUCKING -sane. Always loved them, but I seriously need to personally reevaluate just what those two were up to. I can't get my head round the fact that their shit was birthed side-by-side with "Miami Vice Theme" and "Neutron Dance" (love both those cuts, btw; but the point is how oblivious I was to any kind of underground at that point). It's projects like these CDRs - which kinda force these introductions between strange bedfellows and afford the opportunity for reevaluation - which reinforces my love of music.

- It always seemed like that darn Van Halen breakup came later, for some reason. Yes, I realize the last album was called 1984; but shit, it always felt like classic Van Halen was with us for a greater portion of the 80's.... Man, it's hard to imagine that Roth solo cut sitting side-by-side with something like "Take On Me" (one of my favoritest songs EVER; yes, I still own the picture sleeve 45 of the fucker I bought back in '85), but I guess that's my own selective memory at work.

- 2 Live Crew's "We Want Some Pussy"? Haha! I can't believe that thing came out that early.

- It's weird too cos Cult's "She Sells Sanctuary" seems so nascent "alternative" (and thereby really kinda later 90s); did that fuckin thing really come out in '85??

I think the main thing I come away with, is how much amazing music was made by heroes of mine seemingly oblivious to each other. Like, many tracks on that comp are burned in my branebox. Compiled together like that it strikes me how disparate everything was in those days; my knee-jerk response is to think of all the prominent pop crap I loved so dearly. Nice one.

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:53 (twenty years ago) link

christ I don't even know what I was trying to say in that last para;

back from the bar; drunk........

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:55 (twenty years ago) link

also, "Sussudio" was one of the first videos I really looked forward to.

For some reason, a young Mr. Diamond really enjoyed the spectacle of a balding Phil Collins keeping his arms really close to his chest whilst he danced in front of a microphone. But christ did that groove EXPLODE out of the speakers on "Friday Night Videos".

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 19 September 2003 06:06 (twenty years ago) link

Woohoo! Some other tracks I guess would have made mine:

The Colour Field: "Castles in the Air"
The Cure: "Close to Me"
Dead Or Alive: "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
Dream Academy: "Life in a Northern Town"
Propaganda: "P:Machinery"

and, ducking in advance, maybe even

Marillion: "Kayleigh"

OleM (OleM), Friday, 19 September 2003 06:34 (twenty years ago) link

Damn, that's impressive. I'd've thrown in Naked Raygun's "Rat Patrol" or the Misfits' "TV Casualty" or Tom Waits' "Jockey Full of Bourbon", but it's still strong without 'em.

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 19 September 2003 09:57 (twenty years ago) link

why do i remember rock the bells coming out in 84? could i have heard it or Radio in 84? yeah, memory is weird. and annhilate this week was on Loose Nut right? i definitely don't remember that being 85. jeez. ah, but i remember picking up the 12 inch of Primitive painters at Tower in manhattan like it was yesterday! even though it was 18 years ago. and i just bought the Felt dvd yesterday! great mix, jess.

scott seward, Friday, 19 September 2003 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

if you're American then "Life In A Northern Town" is 1986 - mind you so is Duran's "Notorious" which gabbo did include ...

robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

and of course so are the PSB songs in pop chart terms come to think of it

robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

jockey full of bourbon! nice one nate.

rob geary (rgeary), Saturday, 20 September 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...
Waaaiiitt...Coil's "Tainted Love" is totally 1984. AND FUCKING FUCKING FUCK I want "How Soon Is Now?" on MINE. It was on an 1984 album and it even wound up on Peel's Festive 50 for '84!

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

Plus your reggae year beats my reggae year.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 03:10 (twenty years ago) link

Oi! Oi! Oi!

Oct 20, 1986: "Notorious" single released worldwide (b/w "Winter Marches On")

Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 4 December 2003 04:43 (twenty years ago) link

mentioned upthread.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 04:44 (twenty years ago) link

(sorry)

Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 4 December 2003 04:51 (twenty years ago) link

You really, really need Sheila E's Glamorous life and Colourbox's The moon is blue. Plus as I'm feeling pedantic Moments in love goes way back to '83 on the Into battle with AON EP..

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

'glamorous life' was '84. but 'a love bizarre' was on her '85 lp!

brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:25 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.tigersushi.com/site/content/disc/cover/2608_2.jpg

1986. I been robbed.

Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 8 December 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

i think the opening 14 song stretch of this might be my favorite mix cd ever.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 8 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...
just in...

Marcello on 1985...
http://nostudium.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_nostudium_archive.html#107477822632686137

DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...
jesso, gonna have to be a nitbicky pitch here, but Art of Noise's "Moments in Love" is originally from 1983, and the redone version is from 1984. Besides, you ignored "In Visible Silence" from 1985, which has plenty of good stuff on it!

donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link

(or just grab a 1985 track from Ott's 1986.. haha)

donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago) link

(i tease and kiss you, ott)

donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:40 (twenty years ago) link


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