| 01. Real Life – Send Me an Angel (3:51) 02. Shalamar – The Look (3:58) 03. New Order – Blue Monday (4:07) 04. This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren (3:30) 05. Accept – Love Child (3:36) 06. Lime – Angel Eyes (4:48) 07. Shannon – Let the Music Play (4:33) 08. Shriekback – Evaporation (3:19) 09. Big Country – In a Big Country (3:56) 10. Split Enz – Message to My Girl (4:04) 11. The Church – Fly (2:11) 12. Depeche Mode – Get the Balance Right! (3:16) 13. Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized (3:49) 14. Madonna – Borderline (4:00) 15. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel – White Lines (Don’t Do It) (4:28) 16. Public Image Ltd. – (This is Not A) Love Song (3:32) 17. R.E.M. – Talk About the Passion (3:23) 18. Midnight Oil – Short Memory (3:53) 19. The B-52’s – Legal Tender (3:41) 20. Freur – Doot Doot (4:01) I took on 1983 remembering a lot of amazing things I wanted to include, but then found out they were from either 1982 or 1984. D’oh! Still, there’s plenty of great stuff here including "Blue Monday," which is still the best selling 12" single of all time, "White Lines," which has been ripped out about a thousand different ways over the years, "Borderline," when Madonna was brand spankin’ new, "Short Memory," which was one of the first indicators that Midnight Oil was about to become severely political (and was actually from their 1982 album, but made it in on a technicality by being released in the US in 1983). Also, did you ever think you’d hear a mix where This Mortal Coil segues into Accept…and have it sound so devilishly perfect? |