New mixes: your scary 80s 7 and 8

We call this “unclogging the pipes.” I have probably 20 mixes in various partial states of repair, and it’s high time I start publishing them so that I can make room for the real stuff.

So here are two—maybe, dare I hope, my last two—80s mixes. As always, the first one is the stuff I’m ashamed (and secretly happy) to remember, while the second one is stuff I would have been proud to listen to had I known about it while I was growing up.

Your Scary 80s 7

  1. Be near MeABC (How to Be a Zillionaire)
  2. Always Something There to Remind MeNaked Eyes (The Best of Naked Eyes)
  3. She Blinded Me With ScienceThomas Dolby (The Golden Age of Wireless)
  4. Your LoveThe Outfield (Play Deep)
  5. Spies Like UsPaul McCartney (Press to Play)
  6. Your Wildest DreamsThe Moody Blues (Anthology: the Moody Blues)
  7. Rain In the SummertimeThe Alarm (Eye of the Hurricane (Remastered))
  8. AfricaToto (Toto IV)
  9. No One Is To BlameHoward Jones (Dream Into Action)
  10. The Captain of Her HeartDouble (The Captain of Her Heart)
  11. Life In a Northern TownThe Dream Academy (Rhino Hi-Five: The Dream Academy – EP)
  12. Tonight, Tonight, TonightGenesis (Genesis: The Hits – Turn It On Again)
  13. Sanctify YourselfSimple Minds (Once Upon a Time)
  14. Higher Love (Full)Steve Winwood (Back in the High Life)
  15. I Wanna Be a CowboyBoys Don’t Cry (Boys Don’t Cry)
  16. Pump Up the Volume (USA 12)Colourbox (Best of Colourbox: 1982-1987)
  17. The ReflexDuran Duran (Duran Duran: Greatest)

Your Scary 80s 8

  1. Gardening At NightR.E.M. (Dead Letter Office)
  2. Alive and KickingSimple Minds (Once Upon a Time)
  3. You Be Illin’Run-DMC (Raising Hell)
  4. Do You Really Want 2 Hurt MeCulture Club (Culture Club (Box Set))
  5. West End GirlsPet Shop Boys (Please)
  6. Moments in LoveArt of Noise ((Who’s Afraid Of) The Art Of Noise?)
  7. Let the Day BeginMichael Been AKA The Call (The Best of the Call)
  8. The Perfect KissNew Order (Low-Life)
  9. Fire WomanThe Cult (Sonic Temple)
  10. One Thing Leads to AnotherThe Fixx (20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Fixx (Remastered))
  11. Banned in D.C.Bad Brains (Bad Brains)
  12. Rise AboveBlack Flag (Damaged)
  13. Small Man, Big MouthMinor Threat (First Two 7″s)
  14. Kinky Sex Makes the World Go ‘RoundDead Kennedys (Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death)
  15. I Want You BackHoodoo Gurus (Stoneage Romeo)
  16. RedMission Of Burma (Signals, Calls, And Marches)
  17. You Are My FriendThe Rain Parade (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip: Explosions In The Glass Palace)
  18. JetfighterThree O’Clock (Sixteen Tambourines/Baroque Hoedown)
  19. I Love Rock N’ RollJoan Jett and the Blackhearts (I Love Rock N’ Roll)
  20. Beat BoxArt of Noise (Into Battle with the Art of Noise)

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