1985 Playlist
It's thirty years since I was eighteen. A fact I find hard to believe. Here's the soundtrack to my memories of 1985.
Here's the track list.
1. Young and Happy by The Golden Horde
2.The Boy with the Thorn in his Side by The Smiths
3.How Soon is Now? by The Smiths
4.The Last Man in Europe by The Blades
5.Downmarket by The Blades
6.My New House by The Fall
7.Cruisers Creek by The Fall
8.Never Understand by The Jesus & Mary Chain
9.Cemetery Polka by Tom Waits
10.Time by Tom Waits
11.Clothes of Pride by Stars of Heaven
12.Tupelo by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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3.New Day Rising by Hüsker Dü
14.Terms of Psychic Warfare by Hüsker Dü
15.This is What She's Like by Dexy's Midnight Runners
16. Tina, the Go-Go Queen by Tav Falco's Panther Burns
17.Begging Bowl by Microdisney
18.Time Flies by (when you're the Driver of a Train) by Half Man Half Biscuit
19.A Pair of Brown Eyes by The Pogues
20.The Sickbed of Cuchulainn by The Pogues
21.When Love Breaks Down by Prefab Sprout
22.Lost my Job by Alex Chilton
23.Can't Get There From Here by R.E.M.
24.Wendell Gee by R.E.M.
25.Pale Clouded White by Cocteau Twins
26.Sub-Culture by New Order
27.Yesterday's Men by Madness
28.Raspberry Beret by Prince and the Revolution
29.This is England by The Clash
30.Between the Wars by Billy Bragg
31.The World Turned Upside Down by Billy Bragg
32.Beyond Belief by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
33.Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) by Kate Bush
34.Cloudbursting by Kate Bush
35.Bastards of Young by The Replacements
36.Here Comes a Regular by The Replacements
37.Green Eyes by Hüsker Dü
38.Makes No Sense at All by Hüsker Dü
39.Take the Skinheads Bowling by Camper Van Beethoven
40.Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads
41.Singing in Braille by Five Go Down to The Sea
42.Chansonette by Agnes Bernelle
43.V2 by That Petrol Emotion
Happy Birthday, Seamus! Is it really thirty years since the release of Hounds of Love? One of my favourite albums of all time. Nice to be reminded of it here.
ReplyDeleteYes time doesn't seem to be running up a hill, but galloping down one. Probably makes for an unusual enough setting for Kate's music, which belongs in any company, as long as it is good.
DeleteAnother great list Seamus. Going to see the Replacements in the Roundhouse in June! Saw one of their last shows in the Olympia in 1991. Some great out takes in the reissues, Gudby t Jane, T Rex etc...Brendan
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it Brendan. The Replacements gig should be a real cracker. Must invest in some of those reissues! Wish I'd gone to see them in 1991.... Not sure why I didn't, although the rather Replacements-like shambolic chaos of my life at the time probably explains it all. (Even worse I may have been there and suffered one of those memory lapses which occurred with unhealthy regularity at the time...)
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