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Title: NOW - 80s Alternative
Condition: New
Format: CD
EAN: 0196588008726
Edition: 4CD
Genre: Rock/Pop
Style: Compilation
Release Date: 16/06/2023
Description: NOW Music proudly presents 'NOW - 80s Alternative': 80 tracks across 4 CDs encapsulating the era and celebrating an incredibly diverse decade for 'Alternative' music. CD1 showcases genre-defining bands and kicks off with New Order's sublime 'Thieves Like Us', Eurythmics stunning 'Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)' and Joy Division's era defining 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. Post-Punk New Wave exploded on to the charts, and The Associates, The Jam, Echo And The Bunnymen, Pretenders, and Siouxsie's side project The Creatures are all included. The U.S. Alt scene provided R.E.M., Pixies, The Psychedelic Furs, and the David Bowie co-write 'Shades' from Iggy Pop. Plus, some of the best written Pop songs ever, represented here by David Sylvian, Marc Almond, Aztec Camera, Pete Wylie & The Mighty WAH!, The Adventures and Tom Robinson. The (still) incredible 'O Superman' from Laurie Anderson opens the second disc, along with other synth-based classics from Yello, Propaganda, Midge Ure & Mick Karn, Japan, Electronic and a brilliant single from Japanese band Sandii & The Sunsetz. The epic 'This Corrosion' from Sisters Of Mercy starts CD3 in grandiose style - and is followed with atmospheric masterpieces from Siouxsie And The Banshees, Bauhaus, The Cure and a second appearance from Joy Division - before some late '80s Alternative essentials, including Bjork's band The Sugarcubes, Act, The Mission, All About Eve, The Cult's 'Edie (Ciao Baby)', 'This Is England' from The Clash, and The Fall's version of 'There's A Ghost In My House', before closing with two more great examples of U.S. Alt Pop from The Go-Go's, and The Waitresses. Opening with the song that launched one of the defining bands of the era, The Smiths, with 'Hand In Glove' the final CD features a stellar line up of '80s Alternative Chart hits - The Icicle Works, It's Immaterial, B-Movie, Kissing The Pink and Gang Of Four are all featured with timeless singles. Altered Images, Toyah and Adam & The Ants would go on to find huge mainstream success in the early '80s - and we celebrate these artists with their earlier singles. Big Audio Dynamite, Julian Cope and XTC are also included before the collection draws to a close with Latin Quarter's 'Radio Africa' - and Scritti Politti's 1981 single 'The 'Sweetest Girl''. 'NOW - 80s Alternative' - A celebration of a different view of the decade's charts - the lesser-compiled 1980's singles.
No Of Discs: 4
Artist: Various Artists
Type: Album
Record Label: NOW
MPN: CDNNNOW141
Release Year: 2023
Tracks:
Disc 1 1: Thieves Like Us - New Order 2: Beethoven (I Love to Listen To) - Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart 3: Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division 4: Red Guitar - David Sylvian 5: Party Fears Two - The Associates 6: Stories of Johnny - Marc Almond 7: Oblivious - Aztec Camera 8: Come Back - Pete Wylie & The Mighty WAH! 9: Broken Land - The Adventures 10: Shades - Iggy Pop 11: Talk of the Town - The Pretenders 12: So. Central Rain - R.E.M. 13: Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies 14: President Gas - The Psychedelic Furs 15: Planet Claire - The B-52's 16: Mad Eyed Screamer - The Creatures 17: The Cutter - Echo & the Bunnymen 18: That's Entertainment - The Jam 19: Atmospherics: Listen to the Radio - Tom Robinson 20: Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt Disc 2 1: O Superman - Laurie Anderson 2: I'm in Love With a German Film Star - The Passions 3: European Female - The Stranglers 4: Getting Away With It - Electronic 5: Dr. Mabuse - Propaganda 6: Vicious Games - Yello 7: No Memory - Scarlet Fantastic 8: Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels 9: Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes 10: I Got You - Split Enz 11: Lawnchairs - Our Daughter's Wedding 12: Whip It - Devo 13: After a Fashion - Midge Ure & Mick Karn 14: Gentlemen Take Polaroids - Japan 15: Dreams of Immigrants - Sandii & The Sunsetz 16: African and White - China Crisis 17: The First Picture of You - The Lotus Eaters 18: Flowers - Zaine Griff 19: He! Stranger... - Anne Pigalle Disc 3 1: This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy 2: Peek-a-boo - Siouxsie and the Banshees 3: Kick in the Eye - Bauhaus 4: A Forest - The Cure 5: Atmosphere - Joy Division 6: Birthday - The Sugarcubes 7: Pop Song - David Sylvian 8: Snobbery and Decay - Act 9: The American - Simple Minds 10: Down in the Subway - Soft Cell 11: There's a Ghost in My House - The Fall 12: Grimly Fiendish - The Damned 13: Liberator - Spear of Destiny 14: Do You Believe in the Westworld? - Theatre of Hate 15: This Is England - The Clash 16: Edie (Ciao Baby) - The Cult 17: Tower of Strength - The Mission 18: Martha's Harbour - All About Eve 19: Hit the Ground - The Darling Buds 20: Head Over Heels - The Go-Go's 21: I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses Disc 4 1: Hand in Glove - The Smiths 2: Love Is a Wonderful Colour - The Icicle Works 3: Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune) - It's Immaterial 4: The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) - Timbuk3 5: Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo 6: Senses Working Overtime - XTC 7: Remembrance Day - B-Movie 8: The Last Film - Kissing the Pink 9: I Love a Man in a Uniform - Gang of Four 10: Der Kommissar - After the Fire 11: Dead Pop Stars - Altered Images 12: Ieya - Toyah 13: Car Trouble - Adam & The Ants 14: World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope 15: Crash - The Primitives 16: Sonic Boom Boy - Westworld 17: Def Con One - Pop Will Eat Itself 18: Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite 19: Radio Africa - Latin Quarter 20: The "sweetest Girl" - Scritti Politti

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