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Record Label: Now Music

Format: Album

Genre: Alternative, Pop

Release Date: 16/06/2023

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NOW Music proudly presents NOW – 80s Alternative: 30 tracks across 2 LPs, pressed on stunning pink vinyl and 80 tracks across 4 CDs – encapsulating the era and celebrating an incredibly diverse decade for ‘Alternative’ music.

LP1’s first side showcases this diversity: Kicking off with Eurythmics stunning ‘Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)’, and Propaganda’s magnificent debut ‘Dr. Mabuse’, before The B-52’s bring U.S. New Wave with ‘Planet Claire’. Post-Punk Pop exploded on the charts of the early 80s, and The Associates and The Stranglers feature, as do The Adventures ‘Broken Land’ and Marc Almond’s ‘Stories Of Johnny’ – both amazing songs. That calibre of song writing is continued on the second side with Tom Robinson’s ‘Atmospherics…’ and the Elvis Costello co-write ‘Shipbuilding’, beautifully realised by Robert Wyatt. Next up is the understated classic ‘I’m In Love With A German Film Star’ from The Passions, leading into Synth-Pop from Yello, Midge Ure & Mick Karn, Japan and a brilliant single from Japanese band Sandii & The Sunsetz. LP1 fittingly closes with defining U.S. New Wave smash ‘Whip It’ from DEVO.

The epic ‘This Corrosion’ from Sisters Of Mercy starts LP 2 in grandiose style, followed by atmospheric masterpieces from Siouxsie And The Banshees, Bauhaus and The Cure. The debut hit from Bjork’s band The Sugarcubes with ‘Birthday’ follows, before David Sylvian’s ‘Pop Song’, and ‘Flowers’ from Zaine Griff (featuring Kate Bush on backing vocals).

The final side opens with the song that launched one of the defining bands of the era, The Smiths, with ‘Hand In Glove’. Timeless hits from Aztec Camera and the Pretenders lead to R.E.M., the Pixies and The Psychedelic Furs representing the U.S. Alt scene, and the collection draws to a close with The Cult’s ‘Edie (Ciao Baby)’, and The Clash’s commentary on the era ‘This Is England’.

NOW – 80s Alternative – A celebration of a different view of the decade’s charts – the lesser-compiled 1980’s singles.

Track Listing

2LP

Side A

  1. Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)
  2. Propaganda – Dr. Mabuse
  3. The B-52’s – Planet Claire
  4. The Associates – Party Fears Two
  5. Marc Almond – Stories Of Johnny
  6. The Adventures – Broken Land
  7. The Stranglers – European Female

Side B

  1. Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding
  2. Tom Robinson – Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio
  3. The Passions – I’m In Love With A German Film Star
  4. Midge Ure & Mick Karn – After A Fashion
  5. Japan – Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Edit)
  6. Sandii & The Sunsetz – Dreams Of Immigrants
  7. Yello – Vicious Games
  8. DEVO – Whip It

Side C

  1. Sisters Of Mercy – This Corrosion
  2. Siouxsie And The Banshees – Peek-A-Boo
  3. Bauhaus – Kick In The Eye
  4. The Cure – A Forest
  5. The Sugarcubes – Birthday
  6. David Sylvian – Pop Song
  7. Zaine Griff – Flowers

Side D

  1. The Smiths – Hand In Glove
  2. Aztec Camera – Oblivious
  3. Pretenders – Talk Of The Town
  4. R.E.M. – So. Central Rain
  5. Pixies – Monkey Gone To Heaven
  6. The Psychedelic Furs – President Gas
  7. The Cult – Edie (Ciao Baby)
  8. The Clash – This Is England

4CD

CD 1

  1. New Order – Thieves Like Us
  2. Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)
  3. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
  4. David Sylvian – Red Guitar
  5. The Associates – Party Fears Two
  6. Marc Almond – Stories Of Johnny
  7. Aztec Camera – Oblivious
  8. Pete Wylie & The Mighty WAH! – Come Back
  9. The Adventures – Broken Land
  10. Iggy Pop – Shades
  11. Pretenders – Talk Of The Town
  12. R.E.M. – So. Central Rain
  13. Pixies – Monkey Gone To Heaven
  14. The Psychedelic Furs – President Gas
  15. The B-52’s – Planet Claire
  16. The Creatures – Mad Eyed Screamer
  17. Echo And The Bunnymen – The Cutter
  18. The Jam – That’s Entertainment
  19. Tom Robinson – Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio
  20. Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding

CD 2

  1. Laurie Anderson – O Superman
  2. The Passions – I’m In Love With A German Film Star
  3. The Stranglers – European Female
  4. Electronic – Getting Away With It
  5. Propaganda – Dr. Mabuse
  6. Yello – Vicious Games
  7. Scarlet Fantastic – No Memory
  8. The Motels – Suddenly Last Summer
  9. Naked Eyes – Always Something There to Remind Me
  10. Split Enz – I Got You
  11. Our Daughter’s Wedding – Lawnchairs
  12. DEVO – Whip It
  13. Midge Ure & Mick Karn – After A Fashion
  14. Japan – Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Edit)
  15. Sandii & The Sunsetz – Dream Of Immigrants
  16. China Crisis – African And White
  17. The Lotus Eaters – The First Picture Of You
  18. Zaine Griff – Flowers
  19. Anne Pigalle – He! Stranger

CD 3

  1. Sisters Of Mercy – This Corrosion
  2. Siouxsie And The Banshees – Peek-A-Boo
  3. Bauhaus – Kick In The Eye
  4. The Cure – A Forest
  5. Joy Division – Atmosphere
  6. The Sugarcubes – Birthday
  7. David Sylvian – Pop Song
  8. Act – Snobbery & Decay
  9. Simple Minds – The American
  10. Soft Cell – Down In The Subway
  11. The Fall – There’s A Ghost In My House
  12. The Damned – Grimly Fiendish
  13. Spear Of Destiny – Liberator
  14. Theatre Of Hate – Do You Believe In The Westworld?
  15. The Clash – This Is England
  16. The Cult – Edie (Ciao Baby)
  17. The Mission – Tower Of Strength
  18. All About Eve – Martha’s Harbour
  19. The Darling Buds – Hit The Ground
  20. The Go-Go’s – Head Over Heels
  21. The Waitresses – I Know What Boys Like

CD 4

  1. The Smiths – Hand In Glove
  2. The Icicle Works – Love Is A Wonderful Colour
  3. It’s Immaterial – Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune)
  4. Timbuk 3 – The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
  5. Wall Of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
  6. XTC – Senses Working Overtime
  7. B-Movie – Remembrance Day
  8. Kissing The Pink – The Last Film
  9. Gang Of Four – I Love A Man In A Uniform
  10. After The Fire – Der Kommissar
  11. Altered Images – Dead Pop Stars
  12. Toyah – Ieya
  13. Adam & The Ants – Car Trouble
  14. Julian Cope – World Shut Your Mouth
  15. The Primitives – Crash
  16. Westworld – Sonic Boom Boy
  17. Pop Will Eat Itself – Def Con One
  18. Big Audio Dynamite – Medicine Show
  19. Latin Quarter – Radio Africa
  20. Scritti Politti – The “Sweetest Girl”
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