Alternative 80's

Artist: Various Artists Label: Sony Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 5099750809327 ASIN: B0000666VN Release Date: 2003-12-02

Alternative 80's

Tracks:

1. Rock The Casbah - The Clash
2. The First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters
3. Pretty In Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
4. Brilliant Mind - Furniture
5. Love Is A Wonderful Colour - Icicle Works
6. Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
7. Blue Monday - New Order
8. The King Of Rock N Roll - Prefab Sprout
9. Im In Love With A German Film Star - The Passions
10. Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkeys
11. Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
12. Birthday - The Sugarcubes
13. Another Girl Another Planet - The Only Ones
14. E Equals MC Squared - Big Audio Dynamite
15. Never Never - The Assembly
16. Crash - The Primitives
17. World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
18. Theres A Ghost In My House - The Fall
19. Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army
20. She Sells Santuary - The Cult
21. The Killing Moon - Echo And The Bunnymen
22. Boys Dont Cry - The Cure
23. Party Fears Two - The Associates
24. Liberator - Spear Of Destiny
25. Reward - The Teardrop Explodes
26. (Feels Like) Heaven - Fiction Factory
27. Young At Heart - The Bluebells
28. I Could Be Happy - Altered Images
29. Pearly Dewdrops Drops - Cocteau Twins
30. Sometimes - Erasure
31. This Is The Day - The The
32. Sonic Boom Boy - Westworld
33. Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange
34. Lost Weekend - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
35. Everyday I Write The Book - Elvis Costello And The Attractio
36. Shout To The Top - The Style Council
37. Always The Sun - The Stranglers
38. Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
39. A New England - Kirsty MacColl

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Album Description

Customer Reviews:

Big hits and rare classics.......2003-09-30

The most familiar songs on Disc One are Blue Monday by New Order (a timeless club hit), the brilliant World Shut Your Mouth by Julian Cope, The King Of Rock `n Roll by Prefab Sprout and Pretty In Pink by The Psychedelic Furs.

Rock The Casbah by The Clash and Dream Academy's lovely interpretation of Nick Drake's Life In A Northern Town were hits too, but my favorites are the Bauhaus version of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and The Fall's version of R. Dean Taylor's There's A Ghost In My House.

On Disc Two one finds electronica in the form of Blancmange, beautiful folk songs by The Pogues and by Kirsty MacColl, great rock by The Cure, early 80s post-punk by The Teardrop Explodes, snappy pop by Altered Images and atmospheric ethereal pop by Cocteau Twins.

Alternative 80's provides an excellent window on the music that mattered in a decade that also gave us lots of shallow stuff. Other worthwhile acts include Elvis Costello with the catchy Every Day I Write The Book, Lloyd Cole, The Style Council and The Stranglers.

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