Playlist 26 December 20

1980 - Part One

I have long held that 1980 was the most remarkable year in music.
With this in mind I focus on music released in 1980 to celebrate the albims, eps and singles of that year alone.

Show No: 829
Song — Artist — From
Me Myself I — Joan Armatrading — Me, Myself, I
Waiting For The Weekend — The Vapors — New Clear Days
Beat Crazy — Joe Jackson — Beat Crazy
Echo Beach — Martha & The Muffins — Metro Music
I Wanna Destroy You — The Soft Boys — Underwater Moonlight
When The World Is Running Down — The Police — Zenyatta Mondatta
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) — Talking Heads — Remain In Light
Sleepwalk — Ultravox — Vienna
Coming In from the Cold — Bob Marley & The Wailers — Uprising
Master Blaster (Jammin') — Stevie Wonder — Hotter Than July Hitsville UK — The Clash — Sandinista!
When You Were Mine — Prince — Dirty Mind
Music For Evenings — Young Marble Giants — Colossal Youth
Ring Of Fire — Wall Of Voodoo — The Index Masters
Soul Kitchen — X — Los Angeles
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) — David Bowie — Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
I Don't Remember — Peter Gabriel — Peter Gabriel
All We Ever Look For — Kate Bush — Never For Ever
The Box — Fad Gadget — Fireside Favourites
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down — Elvis Costello & The Attractions — Get Happy!!
Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) — Squeeze — Argybargy
My Perfect Cousin — The Undertones — Hypnotised
Let Go — Dirty Looks — Dirty Looks
Burning With Optimism's Flames — XTC — Black Sea
Gates Of Steel — Devo — Freedom Of Choice
Stop Your Sobbing — Pretenders — Pretenders
Are Everything — The Buzzcocks — Singles Going Steady
Rapture — Blondie — Autoamerican
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) — Magazine — The Correct Use Of Soap
That's Entertainment — The Jam — Sound Affects

Playlist 19 December 20

Show No: 828
Song — Artist — From
Winter Love — Robyn Hitchcock — I Often Dream of Trains
December Sunlight (Cried Out) [Alternative Version To Naked Self] — The The — 45 RPM: The Singles Of The The
She's Got A New Spell — Billy Bragg — Workers Playtime
Streets Of Your Town — The Go-Betweens — 16 Lovers Lane
Mildenhall — The Shins — Heartworms
Perfect Skin — Lloyd Cole — Small Ensemble - Slaughterhouse Studios, 01/22/2010 [Live]
Don't Carry It All — The Decemberists — The King Is Dead
Walls Come Tumbling Down — The Style Council — Our Favourite Shop
Waterloo Sunset — Ray Davies & Damon Albam Ray Davies — This Is Where I Belong: The Songs Of Ray Davies & The Kinks
The Kids Are Alright — The Who — My Generation
If The Kids Are United — Sham 69 — Single
Science — Paul Weller — Heavy Soul
Merely A Man — XTC — Oranges & Lemons
This Town... — Elvis Costello — Spike
Breakdown — Grace Jones — Warm Leatherette
I'm Lucky — Joan Armatrading — Walk Under Ladders
This is What You Did — This Is The Kit — Off Off On Spell It Out — OHMME — Fantasize Your Ghost
14 Reasons — The Horse Flies — Until The Ocean
Last of Your Rock 'n' Roll Heroes — Iron & Wine — Weed Garden
Sometimes — J Mascis — Elastic Days
Things — Paul Westerberg — 14 Songs
Untogether — Belly — Star
Move — Inspiral Carpets — Life
Hooligan — The Heart Throbs — Jubilee Twist
Brains — Lower Dens — Nootropics
Heaven Sent — Best Coast — California Nights
Give This World To You — The Primitives — Galore
The Only One I Know — The Charlatans — Some Friendly
That's Entertainment — The Jam — Sound Affects

Playlist 12 December 20

Show No: 827
Song — Artist — From
Lazy Day — John Cale — Single
A Long Way Past The Past — Fleet Foxes — Shore
Eagle Eye — Ohmme — Ohmme + The Aubreys 7"
Northern Song — The Asteroid No.4 — Northern Songs
His Rope — Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke — Single
Higgs Boson Blues — Nick Cave — Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
Opaline — Jeff Tweedy — Love is the King
Pearls — Kurt Vile — Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (EP)
One More Second — Matt Berninger — Serpentine Prison
Dinosaurs on the Mountain — The Flaming Lips — American Head
Oh Desire — Camphor — Here Where the Light Falls
Happiness — The Blue Nile — Peace At Last
Never Known Version — The Durutti Column — Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness
Friends Around Us — A Certain Ratio — ACR LOCO
Inner Drive (Dub Mix) — Section 25 — 16 Tobacco Perfecto
Out of Sight — The Beths — Jump Rope Gazers
For Your Pleasure — Shopping — All Or Nothing
Texas Drums Pt I & II — Pottery — Welcome to Bobby's Motel
Signal — Automatic — Signal
A Hero's Death — Fontaines D.C. — A Hero's Death
Falling Thunder — Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Sideways To New Italy
Tomorrow Morning Daydream — The Adult Net — The Honey Tangle
Home — Teenage Fanclub — Endless Arcade
That's Entertainment — The Jam — Sound Affects

Playlist 05 December 20

Show No: 826
Song — Artist — From
December Rains — John Cale — Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood
Microscopic Flesh Fragment — Cabaret Voltaire — Shadow of Fear
Don't Don't Get Freaked Out — Negativland — The World Will Decide
Strange Timez — Gorillaz — Song Machine: Season One - Strange Timez
Sleep Today(Radio Edit) — Maps — Single
Home — Teenage Fanclub — Endless Arcade
not a lot, just forever — — adrianne lenker — songs
All For Nothing — Matt Berninger — Serpentine Prison
Shinbone Soap — This Is The Kit — Off Off On
Moonlight Rose — Camphor — Here Where the Light Falls
These Days Are Mine — I Am Kloot — Let It All In
The Gentle Souls — Eels — Earth To Dora
Come Home — The Coral — The Invisible Invasion
Weekend Revolution — The Ordinary Boys — Over the Counter Culture
Map & Direction — The Wonder Stuff — Better Being Lucky
Distant Sun — Crowded House — Together Alone
Until You Came Along — Golden Smog — Weird Tales
When the Spell Is Broken — Richard Thompson — Acoustic Classics
Red Guitar — David Sylvian — Brilliant Trees
Falling Down Around Me — The Teardrop Explodes — Wilder
State of the Nation — Fad Gadget — Fireside Favourites
Pillar Box Red — The The — 45 RPM: The Singles Of The The
Mr. Malcontent — Lloyd Cole & The Commotions — Mainstream
Silver — Echo & The Bunnymen — Ocean Rain
Dreams Never End — New Order — Movement
That's Entertainment — The Jam — Sound Affects