The Summer of 83
I was 13, and it was a great summer for pop music: Michael Jackson still looked like a normal person, Prince had yet to become a symbol, and European synthpop played in Peoria.
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Wed Jan 14 04:06:33 UTC 2009
Ah the golden age of my type of music (aka with words!) - like it!
Sat Jan 17 22:37:57 UTC 2009
A great mix from my junior year of high school. "Overkill" was always my favorite M@W song, and is usually neglected in favor of their bigger hits...bonus points are awarded for the Flock of Seagulls bookends!
Wed Jan 21 23:33:05 UTC 2009
Thank you! Overkill is such a catchy, subtle track. Def prefer it to Down Under and Who Can It Be Now? from the first album.
I have to confess: I still love AFOS, esp Space Age Love Song.
Fri Jul 10 18:57:23 UTC 2009
OMG...how could I forget about Men at Work...one of my closest friends used to date the drummer and I totally spaced them!
Tue Dec 29 08:43:15 UTC 2009
Love this mix. Growing up in the 80s, sometimes when i hear tracks like this it's almost hard to believe how good we had it. MTV was big not not everywhere, and records still stacked up tall against my bedroom wall waiting to be played for hours.
Tue Dec 29 09:02:54 UTC 2009
@conceptina - We did have it good. And I wasn't even aware of a lot of the stuff I started listening to a few years later (New Order, the Cure) that was happening during these years (but not on non-college US radio). Sooo long ago now.
Fri Sep 26 02:23:22 UTC 2008
I love this. Thank you! -- born in '83.