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April 27, 2005
Play List, 4/27/05
The AirportExpress is helping me play this tonight:
West End Girls -- Pet Shop Boys -- Discography
Wap Bam Boogie -- Matt Bianco -- Indigo, 1988
This Is the Right Time -- Lisa Stansfield -- Affection, 1990
Situation -- Yaz -- Upstairs at Eric's, 1982
Say It's Not Too Late -- Matt Bianco -- Indigo, 1988
R & B -- Matt Bianco -- Indigo, 1988
Ode to Boy -- Yaz -- You and me both, 1983
Indigo -- Matt Bianco -- Indigo, 1988
How To Be A Millionaire -- ABC -- Absolutely, 1990
Everyone Everywhere -- New Order -- Republic
Don't Stand So Close to Me -- The Police -- Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980
Cloud 8 -- Frazier Chorus -- Ray, 1991
Chains Of Love -- Erasure -- The Innocents, 1988
But Is It Commercial? -- Jon Astley -- The Compleat Angler, 1988
All Around the World -- Lisa Stansfield -- Affection, 1990
Accidents Will Happen -- Elvis Costello & the Attractions -- Armed Forces, 1979
(We Don't Need) Fascist Groove Thang* -- Heaven 17 -- Best Of Heaven 17, orig. 1982
It's a Brit Pop Post Supper Extravaganza!
*This song helped me realize that great art and great dance music can be made by idiots and still be worth looking at or dancing to. What can I say -- I'm no South Park Republican; I'm an 80s Dance Music Republican. For instance, Miss Tushnet uses "The Politics of Dancing" as the title of an ongoing essay series for reflection on the pop. Me, I just groove to Re-Flex and flash back to when it was a new song. It's a Dionysian moment for me, though 80s dance music did help me avoid taking either Englishmen or people who use the word "Fascist" seriously in grad school. That was a lesson worth learning in 1982.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 27, 2005 9:01 PM