Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Bubbatunes Visits the 1980s Part 5

Well here's the last of our 80's mixes that we made for Christmas. A whole heap of fun and funk have transpired so far and yet not even all of my top 100 singles of the 80s have been represented so let's see what the final two volumes contained.

bub 120 Brad's Trip Back To The 80's Volume 9 Track List:
01. Money (That's What I Want) - Flying Lizards 02. We Got The Beat - Go Go's
03. Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics
04. Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
05. Rush Rush - Debbie Harry
06. Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
07. The Wanderer - Donna Summer
08. Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
09. Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - Samantha Fox
10. Conga - Miami Sound Machine
11. Johnny Can't Read - Don Henley
12. No Souvenirs - Melissa Etheridge
13. Maneater - Hall & Oates
14. Muscles - Diana Ross
15. Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
16. Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
17. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
18. Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar
19. Queen Of Hearts - Juice Newton
20. Hearts On Fire - Randy Meisner
21. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

This little volume contains some of the more essential or at least familiar of the 80's tunes, many which didn't make my initial top 100 list only because some are overplayed or obvious and there were so many others that meant more to me. But I couldn't make a whole 1o volume set and not include such staples as "Hungry Like The Wolf", "Money", "Queen Of Hearts" and "Maneater" or the MTV staples "Money For Nothing" (also a song title used for an episode of Carlton Heights - which uses all 80's song titles as titles), and the paranoia Alice in Wonderland vid "Don't Come Around Here No More." Plus I had to add a couple that were so close to making my list - the Pixies' excellant "Here Comes Your Man", Debbie's "Rush Rush" from Scarface and Randy Meisner's "Hearts On Fire."



bub 121 Brad's Trip Back To The 80's - Volume 10
Track List:
01. If You Leave - OMD
02. Solitaire - Laura Branigan
03. Lover Girl - Teena Marie
04. Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me - Juice Newton
05. Your Love - Outfield
06. Landslide - Olivia Newton-John
07. Love Is Like A Rock - Donnie Iris
08. All Fired Up - Pat Benatar
09. I Don't Want Your Love - Duran Duran
10. Cool Rider - Michelle Pfeiffer
11. Mad About You - Belinda Carlisle
12. Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles
13. Girls - Beastie Boys
14. Lean On Me - Club Nuveau
15. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
16. The Jam Was Moving - Debbie Harry
17. Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
18. Lay Down Your Arms - Graces
19. Alone - Heart
20. Life In One Day - Howard Jones
Our final volume was kind of a catch up volume, trying to get all the top 100 singles from my list that hadn't made it yet onto a volume, plus adding those final 80's songs that I loved but hadn't got to yet - some rarities like the Graces and Michelle Pfeiffer, some forgotten gems like "Lean On Me", "Twilight Zone" and a few of what I call roller skating songs - one particular song they played at High Roller in Wausau, Wisconsin over and over - "Love Is Like A Rock" and of course the Beastie's probably should be "Fight For Your Right" but that song is way over played and "Girls" is just so frickin' fun and hot.

And there you have the ten volume set of BRAD'S TRIP BACK TO THE 80's - bubbatunes 113-121. I hope Alf's neice enjoys them as much as I do... and I will try to get some mp3s up sometime before the weekend.. Next week, we'll look at some brand spankin' new 2008 Bubbatunes, there's some trippy things coming up. So stay tuned.


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