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1987 Was a Beautiful Year
Submitted by imaginary stella on April 3, 2007.KEXP uber-DJ John in the Morning just completed a wondrous feat: an hour and a half of music all straight outta 1987. At first I thought myself caught in a timewarp, and then I wondered aloud "who died?" Turns out he was simply fulfilling a listener's request to hear some tunes from '87. Talk about democracy. That was probably the best set of music I have heard in a long time (call me nostalgic). I'm proudly donning my Madonna "Who's That Girl" tour shirt, circa 1987, in honor.
You can no doubt catch it on the KEXP's streaming archives shortly.
Here are the songs...
Public Image Limited "Seattle
Midnight Oil "Put Down That Weapon"
Sonic Youth "Beauty Lies In The Eye"
The Wedding Present "Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft"
The Cult "Wild Flower"
New Order "True Faith"
Love and Rockets "Waiting For the Flood"
Jane's Addiction "I Would For You"
Descendents "Clean Sheets"
Echo and the Bunnymen "Lips Like Sugar"
Jesus and Mary Chain "Happy When It Rains"
X "See How We Are"
Faith No More "We Care A Lot"
Depeche Mode "Never Let Me Down Again"
Eric B. & Rakim " Eric B. Is on the Cut"
The Cure "The Perfect Girl"
The Replacements "Can't Hardly Wait"
U2 "Red Hill Mining Town"
Dinosaur Jr "Little Fury Things"
R.E.M. "The One I Love"
Pixies "Levitate Me"
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Christopher Scott said on April 3, 2007:
I love this list! Especially the Love and Rockets and Jesus and Mary Chain tracks... I can picture myself listening to my Walkman as I stalk through the breezeways of that crappy high school I went to... Being totally ignored by all of the girls who listened to Poison or some shit.
The Eric B. and Rakim track makes me laugh because I used to give my sister hell for listening to them. She was infatuated.
Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
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Imaginary sero(tone)in said on April 3, 2007:
lots of obscure tracks (relative to the bands) in there, including one of my favorite bitter love songs from the descendents.
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imaginary dana said on April 3, 2007:
Agreed. And while it's not obscure, I have a super soft spot for "The Perfect Girl" by the Cure...
All around, a good deed done this morning. Take that, commercial radio!!
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imaginary dana said on April 3, 2007:
Heh, don't thank *us* -- thank John! It's all his fault. :)
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imaginary dana said on April 3, 2007:
That setlist makes my heart go pitter-patter...