Elektro Kardio

In which electropop and disco have a very fruitful year, and a couple people score some massive hits with the stuff. "Planet Rock" is strangely absent. Bibliography: Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits, Grammys, R. Christgau, Chuck Eddy's books, and Jimmy Guterman's Best Rock'n'Roll Records of All Time.

Monday, March 14, 2005

Imaginary Popscape 1982 Songlist

“Don’t Stop”—Sylvester, from All I Need
“Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds”—Michael Nyman Band, from The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Very Best Of Michael Nyman
“Yashar”—Cabaret Voltaire, from 2x45 and Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music
“Mary Anne”-Marshall Crenshaw, from Marshall Crenshaw
“Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’”—Michael Jackson, from Thriller
“Walking on a Wire”—Richard and Linda Thompson, from Shoot Out the Lights
“Busting Out”—Material feat. Nona Hendryx, from One Down and Deconstruction: The Celluloid Recordings (Bill Laswell)
“Heavenly Arms”—Lou Reed, from The Blue Mask
“Babe We’re Gonna Love Tonight”—Lime, from Lime Volume 2 and The Greatest Hits
“Gloria”—Laura Branigan, from Branigan and The Best of Branigan
“Dehumanized”—Void, from Flex Your Head
“There She Goes Again”/ “Someday, Someway”—Marshall Crenshaw again
“The Other Woman”/ “Streetlove”—Ray Parker, Jr., from The Other Woman
“Composition #40B”–Anthony Braxton, from Six Compositions: Quartet
“12XU”—Minor Threat, from Flex Your Head
“Stand Up”/ “Judas’ Kiss”—Petra, from More Power To Ya and Petra Means Rock
“Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)”—Prince again

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