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Yeah, that's the ticket! He doesn't anthologize well, since most of his albums are multi-part works, but even his extracts can be sublime. "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe," for instance. What did you like best?
From an old Marketplace nostalgia playlist, plus the available contents of the album "I Want my 80's Box," also on Marketplace.
Playlist:
Stand and Deliver, Adam Ant
Take On Me, a-ha
In a Big Country, Big Country
I Want Candy, Bow Wow Wow
Come On Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners
Electric Avenue, Eddy Grant
I Melt with You, Modern English
Puttin' on the Ritz, Taco
She Blinded Me with Science, Thomas Dolby
I Know What Boys Like, the Waitresses
Album:
Video Killed the Radio Star, the Buggles
Steppin' Out, Joe Jackson
You Dropped a Bomb on Me, the Gap Band
Let It Whip, Dazz Band
Harden My Heart, Quarterflash
Poison Arrow, ABC
Heat of the Moment, Asia
Celebration, Kool & the Gang
Tempted, Squeeze
Tainted Love, Soft Cell
Cuts Like a Knife, Bryan Adams
One Thing Leads to Another, FIXX
Our House, Madness
Weird Science, Oingo Boingo
Sister Christian, Night Runner
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Tears for Fears
Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel
Everybody Have Fun Tonight, Wang Chung
Addicted to Love, Robert Palmer
Looking for a New Love, Jody Watley
Oh Yeah, Yello
Luka, Suzanne Vega
The Lady in Red, Chris DeBurgh
I Think We're Alone Now, Tiffany
Here I Go Again, Whitesnake
My Prerogative, Bobby Brown
Higher Love, Steve Winwood