Anyone have the track listing for maf's Best of the 80s comp? (ca. 2002?)

[Rae]

It's been getting a lot of play here lately because I only have a cassette player in the car (which is itself a product of the 80s, so it feels especially appropriate). It was pretty much glued in the tape deck this week when I realized that it had that seasonal favorite "Fairytale of New York" on it. I can pick out most of the artists but I'd still appreciate a complete list.

~Rae

[Davey]

maf's was one of the best of the 80s. Don't know how many times that cassette provided the soundtrack for my drive down the boulevard.

'Cos if I had some time
I'd use it this time
Escape to something beautiful
'Cos underneath the steel and rust and oil and ****
There's chrome, just shining chrome.....

Sorry, got me some Mirror Pond Pale Ale fueled Catherine Wheel flashbacks. But just re-upped it, so long live comp-4-trade ... http://members.mailaka.net/davey/comp4trade.htm#maf_more .. though he apparently had multiple Pogues. Think I got yours too.

A pocket knife for long nights.. and a sleepy little dreamer

[Rae]

Hmm... that's not the one I have. It starts with Flat Duo Jets - "Wild Blue Yonder" on the A side and ends with the Cowboy Junkies on the reverse.

~Rae

[Davey]

Hmm... that's not the one I have. It starts with Flat Duo Jets - "Wild Blue Yonder" on the A side and ends with the Cowboy Junkies on the reverse.

~Rae

Oh, sorry, he had a few versions. I think that's the Screaming Blue Messiahs it opens with. He just changed some of the songs.

[Rae]

Yeah, Screaming Blue Messiahs, you're right. Sorry. Like I said, I need the track listing!

~Rae

[Stone]

Side 1

Screaming Blue Messiahs - Wild Blue Yonder
Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run On Time
Au Pairs - It's Obvious
The Feelies - The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
Billy Bragg - The Warmest Room
The Jam - That's Entertainment
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
The La's - Doledrum
Violent Femmes - I Held Her In My Arms
The Blasters - So Long Baby Goodbye
The Cramps - Garbageman
Jason & The Scorchers - Shop It Around
Cowboy Junkies - Mining For Gold
Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel

Side 2

Joy Division - Atmosphere
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hybrid
Echo & The Bunnymen - Turquoise Days
The Sound - I Can't Escape Myself
Psychedelic Furs - We Love You
The B-52's - Dance This Mess Around
XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
English Beat - Tears of a Clown
The Clash - Pressure Drop
Stiff Little Fingers - Roots Radicals Rockers & Reggae
Camper Van Beethoven - All Her Favorite Fruit
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
The Pogues - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday

[Ex Lion Tamer]

Geez, there hasn't been this much discussion about something I did since I smashed my SUV into a fire hydrant and was caught cheating on my hot sedish wife with 14 or 15 of the finest skanks ... errrr barmaids in the state of Nevada.

Props to Mr Stone for finding that track list - God knows I wouldn't have come up with it. Davey's was the CD version - and even that would have been a stretch for me.

Now, who's got the 8-track version?

[Stone]

Now, who's got the 8-track version?

I don't but I do have the tracklist of the 7" "Best of the 80s" box set you had pressed:

Disc 1

A1 Starship - We Built This City (Canadian radio edit)
B1 Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night (from Live at Red Rocks bootleg)
B2 Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling (demo)

Disc 2

A1 Bob Seger - Like a Rock
B1 Phil Collins - Sussudio (f<a></a>uck-you-other-members-of-Genesis dance club version)

Disc 3

A1 Styx - Mr. Roboto (super Robotic edit)
B1 Chicago - You're the Inspiration
B2 Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You (man/boy version feat. Rick Astley)

[Rae]

Yes!! Thanks, Stone.

That Lionel Richie demo is especially haunting. I heard he was listening to a lot of Suicide at the time, a big influence on the stripped-down, hypnotic arrangement.

~Rae

[Jim Clark]

Hey Rae!

Dood, I've got all of the 80's comps and the tracklists. Glad I didn't have to do all the typing though. There's some mighty fine toons in that crop of comps.

jc

[Swish]

I don't but I do have the tracklist of the 7" "Best of the 80s" box set you had pressed:

Disc 1

A1 Starship - We Built This City (Canadian radio edit)
B1 Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night (from Live at Red Rocks bootleg)
B2 Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling (demo)

Disc 2

A1 Bob Seger - Like a Rock
B1 Phil Collins - Sussudio (f<a></a>uck-you-other-members-of-Genesis dance club version)

Disc 3

A1 Styx - Mr. Roboto (super Robotic edit)
B1 Chicago - You're the Inspiration
B2 Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You (man/boy version feat. Rick Astley)

All I need is to see the title of a totally s<a>hitty song and the tune stays in my head for days. Arggggh!

[Stone]

All I need is to see the title of a totally s<a>hitty song and the tune stays in my head for days. Arggggh!

Oh, sorry about that.

On a side note, Mark had wanted Disc 2 to have three tracks like the others, but his Japanese audiophile pressing of Europe's The Final Countdown had a scratch on it.