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Offering up the best in New Wave, Goth, Post-Punk and Ska from the 80's, including rare and hard to find music you forgot you've missed!
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- 2 weeks ago1h 39m
#322 - Hot In The City
Summer isn't summer without some hot Alt tunes from the 80's, so let's fire it up!Track listing:1) Hot In The City (Exterminator Mix) - Billy Idol2) Cool Under Heat - The Clash3) Hot! Hot! Hot! - The Cure4) Cruel Summer (Extended Version) - Bananrama5) I Melt With You (Bass Meltdown Mix) - Modern English6) Voices - Russ Ballard7) Synthicide - SSQ8) Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts9) Anarchy In The U.K. - Sex Pistols11) Nice N Neat - Boomtown Rats12) Missing In Action - Comsat Angels13) New Dawn Fades - Joy Division14) Reasons To Be Alone - Stained Veil15) Fatal Flaw - The Sound16) The Working Hour - Tears For Fears17) This Wheel's On Fire (Incendiary Mix) - Siouxsie And The Banshees18) There's No Love Between Us (Specially Extended 12" Mix) - Pop Will Eat Itself19) Black And White - The dB's20) Blood Makes Noise - Suzanne Vega21) Mind Your Own Business - Delta 522) Birth, School, Work, Death - The Godfathers23) Last Cigarette - Dramarama
- 3 weeks ago1h 32m
#321 - Certain Things Are Likely
Happy 4th! Had a chill day at the beach before the tourists showed up, got home in time to put a podcast together for y'all to enjoy.Track Listing:1) Certain Things Are Likely (Original 12" Mix) - Kissing The Pink2) Room At The Top (Extended Mix) - Adam Ant3) Homicide - 9994) Sometimes I Wish I Were Dead (Flexi-Pop Version) - Depeche Mode5) Death Of A Disco Dancer - The Smiths6) Baby Pain Again - Interferon7) Airwaves - Thomas Dolby8) Destination Unknown - Psuedo Echo9) In Camera Obscura (Dance Mix) - Figures On A Beach10) Ronnie's Song - LAX11) I Shot The Devil - Suicidal Tendencies12) Manny Moe And Jack - The Dickies13) Young 'Til I Die - 7 Seconds14) Punch Out At Malibu - Surf Punks15) Shoot The Curl - The Dynette Set16) This Beat Goes On / Switchin' To Glide - The Kings17) The Promise (Coliseum Mix) - When In Rome18) Love Missle F-111 (Sigue Sigue Sputmix) - Sigue Sigue Sputnik19) The Hardest Part - Blondie20) Tattooed Love Boys - The Pretenders21) So American - The Mutants
- Jun 22, 20261h 33m
#320 - We're All Clones
1) We're All Clones (Rythm Scholar World Of Tomorrow Remix) - Alice Cooper 2) You Can Run - Flock Of Seagulls 3) Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee 4) Where The Streets Have No Name - U2 5) I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus 6) Watausi Diary - Guadalcanal Diary 7) Los Rancheros - Adam And The Ants 8) Temptation (Alternative 7" Mix) - New Order 9) The Metro - Berlin 10) I've Got Mine - UB40 11) Your Time Will Come - Dread Zeppelin 12) Sweetest Perfection - Depeche Mode13) Fury Eyes - The Creatures 14) When The World Is Running Down - The Police 15) Thru The Flowers - The Primitives 16) Fascination Street - The Cure 17) Seven Seas - Echo And the Bunnymen 18) Things Can Only Get Better (Extended Mix) - Howard Jones 19) King Of Rock 'N' Roll - Prefab Sprout 20) Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie 21) Desire - Prince
- Jun 1, 20261h 35m
#319 - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Welcome to June! We're delivering a little punk, a little synth, and a little bit of requests. It's all here on Alternative 80s! Track Listing:1) Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven 2) Harborcoat - R.E.M. 3) Let Me Go (12" Extended Version) - Heaven 17 4) Disappear (Extended 12" Mix) - INXS 5) Magic Dance (12" Mix) - David Bowie 6) I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden) [12" Remix] - Kon Kan 7) No Mas Tequila - The Mainliners 8) Surfin' With Steve And E.D. Amin - Heller Keller 9) Cola Freak (Cola Freak Version) - Lost Kids 10) Standing In Front Of Poseur - Red Cross 11) (Let's Get, Let's Get) Tammy Wynette 12) Problems - Life Sentence 13) Red Light - Wall Of Voodoo 14) Sensitive - The Field Mice 15) Cesspool - Blake Babies 16) Hit The Ground - The Darling Buds 17) Doot-Doot (12" Mix) - Freur 18) Norman Bates (12" Mix) - Landscape 19) What Have I Done To Deserve This - Pet Shop Boys With Dusty Springfield 20) Supernaut - 10,000 Homo DJS 21) Get Down Make Love - Nine Inch Nails 22) After The Flesh - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult 23) Only You - Yazoo
- May 24, 20261h 37m
#318 - On Any Other Day
Almost summertime, but it's not too late for some more cool tunes from the 80s, so let's go!Track Listing:1) On Any Other Day - The Police 2) Take This Town - XTC 3) Always There - The Fact 4) Hello Again (Remix) - The Cars 5) Here To Go (Go Mix Version) - Devo 6) Out Of Mind Out Of Sight (The Nnix Mmix) - Models 7) Brian (The Pure Techno Bassdrum Mix) - Absurd 8) Numbers\Computer World 2 - Kraftwerk 9) Die Kybernauten - Klangwerk 10) Why Me? (12" Mix) - Planet P Project11) Jane's Getting Serious - Jon Astley 12) Jane Says - Jane's Addiction 13) Don't Worry - The B-52's 14) Dragnet '88 (Art Of Noise 12" Mix) - The Art Of Noise 15) Warriors Of The Wasteland (Attack Full Mix) - Frankie Goes To Hollywood 16) Eternal Blue - Stiff Kittens 17) Police On My Back - The Clash 18) Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil
- May 8, 20261h 31m
#317 - What I Want
Podcast time in May! Some deep cuts, a couple of requests, and some well-known favorites - they're all here!1) What I Want (12" Mix) - Dead Or Alive 2) Belly Of The Whale (12" Single) - Burning Sensations 3) China (Dance Mix) - Red Rockers 4) The Drop Deal (Mix 1) - Bazz 5) If I Ever - Red Flag 6) Solace (12" Mix) - Play Dead 7) No New Tale To Tell - Love And Rockets 8) Flesh (Full 12" Version) - A Split Second 9) Telephone (Swedish 12" Mix) - Style 10) A E I O U Sometimes Y (Long Version) - Ebn-Ozn 11) When The Lights Go Out - Naked Eyes 12) Dance - Strawberry Switchblade 13) Nicotine Stain - Siouxsie And the Banshees 14) The 15th - Wire 15) Ring Of Fire (Remix) - Wall Of Voodoo 16) World Destruction - Time Zone 17) Blown Away - The Expelled 18) Complications - Killing Joke 19) Stand Alone - Martian Dance 20) This Side Of Heaven - Play Dead 21) Please (Extended Version) - The Bolshoi
- Apr 19, 20261h 39m
#316 - Mickey
Back after a small amount of recovery, and we have a lot of requests for you, so let's go! Track Listing:1) Mickey (Original Recording Remastered) - Toni Basil 2) It Only Makes Me Laugh - Danny Elfman 3) Dance This Mess Around - The B-52s 4) Counting The Beat - The Swingers 5) Chelsea Girl - Simple Minds 6) So Long - Fischer Z 7) The Fool - The Fixx 8) Positive Vibrations - The Soft Boys 9) Fergus Sings The Blues - Deacon Blue 10) Close To You - Nine Ways To Win11) I Have The Touch ('85 Remix) - Peter Gabriel 12) Sensoria - Cabaret Voltaire 13) Over The Shoulder (12" Mix) - Ministry 14) The Past Sure Is Tense - Captain Beefheart 15) Never Never (Extended 12" Mix) - The Assembly 16) Imagination - Sad Lovers And Giants 17) My Favourite Dress - The Wedding Present 18) Really Stupid - The Primitives 19) Rain - The Cult 20) Fear Is Never Boring - The Bears 21) Fahrenheit 1989 - Umo Detic
- Mar 29, 20261h 41m
#315 - The Closer That You Get
Nothing fancy this week, just great music mixed for all your listening pleasure! Hope you enjoy it as you get ready for Spring!Track List:1) The Closer That You Get - Missing Persons 2) Someone Somewhere In Summertime - Simple Minds 3) Noise In This World - English Beat 4) Bottom Line (Original UK 12" Mix) - Big Audio Dynamite 5) Bostich - Yello6) Our Lips Are Sealed - Fun Boy Three 7) Hounds Of Love (Alternative Mix) - Kate Bush 8) Shadowplay - Joy Division 9) Hearts And Minds (Mix Hypersonic) - Nitzer Ebb 10) Quite Unusual - Front 242 11) After The Flesh - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult 12) Thieves - Ministry 13) Change (Extended Version) - Tears For Fears 14) Hongkong Garden (Marie Antoinette Version) - Siouxsie And The Banshees 15) Born In Xixax - Nina Hagen 16) Unlikely Remix 17) Blown Away - The Expelled 18) Oh Bondage! Up Yours! - X Ray Spex 19) Sex Bomb Boogie (Magic Flute) - Sigue Sigue Sputnik 20) If You Were Here (Axelsoft's MiXmas Remix) - Thompson Twins 21) Da Da Da Ich Lieb Dich Nicht Du Liebst Mich Nicht Aha Aha Aha - Trio22) Let's Go All The Way (Multi-Mix by Les "Mix Doctor" Adams of DMC) - Sly Fox
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