Matt's Music Club: The 80's

A Typical 80's Party.

For a lot of people music from the 1980's can only be enjoyed whilst wearing an ironic mullet wig or jacket with sleeves rolled up to the elbows & espadrilles a la Miami Vice, usually at some 80's themed club night or boozy "ironic" house party. This is a sad state of affairs, where some peoples experience of music from the 80's will be Wham's Club Tropicana played slightly too loud while a dickhead in sweatbands and shiny running shorts menaces them with an inflatable palm tree in some parochial nightclub that smells of Lynx Africa, toilets and desperation. 

In my way I hope to change the preconceptions of "80's Music" with a little playlist I have put together. It may not be everybody's cup of darjeeling but I am a man who is used to the stout boot of reality kicking him repeatedly in the wedding tackle now and again. Enjoy.

• Yello - Bimbo (1980)
• The Chameleons - Up The Down Escalator (1983)
• Laid Back - White Horse (1983)
• Chrome - Eyes To The Centre (1980)
• A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray (1988)
• Wally Badarou - Mambo (1984)
• Grace Jones - Don't Cry, It's Only The Rhythm (1985)
• Kleeer - Tonight (1984)
• Zapp & Roger - Computer Love (1985)
• Bobby Brown - Hawaii Nei I'll Miss You (1982)
• Rick Grossman - Mellow Heaven Clout (1980)
• Escape From New York OST - The Duke Arrives (1981)
• Carlos Peron - Breaking-In (1988)
• Charanjit Singh - Raga Bhairav (1982)
• Tomorrow's World - Richard Denton & Martin Cook (1980)
• Jon & Vangelis - Song Is (1983)