So much is happening right now that 40 years ago might as well be 400, but here we are. As one of the elders who was actually around then, I played songs from 1985 in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week. It was a heady time, full of emerging powerhouses, poppy confections and pure genius.
All MacGyver needs is a paper clip to turn this playlist into a pipe bomb:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Mclusky - Way of the Exploding Dickhead/The World is Still Here and So Are We
Hunger Anthem - Ways/Lift
FACS - A Room/Wish Defense
Dax Riggs - Sunshine Felt the Darkness Smile/7 Smiles for Spiders
Horsegirl - Rock City/Phonetics On and On
Squid - Cro-Magnon Man/Cowards
Black Country, New Road - Besties/Forever Howlong
Bully - Atom Bomb (Electric Version)/Single
Guided By Voices - The Great Man/Universe Room
Kestrels - Dream of You in Black/Better Wonder
Ex-Void - Swansea/In Love Again
The Laughing Chimes - High Beams/Whispers in the Speech Machine
Charm School - Cherry Red/Debt Forever
Robyn Hitchcock - The Man in My Head/Super Bloom: A Benefit for Fire Relief in Los Angeles
Ben Lee - Like This or Like That (Demo version)/Super Bloom: A Benefit for Fire Relief in Los Angeles
Charles Moothart - The Truth (Will Do That)/Super Bloom: A Benefit for Fire Relief in Los Angeles
Hour 2: 1985
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey/Psychocandy
R.E.M. - Life and How to Live It/Fables of the Reconstruction
The Replacements - Swingin' Party (Ed Stasium mix)/Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)
Black Flag - Out of This World/In My Head
Husker Du - I Apologize/New Day Rising
Husker Du - Hate Paper Doll/Flip Your Wig
The Cure - In Between Days/The Head on the Door
The Cult - Rain/Love
Sonic Youth - Brave Men Run (In My Family)/Bad Moon Rising
Prince and the Revolution - Tamborine/Around the World in a Day
The Power Station - Get It On (Bang a Gong)/The Power Station
Y&T - Summertime Girls/Down for the Count
Ratt - Lay It Down/Invasion of Your Privacy
David Lee Roth - Easy Street/Crazy from the Heat EP
Jason and the Scorchers - White Lies/Lost & Found
Pete Townshend - Secondhand Love/White City: A Novel
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