Various Artists | Alternative 80s: Absolute Hits | CD

Alternative 80s: Absolute Hits gathers recordings from different artists associated with the decade’s alternative-pop and rock scenes. The programme connects distinctive voices, guitar hooks and electronic arrangements, placing contrasting songs within a retrospective sequence shaped by familiar melodies and rhythms.

This Crimson CD brings together twenty recordings, pairing the decade’s guitar-led alternative pop with electronic and new-wave songs.

Track Listing

CD

1. Adam & the Ants — Antmusic
2. Big Audio Dynamite — E = Mc2
3. The Psychedelic Furs — Pretty in pink
4. Furniture — Brilliant mind
5. Fiction Factory — (Feels like) Heaven
6. Prefab Sprout — When love breaks down
7. Japan — Quiet life
8. Altered Images — I could be happy
9. Bow Wow Wow — Go wild in the country
10. The Primitives — Crash
11. The Blow Monkeys — Digging your scene
12. Haircut 100 — Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
13. A Flock of Seagulls — Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
14. Westworld — Sonic boom boy
15. The Stranglers — Skin deep
16. Pigbag — Papa's got a brand new pigbag
17. Landscape — Einstein a go-go
18. Spear of Destiny — Liberator
19. The Lotus Eaters — The first picture of you
20. Pop Will Eat Itself — Wise up sucker