Mixtape/Playlist Of 80's Music...

I have many mixtapes of 80's music.

Back in mid 2000's, I started doing mixtapes of 80's music.

It was a passion project of mine I called 80's Beats, Volumes 1-12.

The intent was to do a compilation album in the vein of many K-Tel compilation records like K-Tel's Radio Active, Sound Explosion, Star Tracks, Chart Hits and so on.

And true to the form of many of those compilation records, I compiled them as one artist for every title, like if I had one song by let's say... Duran Duran, I couldn't put a second song by the same group on the same tape because I wanted to keep the playlist as diverse as possible.

Some of the artists featured on these mix tapes include songs by Asia, The Human League, Joan Jett and the Blachhearts, Split Enz, Little River Band, Yes, Eurythmics, The Police, The Parachute Club, Styx, The Motels, Sheena Easton, Culture Club, Gary U.S. Bonds, Dead or Alive, Gary Numan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Genesis, Robert Palmer, Dire Straits, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Corey Hart, Rush, Gowan, Thomas Dolby, The Outfield, Night Ranger, Rough Trade, The Payola$, Grace Jones, Tears For Fears, Joy Division, New Order, Bonnie Tyler, Laura Branigan, Eddy Grant, Irene Cara, Robert Palmer, Prince and the Revolution, Murray Head, Hall and Oates, Blondie, David Bowie and Ray Parker Jr, to name a few.

Limiting to 10///quickly off top of my head...

The Smiths
The Cure
The Cult
Echo & The Bunnymen
Human League
ABC
Kate Bush
Simple Minds
Talking Heads
The Jam

Jefferson starship, genesis, the police, the fixx, duran duran, yes. Spandau ballet, eurythmics, thomas dolby, matthew wilder, corey hart, bananarama, the motels

These are some of my favourite 80s hits:
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And the number one hit when I was born (October 1989) getting ready for the oncoming 90s:
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Mine would have...

Def Leppard (standard! Lol!), Heart, KISS, AC/DC, Van Halen, Marillion, Kate Bush, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Tesla, Bruce Springsteen, Cinderella, Genesis, Dan Reed Network, Enuff 'Z Nuff, Dokken and many, many more...

SJD x

{@karendupontedurose] 🤔that selection of yours seem to be perfectly adequate and a good mix of music

ABC, Dire Straits, George Michael/Wham!, Queen, Elton John among others...

In addition to my aforementioned 80's Beats mixtape project, I also compiled a few mixtapes of Japanese pop music from the 70's and 80's, featuring the music of artists like Mariya Takeuchi, Tatsuro Yamashita, Toshiki Kadomatsu, Tomoko Aran, Makoto Matsushita, Hiroshi Sato, Junko Yagami, Yumi Matsutoya, and Masahito Arai, to name a few.

Anything by Stock Aitken and Waterman.😅
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It’s called Spotify ;)

I have Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Journey, White Snake, Def Leppard on mine

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The 70's new wave sound for the most part was aweful. The 80's a great relief.

The list would include all the above,plus the likes of Nik Kershaw,Duran Duran,And and the Ants,Madness, Howard Jones,Kim Wilde,Haircut 100,Kajagoogoo,Heart 💗,George Michael/Wham, Bananarama, King,Dead or Alive,Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood,Spandau Ballet,Tears for Fears, Thompson Twins,Bronski Beat,Communards,Five Star,Queen,David Bowie,Culture Club,The Police,Fleetwood Mac (but mostly there 70s stuff)Simple Minds, Eurythmics,Go West,Ultravox...
And a few More 😝...

I Whack on Heart 80's more and more these day's

ABBA only had two albums in the early 80's, Super Trouper (1980) and the Visitors (1981). The Visitors was a commercial flop as Super Trouper was essentially their farewell album due to their collective divorces, the Visitors was essentially to fulfill their recording contract deals so they didn't put too much effort into it, it doesn't have their usual upbeat sound, and they didn't tour. The album disappointed a lot of my fellow ABBA fans and were turned on, it became very unpopular to like them throughout the 80's Yes, Benny and Bjorn had some success with Chess (One Night in Bangkok), but Anita and Agnetha's solo attempts went nowhere. Their comeback in 1994 with Gold was a fluke.