1982 Survey Mix

Here’s the eighth in my series of 1980s survey mixes, which are moving backwards in time from 1989 to the start of the decade. These compilations are designed to give more context to the music of the ‘80s, and give a sense of how various niches and trends overlapped in this cultural moment.

We’re in the home stretch now!

This is the longest of the 1980s surveys so far, and I didn’t really even intend for that to be the case. But there’s a lot of very different things going on in 1982, and I wanted to represent that as best I could. At this point we’re at the tail end of the initial explosion of punk and new wave, old school hip-hop is starting to hit its stride, dancehall and reggae is booming, and there’s still a lot of funk carried over from the disco era. It’s the first year where the ‘80s trifecta – Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna – all have music out at the same time. But along with all that, there’s a LOT of music that will probably make you go “that came out in 1982??” That was my reaction to some things, anyway.

Thanks to Paul Cox and Chris Conroy their help in compiling this survey. All of the previous 1980s surveys are still available: 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983. The 1981 survey should be ready around the first week of July.

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Elvis Costello and the Attractions “Beyond Belief” / Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” / Daryl Hall & John Oates “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” / Joe Jackson “Steppin’ Out” / Fleetwood Mac “Hold Me” / Sister Nancy “Bam Bam” / The Clash “Rock the Casbah” / Grandmaster Flash “The Message” / The Human League “Don’t You Want Me” / Eurythmics “Love Is A Stranger” / New Order “Temptation” / Missing Persons “Destination Unknown” / Steve Winwood “Valerie” / Prince “1999” / George Clinton “Atomic Dog” / Marvin Gaye “Sexual Healing” / Stevie Wonder “That Girl” / Musical Youth “Pass the Dutchie” / Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force “Planet Rock” / Yaz “Situation” / Klaus Nomi “After the Fall” / The Pointer Sisters “I’m So Excited” / Culture Club “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”

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Stevie Nicks “Edge of Seventeen” / Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” / John Cougar Mellencamp “Jack and Diane” / Richard and Linda Thompson “Don’t Renege On Our Love” / Squeeze “Black Coffee In Bed” / The Jam “A Town Called Malice” / Phil Collins “You Can’t Hurry Love” / Toni Basil “Mickey” / The Waitresses “I Know What Boys Like” / Bow Wow Wow “I Want Candy” / The Go-Go’s “Vacation” / Adam and the Ants “Goody Two Shoes” / Steve Miller Band “Abracadabra” / King Sunny Ade “Mo Beru Agba” / Yellowman “Mister Chin” / Sugar Hill Gang “Apache” / Ornette Coleman “Sleep Talk” / The Gap Band “You Dropped A Bomb On Me” / The dB’s “Amplifier” / Anti-Nowhere League “Animal” / Blitz “We Are the Boys” / Reba McEntire “Can’t Even Get the Blues” / John Anderson “Swingin’” / Jackson Browne “Somebody’s Baby” / Willie Nelson “Always On My Mind”

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The B-52’s “Mesopotamia” / Dexys Midnight Runners “Come On Eileen” / Madness “Our House” / Marshall Crenshaw “Someday, Someway” / The Fall “The Classical” / Modern English “I Melt With You” / Kate Bush “Suspended In Gaffa” / The Roches “Keep On Doing What You Do / Jerks on the Loose” / AC/DC “For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)” / Bad Brains “Pay to Cum” / Romeo Void “Never Say Never” / X “Motel Room In My Bed” / 4-Skins “Jealousy” / Vanity 6 “Nasty Girl” / Madonna “Everybody” / Patrice Rushen “Forget Me Nots” / The Dazz Band “Let It Whip” / Funky Four “Do You Want to Rock (Before I Go)” / Kid Creole and the Coconuts “Stool Pigeon” / Eek-A-Mouse “Sensee Party” / Nairobi featuring the Awesome Foursome “Funky Soul Makossa (Rap Version)”

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Billy Idol “White Wedding” / The Cure “Let’s Go to Bed” / Depeche Mode “The Meaning of Love” / The Lords of the New Church “Russian Roulette” / Shriekback “My Spine is the Bassline” / Peech Boys “Life Is Something Special (Larry Levan mix)” / Kurtis Blow “Tough” / Billy Joel “Allentown” / Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder “Ebony & Ivory” / Donald Fagen “The Nightfly” / Michael McDonald “I Keep Forgetting” / Gregory Isaacs “Night Nurse” / Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Upsetters “God Bless Pickney” / Aretha Franklin “Jump to It” / ESG “Dance” / The Fearless Four “Rockin’ It” / Evelyn Champagne King “Love Come Down” / ABBA “You Owe Me One” / Sylvia “Nobody” / Lou Reed “Heavenly Arms” / King Crimson “Heartbeat” / The Celestial Choir “Stand On the Word”

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R.E.M. “Wolves, Lower” / Sonic Youth “I Dreamed I Dream” / INXS “Don’t Change” / Laura Branigan “Gloria” / Gang of Four “I Love A Man in Uniform” / Rank & File “Sundown” / Captain Sensible “Happy Talk” / Sly Dunbar “River Niger” / Lee Ritenour “Cross My Heart” / Funkapolitan “As the Time Goes By” / Shalamar “Playing to Win” / Grace Jones “Nipple to the Bottle” / Neil Young “Transformer Man” / Oingo Boingo “Private Life” / Judas Priest “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’” / The Dream Syndicate “When You Smile” / The Bangles “The Real World” / Malcolm McLaren “Buffalo Gals” / Wall of Voodoo “Mexican Radio” / Devo “Big Mess” / Subhumans “Mickey Mouse Is Dead” / Discharge “Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing” / The Exploited “Jimmy Boyle” / Fear “I Don’t Care About You” / Dead Kennedys “Bleed for Me”

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Alice Coltrane “Jagadishwar” / Nina Simone “Fodder In Her Wings” / John Cale “(I Keep A) Close Watch” / Melissa Manchester “Hey Ricky (You’re A Low-Down Heel)” / Buckner & Garcia “Pac Man Fever” / Olivia Newton-John “Make A Move On Me” / XTC “Senses Working Overtime” / The Pretenders “Back On the Chain Gang” / The Alan Parsons Project “Eye in the Sky” / Peter Gabriel “Shock the Monkey” / The English Beat “Save It For Later” / The Addicts “Chinese Takeaway” / Mission of Burma “That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate” / Angry Samoans “They Saved Hitler’s Cock” / The Birthday Party “Kiss Me Black” / The Misfits “Vampira” / Beastie Boys “Egg Raid on Mojo” / Flipper “Life Is Cheap” / Iron Maiden “The Number of the Beast” / Carly Simon “Why (12” mix)” / Trouble Funk “Pump Me Up” / Captain Beefheart “The Host the Ghost the Most Holy-O” / Rosanne Cash “Down On Love” / Kenny Rogers “Love Will Turn You Around” / Lionel Richie “Truly”

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Vangelis “Chariots of Fire” / A Flock of Seagulls “I Ran (So Far Away)” / Joan Jett and the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” / J. Geils Band “Centerfold” / Tommy Tutone “867-5309/Jenny” / Men At Work “Who Can It Be Now” / America “You Can Do Magic” / Duran Duran “Hungry Like the Wolf” / The Weather Girls “It’s Raining Men” / ABC “The Look of Love” / The Psychedelic Furs “Love My Way” / Queen “Body Language” / Toto “Africa” / Foreigner “Waiting for a Girl Like You” / Air Supply “Even the Nights Are Better” / Chicago “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” / Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes “Up Where We Belong” / Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City” / Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band “Shame on the Moon” / Charlene “I’ve Never Been to Me” / Van Morrison “Cleaning Windows” / Roxy Music “More Than This” / Barbra Streisand “Memory”

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Killing Joke “Empire Song” / Richard Hell and the Voidoids “The Kid with the Replaceable Head” / Billy Squier “Everybody Wants You” / Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers “You Got Lucky” / Joni Mitchell “Wild Things Run Fast” / Frank Zappa “Valley Girl” / The Descendents “Suburban Home” / The Replacements “White and Lazy” / Brigadier Jerry “Pain” / Morris Day and the Time “The Walk” / The Treacherous Three “Yes We Can-Can” / The Who “Eminence Front” / Van Halen “(Oh) Pretty Woman” / Juice Newton “Love’s Been A Little Bit Hard On Me” / Frida “I Know There’s Something Going” / Sparks “I Predict” / Bucks Fizz “My Camera Never Lies” / Crash Crew “Breaking Bells (Take Me To Mardis Gras)” / Lone Ranger “M16” / Eddy Grant “I Don’t Wanna Dance” / Goombay Dance Band “Seven Tears” / Warren Zevon “Let Nothing Come Between You” / Levon Helm “Willie and the Hand Jive” / Bananarama “Shy Boy” / Material (featuring Whitney Houston) “Memories”