Playlist! YEAR 3: 1980

The hardest thing about these mixes has been getting songs of totally different genres together in a way that makes aural sense. It's getting harder because it seems like the number of genres is increasing as time passes. I've had to start cutting songs I really love because they just don't fit. (LIFE IS HARD.) I will almost certainly revisit this track listing but it's time to move on now.

Broadly speaking, 1980 was a time of moving away from disco and towards New Wave. And while I'm sad to be losing disco, I'm pretty glad that I won't have to try to fit disco music into these mixes anymore...


Link / Year 3: 1980*

Track Listing:

Rock With You - Michael Jackson
Upside Down - Diana Ross
The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
Rapture - Blondie
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Ghost Town - The Specials
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Mirror in the Bathroom - The English Beat
Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend
Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
Shining Star - The Manhattans
Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
Whip It - Devo
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Against the Wind - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac


*By the way, you may have to have a subscription to Apple Music to listen to this. You will almost certainly need iTunes and an Apple ID. If you'd rather I make you an actual mixtape, just remember that it's 2017 not 1977.

thanks xoxo