Classic 80's Indie - The birth of a genre

Listed on 16th January, 2012 by SubterraneanCumquatLounge

Genre: Alternative

Total Tracks: 101

Duration: 9 hours, 40 minutes

Total plays0,000,354

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Don't believe the hype - getting older is fabulous - just think of all that music you will have heard by the age of 40? But it also occurs to me that those born in the 80's and 90's may have missed the link to what we now loosely call 'Indie' - so just to...show more

Don't believe the hype - getting older is fabulous - just think of all that music you will have heard by the age of 40? But it also occurs to me that those born in the 80's and 90's may have missed the link to what we now loosely call 'Indie' - so just to try and address this here are two playlists - 80's indie and 90's indie. you cant have one without the other. Enjoy ...show less

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#		Track (click for lyrics)	Artist
1.		Almost Prayed	The Weather Prophets
2.		Pristine Christine	The Sea Urchins
3.		Punk Rock Girl	The Dead Milkmen
4.		Teenage	The Brilliant Corners
5.		Ana Ng	They Might Be Giants
6.		What For	James
7.		Fabulous Friend	The Field Mice
8.		Unbearable	The Wonder Stuff
9.		Into The White	Pixies
10.		V2	That Petrol Emotion
11.		Birthday	The Sugarcubes
12.		Fall On Me	R.E.M.
13.		This Is The Day	The The
14.		Part Time Punks	Television Personalities
15.		Lucretia My Reflection	Sisters Of Mercy
16.		River (7'' Version)	King Trigger
17.		Cab It Up !	The Fall
18.		Mercy Seat	Ultra Vivid Scene
19.		Dizzy	Throwing Muses
20.		Final Day - Taken From The Final Day Single	Young Marble Giants
21.		Lil’ Devil	The Cult
22.		Preposterous Tales	I, Ludicrous
23.		The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - 2011 Remastered Version	The Smiths
24.		Who Knows What Love Is?	Strawberry Switchblade
25.		Goodbye Goodbye	The Chesterfields
26.		The Hardest Walk	The Jesus And Mary Chain
27.		Bye Bye Bad Man	The Stone Roses
28.		Banana Banana - Feat. General Pirate	King Kurt
29.		I'll Stick With You	The Primitives
30.		Please Rain Fall	The Sea Urchins
31.		Downhill	The Waltones
32.		You Should All Be Murdered	Another Sunny Day
33.		Ugly [1983 Rough Trade UK Single]	Violent Femmes
34.		Cottage Industry	Yeah Yeah Noh
35.		Pretty In Pink	The Psychedelic Furs
36.		The Passenger	Siouxsie And The Banshees
37.		Info Freako	Jesus Jones
38.		My Kingdom	Echo And The Bunnymen
39.		Nice N' Sleazy	The Stranglers
40.		Inbetween Days	The Cure
41.		Underneath The Window, Underneath The Sink	The Orchids
42.		Big Pink Cake	Razorcuts
43.		Suedehead	Morrissey
44.		Caledonian Road	The Shop Assistants
45.		Lets Make Some Plans	Close Lobsters
46.		Hit The Ground	The Darling Buds
47.		Sorry For Laughing - Postcard 7" version	Josef K
48.		Felicity	Orange Juice
49.		Candyskin	Fire Engines
50.		William, It Was Really Nothing	The Smiths
51.		I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan	Half Man Half Biscuit
52.		E=MC2	Big Audio Dynamite
53.		The Only One I Know	The Charlatans
54.		Up The Hill And Down The Slope	The Loft
55.		Object	The Cure
56.		The Big Black Plastic Explosion	The Groove Farm
57.		Joe	Inspiral Carpets
58.		World Shut Your Mouth	Julian Cope
59.		Jilted John	Jilted John
60.		Don't Call Me Baby	Voice Of The Beehive
61.		Planet Claire	The B-52's
62.		Sweet Pretty Thing	Primal Scream
63.		Everything Counts	Depeche Mode
64.		Tiny Words	The Orchids
65.		Sorry For Laughing - Postcard 7" version	Josef K
66.		Motorcycle Rider	The Icicle Works
67.		Meat Whiplash	Fire Engines
68.		People Say	The Go Betweens
69.		Liberator	Spear Of Destiny
70.		Wrote For Luck	Happy Mondays
71.		Blackpool	The Macc Lads
72.		No Love Lost	Joy Division
73.		Dreamabout	The Poppyheads
74.		Big Jesus Trash Can	The Birthday Party
75.		Darkest Blue	Gentle Despite
76.		Brilliant Mind	Furniture
77.		My Secret World	The Golden Dawn
78.		Dreamabout	The Poppyheads
79.		Jean's Not Happening	The Pale Fountains
80.		Party Fears Two	Associates
81.		What's Happening	The Jasmine Minks
82.		John Wayne Is Big Leggy	Haysi Fantayzee
83.		Dance Crazy Baby	The Meteors
84.		Silk Skin Paws	Wire
85.		Phone In Show	The Members
86.		Son of Nothing	Wolfhounds
87.		No Place Called Home	The June Brides
88.		Cool For Cats - Single Edit	Squeeze
89.		Complete Blessing	The Blue Aeroplanes
90.		New Age	Blitz
91.		Mobile Shack	Felt
92.		I Could Be In Heaven	The Flatmates
93.		I'm In Love With A Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist	Another Sunny Day
94.		Never Take Me Alive	Spear Of Destiny
95.		Getting Nowhere Fast	Girls At Our Best!
96.		Whole Wide World	The Soup Dragons
97.		Irene	The Photos
98.		Transmetropolitan	The Pogues
99.		My Secret World	The Golden Dawn
100.		She Said	Hasil Adkins
101.		Courage, Mother	Kitchens Of Distinction