Alternative 80s

Spring is officially here in the states, and you know what that means? No, seriously - because I haven't a clue. But, we do know what good music is all about, and here's another podcast full of 80's goodness!

Track listing:

1.) The Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite

2.) Nowhere Girl - B-Movie

3.) Ball Of Confusion [U.S. Mix] - Love and Rockets

4.) Out Of Hand - Lemon Drops

5.) Russian Roulette - Lords Of The New Church

6.) Doot-Doot [12" Mix] - Freur

7.) Proud To Fall - Ian McCulloch

8.) Fade To Grey [12" Extended version] - Visage

9.) Welcome To the Boomtown - David and David

10.) Between Something And Nothing - The Ocean Blue

11.) New Toy [12" Mix] - Lene Lovich

12.) I Go Crazy [Extended Version] - Flesh For Lulu

13.) Sleeper In Metropolis - Anne Clark

14.) That Smiling Face - Camouflage

15.) Swear [Long Version] - Tim Scott

16.) Homosapian [Elongated Dancepartydubmix] - Pete Shelly

Wow - it's been a month? Time Marches on ,and we're sorry for the delay. Don't waste any time - download and enjoy this latest episode of Alt80s!

Track listing:

1.) Butterbean - B52s

2.) Sewing The Seeds Of Love [Wen's Overnight Mix] - Tears For Fears

3.) Son Of A Gun - Dead Or Alive

4.) Fishing - PiL

5.) Fist Banging Mania - S.O.D.

6.) Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies

7.) Stigmata [Remix] - Ministry

8.) Nobody's Diary [Extended Version] - Yazoo

9.) Stand - R.E.M.

10.) West End Girls [Dance Mix] - Pet Shop Boys

11.) She's Always in My Hair - Prince

12.) Rio - Duran Duran

13.) Rio Rocks! - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

14.) Another Day - Strawberry Switchblade

15.) Strawberry Fields Forever [12" Vinyl Mix] - Candy Flip

16.) Bizarre Love Triangle [Shep Pettibone 12" Remix] - New Order

17.) New Dress - Depeche Mode

18.) Dragnet Drag - Peter Murphy

19.) Call Me [The Indiscriminate Mix] - Go West

Love is in the air, as it always is this time of the year - but some of have a love for motorsports as well. Hope y'all enjoy a high octane boost from our latest podcast!

Track List:

1) No One Driving - John Foxx

2) Don't Crash The Car Tonight - Mary's Danish

3) Devil In My Car - B-52s

4) Behind the Wheel/Route 66 Mega Mix - Depeche Mode

5) Racer X - Big Black

6) Speed Racer [Extended Version] - Devo

7) Jerry Was A Race Car Driver - Primus

8) Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk

9) Little Red Corvette - Prince

10) Speeding - The Creatures

11) Driving In My Car - Madness

12) Black Cars [Extended] - Gino Vanelli

13) Drive - The Cars

14) A Day At The Races - Art Of Noise

15) The Race - Yello

16) Cartrouble - Adam Ant

17) Mercury Blues - David Lindley

18) Cars - Gary Numan

19) Drive My Car - Breakfast Club

20) Close (To The Edit) - Art Of Noise

Listener Adam Agosto asked about doing a podcast of Alt80s covers. Low and behold - here it is! No rhyme or reason for most of the selections, I just enjoyed them and hope you will as well. Thanks for the suggestion, Adam! Original artist names are included in the off chance you don't recognize one. Enjoy!

Track Listing -

1.) Dope - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) [Dead or Alive]

2.) Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Memorabilia [Soft Cell]

3.) System Of A Down - The Metro [Berlin]

4.) Skindred - Electric Avenue [Eddie Grant]

5.) Tori Amos - Rattlesnakes [Lloyd Cole]

6.) Machinehead - Message In A Bottle [The Police]

7.) Amy Baker (Band) - Everything Counts [Depeche Mode]

8.) Leo Moracchioli - The Safety Dance [Men Without Hats]

9.) Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love [Soft Cell]

10.) Drowning Pool - Rebel Yell [Billy Idol]

11.) Powerman 5000 - Whip It [Devo]

12.) Bowling For Soup - I Ran (So Far Away) [Flock Of Seagulls]

13.) Quietdrive - Time After Time [Cyndi Lauper]

14.) Bloodhound Gang - Kids In America [Kim Wilde]

15.) Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls [Joy Division]

16.) Magic Jones - Orinoco Flow [Enya]

17.) Fear Factory - Cars [Gary Numan]

18.) Social Code - Whisper to A Scream [Icicle Works]

19.) Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons [Nena]

20.) Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now...? [The Smiths]

21.) Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence [Depeche Mode]

22.) Orgy - Blue Monday [New Order]

23.) MxPx - Take On Me [a-ha]

24.) Faith and The Muse - Running Up That Hill [Kate Bush]

Welcome to February! As is customary after the holidays, we take it easy and do up a lighthearted podcast. Enjoy some of these simpler Alternative tracks from the 80's!

Track Listing:

1.) I La La La Love You - Pat Travers

2.) Belly Of The Whale - Burning Sensations

3.) Will You Stay The Night - Comsat Angels

4.) More To Lose - Seona Dancing

5.) Let Me Go - Heaven 17

6.) Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child

7.) Lover Come Back To Me [Extended Mix] - Dead or Alive

8.) Come Back Friday - Wide Boy Awake

9.) Let's Go - Wang Chung

10.) Tell Me Why - Berlin

11.) 88 Lines About 44 Women - the Nails

12.) I Love You [Extended Mix] - Yello

13.) Cool Places - Sparks

14.) Legs [Inside Leg Mix] - Art Of Noise

15.) Lost Planes - The Fixx

16.) Candy-O - The Cars

17.) Uniform [Extended Mix] - Icehouse

18.) Things Can Only Get Better [Special Extended Mix] - Howard Jones

Hello lovely listeners and welcome to 2021! Normally we'll give you a full list of songs in the podcast, but this is a countdown, so where's the fun in that? Pretty sure you'll know everything in this countdown, so relax and enjoy the countdown!

Snowfall, Christmas trees, and the annual Alt80s Christmas podcast - it's all here!

Track Listing:

1.) Hey Santa - UK Subs

2.) There Ain't No Sanity Clause - The Damned

3.) Christmas Was A Friend Of Mine - Fay Lovsky

4.) We Three Kings - Blondie

5.) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - X

6.) Listen, The Snow Is Falling - Galaxy 500

7.) Candy Carol (Sugar Lips Caroling) - Book Of Love

8.) X'Mas Time (Sure Doesn't Feel Like) - Mighty Might Bosstones

9.) I Believe In Father Christmas - U2

10.) Insanity Over Christmas - Madness

11.) Home For Christmas - Kate Bush

12.) Peace In Our Time - Elvis Costello

13.) Blue Christmas - Dead Or Alive

14.) Ghost Reindeer In The Sky - R.E.M.

15.) Il Est Ne (Mistletunes Christmas Song) - Tom Tom Club

16.) Stille Nacht - Nina Hagen

17.) Jingle Bells (Santa Club Mix) - Yello

18.) One Christmas Catalogue - Captain Sensible

19.) Mary Xmess - Sun 60

20.) Holier Than Thou (The First) - FGTH

21.) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - The Pretenders

22.) Holier Than Thou (The Second) - FGTH

23.) Feast Of Lights - They Might Be Giants

24.) Snow - Cocteau Twins

25.) Do they Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid

Since we switched servers at the beginning of this year, a lot people missed last year's Christmas podcast. Here it is again in all it's glory - hopefully it'll tide you over until this year's Christmas Special gets posted. Enjoy!

Track Listing:

1) You Trashed My Christmas - The Primitives

2) Christmas Time Again - Bad Manners

3) Santa Claus - They Might Be Giants

4) We Wish You A Protein Christmas - The Fall

5) The Snow Miser Song - 45 Grave

6) Merry Christmas Everybody (Live) - The Cure

7) 867-5309 / Jenny (Christmas Version) - Tommy Tutone

8) Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacCall

9) A Change At Christmas - The Flaming Lips

10) It's Always Christmastime - Al Jourgenson

11) White Christmas - Bad Religion

12) She Won't Be Home - Erasure

13) Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - R.E.M.

14) Jingle Bells (Diversion 1) - Art Of Noise

15) Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

16) Always Winter Never Christmas - XTC

17) Christmas In Vegas - Marc Almond

18) Stuff The Turkey - Alien Sex Fiend

19) We Three Kings - Book Of Love

20) Black Christmas - Poly Styrene

21) Christmas Griping - R.E.M.

22) Things Fall Apart - Cristina

23) Santa Claus - Throwing Muses

24) Mrs Clause Has Menopause - The Steriles

25) Bells Of Christmas - Gentlemen League

26) Silent Night - The Dickies

27) Christmas Time - The dBs

28) Do They Know It's Christmas (Feed The World) - Band Aid

Tis the season for special podcasts, we figured this was the perfect chance to just relax with some easy Alt80s tunes. Enjoy!

Track Listing:

1.) Funky Town [12 inch Extended Version] - Pseudo Echo

2.) Girlfriend Is Better - Talking Heads

3.) Skin - Icehouse

4.) I'm The Man - Joe Jackson

5.) Give Me Back My Man [Party Mix] - B-52s

6.) She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

7.) The Motion Of Love - Gene Loves Jezebel

8.) Strawberry Fields Forever - Candy Flip

9.) Situation [Original 7 inch Mix] - Yazoo

10.) I Believe In You - Tuesday Blue

11.) Throw Your Arms Around Me - Hunters And Collectors

12.) Synchronicity II [Live] - The Police

13.) Two Sisters - Fiction Plane

14.) Idols - Altered Images

15.) Everywhere I Go - The Call

16.) Dragnet [Movie Mix] - Art Of Noise

17.) Doctor Detroit [Extended Version] - Devo

18.) Gratitude [Extended Dance Version] - Oingo Boingo

19.) Is there something I Should Know? - Duran Duran

20.) Corona And The Pirate Twins - The Dolby Kids

Welcome to the Alt80s Funhouse! Slip inside and feast your ears on this years selection. Step this way, everyone is welcome.

Track listing:

1) Ghost Highway - Mazzy Star

2) The Cardinal Sin Dead Can Dance

3) Stigmata - Ministry

4) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Specimen

5) Crucify Me [12" Version] - Moev

6) Witchcraft [Extended] - Book Of Love

7) All Cats Are Grey - The Cure

8) Disorder - Joy Division

9) Lights - The Sisters Of Mercy

10) Roll Call - Peter Murphy

11) The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body - Pulsallama

12) Nightmare On My Street [12" Version] - DJ Jazzy Jeff And the Fresh Prince

13) Are You Ready For Freddy - Fat Boys

14) Horror Movies - Bollock Brothers

15) Tender Surrender - Freur

16) A Daisy Chain 4 Satan - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

17) Halloween [Peel Sessions] - Siouxsie And the Banshees

18) Halloween [Extended] - Ministry