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Alternative 80s

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Frequency: 1 episode/20d. Total Eps: 90

Offering up the best in New Wave, Goth, Post-Punk and Ska from the 80's, including rare and hard to find music you forgot you've missed!

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🇨🇦 Canada - Music
26/12/2024
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#284 - Christmas 2024

Episode 284

Friday, December 13, 2024 • Duration 01:38:58

Merry Christmas! We're here and ready for the holidays with the annual Alt80s Christmas Podcast. Best part is you don't have to wait to unwrap it - so enjoy! Also, don't worry, our podcast is a Whamageddon safe zone.

1) Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

2) Last Chance [Christmas Mix] - Soft Cell

3) I Believe In Father Christmas - U2

4) Candy Carol (Sugar Lips Caroling) [Extended Mix] - Book Of Love

5) We Three Kings - Blondie

6) Fruitcake - The Superions

7) Merry Something To You - Devo

8) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Erasure

9) Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues

10) Jingle Bells - Yello

11) Christmas In The Club [Single Version] - Tom Tom Club

12) I Saw Three Ships - Sting

13) Winter Wonderland - Eurythmics

14) Love Will Find A Way - Alphaville

15) It's Always Christmastime - Ministry

16) Ode To Joy - New Order

17) Insanity Over Christmas - Madness

18) Things Fall Apart - Christina

19) Do They Know It's Christmas? [Extended Version] - Band Aid

20) The Coventry Carol - Alison Moyet

21) Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant - Siouxsie And the Banshees

22) A Gary Numan Christmas Carol - Vanilla Coffee

23) Yellin' At The Christmas Tree - Billy Idol

24) My Silent Night - Lisil

25) Please , Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

26) Frosty The Snowman - Cocteau Twins

27) Power Of Love ['93 Alternate Mix]- Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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#283 - May The Road Rise With You

Episode 283

Friday, December 6, 2024 • Duration 01:54:40

It's December and our last "normal" podcast for the year, so I hope, as always, you enjoy!

Track List:

1) Rise - P.I.L.

2) Strip [Extended Version] - Adam Ant

3) Hands Up In The Air [Extended Mix] - Boom Crash Opera

4) Welcome To The Pleasuredome [Into Battle Mix] - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

5) We Close Our Eyes [Overhang Mix] - Go West

6) I Wish U Heaven [Radio Edit] - Prince

7) Little Girls - Oingo Boingo

8) Mongoloid - Devo

9) Here And Now [12" Remix] - Missing Persons

10) No Name No Slogan - Acid Horse (Cabaret Voltaire and Ministry collaboration)

11) Chessboards [12" Remix] - Killing Joke

12) Love Missile F-111 [Ultraviolence Mix] - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

13) Alternative - The Exploited

14) Join In The Chant [Burn 12" Mix] - Nitzer Ebb

15) Headhunter [Ultrasound Killer Remix] - Front 242

16) Hospital Waste - Skinny Puppy

17) A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By A Make-Believer... 'Cuz It's Hot - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

18) Kingdom Of Rain - The The with Sinead O'Connor

19) How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths

20) Only Lonely - Divinyls

21) Up On the Catwalk [Unofficial Extended Version] - Simple Minds

#282 - The Baby Screams

Episode 282

Tuesday, November 26, 2024 • Duration 01:34:13

Finally back home! Another fresh, light podcast for that trip over the river and through the woods to podcast nirvana you go!

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1) The Baby Screams - The Cure

2) Belly Of The Whale [12" single version] - Burning Sensations

3) Love Action (I Believe In Love) [Extended 12" Plus remix] - Human League

4) Cocaine Decisions - Frank Zappa

5) White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel

7) Mirror In The Bathroom - English Beat

8) How To Be A Zillionaire [Wall Street Mix] - ABC

9) Windpower [Extended Mix] - Thomas Dolby

10) It's A Mugs Game - Soft Cell

11) I Could Be Happy [Dance Mix] - Altered Images

12) Go! [Club Mix] - Tones On Tail

13) A View to A Kill [Extended 12"] - Duran Duran

14) Dragnet [Opening Credits Mix] - Art Of Noise

15) Mutual Surrender (What A Wonderful World) - Bourgeois Tagg

16) Let's Go All the Way [Extended Blix Mix] - Sly Fox

17) Swear - Tim Scott

18) Come Back Friday - Wide Boy Awake

19) Thanks To You - Flaming Lips

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#281 - Halloween 2024

Episode 281

Thursday, October 17, 2024 • Duration 01:35:17

Special guest host this podcast, in honor of Halloween. Hope you enjoy it!

Track Listing:

1) Lullaby [Extended Mix] - The Cure

2) The Killing Moon - Echo And The Bunnymen

3) The Man With The X-Ray Eyes - Bauhaus

4) Halloween - The Misfits

5) Bates Motel - The Hitmen

6) Norman Bates - Landscape

7) His Eyes - Psuedo Echo

8) Weird Science [Extended Dance Mix] - Oingo Boingo

9) Something In My House [Phil Harding 12' Remix] - Dead Or Alive

10) The House Is Burning (But There's No One Home) - Vivabeat

11) Dead And Buried - Alien Sex Fiend

12) Surfin Dead - The Cramps

13) The Witch - The Cult

14) Witchcraft [Enchantra Chanting] - Book Of Love

15) Cry Little Sister - Gerard McMann

16) Halloween [Extended Mix] - Siouxsie And The Banshees

17) Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus

18) Nightmares [12" Extended Mix] - Flock Of Seagulls

19) (Every Day Is) Halloween [Acoustic] - Ministry

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#280 - Mad Eyed Screamer

Episode 280

Sunday, October 6, 2024 • Duration 01:30:04

October already? This year has flown by. Nice deep podcast for you, plus some favorites, of course, as well as The Cure's first new single in sisteen years! Can't wait until the full album drops in November. Enjoy!

Track Listing:

1) Mad Eyed Screamer - The Creatures

2) Spellbound - Siouxsie And the Banshees

3) Alone - The Cure

4) She Walks Down - Other Voices

5) Living On the Borderline - Smash Palace

6) What I Am - Edie Brickell And The New Bohemians

7) That Smiling Face - Camouflage

8) I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden) - Kon Kan

9) Love Is The Slug [Bargainous Longer Mix] - Fuzzbox

10) Accidentally 4th Street [Just Say Mao Mix] - Figures On A Beach

11) Out Of Hand [Extended Mix] - The Mighty Lemon Drops

12) Life Is What You Make It [Ben Liebrand Mix] - Talk Talk

13) Jumping Out A Window - Pop Mechanix

14) Sacrilege - The Mission U.K.

15) Gargoyle - Twisted Nerve

16) The Sun And The Rainfall - Depeche Mode

17) Close (To The Edit) (Edited) - Art Of Noise

18) Bringing Home the Ashes [Extended] - The Wild Swans

19) A Place In Your Heart - Protex

20) Like A Ghost - Ignatious Jones

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#279 - Where Fashion Sits

Episode 279

Friday, September 20, 2024 • Duration 01:34:35

Welcome to Episode #279! Nothing too deep this particular time around, but we do start it off with a request! Be sure to look for us on Tik Tok, we've made that jump (finally,) and you can even request something through there. Enjoy!

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1) Puttin' On The Ritz [Extended Mix] - Taco

2) Another Brick - Fake

3) Hit That Perfect Beat - Bronski Beat

4) Devil Inside [Remix Version] - INXS

5) Head On - The Jesus And Mary Chain

6) Wake Up, Stop Dreaming [Extended Version] - Wang Chung

7) Glam Slam [Unreleased Alternate Version] - Prince

8) Monsters And Angels - Voice Of The Beehive

9) Stand Or Fall [Extended Version] - The Fixx

10) I Like The Night (And the Night Likes Me) - Darkways

11) Cuts You Up - Peter Murphy

12) Girlfriend Is Better - Talking Heads

13) Straight To Hell - The Clash

14) Every Breath You Take [Lost 12" Version] - The Police

15) Blue Monday - New Order

16) We Can Get Together - Flowers

17) Fields Of Fire [12" Mix] - Big Country

18) Don't Go [Original 1982 12" Mix] - Yazoo

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#278 - Twilight Café

Episode 278

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 • Duration 01:34:47

Is it autumn yet? Seems like it, somewhat. Let's get to it, shall we?

Track Listing:

1) Twilight Café - Susan Fassbender

2) Welcome To The Boomtown - David and David

3) Drive, She Said - Stan Ridgeway

4) Risky - Ryuichi Sakamoto Featuring Iggy Pop

5) Never Know - Short Romans

6) Eyes Of A Stranger - Payola$

7) All You Ever Thin About Is Sex [New Mix] - Sparks

8) Virginia - Man Klan

9) Dieu est Mort - Ausweis

10) She Cracked - Siouxsie And the Banshees

11) Let's Go To Bed - The Cure

12) Lies [Bigger And Better] Thompson Twins

13) Bitter Heart [Extended Mix] - Seona Dancing

14) Some Dreams - Flock Of Seagulls

15) Every Beat Of The Heart - The Railway Children

16) Life In A Northern Town [Extended Version] - Dream Academy

17) Meigs County - Charlie Pickett And The Eggs

18) Seance - Twisted Nerve

19) Touch The Skies [Extended Club Mix] - Pink Turns Blue

20) Life's What You Make It [Extended Version] - Talk Talk

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#277 - You're My Obsession

Episode 277

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 • Duration 01:29:36

Summer is just about over, but that's not stopping us from putting out quality content! Let's get this episode going!

Track Listing:

1) Obsession [12" Remix Version] - Animotion

2) I Like Boys - Missing Persons

3) Boy [Original 12" Mix] - Book Of Love

4) Girls On Film - Duran Duran

5) West End Girls [Original Version] - Pet Shop Boys

6) Julia - Asylum Party

7) Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears

8) Love Resurrection [U.S. Long Version] - Alison Moyet

9) I Want Your Love - Transvision Vamp

10) Miss Understood - The Family

11) Erotic City [Extended Version] - Prince

12) 19 (The Final Story) - Paul Hardcastle

13) Thinking Fire - Kilkenny Cats

14) Matador - Xmal Deutschland

15) Pyromaniac - Verlaines

16) May I Comply - Heartworms

17) Baby Turns Blue - Virgin Prunes

18) Unlikely Remix

19) Made Up In Blue - The Bats

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#276 - All We Hear Is...

Episode 276

Saturday, August 10, 2024 • Duration 01:29:36

End of August and it's time so another audio delicacy for you to help wind down the summer here in the states. Enjoy!

Track Listing:

1) Radio Gaga [Escay Extended Mix] - Queen

2) I Can't Think About Dancing - Missing Persons

3) Black Cars [Special Dance Mix] - Gino Vanelli

4) Night Of The Mare - Poésie Noire

5) Goodbye Horses [Immortality Mix] - Psyche

6) Spring In Fialta - Slow Children

7) Murderous - Nitzer Ebb

8) Schmutzfabrik - Die Krupps

9) Take One - Front 242

10) Unlikely Remix

11) Chamber Of Hellos [London Mix] - Wire Train

12) Lean On Me (Ah-Li-Ayo) - Red Box

13) Cry [12" Mix] - Godley And Creme

14) The Politics Of Dancing [12' Extended Mix] - Re-Flex

15) The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - The Smiths

16) All Mixed Up - The Cars

17) How Soon Is Now - Love Spit Love

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#275 - New Gold Dream

Episode 275

Sunday, August 4, 2024 • Duration 01:32:47

Hey faithful listeners - it's August and time for some more music, so let's do this!

Track Listing:

1) New Gold Dream [Extended Version] - Simple Minds

2) Flexible - Depeche Mode

3) I Got You - Split Endz

4) Hanging On A Heart Attack [Dance Mix] - Device

5) Living In A Box - Living In a Box

6) The Voice - Ultravox

7) Sports - Sparks

8) Riders In the Night [Extended Version] - Freur

9) Numbers / Computer World 2 - Kraftwerk

10) Excellent Birds [Mister Heartbreak Version] - Laurie Anderson and Peter Gabriel

11) Starfish And Coffee - Prince

12) Bed And Breakfast Man - Madness

13) Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze

14) Beat's So Lonely - Charlie Sexton

15) I Love My Leather Jacket - The Chills

16) Out Of Sight Out Of Mind - Models

17) Across That Fine Line - Nations Of Language

18) Messages - OMD

19) On The Road Again - The Rockets

20) Welcome To The Pleasuredome [Escape Act Video Mix] - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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