The Way We Were #016

“The Way We Were” is an eclectic look at the punk rock, new wave, post punk and synth pop eras from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s.

Before the world went online, we relied on fanzines, word of mouth, the weekly music press and radio pioneers such as Annie Nightingale, Janice Long, Gary Crowley, Don Letts, Andy Kershaw and, of course, the much missed John Peel – A Peel session would often move an independent band from ‘no-ones’ to ‘someones’ literally overnight.

Featuring

TRACKLIST / BRIEF COMMENTS

1. Buzzcocks – Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
2. Buzzcocks – Autonomy
3. The 101ers – Keys To Your Heart
4. Kraftwerk – Metal on Metal
5. Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime (live)
6. Tom Tom Club – Genius of Love (live)
7. Alan Burnham – Science Fiction
8. Altered Images – I Could Be Happy
9. Animotion – Obsession
10. Anorexia – Inanimate Objects
11. Antonym – Cinnamon Air
12. B-52’s – Planet Claire
13. Angelic Upstarts – Woman In Disguise
14. Any Trouble – Yesterday’s Love
15. Balaam and the Angel – The Wave
16. The Jam – Town Called Malice
17. Blondie – Picture This
18. China Crisis – Feel To Be Driven Away
19. The Creatures – Right Now
20. Orange Juice – What Prescence?
21. The Cure – Inbetween Days
22. Pete Shelley – Homosapien
23. echo and the bunnymen – Rescue
24. echo and the bunnymen – Going Up
25. Stiff Little Fingers – Gotta Getaway
26. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Genetic Engineering
27. Television – See No Evil (live)
28. Ultravox – I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)
29. Soft Cell – Tainted Love
30. Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday
31. The Rezillos – I Can’t Stand My Baby