If you're here to download "She Blinded Me With Science," please sample the rest of the album. "Science" is not the best track. This is an astonishingly good pop album, and Dolby upped the ante two years later with "The Flat Earth." (Note to newbies: wile Flat Earth is better, this one is more accessible.) Note the sly cold war parable in "Europa." My personal favourite is "Airwaves."
Every decade, a new batch of songs rockets up the pop charts, bringing quick fame and wild glory to the artists who sing them. And, just as inevitably, those split-second chart toppers usually slink quietly back into obscurity in the years that follow their One Big Hit. Perhaps no decade produced more momentary Mozarts than the 1980s. Cynics will say the songs from this era are drivel -- that artistic integrity was low on a list… more »
This station is a nod to the mastery of music that came out of the 1980's. A soundtrack to my teenage years, including classics from Joy Division and Talk Talk and scarcer tracks from Belouis Some and Propagands. An exciting time, where dreams seemed possible. more »
