Wild, Beautiful & Damned

Sometime in the early 80's I made this cassette. Which I re-did as a CD and then now as a playlist. The cassette had some weird scribbles of purple on the cover, which I tried to stay true to in redesigning the CD cover. There is no real theme to this and was just music I liked at the time. The Ultravox! song that I named the cassette after was particularly one of my favorites (being a Brian Eno production) and why I decided to make this pick in the first place. Most of it was stuff that was not being played on the radio. Well, obviously Beat It was played everywhere. But to me they all could co-exist together. I never understood why some of these tracks didn't get more popular. The Joe Jackson, the Tom Tom Club, the Visage tracks, for instance, and my favorite Depeche Mode song that I had on multiple 12" singles (all with different covers). Why weren't they major hits on every station. I can understand that the Ultravox! was an acquired taste. I don't pretend to know the answer. I just liked all of this.

Wild, Beautiful & Damned

01 B Movie - Moles

02 The Motels - Trust Me

03 Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

04 Ultravox! - The Wild, The Beautiful & The Damned

05 Spandau Ballet - Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

06 Human League - I Love You Too Much

07 Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out

08 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

09 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

10 Tom Tom Club - Man With The Four-Way Hips

11 Michael Jackson - Beat It

12 Men At Work - Overkill

13 Depeche Mode - See You

14 Joe Jackson - Memphis

15 Visage - Frequency 7 (Dance Mix)

16 Illustration - Tidal Flow

17 Kate Bush - Sat In Your Lap

18 Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

19 Tin Huey - I'm A Believer

20 REM - Radio Free Europe

21 Devo - Whip It

22 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity