Gimme a Hammer

That's the solution to "Technical Difficulties," Track 1 of this socko, boffo compilation of songs from that storied decade, the Eighties!

01 - Technical Difficulties - Mondo Vita   1983  (2:12)

02 - Easy to Please Me - The Cheeters   1981  (3:50)

03 - And There's More - The Bytes   1983  (3:54)

04 - Jailhouse Rock - Judy Nylon   1983  (3:51)

05 - You've Lost - Tom Dickie and the Desires   1981  (2:41)

06 - Fotogenic - Ellen Shipley   1980  (3:31)

07 - Watching the Tears - The Pencils   1984  (3:55)

08 - Tina’s Got a New Hairdo - Metro   1982  (3:12)

09 - Payola - The Professionals   1981  (3:39)

10 - All for One - Berlin   1982  (3:17)

11 - O-O-O-O-O - Those French Girls   1982  (2:07)

12 - Aim Low - Graphic Shadows ‎   1984  (2:55)

13 - Worst Suicide - Unlimited Systems   1985  (4:24)

14 - She's So Cynical - The Modulators   1982  (2:33)

15 - She Wants You - The Breaks   1983  (3:54)

16 - Girls - The Lost Tropics   1983  (3:11)

17 - While the City Sleeps - Artificial Organs   1981  (3:33)

18 - Confidential Story - Jane Bond & the Undercover Men   1981  (3:12)

19 - Victim of Hypocracy - The Kids   1982  (3:58)

20 - Generator - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission   1980  (4:33)

21 - Air Heads - Popular Mechanix   1980  (2:18)

22 - Decisions - Unit 5   1981  (4:11)

23 - Non Stop World - Life by Night   1985  (4:02)

Other tracks of especial note:  All of 'em!  Don't be an "Air Head" or a "Victim of Hypocracy."  In this "Non Stop World," you can "Aim Low" or be a "Generator."

Though it's an interesting concept, don't you  dare ever believe that life is the "Worst Suicide"!  Because "And There's More"!

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Thanks for sharing this Musical Month of May!  See you on Monday for who knows what!

  

Don't Take a Bite

 On this Memorial Day, let's remember the heights and depths to which Man's knowledge can lead him.

Knowledge is great. It's the APPLICATION of that knowledge that we sometimes take less responsibly than we should. Just ask Victor Frankenstein.

01 - Rockin' at Ground Zero - The Gears - 1980  (1:45)

02 - Ten More Shopping Days Till the Bomb - The Weeds - 1967  (3:02)

03 - A Letter from the Shelter - Planet P Project - 1984  (5:22)

04 - Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus) - The Stranglers - 1979  (3:32)

05 - No War No More - Uproar - 1982  (2:51)

06 - American Neutron - Citizen 23 - 1980  (2:14)

07 - Radiation - Perfect Gentlemen - 1987  (3:45)

08 - Missiles - The Sound - 1980  (5:26)

09 - Steps - Leningrad Sandwich - 1983  (5:06)

10 - Back in 1984 - Cerebral Hemorrhage - 1984  (4:56)

11 - Atomic Energy - Jimmy Womack - 1960  (2:13)

12 - Neutron Bomb - The Art Attacks - 1978  (2:58)

13 - Meltdown Boogie - The Buzzards - 1979  (2:54)

14 - Welcome to the Nuclear Age - The Hates - 1982  (2:53)

15 - Limited Nuclear War - Toxic Reasons - 1984  (2:20)

16 - Radiation Nation - Subverts - 1981  (1:44)

17 - Paint It Red - The Disco Zombies - 1980  (2:05)

18 - Prompt Critical - Insinuations - 1980   (2:51)

19 - Strontium 90 - Bobbie Warren - 1960  (2:24)

20 - Atomic Garden - Bad Religion - 1992  (3:12)

21 - Satan Ain't Nothing but a Bomb - Sister Pauline Trotter - 1976  (3:32)

22 - Shattered Glass - Paranoia - 1984  (3:04)

23 - Nuke Up Now! - Sado-Nation - 1983  (2:32)

24 - Holocaust Hop - The End - 1983  (2:16)

We start and end this depressing chronicle of fatalism with some dance steps.  Even though (so far) the most pessimistic fears of atomic angst haven’t come true, if it’s got a beat, you can dance to it!

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See you on Thursday for our final installment.

  

Five of One

Yup, these songs are from the Eighties. and their song titles comprise only one word.

That's their blessing, or gimmick, or curse.

01 - Disneyland - The Dik Van Dykes - 1987  (1:26)

02 - Bubblegum - The Cichlids - 1980  (1:53)

03 - Dangerboy - Rough Cut - 1981  (2:15)

04 - Communication - Glass Torpedoes - 1982  (3:17)

05 - Security - Wendy and the Rocketts - 1983  (3:53)

06 - Telepathy - A-Heads - 1982  (1:49)

07 - Strangers - The Stripes - 1980  (3:05)

08 - Innocent - Grace Pool - 1980  (4:16)

09 - Dreaming - The Expelled - 1982  (2:28)

10 - Powerlines - Delta 5 - 1982  (3:14)

11 - Julie - Invaders - 1981  (2:56)

12 - Summer - The Take - 1980  (2:39)

13 - Espionage - Essential Bop - 1984  (2:46)

14 - Professionals - Ana Hausen - 1981  (2:49)

15 - Souvenirs - Second Language - 1984  (3:57)

16 - Spymaster - Jerry's Kids - 1989  (3:04)

17 - Wake - Leningrad Sandwich - 1982  (3:10)

18 - Normal - The Petticoats - 1980  (2:03)

19 - Chains - The Wad - 1980   (4:33)

20 - Vertigo - Standing Waves - 1981  (3:57)

21 - You - The Cold - 1980  (3:07)

22 - Augie - The Subjects - 1982  (2:25)

23 - Nemesis - Shriekback - 1985  (3:44)

24 - TV - The Judy's - 1981  (2:15)

25 - Beaverworld - The Shades - 1980  (3:30)

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See you on Monday for the final week of this Musical Month of May!