Goin’ Old School: Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance

Men Without Hats. ‘The Safety Dance’. 1982. SsssAaaaFfffTtttEeeeYyyy…

Buy Men Without Hats ’s music from:

  

Goin’ Old School: Inner City – Good Life

Classic breakthrough House from Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City with 1988’s ‘Good Life’.

Buy Inner City’s music from:

   

Goin’ Old School: Kon Kan – I Beg Your Pardon

Kon Kan’s ‘I Beg Your Pardon’ from 1988. Maybe you had to be there?

Buy Kon Kan’s music from:

   

Goin’ Old School: The Art Of Noise – Close (To The Edit)

“Hello 1984, we’re The Art Of Noise, these things are called samplers, deal with it. This is ‘Close (To The Edit)’”

Buy Art Of Noise’s music from:

    

Goin’ Old School: DEVO – Whip It

DEVO released ‘Whip It’ in 1980, the dawn of a new decade. What were they thinking? Catchy basslines and Power Cones is what they were thinking!

Buy DEVO’s music from:

   

Goin’ Old School: Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams

In 1982 the Eurythmics were all about androgyny, world domination, cows and pretending to play music on a BBC Micro in a box with a rack EQ and a tiny TV on top.

Buy Eurythmics’ music from:

    

Goin’ Old School: 5 Star – System Addict

Today’s look back in time features some slick Sci-Fi ElectroSoul from 5 Star in 1985’s ‘System Addict’. Check out that growling bass!

Buy 5 Star’s music from:

 

Goin’ Old School: Trio – Da Da Da

Trio, in 1982, rockin’ the VL-1 with ‘Da Da Da’

Buy Trio’s music from:

  

Goin’ Old School: S’Express – Theme From S’Express

S’Express’ ‘Theme From S’Express’ from TOTP in 1988, when Mark Moore invented Nu-Disco.

Buy S’Express’ music from:

 

Goin’ Old School: Anne Clark – Our Darkness

Electro poetess Anne Clark delivered ‘Our Darkness’ in it’s original form in 1984, it’s pretty sophisticated for the time.

Buy Anne Clark’s music from: