Submitted as evidence that not everything I play here is fuzzy obnoxiousness, weird post-punk, and so forth. A fair bit of it is, to be sure, but sometimes a man’s just got to submit to the pleasures of perfectly mainstream pop/rock.
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- Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Accidents Will Happen
- Japan, Quiet Life
- Split Enz, One Step Ahead
- Ultravox, The Thin Wall
- Roxy Music, More Than This
- The Church, Almost With You
- Depeche Mode, Leave in Silence
- Simple Minds, Glittering Prize
- ABC, All of My Heart
- Duran Duran, My Own Way (Carnival remix)
- John Foxx, Endlessly
- Lou Reed, I Love You Suzanne
- INXS, Johnson’s Aeroplane
- New Order, Thieves Likes Us