The year of Live Aid, of course, and with it and We Are The World came the birth of the superstar, so much so that by September Michael Jackson could outbid Paul McCartney for the Beatles' publishing. Wham! went to China, Brothers In Arms popularised this strange and bijou 'compact disc' format, 19 made Vietnam into a cut-up pop groundbreaker. Also, all this. (We should also mention a mistake in an earlier 40, where we put 1985 release Take The Skinheads Bowling by Camper Van Beethoven in the 1986 mix. And we were doing so well up til we realised that too late)
Dexys Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like
The Pogues - Sally MacLennane
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - The Man With The Lightbulb Head
Prefab Sprout - Faron Young
The Long Ryders - Looking For Lewis And Clark
The Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Lost Weekend
R.E.M. - Driver 8
The Loft - Up The Hill And Down The Slope
New Order - Love Vigilantes
Microdisney - Birthday Girl
Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense At All
Time Zone - World Destruction
Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC²
Schoolly D - Put Your Filas On
LL Cool J - Rock The Bells
Wayne Smith - Under Me Sleng Teng
Scritti Politti - The Word Girl
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
Yello - Oh Yeah
The Fall - Couldn't Get Ahead
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Cure - Close To Me
Prince - Paisley Park
Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm
Cameo - Single Life
Mathilde Santing - Too Much
The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
Suzanne Vega - Marlene On The Wall
Double - The Captain Of Her Heart
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Felt - Primitive Painters
Madness - Yesterday's Men
Propaganda - Duel
The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down!
Pigbros - Hedonist Hat
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