Mark Damon Hughes blogs about tech and everything else
Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone
Feel free again
Oh, life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed to dance away the night
While they
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky,
We know Major Tom's a junky
Strung out on heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low
New Romantic Essentials: Nice tour of the New Romantic bands.
I don't have store/play links for these, this is all local, the playlist I listen to many mornings, pick a random start point and play forward. This'll wake you up.
| Song | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| Where Do I Begin (edit) | Dig Your Own Hole | Chemical Brothers |
| Neurosis | Drama | Bitter:Sweet |
| Nth Degree | Morningwood | Morningwood |
| One Too Many Mornings | Exit Planet Dust | Chemical Brothers |
| Let Forever Be | Surrender | Chemical Brothers |
| Airships | Futureperfect | VNV Nation |
| City Zen Radio 1990/2000 FM | Cure For Sanity | Pop Will Eat Itself |
| X Y & Zee [Sensory Amplification Mix] | Cure For Sanity | Pop Will Eat Itself |
| Japan Air | Endless Fantasy | Anamanaguchi |
| Life Is Sweet | Exit Planet Dust | Chemical Brothers |
| Heartbeat City | Heartbeat City | Cars |
| Waking Up | Drama | Bitter:Sweet |
| (Reach Up for The) Sunrise | Astronaut | Duran Duran |
| Let the Day Begin | The Best of the Call | Michael Been AKA The Call |
| I Want It All | The Platinum Collection | Queen |
| Sharing the World (feat. Hatsune Miku) | Sharing the World - Single | BIGHEAD |
| Streamline | Automatic | VNV Nation |
| Hit the Hi-Tech Groove | Box Frenzy (Remastered) | Pop Will Eat Itself |
| Satellite Ecstatica | This Is The Day...This Is The Hour...This Is This! | Pop Will Eat Itself |
| American Science | Notorious | Duran Duran |
| Mandelbrot Set | Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow | Jonathan Coulton |
| 21st Century Digital Boy | Stranger Than Fiction | Bad Religion |
| Twenty First Century Boy | 21st Century Boys - The Best Of | Sigue Sigue Sputnik |
| Neuromancer | Cyberpunk | Billy Idol |
| The Boy In the Bubble | The Essential Paul Simon (Bonus Video Version) | Paul Simon |
| I Don't Like Monday's | Emerald Rock | Boomtown Rats |
| Tomorrow People | Cyberpunk | Billy Idol |
| Only Solutions | Tron (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Journey |
| Too Much Information | Ghost in the Machine (Message in a Box) | Police |
| Where Would I Be Without IBM | Peace and Love, Inc. | Information Society |
| U.04/01/2003 U.B.L.U.D. | Box Frenzy (Remastered) | Pop Will Eat Itself |
| Life In the Fast Lane | Eagles Live | Eagles |
| Number One | Best Of | Chaz Jankel |
| Demolition Man | Ghost in the Machine (Message in a Box) | Police |
| Burn You Up, Burn You Down | Big Blue Ball | Peter Gabriel, Billy Cobham, The Holmes Brothers, Wendy Melvoin, Arona N'diaye & Jah Wobble |
| Standing In the Line | Midnight Mission | Carla Olson and the Textones |
| Big Time | So (Remastered) | Peter Gabriel |
| Not Dead Yet | Edge Of The Century | Styx |
| Everything's Cool | Dos Dedos Mis Amigos | Pop Will Eat Itself |
| Jesus Built My Hotrod | Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed & the Way to Suck Eggs | Ministry |
| Under The Influence | Surrender | Chemical Brothers |
| Atom Bomb | Wipeout 2097 | Fluke |
| Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex | Cansei de Ser Sexy | CSS |
| Control | 1000 Fires | Traci Lords |
| Stuck On Repeat | Arecibo - EP | Little Boots |
| So Alive | Love And Rockets | Love and Rockets |
| Joy | Praise The Fallen | VNV Nation |
| More | Vision Thing | Sisters Of Mercy |
| Standing (Still) | Standing EP | VNV Nation |
| Dream On | Surrender | Chemical Brothers |
| Where the I Divides | Peace and Love, Inc. | Information Society |
| Erotic Ontology | Orbiting Cathedrals | Pro-Tech |
| This Is Ponderous | The Best of 2NU | 2NU |
| Solitary | Praise The Fallen | VNV Nation |
| Come Sail Away (Edit) | Styx: Greatest Hits | Styx |
| Asleep From Day | Surrender | Chemical Brothers |
| Surrender | Surrender | Chemical Brothers |
| Everybody Wants to Rule the World | Songs From the Big Chair | Tears for Fears |
| Flash's Theme | The Platinum Collection | Queen |
Feeling retro, and lazy. At the time we had just elected an insane, senile old man who was out-acted by a chimp; who was going to start World War III with the Soviet Union, and he deliberately ignored AIDS so it'd kill the gays; and his VP was a CIA spook psychopath.
We got thru it, but a lot of people suffered and died, our country was irreparably damaged by their stupid Evangelical "Republican" policies, but at least we had amazing music, movies, fashion, and MTV.
It's worse this time around, and modern music, movies, and fashion suck, and all we have is Youtube. Ugh.
Which I had quite a few already, but threw $5 in to get the rest, and really I should be giving them $BIGNUM but I don't have it to spare. If you like new wave/electronica/modern vaporwave, grab this and give them as much as you reasonably can.
In this picture stands a man
Far away, alone and distant
Like a solitary field
In some nameless foreign land
All around him points of light
Start to dim and cease transmitting
—VNV Nation, "Solitary"
A little too light, but not every day has to be shouting for Satan.
Playing "hey, this reminds me of…" until I hit the roots.
