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NOW Music proudly presents NOW – 80s Alternative 80 tracks across 4 CDs encapsulating the era and celebrating an incredibly diverse decade for ‘Alternative’ music.CD1 showcases genredefining bands and kicks off with New Order’s sublime ‘Thieves Like Us’, Eurythmics stunning ‘Beethoven I Love To Listen To’ and Joy Division’s era defining ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’. PostPunk New Wave exploded on to the charts, and The Associates, The Jam, Echo And The Bunnymen, Pretenders, and Siouxsie’s side project The Creatures are all included. The U.S. Alt scene provided R.E.M., Pixies, The Psychedelic Furs, and the David Bowie cowrite ‘Shades’ from Iggy Pop. Plus, some of the best written Pop songs ever, represented here by David Sylvian, Marc Almond, Aztec Camera, Pete Wylie amp The Mighty WAH, The Adventures, Tom Robinson, and the Elvis Costello cowrite ‘Shipbuilding’, beautifully realised by Robert Wyatt.The still incredible ‘O Superman’ from Laurie Anderson opens the second disc, along with other synthbased classics from Yello, Propaganda, Midge Ure amp Mick Karn, Japan, Electronic and a brilliant single from Japanese band Sandii amp The Sunsetz. DEVO produced the defining U.S. New Wave smash with ‘Whip It’, and fantastic unique hits from Scarlet Fantastic, Split Enz, Our Daughter’s Wedding, Anne Pigalle and ‘Flowers’ by Zaine Griff featuring Kate Bush on backing vocals are all included.The epic ‘This Corrosion’ from Sisters Of Mercy starts CD3 in grandiose style – and is followed with atmospheric masterpieces from Siouxsie And The Banshees, Bauhaus, The Cure and a second appearance from Joy Division – before some late80s Alternative essentials, including Bjork’s band The Sugarcubes, Act, The Mission, All About Eve, The Cult’s ‘Edie Ciao Baby’, ‘This Is England’ from The Clash, and The Fall’s version of ‘There’s A Ghost In My House’, before closing with two more great examples of U.S. Alt Pop from The GoGo’s, and The Waitresses.Opening with the song that launched one of the defining bands of the era, The Smiths, with ‘Hand In Glove’ the final CD features a stellar line up of 80s Alternative Chart hits – The Icicle Works, It’s Immaterial, BMovie, Kissing The Pink and Gang Of Four are all featured with timeless singleshellip Altered Images, Toyah and Adam amp The Ants would go on to find huge mainstream success in the early ’80s – and we celebrate these artists with their earlier singles. Big Audio Dynamite, Julian Cope and XTC are also included before the collection draws to a close with Latin Quarter’s ‘Radio Africa’ – and Scritti Politti’s 1981 single ‘The ‘Sweetest Girl’ ‘.NOW – 80s Alternative – A celebration of a different view of the decade’s charts the lessercompiled 1980’s singles. Various Artists is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £12 +P&P