DJJD Retro 80's Volume 4

Created By:  Jonathan Dysart (DJJD)

Original Creation Year:  2007

Year of Re-master:  2010

Song Listing

Side A

1.    Living in the Plastic Age:  The Buggles

2.    Jocko Homo:  DEVO

3.    Don't You Want Me:  Human League

4.    Video!:  Jeff Lynne
5.    Singing in the Rain:  Ray Parker Jr.

Side B

6.    Personal Jesus:  Depeche Mode

7.    Der Kommissar:  Falco

8.    Cars:  Gary Numan

9.   Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money):  Pet Shop Boys
10.   Space Age Love Song:  A Flock of Seagulls

Side C

11.  Paranoimia:  The Art of Noise

12. Women III:  Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

13. Enjoy the Silence:  Depeche Mode

14. Fade to Grey:  Visage

Side D

15. Love Action (I Believe in Love):  Human League

16. Love is a Stranger:  Eurythmics

17. Tainted Love:  Soft Cell

18. Send Me An Angel:  Real Life
19. It's a Sin:  Pet Shop Boys

Origin of the Album

            This album is a compilation of 1980s synth-pop; the detail of this subgenre is found on this link. There is not much rock on this album, pure pop that is driven by synthesizers.  This album gets into the subgenre that I loved the best in the early 1980s - pure British with a touch of German and French.  Yes, there are two songs from 1990, but I bunch it in with the 1980s since this band is known as 1980s band.      

Concept and Theme of the Album

            Synth-pop all the way.  One regret is having the song "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell.  I discovered that this song is about Pedophile.   So you can skip that if you want to.  Similar that to "Love Action" by Human League.  This album was created before I started discerning stuff not appropriate.  So I apologize about that.

           

Concept and the Album Cover

          The album cover had to look futuristic, so I found this artistic photograph, which looks similar that to the inner sleeve of Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue".  I tinted the photograph a bit bluish.  The back album cover is a generic yet Sci-Fi looking background.