The Year Was: 1983
01.11.24
With The Year Was, Annett is taking you on a journey through time. Each show, we’re traveling back to one year. What did it sound like – around the world, across different genres, scenes, and areas of pop culture?
This time we are revisiting the year 1983, the year that music became as chaotically diverse as we still know it today. Old stylistic boundaries were crumbling down. Suddenly, anything could happen: Run-DMC taking rap to the radio, rock bands revitalizing the underground, old-school legends reinventing themselves, and glorious one-hit wonders. There was early Madonna, LA Punk, Neue Deutsche Welle in West Germany, Lovers Rock, and New Romantic synth-pop, MTV, and the first portable CD players. Everything was bursting out into the Cold War reality and nuclear tensions.
It was wild. And the drum beats were razor-sharp. Welcome to 1983!
Tracklist:
Gwen Guthrie – Padlock (Larry Levan Mix) Run-D.M.C. – Sucker M.C.’s (Krush-Groove 1) Madonna – Think of Me Dominatrix – The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight The Raincoats – No One’s Little Girl Love Joys – Chances Are Les Amazones De Guinée –Samba Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home) Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Spandau Ballet – Lifeline (7” Short Dub) Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride Lovebug Starski – Starski Live at the Disco Fever (Vocal) Herbie Hancock – Rockit Meiju Suvas – Kova duuni on rahaa (She Works Hard for the Money) Shannon – Let the Music Play The B-52’s – Moon 83 Sparks – Cool Places Rammellzee ss K-Rob – Beat Pop Midnight Star – Freak-A-Zoid (Single Version) Trio – Anna – Lassmichreinlassmichraus Sonic Youth – Kill Yr. Idols Black Flag – American Waste New Order – Blue Monday Michael Sembello –Maniac Nena – Nur geträumt Pablo Moses – In the Future Mtume – Juicy Fruit Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force – Looking for the Perfect Beat (Original 12’’ Version) Ebn-Ozn – AEIOU Sometimes Y Ministry – Revenge Minutemen – The Product Silly – Mont Klamott Yuri – Karma Camaleon Whodini – Magic’s Wand
