I recently discovered that my son created a Google doc of the musical references which can be found within my 80s coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face. It’s pretty impressive; I was touched by the gesture. Check it out!
(I don’t want The Clash to feel left out—you were in there, Joe Strummer! But it was subtle.)
Smiths-how soon is now (morrissey), reel around the fountain
Tainted love
Video killed the radio star
New order - Leave Me alone, Your Silent Face, elegia, blue monday
Fine young cannibals
The cure- Close to me, Faith/Seventeen Seconds, a night like this
Joy division (ian curtis)- Shadowplay, Something Must Break, she’s lost control, love will tear us apart, heart and soul, new dawn fades, dead souls, insight, add all of unknown pleasures, novelty, digital, day of lords
Duran Duran- save a prayer
Flock of Seagulls- I ran
Prince
Thompson Twins- hold me now
Depeche Mode- everything counts
Parliment - Flashlight
U2 (bono)
The Police (Sting)- every breath you take
Madonna- Borderline, Lucky Star, Into the Groove
Blade Runner (Movie)
Rod Stewart
Wham- Everything she wants
Hall and Oates
The Cars- just what i needed, best friends girl, moving in stereo
Tina Turner
The Go Gos
Adam and the Ants- ‘kings of wild frontier’, Goody two shoes
Eurythmics-1984
The Fixx
Van Halen - aint talkin bout love, hot for teacher, panama
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Aretha Franklin
Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer
Culture Club- Do You really want to hurt me
Tears for fears- pale shelter, mad world, change, memories fade
Michael Jackson- billie jean, beat it
Jim morrison
The doors
Please please let me get what I want
Rock you like a hurricane
Joan Jet
Paul hardcastle - 19
Frankie Goes to Hollywood- Two Tribes
Erasure
The Romantics
Sisters Of Mercy
Howard Jones
Rick Springfield
INXS - dont change
Echo and The Bunnymen- the killing moon
10,000 maniacs
Pet Shop Boys- West End Girls, king’s cross
Led Zeppelin
Love and Rockets- Ball Of Confusion
B52’s- Give me back my man, rock lobster
The bridge on river kwai, movie
Hank Williams
Don Henley - boys of summer
Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in my eyes
Dead or Alive- you spin me right round
J Geils band
Whitney houston- saving all my love
Sheena Easton
Beastie Boys
Phil Collins
Huey Lewis
Falco
Janet Jackson
Robert Palmer
Def Leppard- Pour some sugar on me
Bow Wow Wow
Beach boys
Iron maiden
Killing Joke- 80s
Al Stewart- Year of the cat
Mr Mister - Broken Wings
Crucifucks - democracy spawns bad taste
Blancmange
Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
James taylor
Patridge Family
The church - under the Milky Way, reptile
Sex Pistols
David Bowie
Billy idol
Marine Girls
Simply red
Sade
Bryan Adams
Joe Jackson- is she really going out with him
The pretenders
Talking heads
Jim croce
Janis ian
Yaz- winter kills
Skinny puppy
Spandau ballet - True
A-ha- take on me
Ready for the world
Pat benatar-you better run
Kraftwerk
Howard Jones
Black flag
Hotel california
Modern English- machines
Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Throbbing gristle- hamburger lady
Blondie
Missing persons
Jimi hendrixx
The ramones
Bob seeger
Clan of xymox
Brain eno
The human league- dont you want me
Naked eyes- ‘burning bridges’
Visage - fade to grey
The vapors- Turning Vapors
Aimee mann
Bangles- hero takes a fall
Simple minds - orgasm addict
Agnostic Front
Pink floyd - ‘darkside of the moon’, comfortably numb
John Cougar- jack and diane, ‘american fool’
The fall - a new face in a hell
Stray cats- ‘built for speed’
William shatner - ‘the transformed man’
Cyndi lauper- Time after time, girls just wanna have fun
T. rex - Bang a gong (get it on)
Anne murray - Just one look
Barbara streisand - Woman in love
Bronski beat- smalltown beat
Minor threat- seeing red
Angry samoans- my old man’s a fatso
Harry nilson- coconut
The style council- youre the best thing
George thoroughgood- Bad to the bone
Ave maria
Grease- Hopelessly devoted to you,
Summer nights, Beauty School Drop out, you’re the one that I want
Stevie nicks - stop draggin my heart around
Joan jett - do you wanna touch me, i love rock and roll
The cars- Moving in stereo, All mixed up
Ll cool j - momma said knock you out
Simon and garfunkel - The sound of silence
Japan - gentleman take the polaroids
Run DMC - It’s like that
Reo speedwagon- time for me to fly
Kissing the pink - maybe this day
Beatle’s- ‘abbey road’
The who- who are you
Murray head- one night in bangkok
Janis joplin - piece of my heart
Roxy music - More Than This
Sigue sigue Sputnik - twenty first century boy
U2-Gloria
Blancmange-waves
ABC - poison arrow
Romeo void - a girl in trouble
Til Tuesday- coming up close
Scritti politti - perfect way
George Michael - Careless whisper
Mozart-requiem
Rex tremendae
Undertones- teenage kicks
Berlin - take my breath away
Missing persons - destination unknown
REM - fall on me
Laurie Anderson- sharkeys day
Culture club - do you really want to hurt me
The Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt
Grandmaster flash - White lines
Afrika Bambatta - Planet rock
Prince- When doves cry
David Bowie - let’s dance
Hall and Oates- I can’t go for that
George Romero - dawn of living dead
Naked Raygun - Rat Patrol
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noise
Cameo - Shake Your pants
Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
Bauhaus - dark entries
Cheap trick - I want you to want me
AC/DC - Hells Bells
The scorpions - ROck you like a hurricane
Loverboy - working for the weekend
Minor threat - i dont wanna hear it
Shock Therapy - new wave party
Gary numan - Cars
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This playlist is a companion to my 80s coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face. Stuart Page is a protagonist obsessed with 80s New Wave and Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Divison. All of the tunes and bands in the playlist get a mention in the novel. The novel is available on Amazon.
