For the big anniversary of Episode 80, John Nate looks back on some of the most game-changing songs of the year 1980, telling fun facts and stories behind them. So it’s high time you lost yourself on the dancefloor again with the classics from Visage, OMD, Ultravox, John Foxx, and Tubeway Army! Opening with a rare cover of Classix Nouevaux’s – Never Never Comes from Скрябін, the pioneers of the Ukrainian New Wave.
Tracks used:
Скрябін – Я не буду там
Tubeway Army – Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Enola Gay
Visage – Fade To Grey (Main Version)
Ultravox – Vienna
John Foxx – Underpass
Background music:
SynthKid – Devotion
Flash FM production, 2023.