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The year that NOW’s story began, and where we started our ‘Yearbook’ series back in 2021. An incredible year in Pop music, and between that first ‘Yearbook’, it’s ‘Extra’, and more of the year’s hits featuring on the ‘80-84 Final’ and it’s ‘Extra’ we have featured over 150 tracks on CD so far in our appreciation of 1983.
Those tracks were generally the bigger hits of the year with their Chart achievement a factor in their inclusion - however – that’s not the whole story, and our celebration of 1983 wouldn’t be complete without shining a light on some of the year’s singles that have been compiled much less frequently over the past 40 years…
Welcome to the THE VAULT for 1983…Some of the tracks were Top 40 hits, some missed the Chart completely, and some were huge in the U.S. and not in the U.K. – but all are part of the wonderful Pop story of 1983.
Tracklist
3LP
LP1-SIDE A:
1. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Telegraph
2. Blancmange - That’s Love, That It Is
3. China Crisis - Tragedy And Mystery
4. Adam Ant - Strip
5. Divine - Love Reaction
6. Yello - I Love You
7. Talk Talk - My Foolish Friend
8. Japan - Canton
LP1-SIDE B:
1. Fun Boy Three – The More I See (The Less I Believe)
2. Tracie – Give It Some Emotion
3. The Teardrop Explodes - You Disappear From View
4. XTC - Love On A Farmboy's Wages
5. The Stranglers - Midnight Summer Dream
6. The Kinks - Don’t Forget To Dance
7. Mari Wilson - Cry Me A River
LP2-SIDE A:
1. Bauhaus - Lagartija Nick
2. Marc And The Mambas - Black Heart
3. The Glove - Like An Animal
4. Freur - Doot Doot
5. The B-52's - Song For A Future Generation
6. Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
7. Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two
LP2-SIDE B:
1. Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night
2. Rockers Revenge - The Harder They Come
3. Freeez - Pop Goes My Love
4. Malcolm McLaren - Soweto
5. Culture Club - I'll Tumble 4 Ya
6. The Belle Stars - Indian Summer
7. Level 42 - Out Of Sight Out Of Mind
8. Daryl Hall & John Oates - One On One
LP3-SIDE A:
1. Sparks & Jane Wiedlin - Cool Places
2. The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
3. The Fixx - Saved By Zero
4. The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer
5. Modern English - I Melt With You
6. Missing Persons - Walking In L.A.
7. Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me
8. Taco – Puttin On The Ritz
LP3-SIDE B:
1. Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages
2. Men At Work - Overkill
3. Pat Benatar - Little Too Late
4. Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
5. Styx - Mr. Roboto
6. Giorgio Moroder & Joe Esposito - Lady, Lady
7. Stephen Bishop - It Might Be You
4CD
CD 1
1. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Telegraph
2. Blancmange - That’s Love, That It Is
3. Thompson Twins - Watching
4. Talk Talk - My Foolish Friend
5. A Flock Of Seagulls - Nightmares
6. After The Fire - Der Kommissar
7. Gary Numan - Sister Surprise
8. John Foxx - Endlessly
9. The Lotus Eaters - You Don't Need Someone New
10. China Crisis - Tragedy And Mystery
11. H2O - Just Outside Heaven
12. Freur - Doot Doot
13. Japan - Canton
14. Yello - I Love You
15. Divine - Love Reaction
16. Rockers Revenge - The Harder They Come
17. Freeez - Pop Goes My Love
18. Level 42 - Out Of Sight Out Of Mind
19. Animal Nightlife - Native Boy '83
20. Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two
CD 2
1. Bauhaus - Lagartija Nick
2. Marc And The Mambas - Black Heart
3. The Stranglers - Midnight Summer Dream
4. Spear Of Destiny - The Wheel
5. The Glove - Like An Animal
6. The B-52's - Song For A Future Generation
7. Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
8. The Teardrop Explodes - You Disappear From View
9. Kim Wilde – Dancing In The Dark
10. Haysi Fantayzee - Sister Friction
11. Adam Ant - Strip
12. Bow Wow Wow - Do You Wanna Hold Me?
13. Altered Images - Bring Me Closer
14. The Belle Stars - Indian Summer
15. XTC - Love On A Farmboy's Wages
16. The Bluebells - Cath
17. Roman Holliday - Motor Mania
18. Tracie - Give It Some Emotion
19. Fun Boy Three – The More I See (The Less I Believe)
20. UB40 - I've Got Mine
21. Mari Wilson - Cry Me A River
CD 3
1. Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
2. Bonnie Tyler - Faster Than The Speed Of Night
3. Men At Work - Overkill
4. Chris Rea - I Can Hear Your Heartbeat
5. Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages
6. Robert Palmer - You Are In My System
7. Mike Oldfield - Shadow On The Wall
8. Marillion - He Knows You Know
9. The Kinks - Don’t Forget To Dance
10. Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton - We've Got Tonight
11. Lionel Richie - You Are
12. Earth, Wind & Fire - Fall In Love With Me
13. Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night
14. Malcolm McLaren - Soweto
15. Set The Tone - Dancesucker
16. Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)
17. Whodini - Magic's Wand
18. Olivia Newton-John - Twist Of Fate
19. Giorgio Moroder & Joe Esposito - Lady, Lady
CD 4
1. Culture Club - I'll Tumble 4 Ya
2. Sparks & Jane Wiedlin - Cool Places
3. The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
4. The Fixx - Saved By Zero
5. The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer
6. Modern English - I Melt With You
7. Missing Persons - Walking In L.A.
8. Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
9. Taco – Puttin On The Ritz
10. Styx - Mr. Roboto
11. Laura Branigan - Solitaire
12. Pat Benatar - Little Too Late
13. Rick Springfield - Affair Of The Heart
14. Huey Lewis & The News - Heart And Soul
15. Asia - Don't Cry
16. Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
17. John Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down
18. Daryl Hall & John Oates - One On One
19. Toto - I Won't Hold You Back
20. Stephen Bishop - It Might Be You