Spannered Oddcast #11 - Timestump Presents 1980

1980. A good year for Ronald Reagan and Sissy Spacek but a bad year for John Lennon, Ian Curtis, and anyone involved in the production of Caligula. Chances are, even if you were alive and aware back then, you haven't experienced anything like this big bowl of 1980 soup, featuring fragments of music, news, film and trivia gathered up and broken down by the Timestump project. 1980: it's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. Or would you? "People like using decades to categorise music. The 1970s: disco. The 1980s: Duran Duran. The 1990s: Take That. And the 2000s: Crazy Frog. But what if you zoom in a level and use a year instead? The Timestump project tests this out by taking a single year and turning it into a bewildering audio experience, staggering between musical genres, news stories, films, trivia and TV adverts. By showing how vast and confusing even a single year can be, it proves how daft it is to treat an entire decade as a single musical genre."   The Timestump Project, April 2010   Tracklisting: The Human League - Black Hit Of Space Madness - Shadow of Fear Pointer Sisters - He's So Shy Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae Fi Peach The Gap Band - Yearning For Your Love Telex - Plus De Distance Brian Eno & John Hassell - Delta Rain Dream Queen - Dragon Attack Cheap Trick - High Priest of Rock'n'Roll Paul Simon - One Trick Pony Blondie - Angels on the Balcony Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles Tangerine Dream - Tangram 1 The Clash - The Call Up Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours Giorgio Moroder - Night Drive Ultravox - Mister X John Foxx - 030 David Bowie - Kingdom Come Kurtis Blow - The Breaks Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce Sister Sledge - You Fooled Around [TV Soup]