First of all this week, let me quickly plug our most recent Ultimate Music Guide, which is dedicated to Depeche Mode. As with previous specials in the Ultimate Music Guide series on David Bowie, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul Weller, The Clash, Nick Cave, The Kinks, U2, REM and The Smiths – all of which you can order online at www.uncut.co.uk/store or order digitally at www.uncut.co.uk/download – Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide features brand new reviews of all Depeche’s albums, written by a stellar team of Uncut scribes, plus a ton of vintage interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, reprinted for the first time in years and covering the whole of the band’s career from their first stirrings in deepest Basildon in the early 80s.
Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide is on sale now.
By happy coincidence, as part f the special promotional feature in the current Uncut that we produced in association with hmv celebrating six decades of music and films, we have reached the 80s, for which I’ve compiled the following playlist.
Have a good week.
Music
Dexys Midnight Runners
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnoUlZnwYy4
Talking Heads
Remain In Light
1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
The Replacements
Let It Be
1984
Tom Waits
Rain Dogs
1985
Paul Simon
Graceland
1986
Pixies
Surfer Rosa
1988
The Waterboys
Fisherman’s Blues
1988
NWA
Straight Outta Compton
1988
Lou Reed
New York
1989
Films
Raging Bull
Directed by Martin Scorsese
1980
Mad Max 2
George Miller
1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLCmcV4gC_0
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
1982
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw
The Thing
John Carpenter
1982
Scarface
Brian De Palma
1983
Once Upon A Time In America
Sergio Leone
1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzhX2PD6Srw
Spinal Tap
Carl Reiner
1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7rWiY5obI
Platoon
Oliver Stone
1986
Withnail And I
Bruce Robinson
1987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6LhZJdCQY
Die Hard
John McTiernan
1988