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For those of you who lived in SoCal during the '80s, these are great comps featuring trax that KROQ used to play the hell out of, then dropped and never played again (not even during Flashback weekends and lunches). Most of these trax don't normally show up on '80s comps either....
SONGS THAT KROQ FORGOT, VOL. 7
1. Nick Lowe-"Switchboard Susan" 1979
2. Difford & Tilbrook-"Picking Up The Pieces" 1984
3. Bow Wow Wow-"Aphrodiziac" 1983
4. Ministry-"Revenge" 1983
5. The Church-"Myrrh" 1986
6. Sparks-"Moustache" 1982
7. Garland Jeffreys-"Modern Lovers" 1981
8. OMD-"Georgia" 1981
9. Blondie-"T-Birds" 1980
10. Elvis Costello-"Getting Mighty Crowded" 1980
11. The Colourfield-"Running Away" 1987
12. General Public-"Hot You're Cool" 1984
13. LAX-"Ronnie's Song"
14. King Crimson-"Heartbeat" 1982
15. New Musik-"Dead Fish (Don't Swim Home)" 1980
16. The Fixx-"Don't Be Scared" 1987
17. The Cars-"Double Life" 1979
18. Adam & The Ants-"Christian D'Or" 1980
19. Martini Ranch-"How Can The Labouring Man..." 1987
20. Julian Cope-"Sunspots" 1984
SONGS THAT KROQ FORGOT VOL 8
1. The Plimsouls-"Zero Hour (Original Version)" 1980
2. Hipsway-"The Honeythief" 1986
3. Soft Cell-"Chips On My Shoulder" 1981
4. The Woodentops-"Get It On" 1986
5. Bad Manners-"Bang The Drum All Day" 1985
6. Men Without Hats-"I Got The Message" 1982
7. Lene Lovich-"Lucky Number" 1979
8. Pete Shelley-"If You Ask Me (I Won't Say No)" 1983
9. 20/20-"Cheri" 1979
10. The Suburbs-"Music For Boys" 1981
11. Depeche Mode-"Something To Do" 1984
12. The Weirdos-"Helium Bar" 1980
13. Fabulous Poodles-"Mirror Star" 1978
14. Big Audio Dynamite-"E=MC2" 1985
15. The Alarm-"Marching On (Original Version)" 1983
16. Psychedelic Furs-"Sister Europe" 1980
17. Juluka-"Scatterlings Of Africa" 1982
18. The Romantics-"When I Look In Your Eyes" 1980
19. ABC-"Unzip" 1983
20. The Beat Farmers-"Happy Boy" 1985
SONGS THAT KROQ FORGOT VOL.9
1. The Busboys-"The Boys Are Back In Town"
2. Ministry-"Work For Love" 1983
3. Killer Pussy-"Pocket Pool"
4. The Motors-"Metropolis" 1980
5. Nik Kershaw-"The Riddle" 1985
6. Mental As Anything-"Let's Cook" (US mix) 1982
7. Devo-"That's Good" 1982
8. The Clash-"Charlie Don't Surf" 1980
9. The Waitresses-"Quit" 1982
10. A-Ha-"Cry Wolf" 1986
11. Psuedo Echo-"A Beat For You" 1984
12. The Stranglers-"The Men They Love To Hate" 1981
13. Men Without Hats-"Living In China" 1982
14. The Call-"Turn A Blind Eye"1983
15. The Kingbees-"My Mistake" 1980
16. Naked Eyes-"When The Lights Go Out" 1983
17. The Dickies-"Manny Moe and Jack" 1980
18. Heaven 17-"We Live So Fast" 1982
19. XTC-"Melt The Guns" 1982
20. Gary Numan-"I Die You Die" 1980
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Sometimes, there is NO justice in the music biz....Apart from the import version of "Tonic For The Troops", there are no Boomtown Rats albums on CD. All deleted. Gone. Out of print! So, we've gone out and found the extremely rare CDs and put together our own Rats 2fers. For your info, their debut and "In The Long Grass" have never been available on CD...until now!!
THE BOOMTOWN RATS-"Volume 1"
"The Boomtown Rats" 1977
1. Lookin' After No.1
2. Neon Heart
3. Joey's On The Street Again
4. Never Bite The Hand That Feeds
5. Mary Of The 4th Form
6. (She's Gonna) Do You In
7. Close As You'll Ever Be
8. I Can Make It If You Can
9. Kicks
"A Tonic For The Troops" 1978
10. Like Clockwork
11. Blind Date
12. (I Never Loved) Eva Braun
13. She's So Modern
14. Don't Believe What You Read
15. Living On An Island
16. Me And Howard Hughes
17. Can't Stop
18. (Watch Out For) The Normal People
19. Rat Trap
20. Under Their Thumb...Is Under My Thumb (from "Mondo Bongo")
21. House Burned Down (from "V Deep")
BOOMTOWN RATS-"Volume 2"
"The Fine Art Of Surfacing" 1979
1. Someone's Looking At You
2. Diamond Smiles
3. Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
4. Having My Picture Taken
5. Sleep (Finger's Lullabye)
6. I Don't Like Mondays
7. Nothing Happened Today
8. Keep It Up
9. Nice 'N' Neat
10. When The Night Comes
"Mondo Bongo" 1981
11. Mood Mambo
12. Straight Up
13. This Is My Room
14. Another Piece Of Red
15. Go Man Go
16. Please Don't Go
17. The Elephant's Graveyard
18. Banana Republic
19. Don't Talk To Me
20. Hurt Hurts
21. Up All Night
**Due to time restrictions, "Under Their Thumb..." has been removed from "Mondo Bongo" and is not included on this compilation. It can be found on THE BOOMTOWN RATS-"Volume 1" as a bonus track.
THE BOOMTOWN RATS-"Vol. 3"
"V Deep" 1982
1. Never In A Million Years
2. The Bitter End
3. Talking In Code
4. He Watches It All
5. A Storm Breaks
6. Charmed Lives
7. House On Fire
8. Up All Night (version 2)
9. Skin On Skin
10. The Little Death
"In The Long Grass" 1984
11. A Hold Of Me
12. Drag Me Down
13. Dave
14. Over Again
15. Another Sad Story
16. Tonight
17. Hard Times
18. Lucky
19. An Icicle In The Sun
20. Up Or Down
**Due to time restrictions, "House Burned Down" has been removed from "V Deep" and is not included on this compilation. It can be found on THE BOOMTOWN RATS-"Volume 1" as a bonus track.