Skinny Ties
bouncing between the guard rails of punk and mainstream radio rock this mixtape finds common ground in power pop. where household names and total unknowns use the forward thrust of chugging chords and driving drums to create a chewed up late 70s / early 80s bubblegum pop sound and energy that hits a bunch of my nostalgia centers.
image : Guy Departees
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Tracklist:
- Photograph – The Movies – Snap Shot Records / Mean Bean Records (1982/2020)
- Ask For Jill – The dB’s – Albion Records (1982)
- Soul Kitchen – X – Slash Records (1980)
- A Hundred Feet Away – Joan Jett And The Blackhearts – Blackheart Records / Epic (1983)
- I’ve Done Everything For You – Rick Springfield – RCA (1980)
- Love Comes In Spurts – Richard Hell And The Voidoids – Sire (1977)
- Key Of E – John Lovsin – Terminal Records / Superior Viaduct (1982/2020)
- Government Center – Jonathan Richman – Beserkley (1975)
- What I Like About You – The Romantics – Epic / Columbia Special Products (1979/1980)
- Is This Real? – The Wipers – Park Avenue Records / Jackpot Records (1979/2014)
- Some Of My Lies Are True (Sooner Or Later) – Huey Lewis And The News – Chrysalis (1980)
- Stuck On You – The Toasters – Bagel Records / Mean Bean Records (1979/2022)
- I Didn’t Have The Nerve To Say No – Blondie – Chrysalis (1977)
- Girl U Want – Devo – Warner Bros. (1980)
- Just What I Needed – The Cars – Elektra (1978)
- 867-5309/Jenny – Tommy Tutone – Columbia / K-Tel International (1981/1982)
- Guilty As A Killer Wave – The Toms – Feel It Records (1979/2020)
- Can’t Stop the World – Go-Go’s – I.R.S. Records (1981)