NOW Yearbook: The Vault 1983

Description

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.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Telegraph – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
2. That’s Love, That It Is – Blancmange
3. Watching – Thompson Twins
4. My Foolish Friend – Talk Talk
5. Nightmares – A Flock of Seagulls
6. Der Kommissar – After the Fire
7. Sister Surprise – Gary Numan
8. Endlessly – John Foxx
9. You Don’t Need Someone New – The Lotus Eaters
10. Tragedy and Mystery – China Crisis
11. Just Outside Heaven – H20
12. Doot Doot – Freur
13. Canton – Japan
14. I Love You – Yello
15. Love Reaction – Divine
16. The Harder They Come – Rockers Revenge
17. Pop Goes My Love – Freeez
18. Out of Sight Out of Mind – Level 42
19. Native Boy ’83 – Animal Nightlife
20. Breaking Us in Two – Joe Jackson
Disc 2
1. Lagartija Nick – Bauhaus
2. Black Heart – Marc and the Mambas
3. Midnight Summer Dream – The Stranglers
4. The Wheel – Spear of Destiny
5. Like an Animal – The Glove
6. Song for a Future Generation – The B-52’s
7. Mexican Radio – Wall of Voodoo
8. You Disappear from View – The Teardrop Explodes
9. Dancing in the Dark – Kim Wilde
10. Sister Friction – Haysi Fantayzee
11. Strip – Adam Ant
12. Do You Wanna Hold Me? – Bow Wow Wow
13. Bring Me Closer – Altered Images
14. Indian Summer – The Belle Stars
15. Love On a Farmboy’s Wages – XTC
16. Cath – The Bluebells
17. Motor Mania – Roman Holiday
18. Give It Some Emotion – Tracie
19. The More I See (The Less I Beleive) – Fun Boy Three
20. I’ve Got Mine – UB40
21. Cry Me a River – Mari Wilson
Disc 3
1. Goodnight Saigon – Billy Joel
2. Faster Than the Speed of Night – Bonnie Tyler
3. Overkill – Men at Work
4. I Can Hear Your Heartbeat – Chris Rea
5. Secret Messages – Electric Light Orchestra
6. You Are in My System – Robert Palmer
7. Shadow On the Wall – Mike Oldfield
8. He Knows You Know – Marillion
9. Don’t Forget to Dance – The Kinks
10. We’ve Got Tonight – Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton
11. You Are – Lionel Richie
12. Fall in Love With Me – Earth, Wind & Fire
13. Get Down Saturday Night – Oliver Cheatham
14. Soweto – Malcolm McLaren
15. Dancesucker – Set The Tone
16. Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop) – Man Parrish
17. Magic’s Wand – Whodini
18. Twist of Fate – Olivia Newton-John
19. Lady, Lady – Giorgio Moroder & Joe Esposito
Disc 4
1. I’ll Tumble 4 Ya – Culture Club
2. Cool Places – Sparks & Jane Wiedlin
3. Talking in Your Sleep – The Romantics
4. Saved By Zero – The Fixx
5. Suddenly Last Summer – The Motels
6. I Melt With You – Modern English
7. Walking in L.A. – Missing Persons
8. Always Something There to Remind Me – Naked Eyes
9. Puttin’ On the Ritz – Taco
10. Mr. Roboto – Styx
11. Solitaire – Laura Branigan
12. Little Too Late – Pat Benatar
13. Affair of the Heart – Rick Springfield
14. Heart and Soul – Huey Lewis & The News
15. Don’t Cry – Asia
16. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) – Journey
17. Crumblin’ Down – John Mellencamp
18. One On One – Daryl Hall & John Oates
19. I Won’t Hold You Back – Toto
20. It Might Be You – Stephen Bishop