Come On Down To My Rescue - Songs 1980

Come On Down To My Rescue - Songs 1980 Pt. 1 is the first mix in a series that focuses on the year 1980.

Anyone who was hanging out with us or going to our parties at our apartment on Putnam near Lafayette in 1980 heard much of what is on this mix and the ones that will follow from that year.

Looking back at that time we were moving out of the 70s, through the New Wave and getting our first glimpse of what would be later known as Post-Punk, Alternative Rock. Some albums were released at the very end of 1980 such as the U2 album which really became more of a record that we played a lot in 1981 and then there was the Clash who released London Calling late in 1979. We played that record all through 1980 and then the late 1980 release of Sandinista got played throughout 1981. For these series of mixes based on years I've been using the release date to place them. As with all of these year mixes these are my personal views of the year and not what should be considered the best of the year or the most significant of any given year. These are what I liked about the year.

Photo is Echo & The Bunnymen playing a show in Liverpool in 1980.

1. Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescue (Crocodiles, 1980) 
2. Split Enz - I Got You (True Colours, 1980) 
3. Elvis Costello - Posession (Get Happy, 1980)
4. Rockpile - Teacher Teacher (Seconds of Pleasure, 1980) 
5. John Hiatt - Pink Bedroom (Two Bit Monsters, 1980) 
6. Fischer-Z - So Long (Going Deaf For A Living, 1980) 
7. The Teardrop Explodes - Treason (Kilimanjaro, 1980) 
8. David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (Scary Monsters, 1980) 
9. The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe (The Psychedelic Furs, 1980) 
10. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (Boys Don't Cry, 1980) 
11. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Love Will Tear Us Apart, single, 1980) 
12. The Soft Boys - Kingdom Of Love (Underwater Moonlight, 1980) 
13. The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom (I Just Can't Stop It, 1980) 
14. Pretenders - Brass In Pocket (Pretenders, 1980) 
15. Siouxsie & The Banshees (Kaleidoscope, 1980) 
16. Cristina - Is That All There Is? (Cristina, 1980) 
17. The Only Ones - Lucinda (Love Becomes A Habit) (Baby's Got A Gun, 1980) 
18. 999 - Stop! Stop! (Biggest Prize In Sport, 1980) 
19. Dirty Looks - Lie To Me (Dirty Looks, 1980) 
20. Pylon - Gravity (Gyrate, 1980) 
21. The Police - Driven To Tears (Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980) 
22. Devo - Girl U Want (Freedom of Choice, 1980) 
23. U2 - I Will Follow (Boy, 1980)