Cassette Left in the Sun

Eighty '80s tracks: college-rock deep cuts, sophisti-pop gloss, and radio guilty pleasures, warped a little by the dashboard heat.

1. The Replacements - Kiss Me on the Bus
2. Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
3. R.E.M. - Driver 8
4. Tears for Fears - Mad World
5. The Smiths - Ask
6. Hall & Oates - I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
7. The Feelies - Let's Go
8. Everything but the Girl - Each and Every One
9. The Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane
10. Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
11. The dB's - Amplifier
12. Crowded House - Something So Strong
13. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
14. Sade - Smooth Operator
15. Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense at All
16. Split Enz - I Got You
17. The Style Council - Shout to the Top!
18. Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar
19. Paul Simon - Under African Skies
20. The Church - Under the Milky Way
21. Aztec Camera - Oblivious
22. Squeeze - Tempted
23. The Blue Nile - Tinseltown in the Rain
24. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
25. The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
26. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Perfect Skin
27. Talking Heads - And She Was
28. China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
29. Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Way It Is
30. The Housemartins - Happy Hour
31. Mr. Mister - Kyrie
32. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
33. Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid
34. XTC - Senses Working Overtime
35. Toto - Africa
36. The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
37. Donald Fagen - New Frontier
38. New Order - Age of Consent
39. The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
40. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
41. Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
42. The Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep
43. Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You
44. The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang
45. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
46. The La's - Timeless Melody
47. Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking
48. Elvis Costello - Veronica
49. Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
50. Dire Straits - So Far Away
51. Cocteau Twins - Lorelei
52. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
53. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
54. Orange Juice - Rip It Up
55. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
56. The Beat - Save It for Later
57. Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
58. Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
59. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
60. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is a Place on Earth
61. Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway
62. 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
63. Men at Work - Overkill
64. Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart
65. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
66. The Cars - Drive
67. Steve Winwood - Higher Love
68. The Primitives - Crash
69. They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
70. Huey Lewis & the News - The Power of Love
71. Swing Out Sister - Breakout
72. Prince - Raspberry Beret
73. Big Country - In a Big Country
74. The Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies
75. Bryan Ferry - Slave to Love
76. Modern English - I Melt with You
77. a-ha - Take On Me
78. Lone Justice - Ways to Be Wicked
79. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
80. Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane