^ I have seen it, and it is good.
LemonMelon, my dear fellow. I must apologise at the top of this review of your list. As I reached the final portion I realised that I had had quite a snobbish attitude while listening to most of it. I kept sort of dismissing tracks earlier on in the list due to their unabashed 80s qualities. But by the time I reached my favourite part of the list, the end, I realised that some of my favourite songs have the exact same qualities - Chinatown, Streets of Your Town, Love Comes Tumbling. So that actually made me feel a little bit ashamed of myself... like if I love those three songs so much, then why do I immediately dismiss other songs from the era or of that sound just because I haven’t heard them before? So your list made me do a bit of introspective soul-searching. Maybe if I did dig a bit deeper, was more patient, I’d end up a big fan of the sound as well. idk.
Anyway to the list itself, it was not something I greatly enjoyed I’m afraid. It was never bad, in fact it was pleasant all the way through and I think obviously you nailed your theme really nicely (objectively speaking. I would have love to have felt the ‘icy winters and warming alcohol’ feeling more, but perhaps I needed to be sitting by a fire late at night with a scotch on the rocks to really get that). For me it’s just not a sound I like to swim in for any extended period of time. It started well, Running up That Hill - West End Girls was a killer combo, I might need to check out some more Pet Shop Boys, I bloody love that song. But yeah, most of the list ran together for me and there weren’t many standouts that encouraged me to check out some new stuff. I was totally taken aback by Perfect Circle, in that it didn’t sound anything like the Michael Stipe I’ve come to know. Or R.E.M. for that matter. It was a really nice ending though, starting with Crystal Castles x Robert Smith (I guess I was wrong about “I’m Not in Love” not appearing on this list. No idea if it ever crossed your mind that creating a “classically 80s” list without including 10cc but including a 00s song that repeats that phrase over and over, but I thought that was really cool). The Sundays track was really great, definitely the best song of what I hadn’t already heard, and that stretch of Sundays>Go-Betweens>Destroyer absolutely ruled. Also loved Tinseltown in the Rain as well.
tl;dr - objectively great, just not really my thing.
now on to Azealia Banks' list and then send mah rankin's.