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Real Wild Child - (Mostly) Alternative Music - 1985-1989

Mostly alternative music from the era after post-punk and the first phase of new wave, when many punk, new wave, and alternative acts grew up. A five-year period in which new wave acts were fading out, college radio was still going strong, but before the Seattle Grunge movement changed everything.
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247Songs
134Artists
5Decades
16h 48mDuration
3y agoUpdated
New WaveNew RomanticPermanent WaveAlternative RockNew Wave PopPost-PunkRockUK Post-PunkSinger-SongwriterPower Pop
2020s
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1990s
1980s

Popular Artists

Popular artists in this playlist.
The SmithsU2The CureDepeche ModeR.E.M.a-haTracy ChapmanPixiesKate BushLenny Kravitz

Also Featuring

Artists you might not have heard of.

Popular Songs

Popular songs in this playlist.
LukaSuzanne Vega
Keep Your Hands to YourselfThe Georgia Satellites
You Keep Me Hangin OnKim Wilde
Close to Me - 2006 RemasterThe Cure
Closer to FineIndigo Girls
Orange Crush - Remastered 2013R.E.M.
Better Be Home SoonCrowded House
Real Wild Child (Wild One)Iggy Pop
Manic MondayThe Bangles
Under the Milky WayThe Church

Hidden Gems

Songs you might not have heard before.
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - 2018 RemasterKate Bush
Fast CarTracy Chapman
Where Is My Mind? - 2007 RemasterPixies
Heart Shaped WorldChris Isaak
Beds Are Burning - RemasteredMidnight Oil

All Songs

1
Real Wild Child (Wild One)Iggy Pop
3:38
2
And She WasTalking Heads
3:39
3
Balloon ManRobyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
3:33
4
Close to Me - 2006 RemasterThe Cure
3:23
5
Let's GoThe Feelies
2:39
6
Don't Let's StartThey Might Be Giants
2:36
7
Catch The WindDrivin N Cryin
4:05
8
Still the NightBodeans
4:01
9
This & ThatMichael Penn
3:31
10
Life's What You Make It - 1997 RemasterTalk Talk
4:28
11
So AliveLove and Rockets
4:17
12
In The MeantimeThe Railway Children
3:48
13
Lips Like SugarEcho & the Bunnymen
4:51
14
Mayor Of Simpleton - 2001 RemasterXTC
3:58
15
Deadbeat ClubThe B-52's
4:56
16
Sick Of ItThe Primitives
3:12
17
Between Something and NothingThe Ocean Blue
4:02
18
VictoriaThe Fall
2:45
19
Here Comes Your ManPixies
3:21
20
I Wanna Be a FlinstoneThe Screaming Blue Messiahs
2:31
21
We Close Our EyesOingo Boingo
3:38
22
MandinkaSinéad O'Connor
3:47
23
Over And OverThe Railway Children
4:03
24
There She Goes Again - RemasteredThe Beat Farmers
2:41
25
Ship of FoolsWorld Party / Anthony Thistlethwaite
4:28
26
Wood BeezScritti Politti
4:48
27
No MythMichael Penn
4:09
28
WitchdoctorSidewinders
3:29
29
Remember (Newman's Lovesong)The Rave-Ups
2:58
30
Rat In Mi KitchenUB40
6:58
31
Driver 8 - RemasteredR.E.M.
3:23
32
Quiet Heart - RemasteredThe Go-Betweens
5:21
33
Rough Night In JerichoDreams So Real
4:20
34
I'm An Adult NowThe Pursuit Of Happiness
4:29
35
Just Another DayOingo Boingo
5:12
36
SupermanR.E.M.
2:53
37
Death DefyingHoodoo Gurus
3:22
38
Cuts You UpPeter Murphy
5:27
39
LukaSuzanne Vega
3:51
40
All That Money WantsThe Psychedelic Furs
3:45
41
Shoulder Pads 1#The Fall
2:55
42
Ballad of a Love DollRedd Kross
1:54
43
Flesh Numer OneRobyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
2:40
44
See A Little LightBob Mould
3:32
45
The Loving - 2001 RemasterXTC
4:11
46
Give It Up - 1997 RemasterTalk Talk
5:17
47
Outbound PlaneNanci Griffith
2:40
48
I BelieveR.E.M.
3:50
49
Happy When It RainsThe Jesus and Mary Chain
3:37
50
Out of Hand - Extended VersionThe Mighty Lemon Drops
5:29
51
Brand New FriendLloyd Cole and the Commotions
4:52
52
Bring on the Dancing HorsesEcho & the Bunnymen
3:55
53
Closer to FineIndigo Girls
4:01
54
VeronicaElvis Costello
3:09
55
T.V. ManThe Bolshoi
4:39
56
The Friend SongDrivin N Cryin
4:16
57
Always SaturdayGuadalcanal Diary
4:14
58
If She Knew What She WantsThe Bangles
3:48
59
April SkiesThe Jesus and Mary Chain
4:01
60
Orange Crush - Remastered 2013R.E.M.
3:51
61
GodstarPsychic TV
3:38
62
RisePublic Image Ltd.
6:18
63
Kiss Me on the Bus - 2008 RemasterThe Replacements
2:54
64
When All's WellEverything But The Girl
3:03
65
I Wanna Be Adored - Remastered 2009The Stone Roses
4:52
66
Wild Wild WestThe Escape Club
4:04
67
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear ShadesTimbuk 3
3:24
68
She Drives Me CrazyFine Young Cannibals
3:35
69
Wild Wild Life - 2005 RemasterTalking Heads
3:39
70
Like the Weather10,000 Maniacs
3:56
71
Blue ChevroletThe Beat Farmers
2:58
72
Blue KissJane Wiedlin
3:28
73
Ways To Be WickedLone Justice
3:25
74
Don't Call Me BabyVoice Of The Beehive / Mixed By: Nigel Green
3:06
75
So In LoveOrchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3:29
76
Feeling The ElephantBill Lloyd
4:32
77
The High RoadThe Feelies
4:22
78
Throw Your Arms Around MeHunters & Collectors
3:54
79
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - 2011 RemasterThe Smiths
4:04
80
I Don't Know How To Say Goodbye To YouSam Phillips
3:19
81
Name NamesThe Del Fuegos
3:28
82
Happy HourThe Housemartins
2:23
83
In My GremlinThe Rave-Ups
2:16
84
CrashThe Primitives
2:31
85
Happiness Is Easy - 1997 RemasterTalk Talk
6:30
86
The Great CommandmentCamouflage
4:17
87
(Nothing But) Flowers - 2005 RemasterTalking Heads
5:32
88
Bizarre Love TriangleNew Order
4:20
89
No StarsFigures On A Beach
4:44
90
Love ShackThe B-52's
5:20
91
Punk Rock GirlThe Dead Milkmen
2:38
92
Keep Your Hands to YourselfThe Georgia Satellites
3:25
93
Take on Mea-ha
3:45
94
People Are PeopleDepeche Mode
3:43
95
Bedbugs and BallyhooEcho & the Bunnymen
3:29
96
I Want Your (Hands on Me)Sinéad O'Connor
4:38
97
E=MC2Big Audio Dynamite
5:54
98
Manic MondayThe Bangles
3:04
99
Earn Enough For Us - Remastered 2001XTC
2:53

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