Ok, the "about 2 hours" thing is really vague, so after two hours if anyone feels the urge to 'cast, let me know and I'll happily step aside. I'm going for a lot of well-known bands and their no-so-well-known tracks. It'll be an odd start, but not boring.

So, you're saying in 15 minutes?
I'm lacquering my hair with Final Net® as we speak. Did they have that in the states? That was my spray of choice. We called it "Final Rock." Pump-sprayed on and then blow-dried upside down.
Ya, I'm a guy.

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We used something like that, and a crimping or a straightening iron to get the proper punk/goth look. I can still remember the smell of boiling hairspray as it fused to our hair for the perfect long-night punkness.

Ya, the smell of cooking DAP gel was nice also.
It's linked in my brain to the smell of clove cigarettes.
What the hell was that.

Cheater. Dandy Warhols, '80's?

We used to drink Molson's "Beer" beer. It came in a yellow can with the word Beer on the side. So very Repo Man. It was that or bunny beer, so-called cos there is bunnies on the label, and bunnies have everything to do with beer(?).

Preview: Dandy Warhols: ok, not quite, but the lyrics are.

1. Barry Adamson - Act I - The Ring's The Thing: Round Up The Usual Suspects (0:43)
2. Barry Adamson - Vermillion Kisses (3:02)
3. Guy Whitmore - The Operative (Remix) (3:44)
4. Cristina - Is That All There Is (5:47) Best. Version. Ever.
5. Cyndi Lauper - He's So Unusual (0:45)
6. Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You (3:31)
7. Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter (2:47)
8. Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting (3:31)
The girls collaborated in a song with these guys...
9. The Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed (3:35)
...who covered a song by these chicks...
10. Go Go's - Head Over Heels (3:36)

update....

11. Adam And The Ants - Antmusic (Single) (3:35)
12. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy (2:45)
13. Housemartins - Happy Hour (2:21)
14. Depeche Mode - A Question of Time (4:12)
15. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Bloc Bloc Bloc (3:28)
16. INXS - The One Thing (3:22)
17. Calamine - Sealab 2021 Theme (0:27)
18. DANIELLE DAX - The Id Parade (3:46)
19. enigmas - windshield wiper (3:02)
20. Screaming Blue Messiahs - I Wanna Be a Flintstone (2:29)
21. Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous (4:31)
22. The Cult - Nirvana (5:28)
23. The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another (3:13)
24. The Jam - That's Entertainment (1981) (3:17)
25. The Psychedelic Furs - I Wanna Sleep With You (3:16)
26. Rank and File - Amanda Ruth (3:08)
27. Lee Rocker - Bulletproof (2:18)
28. Maow - Mean Mean Man (0:59)
29. Rockats - Make That Move (3:46)
30. Mechanical Birds - London Town (2:54)
cats and birds!

another update.

31. Polecats - Make A Circuit With Me (2:44)
32. The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo (3:11)
33. Pointed Sticks - Out Of Luck 7'' 01 Out of Luck (2:16)
34. Bush - x-girlfriend (0:44)
35. Franz Ferdinand - This Fire (4:14)
36. Wall of Voodoo - Back in Flesh (3:40)
37. Simple Minds - Speed Your Love To Me (4:25)
38. The Church - The Unguarded Moment (4:15)
39. Adam And The Ants - Stand And Deliver (Single) (3:05)
40. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny (3:42)
41. Stirling - Everything (3:32)
42. The Red Rockers - China (4:00)

so a few non-80's bands in here, but it all works. Stan Ridgeway needs to write a novel or six. Kate of Haysi is a good photographer and totally hot. Pointed Sticks are from Vancouver, Cnaada! yay! Bush only did one good song, and that was it.

er. Canada. not Cnaada. That's a little island off the coast.

42. The Red Rockers - China (4:00)
43. U2 - Gloria (4:12)
44. The Teardrop Explodes - Serious Danger (3:23)
45. Big Country - Chance (4:25)

I should've put Echo & the Bunnymen and Wah! with The Teardrop Explodes, but didn't. Don't actually have any Wah! Used to...
Two hours is stretching into three, which is all the music I have queued up. At least two people are liking it! ;)
Hey Taz - I'm sure you'll see this - a lot of this is for you cos you're in a crappy headspace, so even if you didn't get to listen, the sentiment is the same.

46. Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety (4:51)
47. UB40 - Rat In Mi Kitchen (3:03)
48. Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me (3:42)
49. The Spoons - One in Ten Words (4:10)
50. Aztec Camera - The Boy Wonders (3:15)

4 more songs and I'm outta here...

Final.

51. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (4:04)
52. Stirling - The Art of Burning Bridges (3:24)
53. Simple Minds - Up On The Catwalk (4:06)
54. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (4:05)

Much thanks to the listeners that "stuck it out" through all this, and those who joined in for different bits.