Soul in the Eighties

Anybody who thinks that racism ended during the civil rights movement of the sixties should consider that it wasn’t until 1982 that Prince’s became the first video aired by a black artist on MTV, with Michael Jackson following up a few months later, which means that a 24 hour music broadcast went for a year and a half playing only white artists. These two artists were so ubiquitous to the decade that their acceptance paints over the plurality of those who might have blown up if the eighties were as enlightened as we’d like to remember.

Track List

Empire - Big City (Extended Version)

Fatback Band - Is This the Future?

Midnight Star - Headlines

Gwen McCrae - Funky Sensation

The System - You’re In My System

Oran Juice Jones - The Rain (12” Mix)

Cherrelle feat. Alexander O’Neal - Saturday Love

Peech Boys - Don’t Make Me Wait

Toney Lee - Reach Up

David Joseph - You Can’t Hide Your Love From Me

Dazz Band - Let It All Blow

Herb Alpert - Keep Your Eyes On Me

Con Funk Shun - Burnin’ Love

Colonel Abrams - Trapped

Jermaine Stewart - We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off

Jets - Crush On You

SOS Band - No One’s Gonna Love You

Keni Burke - Risin’? To The Top

Mtume - Juicy Fruit (12” Single Version)

Loose Ends - Hanging On a String (Contemplating)

The Controllers - Stay (Extended Remix)

Midnight Star - Curious

The Mary Jane Girls - Shadow Lover (Interlude)

Womack & Womack - Love T.K.O.

The Art of Noise - Moments In Love

Prince - Adore

The Commodores - Nightshift