Hey City Zen!

Calling all kids

2012-02-01T03:31:00.000Z

One the coolest discoveries recently for me---due to a wonderful book my wife gave me for Christmas---is Arthur Russell's music. A lot of it is Radiohead and Antony, except 30 years earlier. A fascinating mix of Disco, Philip Glass avant-garde, and electronica. Here is a recent mix because I can't find the original on youtube.

An original:

And a fantastic new remix:

Taxation without EURepresentation

2011-12-09T14:41:00.001Z

Do people understand that "central oversight" below means taxation without representation? In other words, the elected national parliaments won't have power over their budgets? Will eurozone citizens simply be paying a tribute to a new holy roman empire, with a Caesarina they did not elect?

"Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who pressed hard for a treaty that would codify and enforce debt limits and central oversight of national budgets, said the decisions made here will result in increased credibility for the euro zone". From NYTimes: Treaty to Save Euro Takes Shape, but Britain Sits Out

Starbooty

2011-12-06T01:39:00.001Z

It was a lot of Fun DJing again last Friday night at the Farm RootCellar. I prepared a rough subset, a backbone, of the mix I played---which was my homage to Roy Ayers. The mix is available to download in high quality and also as a downloadable CD (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree). Alternatively, enjoy the podcast below (at a lower sound quality).

Tracklist:
01 - George Michael - true faith
02 - 7 Samurai - marlies & marcus
03 - Pointer Sisters - how long (betcha' got a woman on the side)
04 - Grace Jones - nipple to the bottle (12'' version)
05 - Toomy Disco - the wait
06 - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - kik it
07 - Voom Voom - Influenza
08 - Black Devil Disco Club feat. Nancy Sinatra - to ardent (horse meat disco remix)
09 - Buraka Som Sistema - (we stay) up all night (feat. blaya & roses gabor)
10 - Chilly Gonzales - never stop (erol alkan rework)
11 - Moullinex - lover in me
12 - Mirror People - feel the need feat. Rowetta (social disco club 'hi-nrg' dub)
13 - Rockers Revenge - walking on sunshine (live element club mix)
14 - Bottin & Rodion - shooting star (Toomy's drivin' disco remix)
15 - Lindstrom - I feel space
16 - Bottin - disco for the devil (in flagranti remix)
17 - Walter Jones - i am loved
18 - Roy Ayers Presents Ubiquity - Starbooty
19 - The Clash - Rock the Casbah (mustapha dance mix)
20 - Franz Ferdinand - The Dark Of The Matinée (Headman Vocal Remix)
21 - Golden Bug & Mustang - Soapopera
22 - Positive Force - we got the funk (12 mix)
23 - Roy Ayers - brother green (The Disco King)

ethnic catholics

2011-11-27T22:23:00.001Z

Interesting to find out (reading "A Jewish Edition of the New Testament — Beliefs") that the portuguese, the people most responsible for spreading christianity around the world, are considered "ethnic catholics". I suppose the only kosher catholics in this country are the Irish.

Bias of sophistication

2011-10-11T03:44:00.001+01:00

Being Portuguese, southern European, and culturally Catholic teaches you to deal with bias. From the left as from the right; from North, East, West and even from the South. Take this little gem from Frank Bruni in the NYTimes.com. Why is Portugal (and Spain and Argentina) much less expected to approve gay marriage than Holland and Belgium, or any "Scandinavian-style bastion of social progressivism"? This sort of thinking is nothing more than bigotry, probably an unquestioned vestige of the age-old anti-catholic bigotry pervasive in protestant-dominated cultures. None of these "second-class" countries needs to show a "badge of sophistication" to any others. All countries are progressive in some causes and conservative in others. Portugal was the first country in the World to abolish the death penalty in the 19th century, for instance. And all those bastions of progressivism? Everyone has skeletons. Hey, apartheid is a dutch word. Tropicalia is a Portuguese word. The US just killed Troy Davis. So go give yourself a "badge of sophistication".

Energy

2011-10-11T02:52:00.000+01:00

It was a lot of Fun DJing last Friday night at the Farm RootCellar. I prepared a rough subset, a backbone, of the mix I played. The mix is available to download in high quality (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree). Alternatively, enjoy the podcast below (at a lower sound quality).

Tracklist:
01 - LV - don't judge (Feat. Errol Bellot)
02 - Nina Hagen - African Reggae
03- Sly & Robbie - Billie Jean
04 -The dynamics - music
05 - Minos Pour Main Basse (Sur La Ville) - le patron est devenu fou
06 - Louie Austen - disco dancer
07 - fuckpony - it's only music
08 - Goldfrapp - ride a white horse (ewan pearson disco odyssey parts 1 and 2)
09 - Lindstrøm - another station (todd terje remix). Mixed with Freestyle - don't stop the rock
10 - Spank Rock - energy (disko version). Mixed with Spank Rock - energy (jan driver remix)
11 - Locussolus - i want it (lindstrom & prins thomas remix)
12 -Lindstrøm - De Javu
13 - Pigbag - papa's got a brand new pigbag (12' remix)
14 - Buraka Som Sistema - hangover (bababa)
15 - sneaky sound system -hip hop hooray (poxymusic handstand remix)
16 - Chromeo - hot mess (feat. elly jackson) (duck sauce remix)
17 - MSTRKRFT - work on you
18 - Billie Ray Martin - sweet suburban disco (severino dub mix)
19 - 7 Samurai - brothers
20 - Midnight Magic - beam me up (jacques renault remix)
21 - Michael Jackson - get on the floor (holy ghost edit)
22 - Claudja Berry - sweet dynamite (todd terje edit)
23 - Erodiscotique - I Love New York
24 - Kasper Bjørke - Nico

Lucretius, natural selection and free will

2011-09-20T02:10:00.000+01:00

"... moving randomly through space, like dust motes in a sunbeam, colliding, hooking together, forming complex structures, breaking apart again, in a ceaseless process of creation and destruction. There is no escape from this process. ... There is no master plan, no divine architect, no intelligent design

All things, including the species to which you belong, have evolved over vast stretches of time. The evolution is random, though in the case of living organisms, it involves a principle of natural selection. That is, species that are suited to survive and to reproduce successfully, endure, at least for a time; those that are not so well suited, die off quickly. But nothing — from our own species, to the planet on which we live, to the sun that lights our day — lasts forever. Only the atoms are immortal ..."

Ideas written more than 2000 years ago by Lucretius, here paraphrased by Greenblatt with a modern lens in his book: Lucretius, Man Of Modern Mystery @ NPR. And he also had a beautiful way to describe free will as derived from uncertainty... Too bad Europeans did not convert to "Lucretianism"...

All we are saying

2011-09-12T00:04:00.000+01:00

Aren't you tired of being too polite with all the crazies in politics and at work? Life is too short not to speak your mind. If they are nuts, let them know what you think. This time, the CityZen is about speaking your mind and the realities of the last decade, since September 11th. All we are saying is a mix I prepared with all that in mind. The mix and CD assembly set is available to download in high quality (Username: Apollo, Password: feelingfree). Alternatively, enjoy the podcast below (at a lower sound quality). Warning: contains adult language.

P.S. I wrote this on 2012/09/12, just before the #occupywallstreet started. Riding the zeitgeist and totally supporting it. (added 2011/10/10)

All we are saying by PlaceboOracle

Tracklist:
01 - Laurie Anderson - Another Day in America (E-Trash Mix). Mixed with Grace Jones - this is dub/devil dub/hell dub/cannibal dub
02 - Jarvis Cocker - Running The World
03 - Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice
04 - Lily Allen - Fuck You
05 - Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (Zinc's Crack House Remix)
06 - Yoko Ono - give peace a chance (dj dan vocal mix)
07 - Stereossauro - Homem ao Mar
08 - Eurythmics - Beethoven (I love to listen to) (dance_mix). Mixed with Rhythm & Sound- Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix)
09 - Adele - rolling in the deep (Jamie XX shuffle)
10 - Paul Simon - so beautiful or so what
11 - Scritti Politti - Lions After Slumber
12 - Gorillaz - revolving doors
13 - Aloe Blacc - i need a dollar
14 - David Bowie - It's No Game (Pt. 2)
15 - Morrissey - Ammunition
16 - 4 Hero - Awakening (Feat. Ursula Rucker)
17 - Gonzales - Never Stop Chilly Gonzales Rap
18 - Mayer Hawthorne - A Long Time (Chromeo Remix)

Rule-driven behavior, doublethink and moral authority

2011-09-10T00:07:00.002+01:00

It's the Economy, Dummkopf! @ Vanity Fair is a very interesting read about German attitudes towards investing and social organization. Michael Lewis delves too much into the perceived scatological nature of German culture, which, though curious, is really his largely unsubstantiated opinion. He also shows a lack of knowledge of European reality, and so I assume of Germany (e.g. he seemed to have been unaware that most Europeans speak English, let alone the surfacy understanding of the economical crisis in the periphery countries...). Nonetheless the article exposes a very interesting clash between the German obsession with rules and American doublethink. Lewis misses the connection between German rule-driven behavior and moral authority, though. German investment bankers believed on the triple-A ratings of complex investment bonds based on subprime loans issued by Moody's and S&P, because of the moral authority America has on the German psyche. Certainly, if these american companies gave these ratings, they had to be true. The thing is, German investors would certainly not have believed those ratings if they had been issued by Greek companies, no matter how much Germans may like rules... So, while the american financial world is so very based on the doublethink inherent in these ratings---simultaneously believing they are accurate and risky, since these companies stand to gain from their very own ratings---German perception of the USA is what lead German investment bankers to follow the simple rule: excellent (American) rating=safe investment---no need to ask further questions or study the safety of the investment. This also explains why the ECB insisted on American ratings for regulating the Euro member states.

Now, while Wall Street bankers (and Seemingly, Michael Lewis) may laugh at the German investors---those "ultimate patsies" as Lewis puts it---a big loss of this affair is undoubtedly the loss of American moral authority in the German psyche. Next time they will see the doublethink...

On that note, the City Zen is left to Laurie Anderson below, "Only an Expert":

Blondie

2011-07-06T15:11:00.002+01:00

The woman who, as a teenager, made me think I preferred blondes, which I don't. I still think, however, that disco and punk are two sides of the same coin: the dance coin used to buy us out of lame, pretentious 20-minute guitar solos and white boys shaking their long hair. Put on some hairspray, a mohawk, your disco suit, or a mirror ball, but dance baby, dance. Tonight, in Lisbon.

Ser edgy em Inglês é um avatar fácil de vestir

2011-05-26T01:16:00.007+01:00

Bem, como estou na cave sobre uma alerta de tornado, tenho tempo para escrever sobre estas coisas:

[Este comentário tem linguagem adulta]

Hoje quando ouvia a Rádio Oxigénio, Um DJ convidado passava uma série de faixas acid e disco com letras bastante sexualmente sugestivas. A apresentadora perguntava-se então porquê que não há musicas em Português assim? E se as houvesse, será que os Portugueses dançariam numa discoteca com essas letras a serem cantadas?

A conversa lembrou-me as muitas vezes que tenho que mudar de estação de rádio em Portugal quando estou com os meus filhos (bilíngues) no carro, e passam a qualquer hora do dia faixas em Inglês com a linguagem mais, digamos, imprópria. Foi então que escrevi (mais ou menos) o comentário seguinte no Facebook da dita estação de rádio:

Sugiro um critério: traduzam as letras e digam-nas em Português em voz alta, se não forem capaz de o fazer em público, passem a dita cuja música apenas em horário adulto...Foi um pouco difícil explicar o "I got Cash" aos meus filhos a caminho da escola... E tem havido bem pior... Se não conseguem dizer "fodilhão de mães" (ou, idiomaticamente, pelo menos "cabrão") no emprego, nas escola, em família, pensem bem antes de transmitir "motherfucker" em horário diurno ;-)

Respondeu-me então alguém da rádio dizendo (mais ou menos) que todas as estações passam este género de coisa---por exemplo o Sexy MF do Prince---e que em Portugal não há este género de problema com a linguagem, ao contrário dos EUA---subentendendo-se que os states são puritanos, enquanto que em Portugal o pessoal é muito mais para à frentex... À parte o óbvio de que todas as faixas que passam com esta linguagem serem Americanas, e nenhuma ser Portuguesa, eu respondi assim:

O Sexy MF do Prince não passa em rádios mainstream, durante o dia, nos states nem em Inglaterra. Sei que muitas rádios em Portugal e na Europa passam estas coisas. Só acho um pouco hipócrita porque em Português ninguém passaria coisa semelhante. É fácil ser edgy fora da língua natal, não é? O Inglês é assim um pouco como um avatar que permite ao Portugal púdico viver uma realidade de que na verdade tem medo de não só dizer, mas também fazer em público. Quando eu vos ouvir passar coisas assim em Português em horário diurno, ficarei convencido que "em Portugal não há esses problemas".

Então, a todos os meninos e meninas que adoram “boquear” Tarrantino, dançar Disco escaldante, e cantarolar Hip Hop agressivo, aconselho a tradução destas peças todas para Português para as dizerem bem alto e com orgulho no emprego, na escola, no almoço de domingo em família ;-)

Deixo-vos com George Carlin a os Monty Python. Divirtam-se a traduzir para Português, se forem capazes, lá diriam as Doce, esse expoente da revolução sexual Portuguesa, pré-Abrunhosa.

self-interest misunderstood: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

2011-04-06T15:12:00.000+01:00

Great read: "Alexis de Tocqueville once described what he saw as a chief part of the peculiar genius of American society—something he called “self-interest properly understood.” The last two words were the key. Everyone possesses self-interest in a narrow sense: I want what’s good for me right now! Self-interest “properly understood” is different. It means appreciating that paying attention to everyone else’s self-interest—in other words, the common welfare—is in fact a precondition for one’s own ultimate well-being. " Full article: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% | Society | Vanity Fair

Os factos e as responsabilidades

2011-03-24T20:17:00.004Z

Os factos falam mais alto. Como sempre disse (sempre, sempre), e como aconteceu em todos os lugares onde se fez, a proibição de fumar em lugares públicos resulta, de facto e não por opinião, na dimuinuição de casos de doença e de mortes de vários tipos: "O grupo de trabalho que estudou esta questão concluiu que, em 2009, o número de episódios de internamentos por doença isquémica cardíaca diminuiu pela primeira vez em 16 anos e que decresceu também a taxa de internamento por doença pulmonar obstrutiva crónica."

O que falta agora, é responsabilizar todos os governos anteriores que, sabendo dos malefícios do tabaco, não proibiram mais cedo o seu uso em lugares públicos. Em última análise, são responsáveis pela morte prematura de muitos e muitos fumadores passivos.

U.S. Blocks Security Council Censure of Israeli Settlements

2011-02-19T22:04:00.000Z

"But the American ambassador, Susan E. Rice, said the veto should not be misconstrued as American support for further settlement construction, which the United States opposes. The issue should be resolved through peace negotiations, she said, and not mandated by a binding resolution."

Yes, of course. UN resolutions are only supposed to resolve the issues of "non-special" countries. Obama or no Obama, it is business as usual. This must be how this administration wants to get closer to the emergent Arab masses---and indeed the rest of the World.

U.S. Blocks Security Council Censure of Israeli Settlements - NYTimes.com

Acordo Ortográfico

2011-02-01T03:39:00.001Z

Para aqueles que são contra o acordo ortográfico, aqui vai uma passagem de Eça de Queiroz e Ramalho Ortigão. É praticamente como ler Inglês (ver um blog meu antigo sobre o assunto)...

"Poupemol-o—para o não aggravar fazendo-o em tres volumes—á enumeração de todas as suas deformidades! Corramos um veu discreto sobre os seus mascarados de diversas alturas, sobre os seus medicos mysteriosos, sobre os seus louros capitães inglezes, sobre as suas condessas fataes, sobre os seus tigres, sobre os seus elephantes, sobre os seus hiates em que se arvoram, como pavilhões do ideal, lenços brancos de cambraia e renda, sobre os seus sinistros copos d'opio, sobre os seus cadaveres elegantes, sobre as suas toilettes romanticas, sobre os seus cavallos esporeados por cavalleiros de capas alvadias desapparecendo envoltos no pó das phantasticas aventuras pella Porcalhota fóra!…

Todas estas cousas, aliás sympathicas, commoventes por vezes, sempre sinceras, desgostam todavia velhos escriptores, que ha muito desviaram os seus olhos das perspectivas enevoadas da sentimentalidade, para estudarem pacientemente e humildemente as claras realidades da sua rua."

De: O Mysterio da Estrada de Cintra

Manuel Alegre: A direita irá “mutilar” a democracia - Política - PUBLICO.PT

2011-01-13T18:37:00.000Z

Em Portugal é na esquerda que encontramos o apelo à irracionalidade emocional da população: Manuel Alegre: A direita irá “mutilar” a democracia - Política - PUBLICO.PT. Nos Estados Unidos é à direita: "Blowing Smoke"

Take Action

2011-01-10T17:06:00.002Z

I agree with Yoko Ono. It is indeed time to take action. In particular, I think we need to take action for sanity and against guns. I am always surprised at how much people have been desensitized to the vision of a weapon. We should peacefully demonstrate our desire to not cohabit with guns. One obvious way to demonstrate this would be to take all our clothes off in the presence of people with unconcealed weapons (e.g. in Arizona). After all, isn't it insane that people are much more shocked by nakedness than guns? A penis and a vagina cannot cause the type of horror that went on in the Giffords massacre, including the slaying of a 9-year old.

I think we should show the insanity of this reality, indeed that the emperor has no clothes, by peacefully demonstrating with our bodies in the presence of guns.

Museum of Financial and War Technology

2010-12-05T22:33:00.002Z

After visiting the Air and Space Museum with the family this Thanksgiving in DC, I could not help notice how weirdly dated everything seemed. How something so exciting from my early childhood is now a dated relic of a promised, but never quite materialized future. This got me thinking about what the future actually happened to be. And so, to be truthful to what actually happened, the Mall should now substitute the Air and Space museum, with a Museum for Financial and War Technology... Isn't there where most of money and brains went? Sure, there should be a museum for entertainment and computer technology, but that one should be on the West Coast...

Exceptionalism

2010-12-01T14:41:00.001Z

WOW. I usually dislike Friedman for his lack depth; but in this piece, and the quote below, show how his lack of subtlety can be used to powerfully explain the obvious:

"But the Americans are oblivious. They travel abroad so rarely that they don’t see how far they are falling behind. Which is why we at the embassy find it funny that Americans are now fighting over how “exceptional” they are. Once again, we are not making this up. On the front page of The Washington Post on Monday there was an article noting that Republicans Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee are denouncing Obama for denying “American exceptionalism.” The Americans have replaced working to be exceptional with talking about how exceptional they still are. They don’t seem to understand that you can’t declare yourself “exceptional,” only others can bestow that adjective upon you."

I also love: "[...] America’s politicians are mostly lawyers — not engineers or scientists like ours — so they’ll just say crazy things about science and nobody calls them on it."

See the full article @ From WikiChina - NYTimes.com

Delusions

2010-11-12T15:43:00.000Z

Why does our press refer to super-rich Russians as oligarchs, and to super-rich western Europeans and Americans as billionaires? Delusions of class and freedom? See the latest sea toys for the world's oligarchs in Too Big to Sail? | Vanity Fair

Swoon

2010-11-08T05:02:00.003Z

Here is the latest mix I have prepared: Swoon. This was a gift to my wife. A bit of what I have been hearing in the past year, a pinch of optimism and a sniff of saudade, after a year on sabbatical. A sort of soundtrack to love in the suburbs in 2010. To download the mix in high quality go to the link above (Username: Apollo, Password: feelingfree). Alternatively, enjoy the podcast below (at a lower sound quality).

Track Listing:
01 - Morcheeba - Easier Said Than Done
02 - Bryan Ferry - You can dance
03 - Tracey Thorn - Why does the wind (Morgan Geist remix)
04 - Jamiroquai - White Knuckle Ride (Penguin Prison remix)
05 - Michael Jackson - get on the floor (Holy Ghost edit)
06 - Macy Gray - Beauty In The World (Cutmore extended remix)
07 - Hot Chip - One Life Stand
08 - Chromeo - Don't turn the lights on (Aeroplane remix)
09 - The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Remix)
10 - Chilly Gonzales - I Am Europe
11 - Florence And The Machine - You've got the love (The XX remix)
12 - Louie Austen - I aint much
13 - Hall & Oats - I can't go for that
14 - MC 900 Ft. Jesus - Adventures In Failure
15 - The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
16 - LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change
17 - Mayer Hawthorne - The Ills

Mugged by the Debt Moralizers

2010-11-01T15:57:00.000Z

Priceless Paul Krugman: "cutting off their own jobs to spite their neighbors..." OK. I have an incendiary comment: isn't this Lutheran and Puritan moralizing at its worst? I don't care if it will make me worse off, I just want to make sure my neighbors don't get away with having too much fun... ;-). Full article at Mugged by the Debt Moralizers - NYTimes.com

A unified theory of urban living

2010-10-25T19:27:00.000+01:00

"Cities are the crucible of human civilization, the drivers towards potential disaster, and the source of the solution to humanity's problems. It is therefore crucial that we understand their dynamics, growth and evolution in a scientifically predictable, quantitative way." A unified theory of urban living : Nature

República: The Old Revolution

2010-10-04T15:44:00.000+01:00

Obrigado Clara Ferreira ALves; 100 anos de "Justiça" republicana, desde o republicanismo radical, pelo Fascismo e até ao socialismo, o que une todos os governos nos últimos 100 anos é a República, que do ponto de vista da Justiça temos que admitir, falhou: "Portugal tem um défice de responsabilidade civil, criminal e moral muito maior do que o seu défice financeiro, e nenhum português se preocupa com isso apesar de pagar os custos da morosidade, do secretismo, do encobrimento, do compadrio e da corrupção. Os portugueses, na sua infinita e pacata desordem existencial, acham tudo "normal" e encolhem os ombros. [...]. Este é o maior fracasso da democracia portuguesa e contra isto o PS e o PSD que fizeram? Assinaram um iníquo pacto de justiça.".A justiça criminosa - Expresso.pt

A necessidade de revolução paira no ar... Mas onde todos podemos trabalhar é em aumentar a nossa produção individual e colectiva de responsabilidade civil.

Echo Beach: On my radio 75-85

2010-08-03T13:44:00.000+01:00

As I get near my travel date back to the US, after a long sabbatical in Lisbon, I am enjoying greatly the things I miss most when on the other side: the Ocean and Family. Having my old vinyl collection for this time and listening to it near the Ocean, made me of course go down memory lane. Interesting that some of the things that echo back to mind from the past are not necessarily the things I did most when younger. These echos are what I had in mind when I prepared this long mix. These are sounds that echoed this year back to my mind from the years between 75 and 85. The point was not at all to catalog those years, as I ended up not including artists and tracks that meant a lot to me back then and still do (Miles Davis, Eurythmics, Prince, etc, etc.) But these echoed back, and here they are. I am going to miss this life.

Track Listing:
01 - The Selecter - On My Radio
02 - New Adventures - Come on
03 - The Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
04 - Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
05 - Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
06 - David Bowie - Fascination
07 - Pointer Sisters - How Long (betcha' got a woman on the side)?
08 - McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
09 - Amanda Lear - Fashion Pack
10 - Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
11 - The Dukes (Bugatty & Musker) - Thank you for the party
12 - Giorgio Moroder - Utopia
13 - Space - Just Blue
14 - Patrick Cowley - Tech No Logical World
15 - Freeez - I.O.U
16 - Heaven 17 - Let Me Go
17 - The Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love)
18 - Yazoo - Sweet Thing
19 - The Tubes - Turn Me On
20 - Blondie - Eat to the Beat
21 - The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
22 - Hazel O'Connor - Big Brother
23 - Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
24 - Toyah - Be Proud, Be Loud, Be Heard
25 - Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short (Long Mix)
26 - Classix Nouveaux - Never Again (The Days Time Erased)
27 - Duran Duran - Girls On Film (Night Mix)
28 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (Annihilation Mix)
29 - ABC - How to be a Zillionaire (Wall St. Mix)
30 - Nina Hagen - Ich Weiss Es Wird Einmal Ein Wunder Geschehen
31 - Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'till You Get Enough (12'' Edit)
32 - France Joli - Gonna Get Over You
33 - Cliff Richard - We don't talk anymore
34 - The Rolling Stones - Miss You (Dance Version)
35 - Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach
36 - The Police - So Lonely
37 - Echo And The Bunneymen - Never Stop (Discotheque)
38 - John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street
39 - New Order - Every little counts