Nostalgie 80 Les Tubes N°1

Nostalgie 80 Les Tubes N°1 is a straightforward proposition: the French charts of the 1980s, played without irony. That's the whole pitch. What you get is Indochine, Téléphone, and Mylène Farmer rubbing shoulders with Madonna, Wham!, and Depeche Mode, all of it drawn from the songs that actually reached number one rather than the crate-digging deep cuts some 80s stations prefer. A jukebox with taste. The sequencing leans pop over rock, which means Goldman and Balavoine show up more often than the colder new wave stuff, and honestly that suits the format. Nobody tunes in here for a history less…