Nostalgie Les Tubes De 1981

1981 was a strange year for the charts. Nostalgie Les Tubes De 1981 live is exactly what the name promises: twelve months of French and international pop. No detours. Where else do Chagrin d'amour's 'Chacun fait (c'qui lui plaît)' and Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' land in the same hour? Add France Gall, Michel Berger, and Jean-Jacques Goldman's solo debut, and you get a snapshot of French radio just before synth-pop swallowed everything. The playlist is narrow by design. That's the point. You won't hear 1979 or 1983 creeping in, and the discipline is what makes it work. Nothing here is sequenced…