Nostalgie Les Tubes De 1984

1984 is the entire brief. Nostalgie Les Tubes De 1984 parks itself in one year and refuses to leave, which sounds like a gimmick until you remember how much good pop landed in those twelve months. Mylène Farmer's 'Maman a tort'. Indochine, Téléphone, Étienne Daho's 'Week-end à Rome'. On the French side it's pure mid-80s gold, and then come the imports: Depeche Mode, Bronski Beat, Alphaville, early Madonna. The sequencing leans on the original French charts, so you'll get Daniel Balavoine sliding into Frankie Goes to Hollywood and somehow it flows. No genre gatekeeping. Just a year. Catch Nosta…