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Penguin Cafe Orchestra - 'Penguin Cafe Orchestra'
Dün - 'Eros'
Jaco Pastorius - 'Word of Mouth'
Def Leppard - 'High 'n' Dry'
Prince - 'Controversy'
Fabio Frizzi - 'L'Aldila'
Duran Duran - 'Duran Duran'
Altered Images - 'Happy Birthday'
Marvin Gaye - 'In Our Lifetime'
The Psychedelic Furs - 'Talk Talk Talk'
Akiko Yano - 'Tadaima'
Elvis Costello - 'Trust'
Pretenders - 'Pretenders II'
Funkadelic - 'The Electric Spanking of War Babies'
Squeeze - 'East Side Story'
Electric Light Orchestra - 'Time'
The dB's - 'Stands for Decibels'
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - 'Mambo Nassau'
The Sound - 'From the Lions Mouth'
The Cars - 'Shake It Up'
Japan - 'Tin Drum'
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'Hard Promises'
Men at Work - 'Business as Usual'
X - 'Wild Gift'
The Durutti Column - 'LC'
Gang of Four - 'Solid Gold'
Depeche Mode - 'Speak & Spell'
The Human League - 'Dare'
Daryl Hall & John Oates - 'Private Eyes'
Kraftwerk - 'Computer World'
This Heat - 'Deceit'
Van Halen - 'Fair Warning'
The Rolling Stones - 'Tattoo You'
Stevie Nicks - 'Bella Donna'
The Raincoats - 'Odyshape'
Rick James - 'Street Songs'
Genesis - 'Abacab'
Echo & the Bunnymen - 'Heaven Up Here'
Brian Eno and David Byrne - 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'
Siouxsie and the Banshees - 'Juju'
Blue Öyster Cult - 'Fire of Unknown Origin'
Grace Jones - 'Nightclubbing'
The Police - 'Ghost in the Machine'
The Cure - 'Faith'
Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark - 'Architecture & Morality'
The Go-Go's - 'Beauty and the Beat'
Rush - 'Moving Pictures'
Journey - 'Escape'
Phil Collins - 'Face Value'
King Crimson - 'Discipline'
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