You knew this was coming. Let’s get to it.

1. Shakespeare’s Sister – Stay
2. Sophie B. Hawkins – Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
3. INXS – Not Enough Time
4. George Michael – Too Funky
5. John Mellencamp – Love and Happiness (don’t laugh, the remix was done by EMF’s producer, and it kills)
6. The Lightning Seeds – Blowing Bubbles
7. Meryn Cadell – The Sweater
8. Peter Gabriel – Steam
9. The Cure – High
10. The Wolfgang Press – Mama Told Me Not to Come
11. Thompson Twins – Play with Me Jane
12. The B-52’s – The World’s Green Laughter
13. Prefab Sprout – If You Don’t Love Me
14. Future Sound of London – Papua New Guinea
15. Utah Saints – Something Good
16. David Bowie – Real Cool World
17. Information Society – Going Going Gone
18. Electronic – Disappointed

That’s right, there are a whopping four songs from the “Cool World” soundtrack here.

As I mentioned in my post of the Popdose Flashback 1991 beat mix, 1992 was the year that I started falling out of the remix window. Everything started to get really techno and house-oriented, beat speeds jacked up and songs completely made over, bearing little resemblance to the original version. So I went with a lot of original versions this time around. The downside is that some of the segues are abrupt and lack the flow that the 1991 mixes had (my kingdom for a drum breakdown!), and in some instances it made more sense to simply do a cold transition rather than sync two songs together (case in point: the Cure and the Wolfgang Press). Also, 1991 was just a better year for music than 1992 was (in my humble opinion), so while I like the songs here a lot, I’ll be the first to admit that this is not as solid a batch as the previous mix. How’s that for a sales pitch?

Popdose Flashback 1992 Beat Mix

My apologies to the following bands, whom I tried to include but had to remove for aesthetic purposes (i.e., they use real musicians, and the drum tracks wouldn’t sync up):

James – Born of Frustration
The Charlatans UK – Weirdo
House of Love – You Don’t Understand

And, back for an encore performance…
Popdose Flashback 1991 Beat Mix

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David Medsker

David Medsker used to be "with it." But then they changed what "it" was. Now what he's "with" isn't "it," and what's "it" seems weird and scary to him. He is available for children's parties.

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