Ian from Musicophilia uploaded the fifth of his nine compilation cds totalling twelve hours of music from 1981. It's called Heart. I am not sure if he intended it that way but the heart is the human organ that beats, that sets the pace. And the songs I like most of the mix are dominated by rhythm. I found more old loves than new discoveries of great songs there. It starts with All Cats Are Grey. From the wonderful winter album Faith by The Cure. One of the seriously underplayed songs and albums in my discotheque. Those reverberating drums I love so much. We can thank Jamaica & Martin Hannett for the echo effect in rock music. And then there is The Missing Boy by Durutti Column. One of my all-time faves. Vini Reilly's resonating guitar, his thin voice, his words "There was a boy, I almost knew him." And the boy who had just died. Who was so unbelievable on stage. I could have seen him and his band if I had been more into rock music and less into reading Nietzsche at the time. Another awesome song: Doubts Even Here from Movement, New Order's first album after his suicide. Scroll down. After that The Sound who I hardly knew with a phantastic keyboard dominated song in the vein of The Doors à l'anglaise. Gist who I didn't know at all with Love at First Sight, a great balladish, jerky kind of reggae. Like Young Marble Giants for the dance floor. Which they are, actually.

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