geek radio

So here I am at Beaners again and I am listening to a radio station out of Germany. I found it while doing the family research thing. Suddenly a song that I have not heard in 20 years plays. I recognize it in seconds... my brain already has my mouth in synch as I sing along. I don't consciously know the song title or artist yet. I also forgot where I was and started singing outloud... auf deutsch!

It happened again today. http://www.cafe80s.de/ played SOS "ruhf mich an..." by Munschen Freiheit. The other day is was the Spider Murphy Gang with "Ich Schau dich an". Both of these songs are from a tape (cassette) that Messalina Mueller made for me when she was here as an exchange student. I love Cafe 80's. Right now I am listening to a Flock of Seagulls extended play song that I have never heard of before. Silly me I thought the only thing they did was "I Ran" And I've heard songs from Aha's second American release "Scoundrel Days". That tape wound itself in a care stereo in 1989... but I still know the words enough to sing along even if I can't hit Mortens' high notes. Hell even Morten can't hit his notes anymore... not without a vice grip.
And yes... he still tries.
So radio geek is getting her 80's grove on. And to the best of my knowledge not even Wil Wheaton knows about this one. The coolest thing about this station is that there is a healthy mix of American and German releases and there is ABSOLUTELY NO KID ROCK! Our local 80's station, the Fox, justifies it because his mash up incorporates a classic early 80's song with a classic late 70's song. So it goes. This is after they decided that the 80's started in 75 and spilled into the middle 90's. ACG would say that a numeric division shouldn't set the division in music styles but the style itself should determine the musical age. At least I think he would say that. But that is a slippery station programming slope. If you can go to 75 why not 74, 73, 72, 69? If mid 90's why not 2000, 2005?
Selfishly I say because my requests were rejected and my logic not quite logical enough. As in, Sting was with the Police, they made music in the 80's, they were 80's artists so the new songs should be fair game. I was wrong therefore by extrapolation... they are wrong.

So what is the best thing about 80's music? "It's got a great beat and I can type to it."