northern gothic

The '80's, a time when dark things remained dark, and a new world was in the making (markets, fundamentalism, the lurch to the unencumbered self). Some part of your life stopped there (as it seems to do in many places). A soundtrack for the '80's-as you actually remembered it-would have included a lot of soul, some blues and some reggae. But lurking there, somewhere in the background, was the music that-like most things-you found too late. A 'late style' always returns to something you think you only dimly guessed at, but have always known when all the falseness falls away. Then there was this: killing

'There is no land in this land,
since time broke around me'

--Darwish.

Can you think of any other tracks that are quintessential 80s?