R. E. M. broke up in 2011 after the release of Collapse Into Now which I considered, at the time, a decent album for them to go out on, but also which I haven’t revisited. That would have been ten years after 2001, which was the year of “Imitation Of Life,” which got a lot of radio play at the time and had a reasonably popular music video where the camera kept zooming in on different parts of some backyard party or something. None of the songs from their weak albums Around The Sun and Accelerate made any dent with the public as far as I know, and the albums weren’t well-received either.

I do hear “Come Dancing” in public, for years I had no idea that was the Kinks. As far as New Order songs go the one I hear the most in public is actually “Touched By The Hand Of God.”

I did know “Don’t You Want Me” was someone besides Duran Duran but I had forgotten their name. Early 80s synth pop is a genre I’ve heard few albums in; the ones I would have listened to the most are the first two Talk Talk albums.