Damn, I wish I was your lover: Take the EVG Loves Key Food playlist with you this summer

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Text and uploads by EVG and Stacie Joy

Back in April, we launched the EVG Loves Key Food playlist on Spotify — 183 songs and roughly 13 hours of music of what's been playing over the speakers at the grocery on Avenue A and Fourth Street... the lost, forgotten, random and indelible pop and alternative songs of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Since then, we've added 36 more tracks we've heard in the aisles, bringing the total to 219 songs and more than 15 hours of listening, if our math is accurate. 

Recent additions to the playlist include Rush's "The Spirit of Radio," Eric Clapton's "It's in the Way That You Use It," Bananarama's "Venus" and The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." 

Find the list here.

And thank you to the 500-plus people who have saved the playlist — and to everyone who has sent along photos of the soundtrack in action.

To all of you, we have this to say: 

Damn, I wish I was your lover 

I'll rock you 'til the daylight comes 

Make sure you are smilin' and warm 

I am everything, tonight

I'll be your mother 

I'll do such things to ease your pain 

Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed, oh, oh

Open up on the inside, gonna fill you up, gonna make you cry 

 

  Previously on EV Grieve:

• Don't Disturb This Groove: We made a 13-hour Key Food playlist on Spotify 

• Avenue A's Key Food 1980s playlist, explained (sort of)