Stephanie’s “Sock Hop Tape” starts with Debbie Gibson’s “Shake Your Love” and ends with the Promise’s “When In Rome,” both sort-of-iconic 1980s tracks, but in between there’s serious outside-the-decade action, going back as far as 1961 and the Tokens’ “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” Ingeniously, she’s stuck it between Tiffany and New Edition, and fortunately, I’m not so much of a purist that it would ever occur to me to complain about such a thing.

Assignment: A lot of songs with “Bad” in the title. Difficulty: No Michael Jackson or Jim Croce tracks. Success: Reasonable. This is, of course, the Dark Side of last month’s The Good Stuff, and it might even have been more fun to assemble. The cover is swiped from a legendary French hosiery ad by the late René Gruau.

Track listing for 111132-2:

1. Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas: Bad to Me
2. Grand Funk: Bad Time
3. Little Anthony and the Imperials: Hurt So Bad
4. Steely Dan: Bad Sneakers
5. The Jelly Beans: I Wanna Love Him So Bad
6. Doug and the Slugs: Too Bad
7. Bruce Springsteen: Badlands
8. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising
9. The Cookies: Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby)
10. Elvis Presley: I Feel So Bad
11. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes: Bad Luck (Part I)
12. Melanie: Bitter Bad
13. The Jive Bombers: Bad Boy
14. Miami Sound Machine: Bad Boy
15. The Beatles: Bad Boy
16. Donna Summer: Bad Girls
17. The Miracles: Bad Girl
18. Led Zeppelin: Good Times Bad Times
19. Kim Carnes: It Hurts So Bad
20. Jimmy Dean: Big Bad John
21. Robert Palmer: Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)
22. Chris Clark: Love’s Gone Bad
23. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs: Oh That’s Bad, No That’s Good
24. Meat Loaf: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad