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These are my favorite 80's songs. More than 5 obviously. I'm sure 90% of them probably aren't "New Wave". But These are songs I love. Maybe you'll like them too!
In no particular order...
Gary Numan - Cars The Sparks - Angst In My Pants The B52's - Rock Lobster Wang Chung - Fire In The Twilight Simple Minds - Don't You[Forget About Me] Men At Work - Down Under Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf Adam Ant - Goodie Two Shoes Blondie - Heart Of Glass Modern English - I Melt With You Coelo - I Eat Cannibals Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way The B52's - Love Shack Toni Basil - Mickey The Go Go's - Vacation The Go Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed The Clash - London Calling The Clash - Rock The Casbah Billy Idol - White Wedding David Bowie - Let's Dance Aha - Take On Me Vapors - Turning Japanese Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now The Plimsouls - Million Miles Away Josie Cotton - Johnny Are You Queer?
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West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys Take On Me - A-ha Under the Milky Way - The Church Something About You - Level 42 Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran Cruel Summer - Bananarama
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Kajagoogoo - Too Shy Talk Talk - Talk Talk The Vapors - Turning Japanese Burning Sensations - Belly of the Whale Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio The Church - Under the Milky Way Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella Dexys Midnight Runner - Come On Eileen Real Life - Send me an Angel Dead or Alive - You Spin me Round (Like a Record) Combo Audio - Romanticide Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl Corey Hart - I wear my Sunglasses at Night Bananarama - Cruel Summer Eurythmics - Sweet Dream (Are made of These) Debby Harry - The Jam was Moving Missing Persons - Destination Unknown The Motels - Only the Lonely Naked Eyes - Always Something there to Remind me Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town The Jacksons - Torture Oingo Boingo - Weird Science E.G. Daily - Say it, Say it
...oops...sorry..guess I went a wee bit past 5 there...anyway, yeah..there's my list..and it still goes on.
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tainted love-soft cell, B-52's- rock lobster, the motels-only the lonely, western girls sorry forgot the name of the band, missing persons-destination unknown, naked eyes- always something there to remind me, talk talk, aha- take on me etc etc. lol
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Nice list, buffalo-girl. The song "West End Girls" is performed by The Pet Shop Boys. I love that song!
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that's it!! thank-you saturnchick i had a brain freeze lol have a great friday!!! i did forget only the lonely by the motels too!!
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Speaking of new wave songs. I have an obscure one for ya. I'd be shocked ( and happy) if anyone had any idea about this album.
I think it came out in LP in the UK either very late 70's or 1980 or so. It was a collection of very strange (but funny) electro pop-minimilist songs on it. "robot...." something was the title of it. Red and blue striped cover with i think a robot (of course) on it. very campy stuff. it had Somnambulist by XTC, Being Boiled by Tubeway Army, and my personal favorite Making love to my wife I (i fear i will have to do it all my life) on about the cheeziest keyboards they could find. No "hits" on this baby Its not quite the Ralph Records (Residents, tuxedo moon, Renaldo and the Loaf) sampler, but pretty dang close. This stuff is probably all out of print long ago, i have done searches ect. allmusic.com, google, nothing. I thought what the heck, ask here. thank you.
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wow that is interesting i don't think i ever heard it? or heard of it for that matter? did you try e bay? sometimes they have alot of older stuff on there too? and very cheap i might add i get alot of my ratt and fixx cd's from there!
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quote:Originally posted by cube_monkey: Speaking of new wave songs. I have an obscure one for ya. I'd be shocked ( and happy) if anyone had any idea about this album.
I think it came out in LP in the UK either very late 70's or 1980 or so. It was a collection of very strange (but funny) electro pop-minimilist songs on it. "robot...." something was the title of it. Red and blue striped cover with i think a robot (of course) on it. very campy stuff. it had Somnambulist by XTC, Being Boiled by Tubeway Army, and my personal favorite Making love to my wife I (i fear i will have to do it all my life) on about the cheeziest keyboards they could find. No "hits" on this baby Its not quite the Ralph Records (Residents, tuxedo moon, Renaldo and the Loaf) sampler, but pretty dang close. This stuff is probably all out of print long ago, i have done searches ect. allmusic.com, google, nothing. I thought what the heck, ask here. thank you.
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Thank you Thank you Thank you. i know this is pathetic, but as you get older you go, man, that was a great album...what was it? lol. and you can't quite remember enough to google it!
Mystery solved! thanks again Jay
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OMG...some of the stuff is available. LMAO LMAO. the classification is " Synth-pop, Leftfield"...and it's just as funny today to me. I think its albums like this that influenced me way too much as a musician. And heck, why title a song "Let it be" or "wind beneath my wings" when you could title it "Ricky's Hand". bizarre stuff. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
thanks again. Jay
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