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1980's: New-Wave (1 Viewer)

1980's

  • I Want Candy (Bow Wow Wow)

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  • True (Spandau Ballet)

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  • If You Leave (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)

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Nice list here.

1. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics (1983)
2. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds (1985)
3. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears (1985)
4. Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1983)
5. One Way Or Another - Blondie (1978)
6. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads (1983)
7. Tainted Love - Soft Cell (1981)
8. Down Under - Men At Work (1982)
9. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls (1982)
10. Don't You Want Me - Human League (1981)
11. You Might Think - The Cars (1984)
12. I Melt With You - Modern English (1983)
13. Take On Me - a-ha (1985)
14. Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran (1982)
15. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads (1980)
16. Whip It! - Devo (1980)
17. Blue Monday - New Order (1983)
18. Peace, Love And Understanding?, (What's So Funny 'Bout) - Elvis Costello (1979)
19. Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police (1980)
20. Shout - Tears For Fears (1985)
21. People Are People - Depeche Mode (1981)
22. True - Spandau Ballet (1983)
23. Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders (1980)
24. Something About You - Level 42 (1986)
25. Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins (1984)
26. Turning Japanese - The Vapors (1981)
27. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (1984)
28. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads (1977)
29. Is She Really Going Out with Him? - Joe Jackson (1979)
30. Poison Arrow - ABC (1982)
31. Rock Lobster - B-52s (1979)
32. Need You Tonight - INXS (1987)
33. Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners (1982)
34. Heart Of Glass - Blondie (1978)
35. Everyday I Write The Book - Elvis Costello (1983)
36. Cars - Gary Numan (1980)
37. Tempted - Squeeze (1981)
38. Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work (1982)
39. It's My Life - Talk Talk (1982)
40. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys (1985)
41. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club (1982)
42. Pump It Up - Elvis Costello (1978)
43. Doctor! Doctor! - Thompson Twins (1984)
44. Promises, Promises - Naked Eyes (1983)
45. Spirits In The Material World - The Police (1981)
46. Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant (1982)
47. More Than This - Roxy Music (1982)
48. Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) - Squeeze (1980)
49. Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs (1982)
50. Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw (1984)
51. Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)
52. Senses Working Overtime - XTC (1982)
53. Obsession - Animotion (1984)
54. Save It for Later - The English Beat (1982)
55. Alive and Kicking - Simple Minds (1985)
56. Saved By Zero - The Fixx (1983)
57. Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics (1984)
58. Tenderness - General Public (1984)
59. Voices Carry - Til Tuesday (1985)
60. Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo (1982)
61. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil (1988)
62. Send Me An Angel - Real Life (1983)
63. Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes (1982)
64. Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson (1982)
65. Why Me? - Planet P Project (1983)
66. No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones (1986)
67. Shake It Up - The Cars (1982)
68. The Metro - Berlin (1982)
69. You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record) - Dead Or Alive (1985)
70. The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats (1983)
71. One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx (1983)
72. She's a Beauty - The Tubes (1983)
73. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco (1986)
74. In a Big Country - Big Country (1983)
75. Life In a Northern Town - The Dream Academy (1985)
76. Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling (1983)
77. Just What I Needed - The Cars (1978)
78. Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club (1983)
79. The Sun Always Shines On TV - A-Ha (1985)
80. Come Back and Stay - Paul Young (1983)
81. Der Kommissar - Falco (1986)
82. Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles (1979)
83. Girls on Film - Duran Duran (1981)
84. Only the Lonely - The Motels (1982)
85. Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) - A Flock of Seagulls (1982)
86. Avalon - Roxy Music (1982)
87. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow (1982)
88. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo (1983)
89. Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung (1984)
90. A Little Respect - Erasure (1988)
91. Our House - Madness (1983)
92. Reap the Wild Wind - Ultravox (1982)
93. Destination Unknown - Missing Persons (1982)
94. Messages - OMD (1980)
95. Working Girl - The Members (1982)
96. I Got You - Split Enz (1980)
97. So In Love - OMD (1985)
98. I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (1979)
99. Lawnchairs - Our Daughters Wedding (1980)
100. Love Plus One - Haircut 100 (1982)

 
How Soon is Now takes the title here.

Which is funny, because I never heard another Smith's song worth a crap.

I can't say that about Joy Division, New Order, Echo & The Bunnyman, the Psychedelic Furs, Depeche Mode, or a number of other New Wave-ish bands.

It's like The Smith's hit the home run distance record, then never recorded another HR in their career.

 
1a: Love Will Tear us Apart

1b: How Soon is Now

and for me, I Melt With You is the iconic "80s" song, followed closely by Tainted Love (for such a great list- nice work EB- strange to not see that one up there). I was a Simple Minds fan until that movie/song- a definite shark-jump moment for that band.

and once again, andy d shames himself with culture. sigue sigue sputnik. yeah... no.

 
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The Cult- She Sells Sanctuary... but really most of the songs from Love also pretty great, era defining.

Beastie Boys' first album... same

Just Like Honey- Jesus and Mary Chain

Watching the Detectives- Elvis

Bela Legosi is Dead- Bauhaus

Ghost Town- The Specials

I Love a Man in a Uniform- Gang of Four

Rock the Casbah- The Clash

eta: ... oops- says "new wave" in the OP. none of those above are new wave. I'll be back...

 
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flysack said:
How Soon is Now takes the title here.

Which is funny, because I never heard another Smith's song worth a crap

It's like The Smith's hit the home run distance record, then never recorded another HR in their career.
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Crazy talk
 
The great thing about the 80's was that artists weren't afraid to experiment. The rise of the synthesizer gave them a new paintbrush and they painted. Like other forms of art, a lot of it was garbage, but some was brilliant. And even some of the garbage was just stupid fun.

 
Um alot of these bands aren't new wave,.... the Smiths aren't new wave.

And where the hell is DEVO? That's new wave.

 
Don't know that any of these should usurp any on EB's list... but some more for S&Gs.

Games without Frontiers (Shock the Monkey more iconic)- Peter Gabriel

Cantonese Boy- Japan

Ceremony- New Order

Genius of Love- Tom Tom Club (kinda sorta new wave)

Love Plus One- Haircut 100

The Big Sleep- Simple Minds

Ivo- Cocteau Twins

The Flat Earth- Thomas Dolby

The Forest- The Cure

Such a Shame- Talk Talk

Running up that Hill- Kate Bush

Primitive Painters- Felt

Lawn Chairs- Our Daughter's Wedding

Uncertain Smile- The The

I've seen that Face Before- Grace Jones

 
GROOT said:
Um alot of these bands aren't new wave,.... the Smiths aren't new wave.

And where the hell is DEVO? That's new wave.
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no? what then? not really rock, not ska, not goth... I always had them as a new wave band, but I'm still trying to figure out what EMO and Shoegaze are, so I'll hang up and listen.

 
El Floppo said:
GROOT said:
Um alot of these bands aren't new wave,.... the Smiths aren't new wave.

And where the hell is DEVO? That's new wave.
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no? what then? not really rock, not ska, not goth... I always had them as a new wave band, but I'm still trying to figure out what EMO and Shoegaze are, so I'll hang up and listen.
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I'd call them alternative or college radio genre New Wave is multiple genre term anyways .1970s "new wave" is very different from the 80s new wave with numerous sub genres

 
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HellToupee said:
El Floppo said:
GROOT said:
Um alot of these bands aren't new wave,.... the Smiths aren't new wave.

And where the hell is DEVO? That's new wave.
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no? what then? not really rock, not ska, not goth... I always had them as a new wave band, but I'm still trying to figure out what EMO and Shoegaze are, so I'll hang up and listen.
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I'd call them alternative or college radio genreNew Wave is multiple genre term anyways .1970s "new wave" is very different from the 80s new wave with numerous sub genres
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makes sense.

I don't remember calling anything alternative or college radio genre when the Smiths first came out though. :shrug:

 
zamboni said:
Fennis said:
KROQ in the 80s was the best radio that ever was.
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Loved KROQ back in the day - lived in L.A. in the early to mid '80s and it was awesome back then. Good to still hear Richard Blade on The First Wave channel on SiriusXM.

Some good KROQ song nostalgia here: http://earlhoward.com/kroq.htm
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in my area we just had a one or two hour show of "new wave" stuff per week on one station. Used to have my blank Denons cued up in my tape deck waiting for the show to start.

 
Leroy Hoard said:
zamboni said:
Fennis said:
KROQ in the 80s was the best radio that ever was.
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Loved KROQ back in the day - lived in L.A. in the early to mid '80s and it was awesome back then. Good to still hear Richard Blade on The First Wave channel on SiriusXM.

Some good KROQ song nostalgia here: http://earlhoward.com/kroq.htm
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in my area we just had a one or two hour show of "new wave" stuff per week on one station. Used to have my blank Denons cued up in my tape deck waiting for the show to start.
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SF had "the Quake".. KQAK? for "modern rock" starting sometime around 83. But before and during that change in programming there was KUSF and KALX, the USF and UCBerkeley stations which played just about everything I loved (when they weren't doing Vietnamese news).

I remember being about 10 on a bored summer day and deciding I was going to listen to every FM station available. Unfortunately started at the upper frequencies before making it down to 90.3 (kusf) and IIRC, 90.7 for kalx. I remember those numbers 30 years later, but not word one of what my wife said to me this morning.

 
KROQ was the best during the 80s. Nice link there. Xm new wave still my number 1 of many there.

Adam Ant..

Never understood why U2 was considered new wave.

Just got tickets to see The Cure in June.

 
Voted:

Don't You Forget About Me (Simple Minds)

How Soon Is Now (The Smiths)

If You Leave (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)

Also really like these that Binky posted:

6. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads (1983)
7. Tainted Love - Soft Cell (1981)
12. I Melt With You - Modern English (1983)
14. Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran (1982)
15. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads (1980)
17. Blue Monday - New Order (1983)
19. Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police (1980)
23. Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders (1980)
27. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (1984)
29. Is She Really Going Out with Him? - Joe Jackson (1979)
37. Tempted - Squeeze (1981)
38. Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work (1982)
63. Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes (1982)
64. Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson (1982)
71. One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx (1983)
72. She's a Beauty - The Tubes (1983)
77. Just What I Needed - The Cars (1978)

Finally, someone mentioned Under the Milky Way by the Church, which I like better than all of these.

 
Fennis said:
KROQ in the 80s was the best radio that ever was.
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Second best. CFNY-Toronto (102.1, The Spirit of Radio) was astounding. Stuff you never heard in the US and the would have no-repeat *weeks.* Dave Marsden was the PD. There is at least one fan site and several of the DJs, like Marsden and Live Earl Jive, have had online stations pop up for time to time.

 
bakes said:
Fennis said:
KROQ in the 80s was the best radio that ever was.
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Second best. CFNY-Toronto (102.1, The Spirit of Radio) was astounding. Stuff you never heard in the US and the would have no-repeat *weeks.* Dave Marsden was the PD. There is at least one fan site and several of the DJs, like Marsden and Live Earl Jive, have had online stations pop up for time to time.
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CFNY launched a show called 'Spirit of Radio Sunday's' in Feb 2014, which was the stations most listened to program at the time of its cancellation in Feb 2015 (while it had most total listeners, it was not good in the 18-34 demo), it was hosted by Scot Turner and I believe ran 6 hours (11-5). It was incredible listening and sucks it was cancelled.

Now 102.1 isn't even the best indie/alternative station in Toronto :( .

 
Northern Voice said:
bakes said:
Fennis said:
KROQ in the 80s was the best radio that ever was.
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Second best. CFNY-Toronto (102.1, The Spirit of Radio) was astounding. Stuff you never heard in the US and the would have no-repeat *weeks.* Dave Marsden was the PD. There is at least one fan site and several of the DJs, like Marsden and Live Earl Jive, have had online stations pop up for time to time.
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CFNY launched a show called 'Spirit of Radio Sunday's' in Feb 2014, which was the stations most listened to program at the time of its cancellation in Feb 2015 (while it had most total listeners, it was not good in the 18-34 demo), it was hosted by Scot Turner and I believe ran 6 hours (11-5). It was incredible listening and sucks it was cancelled.

Now 102.1 isn't even the best indie/alternative station in Toronto :( .
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Sad that it was cancelled. Bet he cranked out some great tunes - Spoons, Blue Peter... So many great new wave artists in the Toronto area back in the early 80s.

Damn. I'm old enough to remember listening to Scot in between Pete & Geets and Live Earl Jive... :P

 
For those who like the synch-heavy sounds of the eighties, I suggest you check out the album "Peace" by Anything Box. They had a mini hit with the song Living in Oblivion, but are widely unknown. Not sure how you get your music, but if you have a way to download or purchase this, you won't be disappointed. Musically, it's a bit like Yaz with a male singer. Very good melodies.

Here's a sample song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4u0TtCis0w

 
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bakes said:
Northern Voice said:
bakes said:
Fennis said:
KROQ in the 80s was the best radio that ever was.
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Second best. CFNY-Toronto (102.1, The Spirit of Radio) was astounding. Stuff you never heard in the US and the would have no-repeat *weeks.* Dave Marsden was the PD. There is at least one fan site and several of the DJs, like Marsden and Live Earl Jive, have had online stations pop up for time to time.
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CFNY launched a show called 'Spirit of Radio Sunday's' in Feb 2014, which was the stations most listened to program at the time of its cancellation in Feb 2015 (while it had most total listeners, it was not good in the 18-34 demo), it was hosted by Scot Turner and I believe ran 6 hours (11-5). It was incredible listening and sucks it was cancelled.Now 102.1 isn't even the best indie/alternative station in Toronto :( .
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Sad that it was cancelled. Bet he cranked out some great tunes - Spoons, Blue Peter... So many great new wave artists in the Toronto area back in the early 80s. Damn. I'm old enough to remember listening to Scot in between Pete & Geets and Live Earl Jive... :P
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Yep, before the show was cancelled, there were rumours of Marsden returning - then the station elected to go in the complete other direction. These were the last songs played on Turners show (reverse chronological)

To be preserved for posterity, the last x songs played by Scot Turner on Spirit of Radio Sunday, in reverse-chronological order.

Sinead O'Connor - The Last Day of Our Acquaintance

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

102.1 Band - Working On The Radio

Blue Peter - Radio Silence

Elvis Costello - Radio Radio

The Clash - London Calling

Endgames - First, Last For Everything

Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday

If you feel like reading more - this post and the comments below tell the story of the show well.

http://www.torontomike.com/2015/02/spirit_of_radio_sunday_on_1021_the.html

 
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