My Forgotten New Wave 80s Thread... Will add songs as mood strikes me.

[Mad Max]

I am really good friends with Richard Blade so I constantly going to his DJ parties

[RoosGirl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLSFWgxDzA

[RoosGirl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQT3oKA3v8

[RoosGirl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_msHpEa3_Y

[RoosGirl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XegL32Btzs

[dfwgator]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XegL32Btzs

This was my jam!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHWrmIzgB5A

[dfwgator]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFv1kqdl2VQ

[dfwgator]

From one of the best albums of the 80s, "The Golden Age of Wireless"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWPYH-XKpI

[Sighlass]

Great Songs.... General Public to Haircut 100...

I must admit I had never heard the Robyn Hitchcock song before, I had in passing heard other songs by him, but this one alluded me. Sweet. Thanks for hooking me up there.

Good to have you with us @Mad Max .... throw out some songs if the mood strikes ya. Good or bad (or Ugly), we take em all. Welcome to The Briefing Room. P.S. @dfwgator  doesn't bite, had his teeth removed last year, and dentures just don't suit him.   

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Roaring Boys - House of Stone (1985)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lx6j497vk

[Mad Max]

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

"I Ran" By Flock of Seagulls

[Verse 1]
I walked along the avenue
I never thought I'd meet a girl like you
Meet a girl like you

[Verse 2]
With auburn hair and tawny eyes
The kind of eyes that hypnotize me through
Hypnotize me through

[Bridge]
And I ran, I ran so far away
I just ran, I ran all night and day
Couldn't get away

[Verse 3]
A cloud appears above your head
A beam of light comes shining down on you
Shining down on you

[Verse 4]
The cloud is moving nearer still
Aurora borealis comes in view
Aurora comes in view

[Bridge]

[Verse 5]
Reached out a hand to touch your face
You're slowly disappearing from my view
Disappearing from my view

[Verse 6]
Reached out a hand to try again
I'm floating in a beam of light with you
A beam of light with you

[Outro]
And I ran, I ran so far away
I just ran, I ran all night and day
And I ran, I ran so far away
I just ran, I couldn't get away

[Mad Max]

88finger pointGreat Songs.... General Public to Haircut 100...

I must admit I had never heard the Robyn Hitchcock song before, I had in passing heard other songs by him, but this one alluded me. Sweet. Thanks for hooking me up there.

Good to have you with us @Mad Max .... throw out some songs if the mood strikes ya. Good or bad (or Ugly), we take em all. Welcome to The Briefing Room. P.S. @dfwgator  doesn't bite, had his teeth removed last year, and dentures just don't suit him.   

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Roaring Boys - House of Stone (1985)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lx6j497vk

Thank you for the welcome. New Wave music and New wave soundtracks always had a special place in my heart.

[Sighlass]

Flock of Seagulls - I ran

Excellent Choice @Mad Max

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Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart (1985)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2qFTbyyOQ

[RoosGirl]

This was my jam!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHWrmIzgB5A

I do not know The English Beat!

[Sighlass]

I do not know The English Beat!

Their big hit was "Save it for Later"... it rocked and rocked some more. They were also well know in the SKA scene.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM0wVjU2-k

[RoosGirl]

Their big hit was "Save it for Later"... it rocked and rocked some more. They were also well know in the SKA scene.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM0wVjU2-k

I like it!

I was born in very late 1976, so I was pretty young when a lot of this music came out.  Probably even most of it I didn't catch the first time, and we didn't have a lot of money to spend on casettes and DVDs.  I have been given records, but I don't think I was ever old enough to buy one myself before cassettes and then CDs were popular.  My first cassette was Tears For Fears and my first CD was Information Society, that I bought with my own money.

[dfwgator]

Their big hit was "Save it for Later"... it rocked and rocked some more. They were also well know in the SKA scene.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM0wVjU2-k

Dave Wakeling gets a call from Pete Townshend and David Gilmour because they can't figure out the tuning for "Save It For Later" and Pete wanted to perform it in concert.   Imagine getting that call.

[Mad Max]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uyWAe0NhQ

"One Step Beyond"-Madness

(Hey you, don't watch that,
Watch this!
This is the heavy heavy monster sound
The nutsiest sound around
So if you've come in off the street
And you're beginning to feel the heat
Well listen buster
You'd better to start to move your feet
To the rockin'est, rock-steady beat
Of Madness
One step beyond!)

(One step beyond!...)

[dfwgator]

I remember buying this album thinking these guys were going to be huge.  I still play it to this day.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lx2vH2Q5yo

[Mad Max]

"Don't You Wan't Me" by Human League

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around, turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back there too
Don't, don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it
When I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you
When you say that you don't need me
It's much to late to find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me, oh?
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me, oh?

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I live my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do
Don't, don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it
When I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you
When you say that you don't need me
It's much to late to find
When you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me, oh?
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me, oh?

This is a 80s classic.

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

[Suppressed]

"I Ran" By Flock of Seagulls

[RoosGirl]

I found this kind of interesting.  It's Blue Monday, by New Order, remade by a group called Orkestra Obsolete, which I haven't heard of before, with instruments from the 1930s.


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

[Sighlass]

I remember buying this album thinking these guys were going to be huge.  I still play it to this day.
The Producers - What's He Got?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lx2vH2Q5yo

Love the "He's got Chuuuu" part

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Offering for the slaughter another unknown 80's English band that just never got much traction in the US... but I found their music refreshing and light-hearted and somewhat quirky....

Red Box - Lean on Me (Ah-li-ayo)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P6TCW9LCtg

Perhaps my favorite by them was the song below... I preferred the single version over the extended version (which is rare for me).

Red Box - Saskatchewan (single version)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM-NQc8ThEk

[Cripplecreek]

Who can forget Geoffery Figer's brother


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2JtsVumFA

[Suppressed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQT3oKA3v8

Much better version than the studio one.

June Miles-Kingston looks great there. 

[Gefn]

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I like 80s music.