The You Tube thread for late 70's/early 80's post punk new wave gems that will set your pants on fire!

Thank you Croot. The DJ played "We Got The Beat" at the club tonight and I just died.

Just about the biggest local Belgian classic ever: (no clip though)

Red Zebra - I Can't Live In A Living Room

I challenge anyone to name one thing the Americans have done as good as that. Forget it. Just forget it.

Bimble, I present to you my retort:

Flipper, Sex Bomb Baby

(I actually have this on DVD... :D)

I can't find a video for this, or even a full length stream, but if you go here, http://www.wastedtalentrecords.com/judys/albums/washarama.html and click on "Guyana Punch" you will hear something worth hearing. I violate this thread's premise.

Thanks, George. Definitely not as good as early PIL, but an honourable mention. Does anyone have any early Replacements videos I can look up on You Tube?

I hadn't read up in this thread. Here's something some Americans did.

Go-Go's "We Got The Beat"

I had no idea Fad Gadget/Frank Tovey had so many videos.

Check the lipstick. Check the hair. Human League. New Wave. Check it.

Toni Basil - Mickey

its no hot pants explosion but still 80s goodness. just discovered this:

joe jackson - it's different for girls

i really like this song!

that whole little weird wince thing he does just after the first chorus, around 1:17, justifies the last 15 years of MTV.

here:

also this:

yeah Bimble I'm hijacking yr thread...

AHHHH!!! YOU POSTED THE FALL!!!

OH MY GOD DON'T GET ME STARTED ON YOU TUBE WITH THE FALL!
I WILL NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE AGAIN PLEASE DON'T GET ME STARTED

And what...B-52's? Wire? Steady, boy. Calm down.

B-52's is shredding me. Please Cindy, please stop shredding my soul.

The B-52's video has really set a new standard, I think. That is probably the best thing I've ever seen on You Tube up to this point.

Also absolutely dying about Brix in Fall video link above

I just want to die listening to The Fall. That's all I ask. Let me die listening to The Fall.

here you go Bimble:

a little late, but still...

(late-80s, I mean)

People who don't take Perverted By Language to a desert island with them need to have their head examined.

Just pulled out my Wire DVD. I hope you're happy.

:D

Bird Nest Roys, not their greatest song but such an awesome band.

hey bimble, i think you might like jun togawa:

sandii and the sunsetz "sticky music"

ippu do "time of the season" (zombies cover!)

I want to be 12 forever, or something.

Oh, man. That's just WAY too much fun. Look at her clothes! So preppy!

That Jun Togawa is hilarious. Look at that skirt! What the hell, she's wearing a backpack!

I've never even heard of the X-Teens, I'm really impressed. I've heard of Sandii & The Sunsetz, though. I'm amazed how much that lady looks like Kate Bush. I like the music too. I'll try to track down more of these bands. Thanks ILXors! I <3 you.

AAAAAAAH! David Sylvian recorded with Sandii & The Sunsetz????? OMG I am going to have an orgasm. Oh god. Oh god. What in the living hell.

Bimble, thought you might get a kick out of the X-Teens. They were early-80s cult heroes in North Carolina. They put out a couple of singles & some albums produced by Don Dixon & Mitch Easter who of course went on to much greater fame producing REM's early work.

BTW, Don Dixon did some great new wave / power pop as a performer in the early 80s. Search Praying Mantis & Skin Deep. Lots of similarities to Nick Lowe's early 80s work.

this should go on the synthpop thread really but since this thread is on new answers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/arts/music/new-york-new-music-post-punk.html

circa 1980 video from Ivers and Armstrong and others is on exhibit at the museum of the City of NY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ7nZv4molg

The Plugz on New Wave Theatre in 1982

https://www.libin-cameron.com/lizzy-mercier-descoux-mission-impossible-film-by-libincameron

Lizzy Mercier Descoux