Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 11

Guitar chords, maybe best to steer clear of that subject, Turrican?

And if you do bring them up, please for consistency’s sake provide them in alphanumeric order as has been your wont: A, A2, A6, A6/9, A7, A9, A11...

Science!

i only understand the words to the English version of 99 Luftballoons and I still voted for it
in 1983, i was 8 and actively disliked President Ronald Reagan and everything he stood for
and then this song comes on the radio (in English)?! my 8 year old brain went bananas. the lyrics are way more interesting than other stuff i had heard at the time, and they played it at the roller rink so it was magical in that sense as well.

i just watched the video for the first time in forever and it reminded me of what i thought was cool back then -- i remember thinking the woman who sang this song was super cool.
turns out, she was pretty cool! (hopefully she didn't turn out to be a terrible person)

Have your seen or read about her recent project with ex-Eurythmic Dave Stewart, LL?

i just googled around and found it!

and this, which lists her year of birth as 1960 and has a recent picture https://espaciochus.com/2015/03/24/nena/
she still seems cool!

i regret only learning her name today :(

It is a sunny spring day and there is nothing better in the world than "Just Got Lucky" atm.

TBH, Difford has a fairly monotone voice, so it makes sense he doesn't sing a lot, but I like the songs he's on like Cool For Cats.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, April 7, 2018 8:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He sounds at his best on 'Someone Else's Heart', but that's pretty much because Elvis Costello convinced him to sing it that way - Tilbrook apparently tried to get him to sing like that again but he wouldn't.

Guitar chords, maybe best to steer clear of that subject, Turrican?

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:23 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not taking posting advice from a noted disablist, particularly one that's trying to derail the thread. I'm ignoring every post you make from this point on.

Haven't learned your lesson, I see, carry on with that attitude and you'll be out of here, though not soon enough, you got lucky last time.

FP'd.

LOL, clown.

In fact, talking about the solo on 'Black Coffee In Bed' and the way it slips into that distinct middle section, 'True' also kinda does the same trick (albeit in a different way) for the sax solo.

I voted for Mirror Mirror because I don’t think anybody else will. It’s pretty amazing and underrated.

― El Tomboto,

I voted for this too. Those few Dollar singles are definitely Trevor Horn's most underrated productions.

Not familiar with all the songs here but the Fun Boy 3 tune is all time so that’s my vote

A lot of great tunes on this one. May have to go with "99 Luftballons"

Nice to see a couple big ups for Slow Children, I feel like they're pretty forgotten. Both their albums were patchy, but the high points (including "President", but I prefer "Spring in Fialta") are great. Not quite sure yet that I can vote for them though, stiff competition.

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"Black Coffee in Bed" then.

Went with Felony.

"Black Coffee in Bed" reminds me of watching The Voice and some guy from "the heartland" does his rendition of a soul song.

I spent a lot of time as kid watching that In a Big Country video and trying to figure out what was going on with that woman. The video itself is the very picture of what a ten-year-old thinks a rewarding adult life would be like.

Wait, that's not slice of life Scotland?

talking in yr sleep

Voted Big Country but should have voted Romantics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSXEZe7tRuw

Going with "Send Me An Angel." I like having a single like that with no idea what another song by Real Life would sound like, vs. the equally good Big Country and The Fixx. Complete standalone.

Slow Children for President.

It must be Americans that still love Big Country, right? Can't imagine that shit flying with soggy island dwellers right now. Tbf I've never heard their albums but this is fairly unbearable even though I kind of liked the riff at the time. Humblebrag, I saw them opening for Bowie on the Glass Spider tour. Would much rather it had been The Cult.

99 Luftballons, an extremely tight and well produced track given how much is going on.

It must be Americans that still love Big Country, right? Can't imagine that shit flying with soggy island dwellers right now.

Why not?

just realised it's stuart adamson's birthday today - he would've been 60

:-(

I never heard of this compilation series until these polls but it feels like one of the most scattershot 'whatever we can get' approaches to a genre-ish series ever imo. Credit for putting 'Shiny Shiny' and 'Mirror Mirror' together though.

Would love to cast a vote for Squeeze, but they just didn't bring their A game on "Black Coffee in Bed".
God help me, i may have to go with Spandau Ballet.

Wait, why do you think that? It's not in my Top 10 favourite Squeeze tracks or anything, but I don't think they released a single as good again until 'Hourglass' or even 'Some Fantastic Place' ...

in a big country obv. the best song named after the band that performs it?

― flappy bird, Friday, April 6, 2018 12:25 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um, "Black Sabbath"???

I've come to legit like The Fixx over the last few years, at least the first three albums with Rupert Hine as a de facto band member. They had a pretty delectable sound.

Brilliant period piece use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMMnJm1PYOE

um, "Black Sabbath"???

"Focus" is a great one too fwiw.

Talk Talk

Baaaad Company

Going with "Send Me An Angel." I like having a single like that with no idea what another song by Real Life would sound like,

Yeah, I was just thinking that. This was one of my favorite songs as a kid (thanks, https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=106662) but I've never bought an album or gone any further in their discography.

This one doesn't look too good:

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/882/MI0001882158.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

"Send Me an Angel" and its 1989 version got tons of airplay in Miami cuz its keyboards are dying to become freestlye while the vocal is stuck in Aussie mope mode.

Xpost to josh yeah I loved that placement in that movie. It was really perfect somehow.

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I say this with love, but you people make me sick

The Fixx got robbed.

i was hoping "Change" would pull this off but number two is very respectful.

Wow, I don't even know the Tears For Fears song. I was the other Fixx vote.

The Fixx got robbed.

Yes. I didn't vote for it either but it deserved better than it got.

Wow, I don't even know the Tears For Fears song.

When does the end of me
Become the start of you

their first record is a Goth masterpiece: Tears for Fears: The Hurting poll

I'm sure Real Life have other songs, but it's so much more beautiful for me to imagine that they made one awesome song and then stopped making music

I'm one of the two votes for "Just Got Lucky", though i don't know what it's doing on a new wave compilation

no question it's "change" for me