Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s, Vol. 2

between the long version of "Pop Mzik," "Love Will Tear Us Apart," "I Don't Like Mondays," "I Got You" or "Whip It."

the tracklisting for this and vol 1 are bafflng, i know of MAYBE a third of all the tracks.

ian dury

i know "hits" might be the wrong word unless you listed to KROQ at the time.

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*listened

yeah it's probably just that I don't know many of the titles. I listened to KITS in the early 90s, would probably recognize some of these tunes were i to hear them now

Echo Beach 4eva

that is in the Bay Area right? i use to live in San Francisco itself.

if so then you probably did hear a lot of these as they were sister stations.

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M's "Pop Muzik" was like hearing the future when I was 12, it was epochal, couldn't get enough of it at the time. The other contenders are monumental but M came first for me.

yeah, bay area, i want to listen to these comps because i'm sure it'll be a total flashback. Live 105 was pretty awesome before the mid 90s ska/swing shitstorm.

add post-grunge to that. fuck. Well, we can't cling to those old dreams anymore

"What does sex mean to me?" is crazy good & I'd totally forgotten about it.

trivia: casey cameron of human sexual response is glasser's mother.

The UK folks are here to say "We know about 50% of these"

i can say i don't know all of these either. never heard Martha & The Muffins for example.

Argh shit, this is much harder, and one I'm going to have to seriously think about... could be any one of these:

2. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
3. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
8. I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats
9. I Got You - Split Enz
11. Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
12. Whip It - Devo
13. Vienna - Ultravox

'Whip It'. If it had been a different JD song, then probably JD. I still love 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', but not as much as 'Whip It'.

Pop Muzik over Whip It

My heart says Ian Dury so I'm going with that.

I still can't believe "Pop Musik" went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It seems so out there and ahead of its time. Does anybody know if the album New York • London • Paris • Munich is worth hearing ?

*in 1979 !

the M albums are all great, also Jive Shikisha! by Robin Scott and Shikisha which is on spotify

i want to take a break from Steel Dan and maybe listen to this, hope i can find most of this on Spotify.

Here is where I confess that I've never cared for that Ian Dury track. In fact, just listened to it again now to check and still, nope.

Gonna be a coin toss between Joy Division and Split Enz for me, though the Human Sexual Response track is probably the hidden gem of this mix.

Yeah, I really wish there was a CD reissue of HSR's "In A Roman Mood". Land of the glass pine cones!!

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I'm voting "Turning Japanese." I would've voted for "Pop Muzik," but "New York, London, Paris, Munich" is one of the worst setup-a-rhyme lines of all time.

Man I love Vienna (this means nothing to me!) but the idea of voting for anything but BarneyWaves is kinda absurd, so Joy Division.

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Good songs that got zero votes: "So Long," "Away From Home"