Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 1

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

calling songs from 78-79 "hits of the '80s" is a little funny but not as absurd as a band like Alien Ant Farm having a 20th Century Masters comp

(Alien Ant Farm's first album coming in 2001, in case you've forgotten their brief cultural moment)

voted one guy from rockpile over the other guy from rockpile

The '70s thing is brought up in the liner notes. Iirc, they say this volume chronicles the new wave 'year zero' by collecting all the '78-9 stuff and getting them all out of the way in one swoop.

Funniest thing here is DeRogatis' review that "I Ran" is worthless. Oh, okay. Otherwise I voted for the Knack.

"Ça Plane Pour Moi", "Warm Leatherette", or "Money". Can't decide.

seymour stein came up w/ new wave when america rejected punk. jim derogatis RONG per usual. 'love plus one' is one of my dogs' favorite songs and singing it w/ her when she was a puppy as i drove to my parents house on xmas morning is a cherished memory. voted for nick lowe over the normal.

I don't know how many polls there would be where I wouldn't vote for "Cruel to Be Kind," but going with the Buggles here.

All of these are great. Voting Warm Leatherette because it's one of my top 10 songs of all time (most of the time). It was actually released 1978 not the 80s though.

voted buggles; a lot of these songs are great but "video killed the radio star" is transcendent.

have to go with money, if tvod or hanging on the telephone were included it would have been alnowt impossible

You like tvod better than warm leatherette?

Did Warm Leth have a video? If not, how did it get onto MTV?

finally a poll the white guys can win

Well if you vote Money you're indirectly voting for Barrett Strong so it almost counts as a black win.

Which is the only important question one should ask in any music poll. Is this a white win or a black win?

Warm Leatherette is an indirect Grace Jones vote

Buggles.

Love Plus One is a tune!

ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
ca plane pour moi

I'm voting Flying Lizards!!

The '70s thing is brought up in the liner notes. Iirc, they say this volume chronicles the new wave 'year zero' by collecting all the '78-9 stuff and getting them all out of the way in one swoop.

I think it's fair to say that the first bands with an "80s" sound started to appear around '78 or so, so that's fair. There will still bands with an '80s sound as late as '90 or '91 until killed off by combination of hip hop and grunge.

"My Sharona" over "Cruel To Be Kind."

I picked "Cruel to be Kind" though I never thought of that as New Wave. Always felt like a 50's tribute to me!

expected this to be more difficult given the title of the comp, however, it has to be the normal as even now that track sounds unique.

I feel kind of bad passing up what be my only chance to vote for Tin Huey in an ilx poll, but I have pick Gidget Goes To Hell

I picked "Cruel to be Kind" though I never thought of that as New Wave. Always felt like a 50's tribute to me!

― frogbs,

like a lot of New Wave!

i know what you mean, but the lowe song doesn't fit at all imo. ca plane for me, but buggles are close.

for me, buggles overplayed ..

I feel kind of bad passing up what be my only chance to vote for Tin Huey in an ilx poll, but I have pick Gidget Goes To Hell

"Puppet Wipes" by The Hueys, or "Janitor" by The Lawns would have made this harder for me, but "Ca Plane Pour Moi."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYNO2Kow2ho

And I have no recollection of "Too Young To Date" whatsoever.

^^Texas band. Not a hit. One of the band members used to be in Bubble Puppy.

Was gonna vote "Warm Leatherette" but that Ramones song has more hooks than most of these songs put together.

1. Video Killed the Radio Star
2. Warm Leatherette
3. Girls Talk

If the Suburban Lawns track was 'Janitor', I'd be sorely tempted by that. As it is, 'Warm Leatherette'.

One Way or Another. Haven't heard of many of these

I wish Tim Curry could have made a career of his fake John Cale/Warren Zevonisms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPCsaO_55o

looking now to see how much of this stuff is on Spotify.

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WARM LEATHERETTE

Yeah, "Warm Leatherette" over "Rock N Roll High School." Great comp, though!

Are you gonna poll the whole series, Bee?

yeah, i think so.

i'm going to do the first five in a row, then i will have to pause for the Acclaimed Music stuff. then i will pick this up at some point after that.

Warm Leatherette cos I love the album version of Money too much to vote for it here

Had totally forgotten about Hey, St Peter. Great tune. I see from YouTube even recorded a jokey low-fi video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz48dyXTFpQ

voting for Blondie though...

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wow, that's a lot of votes and expected winner.