Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 7

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I'm regularly baffled by statements of 'xyz band was all over MTV' and then xyz is a band I've never even heard of, or never saw a video for. Yet I considered myself pretty much an MTV addict from about 1983 through 1990 - though with slightly less access from 88 onward due to college... Joe King Carrasco? And 6 of these bands I've honestly never heard of, and I worked in a record shop in the late 80s! (Maybe that just speaks to me being a bit clueless.)

I've gotta vote Bill Nelson - loooove that era of his stuff,. He gets lots of play still on my radio show.

Maybe you should have been watching in 1982

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTPah0YK20

In the mid-1980s, Joe moved to Nicaragua and his songs turned more political as they addressed the political climate of Central America.

imagining an album full of songs that all start with an intro that sounds exactly like the beginning of Party Weekend then "Ah said uh-hey little girl [SOME LYRICS ABOUT THE SANDINISTAS]"

C Ivan - what's your radio show?

Carrasco was on mtv loads. Probably never ever after 1984 or so though?

I do 2 hours of mostly new wave & synth-pop (70s to now) every Sunday morning on a low power FM station in Rochester, NY. The show is called "Are Friends Electric?" of course... here's a word cloud of the stuff I played in 2017 - bigger = more airtime. Tune in here if that's your thing... https://wayofm.org/shows/are-friends-electric

whoops - did that image post? https://wayofm.org/shows/are-friends-electric

whoops again... sigh: https://imgur.com/a/JjVwa

Your word salad looks tasty, I will sample.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYcviXK4rg

voted Trio. the song is huge and massively influential. the 99cent casio beat hits this aesthetic that is just everywhere now. love that song. its so futuristic yet DIY! like im looking at that thumbnail and this could almost be Stereo Total.

otm, it's monumental

and utterly disposable

is there a german expression for c'est la vie?

Trio are on another level but that's not my favorite song by them

pop is supposed to be disposable.

so is life!

crut otm for me too

Live Is Life
Na na na na na

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Voting Pass the Dutchie, but under what possible taxonomy is that a new wave song?

reggae leaning songs were played on new wave stations

"Favorite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)" is my fav on here.

also pass the dutchie was a big mtv hit! and musical youth were in the video for donna summer’s “unconditional love” too

I agree with all that, still don't buy "Pass the Dutchie" as new wave, even as elastic as the term was back then. But then, my favorite song on here, then and now, is a straightforward cover of a Little Willie John R&B song from 1960, so...

Still have a soft spot for Joe King, but voting for Trio.

well these comps seemed to be very informed by the wlir/kroq aesthetic and “pass the dutchie” was a shriek of the week...

http://www.advancedspecialties.net/wlir.htm

neat to see the evolution of those picks btw. prob too many choices for a poll but maybe year by year...

Holy crap my lir roots are almost directly to that moment but i didnt remember that as a screamer at all

I’m with Bee, that whole H100 record is solid (picked up a Nick Heyward solo record just last week).

"Pass the Dutchie" obv. isn't new wave, unlike Paul Carrack, for instance.

lol yes, but Paul was in Squeeze, who were "new" and were not REO Speedwagon. And his album cover was colorful. It's all a rich tapestry.

https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/284/0000284412.jpg

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Top 6 is pretty legit even tho contextually i voted for 5 just over 3.

Didn't get a vote but was a summer jam in '82:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICcbPSoTels

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Oh if I'd seen this I'd have been tempted to vote Bill Nelson as that track has been a minor latter-day revelation. Terrific proto-techno production, sounds like Neuropolitique or something. Check the extended mix.

Or Chris & Cosy more contemporaneously, I guess.

15 minute interview on tyne tees tv!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBBu3eMRBB4

He was always such an awkward "rock star". It's good that he's ploughed his own field for so long, even if I lost interest yonks ago.