Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 9

Poison Arrow narrowly over Save It For Later

lol I totally remember that npr segment, how's life, and it affected me in a similar way

Favorites (I have and love [some of] the source albums):
I Melt with You - Modern English
Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs
Save It for Later - English Beat
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, March 23, 2018 10:09 AM (four hours ago)

^ What Gerald said. Toss-up between "I Melt With You" and "Save It for Later". Went with the former for nostalgia's sake.

Contenderizer, between this and the Trevor Horn thread we're so sympatico you can DJ my next party!

This is Poison Arrow innit. Not my favourite Beat song or it'd probably be them

the first five songs on this are all-time classics, voting "I Melt with You." would have been "Mirror in the Bathroom" if that was the song instead.

Throw your next party in central Maine, and you got yourself a deal, Gerald ;)

Coming down on the side of voting for the most 'new wave' song favorite here allows me to bypass the agony of picking against one of my favorite Marshall Crenshaw songs.
Save It For Later. I like the Pete Townshend version too.

a lot of decent songs that I never need to hear again on this list

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The Beat song wasn't a hit in the UK, I only vaguely know it, it's very indie sounding. Never liked "The Cutter" much or "Poison Arrow". Voted "Love My Way".

https://giphy.com/gifs/dance-dancing-armie-hammer-26Ff68gV7hXgOtVni

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"Blister in the Sun"

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Dancing in heaven was my favorite song during the brief span when it was on the radio (8th grade?) Anything with busy synths out front I’d go crazy for

can Armie Hammer dance to "Let It Go" instead thnkx

Whenever You're On My Mind best song here but I wouldn't call it new wave

Rio is an all-time jam. The whole sax solo segment into the final verse & chorus is sick.

The Beat

Love My Way. the best movie sync in recent memory

Each volume seems to have one or two songs I've never heard of, let alone heard. This one has "Teenage Enema Nurse," which I am now listening to for the first time ever. Wacky!

Let Me Goooo

Ohh i do love that too tho... Too late, alredy voted.

Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage was a KROQ staple, such a fun song.

'Rio'

https://youtu.be/DRoAWuqnCp4?t=18

I'm surprised Save It For Later didn't make the UK top 40. It seems more familiar than that and they had biggish hits either side.

Who are these embarrasing TV fuxxors mocking the dancing in the US video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Ti1VYUNIs

People talk about The Smiths being one of those bands that'll never re-form, but it's painfully true of The Beat... VH-1 had a good go at trying to get them back together, but according to Wakeling they fucked it up so royally that it pretty much ensured the band would never reform.

lot of really good songs here but Save It For Later is just a miracle. One of those songs that, when I remember hearing it as a brand new song from the band all the theater kids loved, I feel like -- wow, lucky me, I got to be there for that moment. I consider "I Confess" even better but as it's not on this poll that's neither here nor there

yeah ‘i confess’ is probably my favourite song by the beat, but talk about going out on a high - that whole album is glorious. such a shame that the uk had given up giving a shit about them by that stage

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Save It is like a happy Sister Ray.

The lack of love for "Sign of the Times" is tearing me apart.

"Sign of the Times" is a good song - I maybe like rather than love it - but it had a lot of tough competition.

Volume 10