random old new wave you are loving

Apparently that DJ been rocking that O Positive tune for 20 years.

WMBR is my go-to college station.

not sure if this exactly counts but it seems like something that would appear on a Living with Oblivion comp from an alternate timeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ39VhVaiKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNId-8g17A

From the explicitly B-52's-emulating side of new wave, it's The Cosmopolitans "Wild Moose Party"

Berlin - 'The Metro':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEZP22b82ks

the comsat angels — "the eye dance" (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGuj2APL84

best ever.

extemporaneous thoughts—
i hadn't quite figured out my asexuality yet when i first heard this song in the early 2000s. i just knew i preferred to hang out with women but not like that and that i was definitely not gay. throw in tons of other shit and i was afraid to talk to most people i didn't already know fairly well. enter this song. like most things from the coinciding album (sleep no more; very highly recommended if you don't know it), it's open to interpretation. i always just assumed it was meant to portray a narrator, who fancies a stranger in a public space, wanting to make an approach, but feeling unsure. it's intense and passionate. i get the vibe that he feels like he needs to explain himself before he even says hello — if he even decides to go through with it in the first place. felt very much like he had been reading my thoughts for the few years prior. the timelines don't match up, of course. foiled again.

Dumptruck: Going Nowhere

dumptruck —and especially for the country— is such a personal classic!

Xp Don't sleep on the Comsat Angels Peel Sessions! Some definitive versions there.

that's a fine point, gerald! the peel sessions are easily the highlights of their radio sessions album. even though the sleep no more are songs are missing the big studio sound they were able to get on the album, the performances are fairly intense. that whole period was pretty fruitful for them; loved reading about how meticulous the recording of the album was — i.e., recording drums at 3am via the open lift shaft in an otherwise empty studio.

Here is a REALLY obscure one:

Vivabeat’s “Blue Guitars”-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIyP2-K9PA

Information on them is scant. Not many recordings, and I don’t think they really had a fixed lineup. Gorgeous tune. Love that bass

O _ O

that's. . . wow!

easy first listen love. thank you for posting.

discogs info + YES it's on streaming!

trouser press:

This one-hit (well, almost one) California guitar-plus-synthesizer sextet sounds like Sparks at half speed. On an otherwise duff album, their big number, “Man From China,” is a four-square dance track whose catchy hook is whistled for novelty effect.

lol ouch

and according to amg, they were loosely affiliated with peter gabriel but it's not really clear what the connection was. listening to the compilation now and the earlier stuff is definitely more 'stock new wave' sounding than "blue guitar" — which *really* sticks out. what an amazing song. it's vaguely go betweens-ish, with some b-52's "topaz" sprinkles on top. . . just whoa — big tune!

Wow, Vivabeat... I *think* I saw either them or one of Marina Del Rey's other bands opening up for the Andy Prieboy version of Wall Of Voodoo at the Anti Club in LA (I see Chas Grey from WoV is credited on the Vivabeat album). Marina Del Rey was in o.g. Masque punk band Backstage Pass with Holly Beth Vincent but that's about all I know of them.

big up to "blue guitars" again. one of my favorite songs of the year. cheers.

French gem
https://shop.bornbadrecords.net/track/toutes-les-nuits

HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS? :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI2A4kUgPE8

the wake - "talk about the past (12" mix)"

(yep, featuring a cameo from vini reilly!)

i do very much like the madchester lite that factory was also peddling-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2pjApra6g
the railway children - 'brighter' (1986)

general thoughts on the railway children? i wasn't there at the time, but this one seems like it may have had dome steam behind it. they kind of sounded like an amalgamation of a few different manc bands - but a much more polite version of all of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcsoZiIm1C8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gzRg-8qD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0fPZrPV3M

I love that first Railway Children album. Their second and third albums are diminishing returns, but "Reunion Wilderness" jangles hard.