Your favorite 1980s New Wave performers, songs, and albums?

[Buried Alien]

What are your favorites from one of the oddest, but most interesting periods (circa 1979-1983) of pop music history? This was the era of Blondie, the Talking Heads, Devo, Soft Cell, etc.


Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Ilash]

Elvis Costello. This Year's Model. Radio Radio.

Interesting period, to be sure just not one of my favourites.

[Poka Lola Luau]

The Cars- I used to do a good impersonation of Ric Ocasek singing "Candy-O". Moving In Stereo is another good one.

Talking Heads- "Life During Wartime" is my fave of theirs. I also like Listening Wind, Cities, Swamp, and Pull Up The Roots. "Drugs" did a great job of capturing hallucinogenic paranoia.

Police- De Do Do Do and Invisible Sun.

Bowie- China Girl and Cat People.

Blondie- 11:59, I Know But I Don't Know, Pretty Baby, Fade Away And Radiate, Hanging On The Telephone, Dreaming, Union City Blue, Shayla, Living In The Real World, Atomic, Victor, Angels On The Balcony, Rapture, Walk Like Me, War Child, Orchid Club, The Beast, and Dragonfly. My favorite band.

Gary Nueman- Cars

Human League- Seconds.

Berlin- Lost In The Crowd, Now It's My Turn, Pleasure Victim, and Torture.

B-52's- Rock Lobster, Planet Claire, 53 Miles West Of Venus, Private Idaho, and Quiche Lorraine.

Missing Persons- Destination Unknown and Words.

A Flock Of Seagulls- Telecommunication, I Ran, Space Age Love Song, and especially Wishing (If I Had A Photograph). I get Wishing stuck in my head once in a while.

[thetechnocrat]

The Cars- I used to do a good impersonation of Ric Ocasek singing "Candy-O". Moving In Stereo is another good one.

Talking Heads- "Life During Wartime" is my fave of theirs. I also like Listening Wind, Cities, Swamp, and Pull Up The Roots. "Drugs" did a great job of capturing hallucinogenic paranoia.

Police- De Do Do Do and Invisible Sun.

Bowie- China Girl and Cat People.

Gary Nueman- Cars

Human League- Seconds.

Berlin- Lost In The Crowd, Now It's My Turn, Pleasure Victim, and Torture.

B-52's- Rock Lobster, Planet Claire, 53 Miles West Of Venus, Private Idaho, and Quiche Lorraine.

Missing Persons- Destination Unknown and Words.

A Flock Of Seagulls- Telecommunication, I Ran, Space Age Love Song, and especially Wishing (If I Had A Photograph). I get Wishing stuck in my head once in a while.
Wow, can you read my mind?

Don't forget...
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Gary Nueman - Down In The Park
The Police - Every other song not listed
The Cure - Every 80's song :evilsmile
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Talking Heads - As The Days Go By, Pyscho Killer
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
I could go on & on

[zombie]

The bands I like and the song that sticks out most in my mind:

The Cars, "Moving In Stereo"
The Police, "King Of Pain"
Talking Heads, "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)"
Elvis Costello, "Riot Act"
Madness, "Our House"
Duran Duran, "Hungry Like The Wolf"
Devo, "Jocko Homo"
Culture Club, "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me"
The Buggles, "Video Killed The Radio Star"

I can't think of any more right now.

Do post-punk bands fit into new wave? I don't know where the line between post-punk and new wave, if there is one, lies.

[thetechnocrat]

Do post-punk bands fit into new wave? I don't know where the line between post-punk and new wave, if there is one, lies.
I would think so. I count The Clash's Combat Rock as more of a new wave than punk album. Same goes for The Cure, they went from soft punk to pre-goth to new wave and then to alternative.

[ZombieHavoc]

The Cars- I used to do a good impersonation of Ric Ocasek singing "Candy-O". Moving In Stereo is another good one.

Blondie- 11:59, I Know But I Don't Know, Pretty Baby, Fade Away And Radiate, Hanging On The Telephone, Dreaming, Union City Blue, Shayla, Living In The Real World, Atomic, Victor, Angels On The Balcony, Rapture, Walk Like Me, War Child, Orchid Club, The Beast, and Dragonfly. My favorite band

not that it really matters, but a lot of the blondie stuff and i believe candy-o werent technically "1980s," as the topic suggests.

but in addition to stuff other people have listed, im going with ministry's first album, which the name is escaping me for some reason. primarily the first track.

[Poka Lola Luau]

I was going by the "circa 1979-1983" in Buried Alien's first post. Candy-O was The Cars second album, released in 1979. You are right about the Parallel Lines songs, since it was released in 1978. But, as they used to say, no biggie.

[Dennis K]

From 1979-1983 (even though they're not all New Wave)

Regatta De Blanc (album) - The Police
Don't Change (song) - INXS
Dream Police (album & performers) - Cheap Trick
Low Budget (everything) - The Kinks

[Jonathan Bogart]

Okay, here goes:

I like Blondie, Talking Heads, the Cars, Elvis Costello, the Clash, the Jam, the Buzzcocks, Graham Parker, Joe Jackson, Kirsty MacColl, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Simple Minds, XTC, Devo, the Blasters, Bow Wow Wow, Cabaret Voltaire, the Damned, the Fall, Gang of Four, Human League, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, the Lambrettas, Magazine, the Only Ones, Rachel Sweet, the Ramones, the Selecter, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Television, Tubeway Army, Ultravox, Madness, Wreckless Eric, the Cure, the Passions, Mission of Burma, X, Depeche Mode, Japan, the Pretenders, the Killing Joke, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the (English) Beat, the Specials, the Raincoats, the Smithereens, the Smiths, the Minutemen, the dB's, Echo & the Bunnymen, They Might Be Giants, the Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Ltd., Love and Rockets, the The, the Teardrop Explodes, Visage, Soft Cell, Kate Bush, Billy Bragg, U2, Missing Persons, the Stray Cats, the Go-Go's, Duran Duran, Naked Eyes, A Flock of Seagulls, Generation X, Patti Smith, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Nina Hagen, Nena, the B-52's, the Police, Thomas Dolby, the Soft Boys, Dramarama, the Cocteau Twins, X-Ray Spex, New Order, Robin Lane & the Chartbusters, Holly & the Italians, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, a-Ha, Altered Images, the Art of Noise, Berlin, the Durutti Column, the Flying Lizards, Cristina, Heaven 17, Icicle Works, Modern English, New Musik, the Plimsouls, the Pogues, the Pop Group, the Rezillos, the Secret Affair, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, the Sound, Suicide, Stiff Little Fingers, Spandau Ballet, Steve Forbert, Marshall Crenshaw, Telex, the Underdogs, the Vapors, the Waitresses, Wire, the Yachts, Yaz, and the Bangles.

More will occur to me as soon as I post this.

[ghostrider666]

Let's see....new wave,
Missing Persons
Bow Wow Wow
The Vapors
Flock Of Seagulls
Naked Eyes
Thomas Dolby

[MicBK]

I like Talking Heads, the Fall, Joy Division, the Cure, the Smiths,

i like those. also, not sure if they're new wave, but they're 80s - i like Birthday Party, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Feelies and Violent Femmes a bunch too.

[zombie]

i like those. also, not sure if they're new wave, but they're 80s - i like Birthday Party, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Feelies and Violent Femmes a bunch too.

Yeah, there were other bands I could list, but I thought they were more post-punk than new wave. Silly genre names confusing me.

[Adam Crocker]

Okay, here goes:

I like...


More will occur to me as soon as I post this.

If anyone's wondering the sheer bevy of bands, note that Bogart seems to be using "New Wave" in the all-inclusive sense the British used it as referring to the whole of punk, post-punk, and new-wave pop, and extending it to a few bands outside of that.

(Personally I tend to associate the Minutemen, U2, the dBs, Mission of Burma, and the Cocteau Twins more with 80s alternative rock as opposed to the New Wave period.)

Though B.A. seems to be dealing with primarily the pop incarnation of the New Wave, so I'll stick with that... (if not the strict chronology)

*Ahem*

Elvis Costello:
"(I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea"
"Mystery Dance"
"Shipbuilding" (though I like the Robert Wyatt version more)
"Watching the Detectives"
"Oliver's Army"
"Two Little Hitlers"
"What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding"

Graham Parker - "Hotel Chambermaid"

Flamin' Groovies - "Shake Some Action"

Devo:

"Jocko Homo"
"Satisfaction"
"Whip It"

The Undertones:

"Teenage Kicks"
"True Confessions"

The Buzzcocks:

"Orgasm Addict"
"Running Free"
"Everybody's Happy Nowadays"
"Harmony In My Head"
"Oh Shit!"
"Why Can't I Touch It?"

The Specials:

"Ghost Town"
"Concrete Jungle"

Dexy's Midnight Runners:

"Geno"
"Burn It Down"
"Jackie Wilson Said"
"Come On Eileen"

The B-52's - "Rock Lobster"

XTC - "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkin Head"

Cheap Trick:

"He's A Whore"
"I Want You To Want Me"
"On Top of the World"
"ELO Kiddies"

The Pretenders:

"Kid"
"Brass in My Pocket"
"My City Was Gone"
"Back On the Chain Gang"

Talking Heads:

"Pyscho Killer"
"I Zimbra"
"Life During Wartime"
"Once In A Lifetime" (Big natch right there.)

The Clash: (Herein everything after London Calling is defined as 'New Wave'? Why? 'Cuz I said so!)

"Bankrobber"
"Magnificient Seven"
"Washington Bullets"
"Sound of Sinners"
"Broadway"
"Somebody Got Murdered"
"Car Jamming"
"Straight To Hell"
"Atom Tan"
"Sean Flynn"

The Jam:

"In the City"
"Art School"
"Thick As Thieves"
"Down in the Tube Station at Midnight"
"Going Underground"
"Saturday's Kids"
"Private Hell"
"Innocent Man"
"Butterfly Collector"
"Burning Sky"
"Smithers-Jones" (both the rock AND string versions)
"Liza Radley"
"That's Entertainment"
"Start!"
"Pretty Green"
"To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)"
"The Eton Rifles"
"English Rose"
"Absolute Beginners"
"Town Called Malice"
"The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)"
"Beat Surrender"

(Note that the Jam is the greatest band of the New Wave never to get attention in America. Many of these songs are pure pop perfection and "Town Called Malice" and "The Bittereset Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)" are excellent slices of blue-eyed soul, the latter a Motown-esque string ballad and the former a rousing, organ-driven, social realist rave-up.)

Do Eddie and the Hot Rods count? 'Cuz if so...

"Quit This Town"
"Teenage Depression"

[Sheldon]

Hmmm....I'll go with cheesy new wave like ABC "The Look of Love," Kajagoogoo "Too Shy", Duran Duran "Hungry Like the Wolf" , and Alphaville "Forever Young"

[zombie]

I thought the Jam were included in punk?

[Adam Crocker]

I thought the Jam were included in punk?

Their earlier career (first two albums) are more punk, but everything from All the Mod Cons on is top of the line pop (progressing approximately from Weller being inspired by mid 60s pop inspired by the Kinks, stripped down reworkings of British pyschedelic pop with post-punk flashes, and Motown inspired blue-eyed soul) and probably somewhat more in the vein of the New Wave. Though I included stuff from across their career considering that even their early stuff has a pop edge as well, plus I wanted to plug them shamelessly. http://www.issue9mm.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif

[Jonathan Bogart]

If anyone's wondering the sheer bevy of bands, note that Bogart seems to be using "New Wave" in the all-inclusive sense the British used it as referring to the whole of punk, post-punk, and new-wave pop, and extending it to a few bands outside of that.
Well, yes. I might add that if I was compiling a playlist of these bands, I would probably use, say, Gang of Four's most commercial recording and, say, the Bangles' quirkier material. Kind of even it out.

I knew I'd think of more:

The Boomtown Rats, Lene Lovich, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Jona Lewie, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Comsat Angels, Kim Wilde, the Bush Tetras, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, the Buggles ....

[zombie]

Their earlier career (first two albums) are more punk, but everything from All the Mod Cons on is top of the line pop (progressing approximately from Weller being inspired by mid 60s pop inspired by the Kinks, stripped down reworkings of British pyschedelic pop with post-punk flashes, and Motown inspired blue-eyed soul) and probably somewhat more in the vein of the New Wave. Though I included stuff from across their career considering that even their early stuff has a pop edge as well, plus I wanted to plug them shamelessly. http://www.issue9mm.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif

So who do you like more, the Jam or the Clash?

[Reptisaurus!]

I'm not a huge fan of the band, but I think the Talking Heads 'Little Creatures' is brilliant.

I like a lot of the Cure's stuff from that time. (Lovecats, Let's Go to Bed, and Letter to Elise especially.)

And "Come on Eilleen" is one of the top five greatest pop songs ever written.

[Adam Crocker]

So who do you like more, the Jam or the Clash?

The Clash, though the Jam probably comes in somewhere around second. Mind you the Jam has poppier aesthetic and I figured that shamelessly promoting what I consider to be one of the more underrated bands of British Punk and New Wave couldn't hurt.

[Jonathan Bogart]

I'm not a huge fan of the band, but I think the Talking Heads 'Little Creatures' is brilliant.
Well, now I've gotta hear it.

"Psycho Killer" is the greatest never-was-a-hit song ever.

[Ilash]

The Clash: (Herein everything after London Calling is defined as 'New Wave'? Why? 'Cuz I said so!)

Well, it sure as hell ain't pure punk rock, so what else would you call it. Actually, why didn't you include anything from London Calling itself? I mean lets face it, London Calling is about as much a punk album as the White Album. There are like three actual punk rockers on it (though I can't recall what two of them are) the rest draw from all sorts of genres and a rather large amount of them are genuine, honest to goodness pop songs.

Hmm, maybe I should add to my list with a bunch of other Elvis Costello songa along with some Clash and the Talking Heads because I just listed my favourite album, song, artist and left it at that. Besides, on second thought, I can't really decide if I prefer the Clash or Elvis Costello. Oh and unless I'm missing something where are the Police in this thread. I'm not a huge fan of them but they have come up with some damn impressive singles even if their albums are a bit more problematic and I am certainly not a fan of Sting's singing.

[Metal-Demon]

For anyone who cares ... all of Gary Neuman's albums (including those with The Tubeway Army) have been remastered and re-issued (in digi-pak form, I believe). I was hoping for a box-set ...

Oh, and what about Echo & The Bunnymen?

[Adam Crocker]

Well, it sure as hell ain't pure punk rock, so what else would you call it. Actually, why didn't you include anything from London Calling itself?

Hmmm...that's the problem I keyed in on while I was driving Dad and Grandpa to the University for a presentation my brother was giving. So I was wondering when someone would bring this up. I typed up this list in a somewhat arbitrary fashion, extending it to punk numbers I thought were poppy enough (and even a somewhat proto-punk number "Shake Some Action" which presages the New Wave in some ways with its reappropriation of 60s jangle) yet deleted London Calling on a gut feeling, and not much else. In retrospect it should be there since it's where the Clash left behind pure punk for a sound that tore through rock's back pages and then some, much like Elvis Costello did with his 1977 debut My Aim Is True. (Partly why I couldn't adhere to the 1979-1983 chronology is that while New Wave pop came out in full force around 1979, it was being done well before then by Blondie, Graham Parker, EC, etc.)

Moreover, 1979 is the year the Jam abandoned pure punk as well for an inspired reworking of British invasion pop, EC released his poppy sounding album yet, and the Undertones released their first album -- the poppiest punk album of the original punk wave. Gary Numan also released the album with "Cars" on it Pleasure Principle, XTC released Drums and Wires, Squeeze's Cool For Cats...so it does fit in with the general zeitgiest. So my original exclusion of it was arbitrary and inappropriate, though I find their material after it even closer to the New Wave in the way they get away from straight rock.

...London Calling is about as much a punk album as the White Album

Actually I'd say it's much more punk than the White Album since the Clash give nearly every song on there a ragged rock edge and they're all informed by punk's energy. (Even the greaser look they adopted around the time of the album was modified by punk's cut'n'paste aesthetics.) I've heard one suggestion that at by the time of London Calling it wasn't so much that they had ceased to be a punk band as it was one of the many things they had become around that time. (I just saw them as a really good, and diverse rock band.)

Now if we are comparing The White Album with say...Sandinista!...

[Jonathan Bogart]

I listened to London Calling yesterday, for the first time in what must have been months. Man, what a good album! The "Beatles of punk" tag is dead-on, partly because of the supernaturally detailed production, and partly because of the sheer pop listenability of it all. None of the Beatles wielded such a diverse instrument as Joe Strummer's voice, though.

I noticed more classic rock 'n' roll and R&B influence than I'd recognized before. "The Card Cheat" is a very Spector-ish production. On a couple of numbers ("Wrong 'Em Boyo" leaps to mind), they manage to find the balance between ska and the New Orleans R&B that inspired it.

In fact, if punk is taken in the strict Ramones sense (fast, loud, limited chordal structure), I don't hear any punk on the record at all. Up-tempo rock & roll songs, sure. It's more an indictment of where rock was at in 1979 that music inspired by Gene Vincent, Otis Redding and the early Who was so non-commercial that it had to be filed under "punk." (Like, say, the Blasters.)

[zombie]

Oh and unless I'm missing something where are the Police in this thread. I'm not a huge fan of them but they have come up with some damn impressive singles even if their albums are a bit more problematic and I am certainly not a fan of Sting's singing.

I think a couple people have mentioned them, I know I did. I love Synchronicity.

[Adam Crocker]

"The Card Cheat" is a very Spector-ish production.

Apparently "The Card Cheat" was very much meant to be a spin on Phil Spector's particular brand of pop.

In fact, if punk is taken in the strict Ramones sense (fast, loud, limited chordal structure), I don't hear any punk on the record at all. Up-tempo rock & roll songs, sure. It's more an indictment of where rock was at in 1979 that music inspired by Gene Vincent, Otis Redding and the early Who was so non-commercial that it had to be filed under "punk." (Like, say, the Blasters.)

The Blasters were labeled as punk? I recently heard some of their stuff and they sound even further from punk and closer to old rock'n'roll and R&B than the Clash did around London Calling.

[Ilash]

None of the Beatles wielded such a diverse instrument as Joe Strummer's voice, though.


'Ey what? You have heard Paul and John sing haven't you? Now those two fellas could make their voices fit whatever they tried. And considering how many different styles they tried (even more than the Clash) that is saying something.

[zombie]

'Ey what? You have heard Paul and John sing haven't you? Now those two fellas could make their voices fit whatever they tried. And considering how many different styles they tried (even more than the Clash) that is saying something.

Haha, I knew that'd get a reaction out of you.

[Jonathan Bogart]

'Ey what? You have heard Paul and John sing haven't you? Now those two fellas could make their voices fit whatever they tried. And considering how many different styles they tried (even more than the Clash) that is saying something.
One example. Just one. Imagine Paul or John squeaking out the "I'm so nervous!" during "Lover's Rock."

They're better singers: more professional, better equipped, and with more musical variety. But Paul has two voices: shout ("Jude Jude a Judey Judey Judey JUDAY!") and croon. John has essentially the same two voices, except that his croon is more monotone. Strummer, with a more limited range and timbre, is more of a stylist. He growls, moans, and croaks his way through the songs, always sounding precisely the way he needs to for the song. It's soul singing, essentially. (To be more precise, it's garage-soul singing. Mick Jagger set the bar for this style.) At his most wasted, John can approach Strummer on this ground. Paul never does.

[Pamela Jarvinen]

I love reading some of these names... always brings back good and bad memories of my youth.
VH-1 has played two television shows related to the 80s which Kirk and I always get a kick out of watching... "I love the 80's" and "Bands Reunited"
sort of hysterical sometimes to see how much some of the people have changed through the years, both in looks and lifestyles. I guess we all have to grow up some time.

[howyadoin]

I like Blondie, Talking Heads, the Cars, Elvis Costello, the Clash, the Jam, the Buzzcocks, Graham Parker, Joe Jackson, Kirsty MacColl, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Simple Minds, XTC, Devo, the Blasters, Bow Wow Wow, Cabaret Voltaire, the Damned, the Fall, Gang of Four, Human League, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, the Lambrettas, Magazine, the Only Ones, Rachel Sweet, the Ramones, the Selecter, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Television, Tubeway Army, Ultravox, Madness, Wreckless Eric, the Cure, the Passions, Mission of Burma, X, Depeche Mode, Japan, the Pretenders, the Killing Joke, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the (English) Beat, the Specials, the Raincoats, the Smithereens, the Smiths, the Minutemen, the dB's, Echo & the Bunnymen, They Might Be Giants, the Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Ltd., Love and Rockets, the The, the Teardrop Explodes, Visage, Soft Cell, Kate Bush, Billy Bragg, U2, Missing Persons, the Stray Cats, the Go-Go's, Duran Duran, Naked Eyes, A Flock of Seagulls, Generation X, Patti Smith, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Nina Hagen, Nena, the B-52's, the Police, Thomas Dolby, the Soft Boys, Dramarama, the Cocteau Twins, X-Ray Spex, New Order, Robin Lane & the Chartbusters, Holly & the Italians, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, a-Ha, Altered Images, the Art of Noise, Berlin, the Durutti Column, the Flying Lizards, Cristina, Heaven 17, Icicle Works, Modern English, New Musik, the Plimsouls, the Pogues, the Pop Group, the Rezillos, the Secret Affair, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, the Sound, Suicide, Stiff Little Fingers, Spandau Ballet, Steve Forbert, Marshall Crenshaw, Telex, the Underdogs, the Vapors, the Waitresses, Wire, the Yachts, Yaz, and the Bangles.No Bram Tchaikovsky?

[Jonathan Bogart]

No Bram Tchaikovsky?
There ya go. There's more I'm forgetting, too.

I really, really like this era of music.

[howyadoin]

There ya go. There's more I'm forgetting, too.

I really, really like this era of music.Ever heard "Party Time" by .45 Grave?

[Reptisaurus!]

Well, now I've gotta hear it.



Yay!

So, anyway, I'm 13 or 14 or 15, somewhere in there, and I'm watching the MTV, and there's this show which features competitive Karaoke. There's two teams, and in the first round each member of each team has to take turns singing snippets of karaoke till the buzzer runs out

And in the second round, each team has to do a pre-determined lip-synch/dance routine.

And on one of these shows, one of these teams did the Talking Heads "Up All Night."

And I said to myself... "Man. That was a great freakin' song." (And it was a great routine, too. The team had a baby doll that they cooed and caressed for the first half of the song... But it ended with one of the team members crawling around on all fours holding the doll in her mouth. It was fairly disturbing and probably highly symbolic.)

And so, like, eight years later I bought the album, and it's really good.

There's two teams,

*Googles Around*

Everyone I read says that this is the poppiest Talking Heads album, and the first one in a while that isn't using musicians and musical structures from other countries.

That's probably why I like it. The songs are cheery and listenable, but when you listen to the lyrics there's this kind of ironically dark streak through all of 'em. This is the album with "Road to Nowhere" on it, ferinstance, which sounds to me like an upbeat nihilist marching band... If this makes any sense. All these chipper l'il pop songs with really horrible lyrics. "Up All Night," even without the MTV lip-synchers, is one of the most under-the-surface disturbing things I've ever heard.

[howyadoin]

the Talking Heads "Up All Night."Any relation to the Boomtown Rats song of the same name?

[Pamela Jarvinen]

No Bram Tchaikovsky?
"Rock me Amadeus!!" (http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/falco.htm)
-Falco

[Reptisaurus!]

Any relation to the Boomtown Rats song of the same name?

Never heard the Boomtown Rats, but Google says "No."

[Jonathan Bogart]

Ever heard "Party Time" by .45 Grave?
I have now. Fun stuff.

That's one genre I've never paid much attention to. Time to start.

[Punchy]

Never knew "New Wave" could include "Punk."

Lesse, I was a young pup in the 80s so I like a lot of those one-hit-wonder type pop songs that are catchy and stay in your head. "Don't You Want Me Baby" comes to mind. And Duran Duran. Loved them.

Has there been any love for Adam and the Ants yet?

[Pamela Jarvinen]

Never heard the Boomtown Rats, but Google says "No."

Heard of Bob Geldof (Bandaid-- wrote:"Do they know its Christmas?")
He was a part of the original group of Boomtown Rats (http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/boomtownrats.htm)
Here's a copy of the lyrics to their "Up All Night (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Up-All-Night-lyrics-Boomtown-Rats/CA6EA7335DE36B8A48256E8C001122D4)" which was written by Bob Geldof.

[Reptisaurus!]

Heard of Bob Geldof (Bandaid-- wrote:"Do they know its Christmas?")


Ok. I've heard his name.

(I've heard of the Boomtown Rats, too, but only 'cause Tori Amos covered "I Don't Like Mondays" a while back.

And now I know they're Irish. :))

[Pamela Jarvinen]

by the way Mark... HOWDY Neighbor!!

have you got pictures of teaching that ferret how to drive a forklift??

[Reptisaurus!]

by the way Mark... HOWDY Neighbor!!

Oh, Heya! 'Nother Michigander!

(I was feeling all CBR-isolated since I moved from Oly to here. :( )

have you got pictures of teaching that ferret how to drive a forklift??

Sadly, the camera was one of the (many) casualties. RIP.

[ZombieHavoc]

Dramarama

Dude, that song in nightmare on elm street part 4 "anything anything" is fucking awesome. is the rest of their stuff that good?