Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 14

Bronski Beat over Art of Noise for me

Bronski Beat or General Public.
How many installments were there in this series?

scraping the barrel a bit here

voted After the Fire. though really I just like the original. their version is...okay

Colourfield had a lot of brilliant tracks. This was not one of them.

I prefer the Falco version of "Der Kommissar" but it's such a great song & After The Fire do it justice so I gotta throw a vote to it

xp

Anyway, I predict the next one will have just as many strong contenders.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 April 2018 00:23 (three days ago) Permalink

We live in unpredictable times

Miracle Legion The Backyard.

Voices Carry

Voices Carry

There's a lot of goofy retro-ness & scene-copycat-ness (The "REM" of New England!) on this volume.

Did Smash Mouth ever cover this Colour Field song?

From the YT comments on "Anywhere With You" lol:

I have this on New Wave Hits of the 80s Vol 14 and they cut off 30 seconds of the song. What a rip. This song is great. This should have hit number 1.

I forgot how terrible early RHCP was...

In his 2004 autobiography Scar Tissue, Kiedis recalled, "One day, I got a glimpse of producer Andy Gill’s notebook, and next to the song 'Police Helicopter', he’d written 'Shit.'

Leaning "Tenderness" but forgot how good that Let's Active song is.

I love that Let's Active song. And Voices Carry. And Tenderness.

And the Bronski Beat song.

Same here!

Plus "Der Komisaar" plus "Sunglasses"

Smalltown Boy
Tenderness
Voices Carry

I'd say this installment is almost as good as no. 13.

I don't think I've ever heard any of these songs

I am really, really torn between Smalltown Boy and Voices Carry. But it's definitely got to be one of those two.

Oh man I love so many of these songs, unwisely and unrequitedly.

I totally dig Til Tuesday esp. the Welcome Home album. "Voices Carry" is a fine entry but am not sure it is the winner here.

Would tend to agree with those who prefer the original "Der Kommissar," though the vocal on this one has a lot of quirky straining paranoid charm ("all the CHEELDren KNOW," "I mean sherideswiththeothersinthesubway SINGin'..."

The sudden and completely incongruous popularity of "One Night in Bangkok" is a great memory of that time, but it's really a show tune and is arguably outside the brief of New Wave pop music.

For the lush sonics and palpable mood I am strongly tempted toward "Sunglasses at Night."

I like a lot of these but I only love "Close (To The Edit)". That blew my mind the first time I heard it. And then the video...

btw, that first Falco album (I think called Einzelhaft?) is a truly great synthpop disc. seems inspired a bit by Bowie, even. after that his music took a different direction, sometimes good sometimes bad, but I don't think he ever matched the debut.

"Der Komisaar" is fine but I've always felt it's more of a copy than a cover.

...like, it was made solely to have an English version :/

Though this does send me on a Falco trip. this track here was always a favorite. I think it was completed right as he died. Should've been a hit

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

Tummmm..

Aimee Mann is really the coolest tho

only one more of these -- is it stupid to do a poll of all the poll winners

Not stupid but likely agonizing. I haven't seen any of these where I haven't been deeply conflicted. Would need ranked/preferential voting to really make sense of all my close second places.

You are all crazy. After The Fire crushes Falco. The Falco version is positively milquetoast compared to the rip roaring ATF version, which is the definitive Der Komissar.

This version of Smalltown Boy is one of my favourite songs of all time:

https://youtu.be/B0xQ3WgBU1c

only one more of these -- is it stupid to do a poll of all the poll winners

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved),

Since I started this series I was thinking about doing the bridesmaids poll and championship round like I did with the Acclaimed Music series.

Tenderness, Smalltown Boy or
Voices Carry.

Tenderness is up there with the best of the Beat, brilliant song

I love that Let's Active song.

^^^

I had no idea Smashmouth did a cover until just now.

the tune dates back to the 60's, though

'Tenderness' fairly easily.

Til Tuesday, General Public, or a sentimental vote for Let's Active.

No compilation with both Close (To The Edit) and Smalltown Boy can be said to be scraping the barrel

the tune dates back to the 60's, though

The third and final hit for ? & The Mysterions.

Wait, what? "I Can't Get Enough Of You Baby" was the Mysterions song Smashmouth covered.

You are all crazy. After The Fire crushes Falco. The Falco version is positively milquetoast compared to the rip roaring ATF version, which is the definitive Der Komissar.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 4:00 PM

One of the most OTM things I've ever seen on ILM.

I posted on another thread last week, but Laura B is the definitive DK riddim grinder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GchzuRqFpY

is it stupid to do a poll of all the poll winners

After that, can we do a poll of the zero-vote getters? A lot of good songs somehow got shut out.

Haha, that's a good idea too. I think I will do that first, then the Bridesmaids part and then close it out with the Championship round.

Let’s just reboot the whole universe

I love lots of these but voted Let's Active. I still remember hearing that song for the first time on my local college station, went out and bought the EP.

The Backyard. Both for the nostalgia and because it’s still sounds great.

As always when given the option, voted Chili Peppers.

How on earth have I never experienced that Branigan performance? It is CHOICE.

What's up with that? Did she have anything to do with it? Is it official?

I want to say "Voices Carry," but Aimee Mann is such an important singer/songwriter/performer to me that it almost feels too easy and perfunctory. Her songs simply exist on a different level to me personally, so I need to treat this like a highly skewed dataset and discard the highest and lowest values. In which case it becomes a very close race between ATF and Art of Noise, with ATF winning by a nose.

I've always kinda wanted to pull together a Halloween costume of the farmer man from the True Men Don't Kill Coyotes video, but no one would get it and I'd have to spend all night explaining myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvR86EwYNGU

Some time a few years ago every time I heard Art of Noise I started finding them mostly annoying, despite being fans of the folks involved and appreciating what they were going for.

"Voices Carry," given how far Aimee Mann has gone past that it's easy to dismiss it as an easy choice, but every time I've heard her do a solo version of it it's been more and more haunting and beautiful, so I dunno, it's definitely a great song.

Love "Voices Carry", Aimee Mann is brilliant.
"Smalltown Boy", "...Bangkok" and "Imagination" are great too.

But this one has to be "Sunglasses at Night". #futureman

xp I *hated* Art of Noise when they were first a thing but have found myself loving them more over the years!

Learned recently (here?) that Corey Hart had something like 9 top 40 hits! In the US! (Even more in Canada.)

one of my favourite terrible songs is this bobby o mash-up of 'sunglasses' and 'westend girls'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti1HnjLuKUQ

Regardless of the poll outcome, that Laura Branigan song is a walk-off for best post in this thread.
Jersey Al dropped some archeology.

I don't hear what most do in "Voices Carry." I regard it as the $$ that allowed TT to record Welcome Home and the last album.

I guess I can understand that position, if you're not crazy about the song, but still, a song about an abusive relationship is an odd way to go out manufacturing a hit single.

go ABOUT

Bronski Beat by faaaaar

xp I *hated* Art of Noise when they were first a thing but have found myself loving them more over the years!

Same here. I was a guitars guy then, hence my Let's Active vote, but the sound of that early cut/paste sampling has really grown on me over time.

After the Beatles and the Ants The Art Of Noise was the first group I felt were 'mine'. Big record for me at the time that one.

I've enjoyed hearing Imagination at a disco once or twice but don't have much desire to hear it outside that context.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Settling on "Smalltown Boy."

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

cool

INTERESTING

not my choice but no beef at all, in fact mebbe I voted wrong

Better results for True Men Don't Kill Coyotes than I expected. Keep riding wild on those paisley dragons, friends.

Those results: Damn. Bronski BEATDOWN is more like it.

Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s, Vol. 15