reccomend me some genuinely upbeat *highly danceable* new wave / post punk pop songs.

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i mean like real danceable.
to play at parties.

the obscurer the better !

i'm thinking b.52s' 'future generations'
and 'wordyrappinghod' by tom tom club
and 'we got the beat' by the go-gos.

that sort of thing.

let's dance !

― piscesboy, Friday, 13 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"never say never," romeo void
"soldier soldier," spizzenergi

― scott woods (s woods), Friday, 13 June 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

pylon-crazy
apb-shoot you down
kon kan-i beg your pardon

― ddb, Friday, 13 June 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

b52s - 52 girls
josie cotton - johnny are you queer?
the flirts - jukebox (don't put another dime)

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 June 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Altered Images!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 13 June 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"mexican radio" - wall of voodoo

"ex lion tamer" - wire

"whole wide world" - wreckless eric

"where were you?" - the mekons

"saturday night stay at home" - the suburban reptiles

"johnny are you queer?" is a good choice

― cameron, Friday, 13 June 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Out of Touch" Hall & Oates. (this is my favorite song right now)

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 13 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Spellbound" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
"Primary" - The Cure
"The Lovecats" - The Cure
"I Eat Cannibals" - Toto Coelo
"Never Say Never" - Romeo Void
"Antmusic" - Adam and the Ants
"The Great Ones Remember" - Men Without Hats
"I Like" - Men Without Hats

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 June 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Check this new band from LA: Ima Robot [they are signed to Virgin in the US] and they are going to be massive !

Fan site for: Ima Robot
[check the demos section, to listen to the forthcoming single]: (12= 3) Here comes the Doctors.

This track is very addictive/ infectious, 3 minutes 11 seconds of pure art pop genius, it grooves, it twists, sublime bass lines, vocals are quirky like Xiu Xiu, the hooks hit hard, the tempos change, this has HIT written all over it - these guys have TALENT !

Ima Robot, mix the sound inspirations from: Pil/ Devo/ The Cure/ Sparks/ The Virgin Prunes/ B52s/ Adam Ant.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 June 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

also, "i'll be your sister" - motorhead

― cameron, Friday, 13 June 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Berlin's "Sex (I'm A...)"

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the whole plastic bertrand discography

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Desperate But Not Serious - Adam Ant
Do you Wanna Hold Me - Bow Wow Wow
Sex Dwarf - Soft Cell (Currently the GREBT song evah at the moment)
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Wish (If I Had A Photograph of You) - Flock of Seagulls
All of New Order
They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses (Who cares if its a Christmas Song)
Obsession - Animotion
Pop Muzik - M
Pop Goes The World - Men Without Hats
Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
Hawaii - The Young Canadians

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

'mind your own business' delta 5

well it makes me dance anyway....

― joni, Friday, 13 June 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Save It For Later - English Beat

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"Two Swords" - English Beat
"Love For Tender" - Elvis Costello
"Egghead" - Lene Lovitch

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm curious what people think of that Ima Robot thing. Sound like an LA-bred machine-pop eclectro-crash neupop rehash pooppile to me.

― david day (winslow), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

For all that the title might be off, "Getting Nowhere Fast" by Girls At Our Best! is wondrous...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

you MUST get "do the du" by a certain ratio.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Vacation - The Go Gos

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My recommendations:

Blancmange, "Don't Tell Me"
The Buggles, "Living in the Plastic Age"
Camouflage, "The Great Commandment"
Icehouse, "Great Southern Land"
Kissing the Pink, "Watching Their Eyes"
Almost all of OMD's early material (esp. "Message" and "Tesla Girls")
Our Daughter's Wedding, "Auto Music"
Public Image Ltd., "This Is Not a Love Song"
Prefab Sprout, "King Of Rock and Roll"
Pete Shelley, "Telephone Operator"
Sparks, "Eaten by the Monster of Love"
Trans-X, "Living on Video"

As always, your mileage may vary.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number"!

*yearns to make a compilation CD of all her aforementioned songs*

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Shoot You Down" by Apb
"So Hungry, So Angry" by Medium Medium
"Go!" by Tones on Tail
"Kick in the Eye" by Bauhaus

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

And,....of course.....

"Eighties" and "Follow the Leader" by KILLING JOKE

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"White Mice"-The Modettes
"We Love You"-Psychedlic Furs
(We don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing-Heaven 17
"To Cut a Long Story Short"-Spandau Ballet
"Make a Circuit with Me"-the Polecats
"Born in Xixax"-Nina Hagen

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number"!

*yearns to make a compilation CD of all her aforementioned songs*

Somebody could post "New Toy", but that would be too obvious.

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure if one would include Haircut 100 say, in this sort of genre confine, but if so: much of "Pelican West".

If Hall and Oates are generically fair game, how about the infectious, propelling piano spiral of "Kiss is on my list"?

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 13 June 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

'adults and children' the gordons

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 14 June 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Living In China" - Men Without Hats

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 14 June 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

josef k "sorry for laughing"

― truant (truant), Saturday, 14 June 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and temptation by new order

― truant (truant), Saturday, 14 June 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Telecommunications" by Flock Of Seagulls

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Gary Myrick, "Guitars, Talk, Love and Drums"
Burning Sensations, "Belly of the Whale"
20/20, "Nuclear Boy"
Code Blue, "Whisper/Touch," "Modern World"
Gleaming Spires, "Are You Ready for the Sex Girls?"
45 Grave, "You're Evil"
Human Sexual Response, "Jackie Onassis"
Tonio K., "I Handle Snakes"
B-52s, "Strobe Light," "Give Me Back My Man"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Saturday, 14 June 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

flying lizards 'Money' & 'Sex Machine'

― ss, Saturday, 14 June 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

PS Three O'Clock, "Jet Fighter"
and anything from Bill Nelson's Red Noise, "Sound-On-Sound"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Saturday, 14 June 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

How about:
Dissidenten - "Fata morgana"
Repetition - "A full rotation"
Human League - "Hard times"
Laid Back - "White horse"
Radical Youth - "Saturdays in Silesia"
Yoko Ono - "Walking on thin ice" (The Pet Shop Boys have just recently made a great remix for it)
Indochine - "L'aventurier"
Nina Hagen - "New York, New York"
The Cure - "Inbetween Days" (Not very obscure I know, but it's one of my favorite of theirs for dancing...)

― Seb, Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry that should have been *Rational* Youth!

― Seb, Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks to all who put stuff up.

you've been a big help.

― piscesboy, Monday, 16 June 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

i'm in a danceable post-punk mood.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

A while ago I posted this mix to "DJ's post your mixes for download". It's not up anymore sadly, but I can reupload/send you a copy if you fancy it. It'll take some time though.

Discopogogogo - Artpunk meets the Dancefloor

Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag
Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love
Jan Jelinek - Music To Interrogate By
LCD Soundsystem - There's Too Much Love
!!! - Pardon My Freedom
Out Hud - It's For You
Kelley Polar - The Rooms In My House Have Many Parties
Jeans Team - Oh Bauer
Stephen Malkmus - Kindling For The Master
Metro Area - Orange Alert
Gang Of Four - Not Great Men (Phones Extended Mix)
The Pop Group - Where There Is A Will
The Rapture - Sister Saviour
Mu - Out Of Breach
Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
Death From Above 1979 - Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Mix)
King Crimson - Sartori In Tangier
Yello - Oh Yeah
LCD Soundsystem - Yeah

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

ooh yes please.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

i like B-52s 'The Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland'

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

email me offline pisces, since i never post anything useful/correct on this board i'm leaving.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

The Fall - Cruisers Creek
Magazine - Recoil
Mission of Burma - That's When I reach For My Revolver
PIL - This Is Not A Love Song
Joy Division - Transmission
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
Tones On Tail - Go

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am very much into this for the last 24 hrs.

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/01/vathe-thing-from-crypt-lp-1981-uk.html

― bendy (bendy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, that looks like a lot of fun! Early Sad Lovers & Giants on there too!

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

W - Robo Kiss

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hey bendy, that looks fun. Any download links? The one on that blog has died :(

― Magnakai (Magnakai), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Liliput - Ain't You

― boyant (Boyant), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

X-Ray Spex - I Can't Do Anything

― boyant (Boyant), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

The one on that blog has died :(

I would try s1sk because I've seen Mutant Sounds on there regularly for quite some time now.

― A Tiny Footpath (Bimble...), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

very 2003 but they still work:

The Sounds - Dance With Me
VHS or Beta - Night on Fire

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

Pigbag!

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Thursday, 1 February 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

oops, misread the title, so i'll change my answer to:

The Homosexuals - Soft South Africans (fast)

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

now this was fun.

― pisces, Thursday, 27 September 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

'like u' by GRAMME

― haitch, Thursday, 27 September 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Holly and the Italians - Tell That Girl to Shut Up
Talking Heads - The Girls Want To Be with the Girls

And Simple Minds - I Travel is a monster.

― Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre, Thursday, 27 September 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Altered Images-I Could Be Happy

― dan selzer, Thursday, 27 September 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Associates - Club Country

― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

now this was fun.

Depeche Mode - Now This Is Fun

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

I listen to that mix of DogLatin's all the time.

I love this thread and I want a mixCD of every damn thing on it.

― Trayce, Friday, 28 September 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

That's The Way - Deckchairs Overboard

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1oIo3614uZg&feature=related

― moley, Friday, 14 November 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago)

Wow, that's a really cool song! I love the way it straddles the line between being commercial and poppy vs. quirky and offbeat. Shit, I'll have to get more of this band. I'm not familiar with them.

― Your Head Is Full of Diamonds & Lice (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Friday, 14 November 2008 06:04 (sixteen years ago)

that's tight!

― Funky Buddha Lounge (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 14 November 2008 06:08 (sixteen years ago)

Deckchairs Overboard EP from 1982 is here.

― Watch Beer, Drink People (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago)

4000000 Telephones - French Girls

― razzle pyramid fatality (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 10:49 (sixteen years ago)

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Let's Go To Bed" by The Cure. That's the first song I thought about when I saw the title here.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 11:00 (sixteen years ago)

Coup by 23 Skidoo. People tend to assume its a mix of Chemical Bros block rockin beats.

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

Delighted you picked up on Deckchairs bimble!

― moley, Thursday, 27 November 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago)

Perhaps, in a post Killers world, this one doesn't sound quite as dated as it did a few years ago - but it was always a nice tune and a heartfelt lyric, and very, very new wave and danceable if you liked that kind of jerky, stiff dance...

MEO 245 - Other Places

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=L02WAtBS3E4

― moley, Saturday, 29 November 2008 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

That's The Way - Deckchairs Overboard
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1oIo3614uZg&feature=related
― moley, Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:15 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Wow, that's a really cool song! I love the way it straddles the line between being commercial and poppy vs. quirky and offbeat. Shit, I'll have to get more of this band. I'm not familiar with them.
― Your Head Is Full of Diamonds & Lice (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:04 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTM this song is dope

starting to DJ a nite like this (will also prob play shit like smiths and cure and glam stuff too) so consider this thread officially bumped

― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:42 (fourteen years ago)

i realize devo is pretty obvious but:

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

the 'urgh!' soundtrack on vinyl is pretty good for this sort of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeh69Myi9fI

― omar little, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:05 (fourteen years ago)

tbh i am kind of looking for obvious stuff.

maybe i should start a new thread

― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:06 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pdvYxsAM8

― omar little, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:18 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjbBr1_rSD8

― sonofstan, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:31 (fourteen years ago)

Taxi Girl - "Chercher Le Garçon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfOOlppnZG4&feature=related

― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:34 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h_N49GEMjU

― Bonnie Tyler The Creator (Doran), Friday, 11 February 2011 07:40 (fourteen years ago)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ10jPwVOgY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUG4GpsU3RI

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

― frankly, mr. cankly (Pillbox), Friday, 11 February 2011 07:50 (fourteen years ago)

Lisa - Rocket to Your Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayEP0_-mf3U

― Tuomas, Friday, 11 February 2011 08:16 (fourteen years ago)

Marc Almond - Ruby Red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQP_eqbgo4Q

― Tuomas, Friday, 11 February 2011 08:18 (fourteen years ago)

Chaz Jankel - Glad to Know You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL5w-r3z1e0

― Tuomas, Friday, 11 February 2011 08:24 (fourteen years ago)

Plastic Bertrand - Astérix est là

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL7txNDZawQ

(This one has been one of my favourite tunes ever since I was 8.)

― Tuomas, Friday, 11 February 2011 08:53 (fourteen years ago)

Happy Mondays - 24 hour party people.

If nobody dances at yr party to this one, then there's nobody at your party.

― Mark G, Friday, 11 February 2011 11:05 (fourteen years ago)

Good call on having it as a post punk tune, that's exactly what I make it.

― Under Me Smang Tang (Doran), Friday, 11 February 2011 11:08 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clunf0rjgh0

― mark e, Friday, 11 February 2011 11:12 (fourteen years ago)

Jilted John - Jilted John

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN45OjB-cCU

― Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Friday, 11 February 2011 11:49 (fourteen years ago)

Scritti Politti – Doubt Beat
Maximum Joy – Silent Street/Silent Dub
New Order - Age of Consent
Pylon - Stop

― Moka, Friday, 11 February 2011 13:07 (fourteen years ago)

I can actually think of better examples but I'm not at home.

― Moka, Friday, 11 February 2011 13:07 (fourteen years ago)

Plastic Bertrand - Astérix est là
(This one has been one of my favourite tunes ever since I was 8.)
― Tuomas

Oh it's been years since I heard this one. Had no idea Plastic Bertrand was behind it. I was a huge Asterix fan when I was younger.

― Moka, Friday, 11 February 2011 13:10 (fourteen years ago)

a couple on the very pop side

Q-Feel, dancing in heaven (orbital be-bop) - (kinda borrows from the cars) stupidly upbeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SImktbOhutU&feature=related

EG Daily
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRRvS8HXbw4&playnext=1&list=PL507E3CE69E038FC9

― Kim, Friday, 11 February 2011 13:12 (fourteen years ago)

Oh it's been years since I heard this one. Had no idea Plastic Bertrand was behind it. I was a huge Asterix fan when I was younger.

Yeah, I too only found out it was Plastic Betrand a few years ago, as a kid I just loved it as "the Asterix theme". (The song was written by Vladimir Cosma, the guy who did scores for many of the Asterix animated movies, but they got PB to sing it.)

― Tuomas, Friday, 11 February 2011 13:47 (fourteen years ago)

Hardware - "Walking"

― Jack Lemmon (crüt), Friday, 11 February 2011 14:00 (fourteen years ago)

Fire Engines - Candyskin

― Trip Maker, Friday, 11 February 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

I have a Husker Du dance that I do, but it's very complicated.

― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2011 15:11 (fourteen years ago)

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