top whatever 80s worldpop songs

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yes it's another youtube thread!

mick karn "saviour"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH3KmJgDzoI

i know there's at least one other ilxor who digs this album. kinda wished karn had used some guest vocalists though cuz this is some very sexy middle eastern infused dance pop

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 31 July 2009 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW7PMra9EZM

paul simon and peter gabriel get all the credit but sylvian started this shit.

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 31 July 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

Simon wasn't the first Westerner to embrace Mbaqanga. From 1984

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

Derelict, Friday, 31 July 2009 16:09 (sixteen years ago)

she's the coolest.

dan selzer, Friday, 31 July 2009 16:23 (sixteen years ago)

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

J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Friday, 31 July 2009 17:11 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTyFUbgSvL8

john q. lazzarus (donna rouge), Friday, 31 July 2009 17:15 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXZanbZ6PWs

Frank Chickens. Loved this band a bunch!

Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Friday, 31 July 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7v_B4aHs7w

john q. lazzarus (donna rouge), Friday, 31 July 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

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

J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Friday, 31 July 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

kate bush "the dreaming"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wkkuaTvIso

thomas dolby "mulu the rainforest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wnXo9Hy1Bw

have always seen these songs as cousins somehow, i guess the fairlight played a big part in the rise of 80s ethnopop

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Saturday, 1 August 2009 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6Co7EMNCU

Still a big fucking bomb of awesome

Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2009 13:36 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr9h5xBQz3k

Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 15:33 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg7h9ZA79hA

Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 15:38 (sixteen years ago)

^ so great!

Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 15:40 (sixteen years ago)

I've posted this one on another thread. Not sure if it belongs here, but it's undeniably amazing so here it goes again:

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

touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

xtc "it's nearly africa"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzRYBr1wbY

amazing amazing amazing

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Monday, 31 August 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)


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