Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s, Vol. 4

one of these: "Freedom Of Choice," "Generals and Majors," "Up All Night," Girls on Film," "I Could Be Happy," "Ziggy Stardust" or "Tainted Love."

Devo, Kihn, Duran, Soft Cell. That Monroes song is good iirc.

Friends of mine from the Midwest have an affinity for the Kings track that escapes me.

translator i know the name of 'cuz like the motors they had one of those 10" releases that was a short lived thing ca. 1980/81.......

"Precious To Me" is great power-pop. But voted for Duran Duran.

This is Translator, easy. An absolutely fantastic song.

"What Do All The People Know" is a perfect pop song.

Have to listen to a few of these again to remind myself of them, but its gonna be hard not to vote for "Switchin' to Glide."

Voted for Greg Kihn.

Duran Duran vs Bauhaus is some kinda next level "Daddy vs Chips" for me, but, erm... I never particularly liked their cover of Ziggy Stardust (admired it, for being both so note perfect and yet so distinctly filled with their personality) and Girls On Film is, well it's ~problematic~ as all hell but that never stopped me from loving it. In fact, probably Duran Duran videos were the lens through which I learned as a teenager to interrogate pop culture more deeply.

That Soft Cell song is a beast that dominated my childhood (especially the extended remix where he busts into the Supremes?) but it's not quite so *personal* as Duran and Bauhaus.

Undertones easy

the kings!

soft cell

1. Devo
2. Translator
3. Altered Images

Generals and Majors

Just an embarrassment of riches here, but I think I'll give the nod to "What Do All the People Know." How can a song so good remain so obscure in this day and age?

This was a piece of piss for me: 'Generals and Majors'.

Sometimes I appreciate the genius of XTC. Sometimes the band annoys the hell out of me. This song rides the divide, imo.

Translator!

Love that undertones song, monroes and xtc

i don't know a lot of these songs, anyone want to do a Spotify?

God I forgot about the existence of "Everywhere That I'm Not" until this second. There are flaws (e.g. I can't accept "imposs") but in many ways, still, wow, what a song.

1. Devo
2. Translator
3. Soft Cell

i don't know a lot of these songs, anyone want to do a Spotify?

Someone's already created YouTube playlists of all the volumes of this series. Search for 'Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s' and then select the Playlist filter (under Result Type). Not sure if this will work:

http://www.youtube.com/results?filters=playlist&search_query=just+can%27t+get+enough%3A+new+wave+hits+of+the+%2780s&lclk=playlist

That Translator song is like a great lost Go-Betweens track.

Soft Cell. But Translator a close second. That song was ubiquitous on modern rock radio right up until probably 1991, I don't know if I've heard it since?

Greg Kihn for me.

thanks for that youtube link agnosy!

Really got into this series last year. I even got the 2 vhs video volumes. Volume 3 is best, think the series takes a big quality dip after vol. 5.

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ended up voting for "Girls on Film."

there are a lot of real good ones here but "Freedom of Choice" is the only one that gets lodged in my brain for a month at a time (well, "Generals and Majors" does too, but in a much more obnoxious way)

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High five to two other Kings voters!

I almost voted for The Kings. Ended up voting for The Members. Songs about having or not having a job.