80's New Wave Movement.....

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Permalink Reply by alan on November 7, 2009 at 4:41am

Blondie.

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Permalink Reply by Raoul Duke on November 7, 2009 at 5:12am

adam and the ants rule i still enjoy thier music but you picked them so here's something else

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Permalink Reply by Sabretooth on November 7, 2009 at 5:29am

Tears for Fears

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Permalink Reply by Sav-vy-bag on November 7, 2009 at 9:10pm

And even more famous was the interpretation preformed by Gary Jules;

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Permalink Reply by MDS on November 7, 2009 at 10:30pm

Think that musically, Tears for Fears picked the wrong way to go with the lyrics. For some reason, going with the "New Wave" sound didn't quite do the lyrics justice. When Gary Jules slowed it down, it had more "impact" as a song and resonated a bit more with people. The rest of Gary's stuff, I've not really been all that impressed with. Sort of hear-once-and-forget type of stuff for me personally.

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Permalink Reply by Sabretooth on November 7, 2009 at 6:01am

The Thompson Twins

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Permalink Reply by MDS on November 7, 2009 at 11:11am

What happened to Thompson Twins? For awhile they were sort of the "Top bands" and then sort of fell off the face of the Earth. What's sad, is this is one of the few songs that seemed to "survive" their time in the spotlight.

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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on November 7, 2009 at 6:28am

Human League

One of my faves from Duran Duran


I found these guys long after the peak of the New Wave movement, never hearing of Split Enz until I moved to Australia. I never even thought about New Wave music coming from Down Under back then. I'v since bought most of their back catalog, even some of their vinyl presses.

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Permalink Reply by Raoul Duke on November 7, 2009 at 8:55am

a lot of people fail to remember the human league pre-don't you want me

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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on November 7, 2009 at 9:23am

They really didn't get much play where I lived before the Dare(?) album. And since I was a kid then I wasn't out scouring record shops for their older stuff. They got a lot more airtime after that. I remembe Mirror Man got airtime on the local R&B station.

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Permalink Reply by MDS on November 7, 2009 at 11:09am

Have to agree with the Lab Rat.

Human League's "breakthrough" to a lot of people (Especially in America) was "Don't you want me". I don't really recall their earlier stuff getting a lot of attention, and the ones that did know about their early stuff seemed to think less of it than "Don't you want me".

But like Lab Rat said, I was a kid at the time. So my group of friends weren't what you would call the "trendsetter" for radios and record sales. After all, a bunch of 11-12yr olds aren't going to be purchasing a bunch of records over the year.

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Permalink Reply by Porter on November 7, 2009 at 8:10am

Severed Heads

Depeche Mode

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