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1981

Discuss your favorite songs, artists or post your top ten lists from the new wave era or related genres.

1981

Postby popreactor » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:37 pm

One of the best years in the 80's decade, was probably the 1981. So many intersting albums and songs were realeased back then. Let's list the top tens or so:

Josef K- Sorry for Laughing
The Cure- Charlotte Sometimes
Clock DVA- 4 Hours
Siouxsie & the Banshees- Spellbound
Japan- Quiet Life
Yoko Ono- Walking on Thin Ice
OMD-Souvenir
Visage- Fade to Grey
Kim Wilde- Kids in America
Teardrop Explodes- Reward
Theatre of Hate-Do you Believe in the Westworld
Soft Cell- Tained Love
DAF- Der Mussolini
The Fun Boy Three- The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)
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Postby Frau_Blucher » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:36 pm

Indeed, a very very very fabulous year. More alphabetical than anything else...

20/20 - Nuclear Boy
ACR - Shack Up
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (the very original did come out this early)
Brian Briggs - See You On The Other Side
Adam & the Ants - Pablo Picasso Visits the Planet of the Apes
The Church - Unguarded Moment
The Cure - Primary
D-Day - Right to Know
Gang of Four - What We Wall Want
Heaven 17 - Fascist Groove Thang
Human League - Seconds
Human Sexual Response - Pound
Killing Joke - Follow the Leaders
Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach for My Revolver
New Order - Dreams Never End
The Plimsouls - Now
Red Rockers - China
Simple Minds - The American
Slow Children - President Am I
Soft Cell - Insecure Me
Spandau Ballet - To Cut a Long Story Short
Split Enz - I See Red
The Stranglers - The Man They Love to Hate
Suburban Lawns - The Janitor
U2 - Gloria
Wall of Voodoo - Red Light
X - The Once Over Twice

Sorry, stupid long "top 10", but I really could have been happy if new wave lasted only one year and that one year was 1981! [8D]
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Postby hutter » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:00 am

Y'all forgot that 1981 was the year that Roger Troutman released his masterpiece of electro-funk, "Zapp II" with the classic "Doo Wah Ditty".

This ain't a goof. I'm being serious.

Didn't Van Halen's "Fair Warning" also come out in 1981? I ain't googling it.

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Postby popreactor » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:06 am

I didn't know that the original version of B-Movie's "Nowhere Girl" was released so early. It surely deserves a place on the list.
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Postby Frau_Blucher » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:14 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by hutter[/i]
<br>Didn't Van Halen's "Fair Warning" also come out in 1981? I ain't googling it.
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Okay, hold your breath while I get RIGHT on it!
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Postby KYYX4ever » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:08 am

Don't forget Duran Duran's 1st album (S/T) was also released in 1981. A couple years later, they re-released it, substituting "Is There Something I Should KNow" in place of the original 9th track, the slower, moodier "To The Shore".

Right down the hall of the same recording studio, Japan was recording [i]Quiet Life[/i]. Oh, the irony! (Nick Rhodes and John Taylor were big into Japan, so of course there was some emulation going on).
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Postby hexicon » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:24 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by KYYX4ever[/i]
<br>Right down the hall of the same recording studio, Japan was recording [i]Quiet Life[/i]. Oh, the irony! (Nick Rhodes and John Taylor were big into Japan, so of course there was some emulation going on).
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I had never heard that before. For some reason it strikes me as really cute that Nick's evident boycrush on David was not from afar, but up close . . . maybe they traded makeup tips in the men's room. [:D]
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Postby SSQ » Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:10 am

How was Kraftwerk's "Computer World" not on this list? [:)]
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Postby glokstadt » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:43 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by SSQ[/i]
<br>How was Kraftwerk's "Computer World" not on this list? [:)]
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Computerwelt is a classic, bought the import so I only know the German lyrics, it also sounds better in German than English. [:p] [:D]


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Postby rotator » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:46 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by KYYX4ever[/i]
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Right down the hall of the same recording studio, Japan was recording [i]Quiet Life
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Quiet Life was recorded in 1979 and released 1980, plenty of time for Duran to borrow heavily...
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Postby popreactor » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:24 pm

Here is a guide to the year 1981.

http://www.scathe.demon.co.uk/histgoth/1981.htm

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