Some obscure New Wave Pop comps

[Ollie Stench]

Since my compilation albums are on the bottom shelf I don't really paw through them all that often. Here are some weird pop/wave comps I pulled out for the first time in years:

"Modern Heroes"
TV Records England 1982

http://eil.com/products/various---70s,- ... 04205.html

SIDE 1:
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Yazoo - Don't Go
Japan - Cantonese Boy
Fashion - Long Shadow
The Cure - Hanging Garden
Talk Talk - Today
Modern English - I Melt With You
China Crisis - African & White
Strange Arrangement - Don't Run Away From Here
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

Side 2:
Human League - Hard Times
Sylvian/Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses
Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence
Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle
Thomas Dolby - Windpower
A.F.O.S. - Space Age Love Song
Nancy Nova - Made In Japan
Bauhaus - Spirit (this is the version of Spirit I was lookng for on another thread, I had it all along!!!)
Mick Karn - Sensitive
Pigbag - Big Bean


"Double Art"
Ariola Benelux 1981(?)

http://www.soulsaw.com/modern-eon/doubleart.htm

SIDE 1:
OMD - Enola Gay
DEVO - Whip it
DAF - Der Rauber und der Prinz
Simple Minds - I Travel
John Foxx - Underpass
Human League - The Sound Of The Crowd
Japan - Life in Tokyo

SIDE 2:
OMD - Electricity
DEVO - Girl U Want (live)
DAF - Der Mussolini
Heaven 17 - Fascist Groove Thang
Human League - Life Kills
Japan - The Art Of Parties
Modern Eon - Euthenics


"Machines"
Virgin Records 1980

SIDE 1:
OMD - Messages
Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennessee
Tubeway Army - Down In The Park (it's billed just as Tubeway Army, no mention of Gary Numan)
Human League - Being Boiled
Thomas Leer - Private Plane
Dalek I - Dalek I love You

SIDE 2:
John Foxx - Underpass
Henry Badowski - Making Love With My Wife
Fad Gadget - Ricky's Hand
PiL - Pied Piper
Karel Fialka - The Eyes Have It
Gary Numan - Aircrash Bureau
XTC - The Somnambulist


"Methods Of Dance"
Virgin Records 1981

SIDE 1:
B.E.F. - Groove Thang
DEVO - Going Under
DAF - Der Mussolini
Fingerprintz - The Beat Escape
Heaven 17 - Soul Warfare

SIDE 2:
Simple Minds - Love Song
Magazine - The Great Man's Secrets
Japan - The Art Of Parties
Human League - Do or Die Dub (Special Edit)

[Jimbo L]

Here's a good CD comp that I bought a few years ago: "We Can't Get Enough! Best of the 80s." Released 1997, Germany, Universal Records. Great track line-up, with a few cool obscurities--I just hadda have "My Soul Unwraps Tonight"!

Disc 1
Planet Ear

[KYYX4ever]

Man you guys,
those are awesome comps. The kind I would've loved to have recieved in the mail from a friend or penpal back in the day. Very cool! Ollie, I particularly think those early synth-sounding ones were genius!