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Let's talk about those albums where around half the tracks are instantly recognizable. Heavy radio airplay. Iconic, high profile, eighties music achievements.

Yaz, Upstairs at Eric's. You had:
- Situation
- Goodbye Seventies
- Don't Go
- Didn't I Bring Your Love Down
- Only You

Damn Vince. Hell of an album you put out there [^] I think you and Alf should do a reunion album.

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The Cars s/t. As important as the Stooges, Dolls, Modern Lovers, Ramones, Patti and Blondie were, I'd bet it was probably this album that kick-started new wave in the US. And yes, it was considered new wave!

Good Times Roll
My Best Friends Girl
Just What I Needed
You're All I've Got Tonight
Bye Bye Love
Moving In Stereo
All Mixed Up

PS Marv, you didn't even mention my favorite track off the album, Too Pieces.

great idea!

I second The Cars s/t.

An important addition to such a list:
Duran Duran's [i]Rio[/i]:
Hungry Like the Wolf, Rio, Save a Prayer, The Chauffer, Hold Back the Rain

The Police's [i]Zenyatta Mendatta[/i] (sp): most of those songs !

Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual--

Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Money Changes Everything
All Through the Night
She Bop
Time After Time
When You Were Mine

Depeche Mode's Black Celebration

Black Celebration
Fly on the Windscreen
Question of Lust
Question of Time
Stripped
Here is the House
But Not Tonight

Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues

Though not my personal fave, it definitely was their commercial watershed album especially after it spawned the 'Stop Making Sense' franchise.

Burning Down The House

Making Flippy Floppy

Girlfriend Is Better

Moon Rocks

Pull Up the Roots

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

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Great choices!

Police - Synchronicity.

The entire album is instantly recognizable - with the possible exception of "Mother"...

The Human League - [i]Dare![/i]

I've heard of a few of these:

The Things that Dreams Are Made Of
Open Your Heart
The Sound of the Crowd
Seconds
Love Action (I Believe in Love)
Don't You Want Me

I'll add Depeche Mode's [i]Music for the Masses[/i], too. They were still stting pretty after [i]Black Celebration[/i]

Never Let Me Down Again
Strangelove
Sacred
Little 15
Behind the Wheel
Nothing

INXS - [i]Listen Like Thieves[/i]

What You Need
Listen Like Thieves
Kiss the Dirt (Flling Down the Mountain)
Shine Like it Does
This Time

I believe that their following album could be considered even [i]more[/i] recognizable, but I consider everything they released after [i]Listen Like Thieves[/i] to be junk.

Is this thing on?

Ministry - [i]With Sympathy[/i]

Effigy
Revenge
I Wanted to Tell Her
Work for Love
Here We Go

B-52's - S/T

Planet Claire
Rock Lobster
Dance This Mess Around
52 Girls
6060 842
etc......

Echo and the Bunnymen - Porcupine

The Cutter
Back of Love
Heads Will Roll
Higher Hell
etc...

Yet another blockbuster from 1983 (A year that IMO, heralded many a NW band's commercial arrival)

[b]Rebel Yell - Billy Idol[/b]

Rebel Yell

Eyes Without a Face

Blue Highway

Flesh for Fantasy

Catch My Fall

Crank Call

(Do Not) Stand in the Shadows

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Lots of good ones mentioned, but I've got to add

Tears for Fears - The Hurting:

The Hurting
Mad World
Pale Shelter
Change

Also

Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless:

She Blinded Me With Science
Radio Silence
Airwaves
Flying North
Europa and the Pirate Twins
Windpower
One of Our Submarines

One more:

The Cars - Candy-O

Let's Go
Since I Held You
It's All I Can Do
Candy-O
Dangerous Type






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That's [i]two[/i] for the Cars. This thread is turing out better than I thought it would with every album listed fitting the profile. How about the Smiths' Strangeways, Here We Come?

- Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
- I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
- Death Of A Disco Dancer
- Girlfriend In A Coma
- Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
- Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

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[quote][i]Originally posted by marvymarv[/i]
<br>That's [i]two[/i] for the Cars. This thread is turing out better than I thought it would with every album listed fitting the profile.[/quote]
I don't know man. If I look at it really critically (and hey, what's a good discussion if everyone agrees), I can't say I'd put in the likes of Black Celebration, Speaking in Tongues, or With Sympathy. "Resound" to me comes in all-caps...RESOUND!...to sound loudly and with thoroughly broad fame. I bet if you listed the 3rd through 5th most popular tracks on those albums, even many new wave fans wouldn't immediately be able to pick the album. Maybe it's attributable to regional differences. Yaz...no question, I don't even blink. Cars...ditto. Golden Age of Wireless...yup! Rebel Yell...like it or not (NOT!), unquestionable. Some others? Meh...IMHO.