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I'd like to put together a compilation of 80's songs for the holidays. I'm particularly interested in songs that are firmly rooted in the eighties (synth-pop, new-wave, post-punk, etc...). So far I have Wham's "Last Christmas" as well as "Winter Wonderland" and "Let It Snow" by the Cocteau Twins. Can anyone else think of songs that I could add to my comp?

Thank you!
Mike

Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Erasure- She Won't Be Home
Book of Love - We Three Kings (if you can find it--very rare)
Queen - Thank God It's Christmas
Eurythmics - Winter Wonderland
U2 - Baby Please Come Home (this and Eurythmics are both on "A Very Special Christmas" CD--you'll find a load of goodies on there)
Billy Joe -- She's Right on Time
Ramones - I Don't Wanna Fight This Christmas
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
Billy Squier - Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You
Bryan Adams -Christmas Time

Also check out the Rhino Just Can't Get Enough Christmas volume for plenty more new wave christmas songs.

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The 80's Christmas tunes thread is starting already!

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I'd do a search...I'm sure this thread has been done before

Pretenders--2000 miles
A-Ha--October (two months off, but this song always sounded like a x-mas song to me)
The Alarm's cover of Happy Christmas
Ocean Blue-Frigid Winter Days

Thanks for the recommendations.
I guess you're right, though, NuWaveRx - I should stop being a lazy shit and do some of my own homework.

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The 80's Christmas tunes thread is starting already!

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It's deja vu all over again.

XTC - Thanks for Christmas
Captain Sensible - One Christmas Catalogue

[quote][i]Originally posted by oceanic[/i]
<br>Thanks for the recommendations.
I guess you're right, though, NuWaveRx - I should stop being a lazy shit and do some of my own homework.
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That would be a start but there's always new members and new ideas. From the punk side of things:
Anything by The Yobs ("Run Rudolph Run", "Rub A Dum Dum", "Silent Night")
The Damned - "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"
Stiff Little Fingers - "White Christmas"
The Dickies - "Silent Night"
Fear - "Fuck Christmas"

We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
-Johnny Ramone-

My favorite is "Christmas Is Coming" by The Payolas.

And of course, there's also "Fairytale Of New York" by The Pogues...

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

REM - Toyland
Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto

[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br>Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto
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I think we've discussed this before. This is just the title track to the film of the same name; it's an instrumental and has really nothing to do with Christmas.

Anyone know the easiest way to find
"Do They Know It's Christmas" without
buying some expensive import compilation
or cd single? Sorry, just a guilty pleasure
of mine, that tune.......[:I]

[quote]Originally posted by oceanic
[br]I'd like to put together a compilation of 80's songs for the holidays. I'm particularly interested in songs that are firmly rooted in the eighties (synth-pop, new-wave, post-punk, etc...). So far I have Wham's "Last Christmas" as well as "Winter Wonderland" and "Let It Snow" by the Cocteau Twins. Can anyone else think of songs that I could add to my comp?

Thank you!
Mike
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How about "Frosty the Snowman" by the Cocteaus?

do they know it's christmas by band aid...

lights drop out...
thunder strikes...
seek and destroy...

- "to put it in words, write it down that is walking on hallowed ground..." - depeche MODE

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tom petty-christmas all over
weird al yankovic-christmas at ground zero
sting-gabriel's message..
madonna-santa baby...opps
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