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What mellow new wave songs do you love? These are basically new wave songs that are soft and dreamy but are not really meant to be love songs. They are also not very dancey and have a slow steady beat. Well, these are few of mine:

Lassie Come Home - Alphaville
Souvenir - OMD
Everything - When In Rome
Hunting High & Low - A-ha
Living A Boy's Adventure Tale - A-ha
Carol Masters - Alphaville
Jerusalem - Alphaville
Under My Skin - Hubert Kah
Such A Shame - Talk Talk
Renee - Talk Talk
Tomorrow's Started - Talk Talk
Doot Doot - Freur
Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs
Statues - OMD
Stanlow - OMD
Woman In Chains - Tears For Fears
Midnight Sun - Hubert Kah
Waterloo - The Dream Academy
It'll Never Happen Again - The Dream Academy
Ballerina Out Of Control - The Ocean Blue
Gaby Says - The Dream Academy
Snowin' Under My Skin - Cretu & Thiers
Waterfall - Cretu & Thiers
We Run - Strange Advance
Worlds Away - Strange Advance
Wishful Thinking - China Crisis
Waves - Blancmange
Victims - Culture Club
All Of My Heart - ABC
Love To Stay - Altered Images
You've Got Me Thinking - The Beloved
Just An Echo - B-Movie
Alone - Cause & Effect
Close - Camouflage
Captain Of Her Heart - Double
Columbia - Minor Detail
Violence (Hacienda Version) - The Pet Shop Boys
Love Comes Quickly - The Pet Shop Boys
Being Boring - The Pet Shop Boys

There's a lot more but these are the ones that are in my mind most of the time.

Durutti Column - Bordeaux
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
Shelleyan Orphan - Southern Bess (A Field Holler)
17 Pygmies - Chameleon
Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears, Spangle-Maker, From the Flagstones, etc etc etc
New Order - Your Silent Face.

Ditto on all the OMD mentions.

Moments In Love - The Art of Noise
Almost anything post The Dreaming from Kate Bush
Lament - Ultravox
Colour By Numbers (the song, not the album) - Culture Club
Julia - The Eurythmics
Obatala - Malcolm McLaren

...to name a few.

"Present Tense" from Romeo Void has always been a fave of mine since I was a teenager.The saxophone alone is some of the best i ever heard.Such a shame the original saxophonist is now almost deaf due to his art.

[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br>Durutti Column - Bordeaux
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
Shelleyan Orphan - Southern Bess (A Field Holler)
17 Pygmies - Chameleon
Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears, Spangle-Maker, From the Flagstones, etc etc etc
New Order - Your Silent Face.

Ditto on all the OMD mentions.
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Geez. How can one not mention The Durutti Column and "mellow" in the same sentence? He is the epitome of chill out, mellow-mellow music[8D]

Here are my choices for "mellowave" and other related items:

"Sketch For Summer" by The Durutti Column (any album would do)
"No Motion" by Dif Juz
"Agent Orange" by Depeche Mode
"Oscillate Wildly" by The Smiths
"Thieves Like Us (Instrumental)" by NewOrder
"The Ghost In You" by The Psychedelic Furs
"You Got Lucky" by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
"Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police
"More Than This" by Roxy Music
"Doot Doot" by Freur

A tall order. This list could be just about endless:

Re-Flex - Sensitive
Korgis - Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now, Sisters of Mercy
New Musik - A Map of You
Buggles - I Love You Miss Robot, Astroboy
B-52's - She Brakes For Rainbows
Book of Love - Modigliani
Flash and the Pan - Walking in the Rain, Lights in the Night
Spandau Ballet (You know which one)
Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself
Cock Robin - Just Around the Corner
Tears for Fears - Listen
OMD - The Beginning and the End, Stanlow
The Bloshoi - Sunday Morning
Shoes - Three Times
Rachel Sweet - New Age, Tonight Ricky
Squeeze - Tempted
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
Telex - Plus de Distance (More Than Distance), My Time

Every song on Frazier Chorus's [i]Sue[/i]


I wouldn't necessarily call "Sat in My Lap" from Kate Bush's [i]The Dreaming[/i] mellow.

"Love Still Flows" - the Lotus Eaters
"A Pleasure" (Acoustic) - the Railway Children
"You're the Best Thing" - the Style Council
"Words" - the Christians
"Waves" - Blancmange
"Wishful Thinking" - China Crisis
"Castles in the Air" - the Colourfield
"House of Stone" - the Roaring Boys
"Living in a World (Turned Upside Down)" - Private Lives
"Shoot Me Down" - Everything But the Girl
"Turn Back the Clock" - Johnny Hates Jazz
"Backwards and Forwards" - Aztec Camera

Fade Away & Radiate - Blondie
Shayla - Blondie
Slow Town - Motels
I Hope I never - Split Enz
Coming Up Close - Til Tuesday

There's a huge assortment in this "slow jam" thread...

http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4428

[quote][i]Originally posted by kimiiii[/i]
<br>I immediately thought of that thread too, Blir. GREAT stuff on there. And that mix CD you made for me from there is still central in my collection. It was my first introduction to The Cure's "More Than This." That song is now in my top 10 of all time.
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Cool! Grab a higher-rez version sometime - I've reripped some older mp3s. Should be in my "Compilations" folder under the X-Files Soundtrack.

Jennifer by Eurythmics... beautiful song. Listening to it right now.

Never Be Another One by The Arrows. 21 years since it came out and it still holds up as an amazing song! [:)]