The "You Might be a New Waver if..." game

[UniversalRadio]

[quote][i]Originally posted by kimiiii[/i]
<br>274. ...if the recording session of "Do They Know It's Christmas" looks an awful lot like what you envision Heaven to be like.
[/quote]

ROFLMAO!!![8D]

[dead_irony@yahoo.com]

[quote][i]Originally posted by kimiiii[/i]
<br>274. ...if the recording session of "Do They Know It's Christmas" looks an awful lot like what you envision Heaven to be like.
[/quote]

This is the best one yet!
In my version of heaven, St. Peter is Bono.

[n/a5]

A Christmas inspired one now that BAND AID is out of the bag!

(275) You celebrate Boxing Day

(276) You light your Christmas pudding on fire with brandy and then pour double cream over it.

(277) You watched the Blackadder marathon on PBS

(278) Later on in life you got the Young One's DVD box set for Christmas

(279) When somebody wrote it as Xmas you think of Generation X

(280) You stayed up to hear the Queen's message on the BBC World Service just to fully get into the whole New Wave movement. (***special note to the reader I was a Shortwave fanatic since age 9 and gloriously the first station that came in was the BBC....London Calling**)

(281) When grandma gave you cash for Christmas and told you to spend it wisely you immediatley rushed to SOUNDS on St. Mark's place and layed the money on some rare 12 inch remixes.

(282) You ever forgot cranberries too....

(283) You thought the wrapping paper would make for some really neat pant pattern.

(284) Your hair matched the balls on the Christmas Tree

[dcs84]

276. ...you thought that UB40, U2, REM, INXS, OMD, and ABC were A.O.K.

[UniversalRadio]

286) You remember that you voted "I melt with you" as your prom song but the nuns denied it because it made reference to premarital sex.

Is it my imagination or did the forgetting cranberries Waitress song reference get mentioned 3 times?

[UniversalRadio]

[quote][i]Originally posted by dcs84[/i]
<br>276. ...you thought that UB40, U2, REM, INXS, OMD, and ABC were A.O.K.
[/quote]
Very good indeed![8D][:)]

[G.Gone]

287. When someone mentions the song "My Way" you hear the Sid Vicious version, not the Frank Sinatra one.

[Agamis]

288) You cried when you learned that the Go-Go's were breaking up.

289) You correct your friends when they refer to Men Without Hats as a one hit wonder.

290) You know that the Thompson Twins are neither Thompsons nor twins.

291) You rank the movie Better Off Dead as one of the greatest motion pictures of all time.

292) You remember where you were when you first heard that Falco had died.

293) You get a laugh out of the slogan "Home taping is killing the music industry."

[Agamis]

294) You were miffed when the cable company recently changed the Music Choice channel from New Wave to Retro-Active.

295) You never really understood what the big deal was about Nirvana.

296) You ever rolled up the sleeves on your sports jacket.

297) You thought you were being exceptionally clever as you called 867-5309 and asked for Jenny.

298) You feel a little bit naughty every time you hear Moving in Stereo by the Cars.

299) You own the complete Wang Chung discography.

[Agamis]

300) You taught your 5 year old how to do the robot.

[2Nu]

301) You know before there was a 'Napoleon Dynamite' There was a <a href="http://www.yahooserious.com/einstein.html" target="blank">"Young Einstein"</a> starring <a href="http://www.yahooserious.com/" target="blank">'Yahoo Serious'</a>

302) You knew the sound track featured a cover of Chuck Berry's "Rock & Roll Music" by Mental As Anything and the closing credits tune was 'Great Southern Land' by Icehouse. [;)]

[Agamis]

303) You own a cassette tape containing U-2's performance at Live Aid

304) You think David Byrne seems absolutely normal.

305) You keep telling yourself that hip hop is a fad which will soon pass.

306) You have “Flock of Seagulls” saved as one of your favorite eBay searches.

307) You ever spontaneously start singing “I just can’t get enough. I just can’t get enough.”

308) You consider your collection of 10,000 early ‘80s mp3s to be far from complete.

309) Your favorite song at one point was Malcolm McClaren’s Buffalo Gals.

310) You ever made a mix tape consisting solely of songs which refer to Japan or China in their titles.

311) You can’t understand why Missing Person’s never had a Billboard Top 40 hit.

312) You know the proper response when asked “Are we not men?”

313) You secretly get a feeling of nostalgia when you hear Beat It, but would NEVER admit it to your friends.

314) You still think disco sucks.

315) You take great pride in listening to artists which 99.99% of the American population know nothing about.

[design_femme]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Agamis[/i]
<br>303) You own a cassette tape containing U-2's performance at Live Aid

DING DING DING!
I had this!

I also used to have "Invisible Sun" on tape, as performed by The Police (obviously for just brief reunion) at the first Amensty International concert. Bono came onstage halfway through the song and had a solo bit.

[KMFeit1969]

316) You owned a copy of K-Tel's 1982 "The Beat" featuring Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, Go Go's, A Flock of Seagulls, Kim Wilde, Sparks, Waitresses, Haircut One Hundred, OMD, Bow Wow Wow, Split Enz, Thompson Twins, Graham Parker, Duran Duran...ON 8-TRACK!!

[n/a5]

(317) You hate the new Mohawk hairstyle...you know the one where they don't even shave the sides but rather bunch it up in the middle [V] Go all the way I say!!! -:)

(318) You laugh when they mention the words alternative rock on the radio these days...as if that term actually means something today!

(319) You like Smokey Robinson music because ABC said you should!

(320) You keep a sub-folder entitled 80s Music in your Internet Browsers Favorites folder...and it is the biggest one!

(321) You wish we had the UK holidays off as well.

(322) You have a hard time explaining to people...even today...what you listen too.

(323) Your spouse cannot understand why you sit in front of the computer for hours sifting through your 80's mp3s yet the taxes haven't been filed yet.

(324) Black is not a color but a philosophy.

(325) During your first job you were told to town down on the band t-shirts even when everybody else was wearing fluorescent!

(326) You have this ritual where you play New Year's Day on that very same day every year!