80's party set list help

[abacab66]

A friend of mine is throwing an 80's party and asked me to come up with a set list of danceable new wave songs. The party will include other music genre's [xx(] so I'm assuming I need to come up with about 2 hours of music at the most. He asked if I could maybe do a best of by year. Since this won't be a true new wave crowd I'm not really looking for the obscure here. I guess I'm just looking for suggestions as to which songs should definitely be played.

An example of the obvious songs I'm looking for -

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Modern English - Melt With You

You get the idea.

I'm counting on you guys to help me look good.[;)]

[toyah]

well, you MUST include "Goody Two Shoes" and "Ant Music" by Adam(and The Ants)Ant

[budaniel]

some suggestions:

don't you want me and fascination--human league
venus--banarama
too shy--kajagoogoo
der komissar--after the fire
don't you forget about me--simple minds
oh l'amour and a little respect--erasure
just can't get enough and strangelove--depeche mode
99 Red Balloons--nena
Kids in america and you keep me hanging on--kim wilde
mony mony and white wedding--billy idol
lies and hold me now--thompson twins
electric dreams--oakey and moroder
never ending story--limahl
take on me--a-ha
no more words and the Metro--Berlin
Destination unknown and Words--Missing Persons
You Spin Me Round and brand New Lover--Dead or Alive
If You Leave--OMD
Boy--book of love
We got the beat, our lips are sealed, vacation--Go-Gos
What I Like About You, Talking in your sleep--Romantics
I wanna be sedated--Ramones

[abacab66]

Great suggestions!

Keep them coming.

I'm sure I could have done this on my own but I just figured it would be fun as a group effort.

[Retro_NRG]

Hmm.. do you REALLY wanna stick to the mainstream 80's weekend radio fare or go for some catchy 80's club cuts? (at least use the 12" version to liven things up!)

Well.. Here's some of both: (Ranging from pogo pace to slow grind)

(((Anything N.O.)))

>Love Vigilantes
>Perfect Kiss
>Sub Culture
>Temptation
>Touched By The Hand of God
>True Faith

A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)- Romeo Void
Accidentally 4th St.(Gloria)- Figures on a Beach
All Day/Effigy/I Wanted To Tell Her/Work For Love- Ministry
Amok- Ledernacken (That one will turn heads!)
Are We Ourselves?/One Thing Leads To Another- The Fixx
Around My Dream- Silver Pizoli
Bad Case of Loving You/ I Didn't Mean To Turn You On- Robert Palmer
Beds Are Burning- Midnight Oil
Bring Me Eidelweiss- Eidelweiss
Burn For You/Calling All Nations/This Time/What You Need- INXS
Cars- Gary Numan
Chant #1- Spandau Ballet
Dead Mans Party- Oingo Boingo
Der Kommissar- Falco or ATF version
Don't Go/Situation/State Farm- Yaz
Don't You Want Me/Love Action- Human League
Don Quichotte- Magazine 60
Enola Gay/Locomotion/Talking Loud and Clear- OMD
Everlasting Love/New Song- Howard Jones
Fantastic Day/Favorite Shirts- Haircut 100
Generals & Majors- XTC
Genius of Love- Tom Tom Club
Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland/Party Out of Bounds- B 52's
Girls On Film/Hungry Like The Wolf/Planet Earth- Duran Duran
Glad To Know You- Chaz Jankel
Heartbreak Beat- Psychedelic Fursl
Heart Goes Bang- Dead or Alive
Hot Hot Hot- The Cure
I Travel/Promised You A Miracle- Simple Minds
I Want Candy- Bow Wow Wow
I Want That Man/Rush Rush- Debby Harry
Ikko Ikko- Belle Stars
Is It Love- Gang of Four
Justified & Ancient- KLF w/Tammy Wynette
Kiss Me/Unkiss That Kiss- Steve (Tin Tin) Duffy
Living In Oblivion- Anything Box
Love Tempo- Quando Quango
Love That It Is- Blancmange
One More Chance(1984)/Left To My Own Devices/West End Girls(1984)- Pet Shop Boys
Politics of Dancing- Reflex
Pump It Up- Elvis Costello
Pure Energy/Running- Information Society
Rock The Casbah/Mustapha Dance- The Clash
Safety Dance- Men Without Hats
Say It Again- Danse Society
Send Me An Angel (1989)- Reel Life
She Drives Me Crazy- FYC
Shoot U Down- APB
Smalltown Boy- Bronski Beat
So Alive- Love & Rockets
Something About You
Spirit In The Sky- Doctor & The Medics
Tarzan Boy- Baltimora
Tenderness- General Public
Thats Good- Devo
The Hardest Part/Rapture- Blondie
Too Shy- Kaja Goo Goo
Trommeltanz (Din Daa Daa)- George Kranz
Victim of Love- Erasure
Vienna Calling- Falco
Voices Inside My Head- Police
We Close Our Eyes- Go West
What I Like About You- Romantics
Wild Wild Life- Talking Heads
Wot- Captain Sensible

Please Do Post Your Final Playlist Abs![8)]

<MARQUEE><h5>Moving @The Speed of Life</h5></MARQUEE>

[plagiarism]

A few that come to mind immediately

Eighties - Killing Joke
Every Day is Halloween - Ministry
Ccan't You See - Vicious Pink
Never Say Never - Romeo Void
Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange


For the love of God, give Tainted Love and I Ran a rest. [xx(]

[oldnewwaver]

we had an 80's party about a year ago and even had prjector to play music videos on a giant screen every 3rd or 4th song and it even was able to go through the sound system
it went over really well
some of the songs that we played

General Public Tenderness
The Cult Sanctuary
Depeche Mode Just cant Get Enough
Soft Cell Tainted Love
Madness One Step Beyond
Toni Basil Mickey
English Beat Best Friend
Men Without Hats Safety Dance
Dead or Alive Spin Me Round
New Order Blue Monday
INXS Need You Tonight
Duran Duran Planet Earth
YAZ Situation
Human League Dont You Want Me
Scandal Goodbye to You
ABC Poison Arrow
Modern English Melt With You
Dexy's Midnight Runners Come on Eileen
Madonna Borderline
Simple Minds Dont YOu Forget About Me
Smiths Panic

[TragicMagic]

Have seen Safety Dance mentioned a couple of times above. Personally I can not have ANY party, be it 80's or otherwise without playing the Extended Version rather than the radio version.

S,s,s,s, A,a,a,a, F,f,f,f, E,e,e,e, T,t,t,t, Y,y,y,y Safe,afe,afe,afe Dance,ance,ance,ance!

Chuck Fade to Gray by Visage in there too maybe?

Cliched but all-good when it's an 80's-do!

TM

[glokstadt]

I'm guessing the party is tonight, so hope this is not to late:

Altered Images - Happy Birthday/I Could Be Happy/See Those Eyes [the extended versions are great to dance to!]
Blancmange - any extended version: Living On The Ceiling/Don't Tell Me/Blind Vision
Tears For Fears - Mad World/Change
Blondie - their cover of The Tide Is High/Rapture/Atomic/their cover of Hangin' On The Telephone
The Cars - Best Friends Girl
The Jam - Town Called Malice
OMD - Enola Gay
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes/One Small Day/White China/The Voice
U2 - I Will Follow
20/20 - Yellow Pills/Nuclear Boy
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
The Waitresses - Square Pegs/I Know What Boys Like
A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song/Telecommunications/DNA
Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty/My Girl Lollipop/Tequila
The Buzzcocks - Something's Gone Wrong Again
Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver
Yello - Oh Yeah
Soft Cell - It's A Mug's Game/Girl With Patent-Leather Face
Madness - Night Boat To Cario!

[:D]



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[abacab66]

Not too late. The party is next month. Thanks for all the reponses so far. A setlist is starting to form.