MTV New Wave Bands

Love all three of those bands. If you have never listened to the Simple Minds song "Belfast Child" go and listen to it now. It is one of my all time favorite songs.

Also Duran Duran song "Ordinary World" is probably there best song.

And Men At Work "Be Good Johnny" is one of my favorites.
 

I was an MTV baby from the very first episode but I never even heard of New Wave until I lost my seniority at Oak Point in the Bronx and had to work the Maybrook Secondary which meant the closest area I settled in at was Dutchess County right smack in the middle of the Mid Hudson Valley which was New Wave, Country Rock and Progressive Jazz a la Spiro Gyra.
 
 

Rah-Rah said:
I was lucky to see them as well as The B-52's and U2.
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We saw U2 probably 12 years ago. Amazing!

We also saw the B-52's a couple of years ago and they are just as great as seniors as they were in the 80's. We never realized that it was actually Kate's voice in the opening of Planet Claire. We thought it was some kind of synthesized instrument. :ROFLMAO:
 
dseag2 said:
We saw U2 probably 12 years ago. Amazing!

We also saw the B-52's a couple of years ago and they are just as great as seniors as they were in the 80's. We never realized that it was actually Kate's voice in the opening of Planet Claire. We thought it was some kind of synthesized instrument. :ROFLMAO:
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Kate has one of the most interesting and amazing voices in all of music.
 
Sticking with this MTV thread, we were lucky enough to score tickets for Journey, Toto and Tears For Fears this coming February/March.

Our local radio station also sponsors an 80's concert each year and we have seen Berlin, Patty Smythe, The Romantics, The Flirts, Book of Love, Animotion, Nu Shooz, Dramarama, When In Rome, Naked Eyes, Wang Chung, Information Society and others. Some of the bands are admittedly pretty sad, but some like Terri Nunn from Berlin and Patty Smythe were great!

https://www.audacy.com/jackontheweb/blogs/jack-music/1003-jack-fm-s-4th-annual-lost-80s-live-concert
 
dseag2 said:
Sticking with this MTV thread, we were lucky enough to score tickets for Journey, Toto and Tears For Fears this coming February/March.

Our local radio station also sponsors an 80's concert each year and we have seen Berlin, Patty Smythe, The Romantics, The Flirts, Book of Love, Animotion, Nu Shooz, Dramarama, When In Rome, Naked Eyes, Wang Chung, Information Society and others. Some of the bands are admittedly pretty sad, but some like Terri Nunn from Berlin and Patty Smythe were great!

https://www.audacy.com/jackontheweb/blogs/jack-music/1003-jack-fm-s-4th-annual-lost-80s-live-concert
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I always wanted to attend concerts by Boards of Canada, Peter Gabriel and Wang Chung. Anybody that can captivate me with that type of animation is a hit in my book. Nick Park of "Wallace and Gromit" fame was the inspiration for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer". Wang Chung is always in rare form and Boards of Canada, well soundscapes is what they do best.

Peter Gabriel

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www.petergabriel.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel

"Sledgehammer"


Nick Park

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Park

"Wallace and Gromit"


Wang Chung

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www.wangchung.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chung

Everybody Have Fun Tonight


Boards of Canada

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www.bleep.com/artist/78-boards-of-canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards_of_Canada

Reach for the Dead

 
dseag2 said:
@FastTrax, how could you leave out this Tubes classic? I have it on DVD-A and it sounds amazing.

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I never even heard of them until their album cover caught my eye in a record shop. When I brought it home and was playing "White Punks on Dope" my mom went absolutely ballistic. I told her that White guys and not Black guys were singing this song. She still continued to smash my stereo to pieces. I guess it was a drug issue. Life.
 
30. Billy Idol Continued

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White Wedding Part 1


Save Me Now


Catch My Fall


Can't Break Me Down


All Summer Single

 
Aieeeeeee!!! Music began in the late Fifties and, with few exceptions, ended in the early Seventies. The rest is just noise, and unpleasant noise at that!
 
Rah-Rah said:
One of my favorite songs of the 80's was Wishing(If I Had A Photograph Of You) by The Flock of Seagulls
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TFOS was one of the bands that hooked me onto New Wave when I lived Upstate New York. Paul who was real young at the time was very underrated but when he left the band they didn't fare too well.

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www.myspace.com/paul_reno

www.pinterest.com/pin/53269208080642038/

www.mtv.com/news/516384/a-flock-of-seagulls-paul-reynolds/

www.alchetron.com/Paul-Reynolds-(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reynolds_(musician)

 
FastTrax said:
TFOS was one of the bands that hooked me onto New Wave when I lived Upstate New York. Paul who was real young at the time was very underrated but when he left the band they didn't fare too well.

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www.mtv.com/news/516384/a-flock-of-seagulls-paul-reynolds/

www.alchetron.com/Paul-Reynolds-(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reynolds_(musician)

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The Flock of Seagulls to me were one of the bands who set the New Wave sound. Everyone remembers the mega hit "I Ran", but they had a few other hit songs as well that made it on the charts. There was another band that came along later with a slightly different sound called The Hooters from Philadelphia that developed there own sound which an accordion type instrument. Everyone probably remembers there mega hit "And We Danced", but they also had several other hits songs including " All You Zombies" and "Johnny B".
 
Sheena Easton, man, her song "Sugar Walls" Man, Just man. Sugar Walls was much more sexually explicit then Peter Gabriels "Sledgehammer" could ever be.
 
FastTrax said:
Pat Benatar (Con't)

Stop Using Sex as a Weapon


35. Sheena Easton

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheena_Easton

Sugar Walls


36. The Pretenders

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretenders

I'll Stand By You


Back on the Chain Gang


Brass In Pocket

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Chrissie Hynde was the opening act for Stevie Nicks in a concert we attended several years ago. I believe she was 67 at the time and she can still rock!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=troNqcpjGJU
 
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