Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s, Vol. 3

impossible, seriously this is by far the best one of this series so far.

could easily vote for "Cars," "Private Idaho," " Making Plans For Nigel," What I Like About You," "88 Lines About 44 Women," Fade To Grey," Tempted" and "Are Your Ready for the Sex Girls?."

that is a hell of a lineup

b's over robert palmer, visage, kid creole

"sex girls" gets my vote.

sex girls here too

Amazing songs:

Private Idaho - The B-52's
Making Plans For Nigel - XTC
Looking For Clues - Robert Palmer
What I Like About You - The Romantics
88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails
New Toy - Lene Lovich
Fade To Grey - Visage
Stool Pigeon - Kid Creole And The Coconuts

I even love Teacher, Teacher.

omg amazing. the only one i don't recognize is sex girls

Thanks to the Terje talk, I'm glad Noo Wave Palmer's getting attention.

"What I like about you" vs "Tempted" in a "thought it was the best song ever recorded as junior in HS" vs "thought it was the best song ever recorded as freshman in college" showdown! College wins.

"Looking for Clues" is pretty amazing. But I ended up voting for "Tempted" on a strong disc.

"Fade To Grey", the best New Romantic synthpop song ever.

"Cars" is a song I will always vote for. It's something special to me.

Another vote for 'Cars' here. It's just perfect.

hunt3r:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5sdcnQO4I&feature=kp

"88 Lines About 44 Women" vs. "I Live In The City"

Tempted

I think sex girls was on the Revenge of the Nerds soundtrack and the group included ppl from Sparks or something.

Gleaming Spires is all fucking time but I still have to vote New Toy because Lene Lovich meant so goddamn much to me

Cars, Private Idaho, Making Plans for Nigel, New Toy, Fade to Grey, Stool Pigeon and Tempted are all classics. Think I'll give New Toy a vote as that single and her first couple of albums are so great and so underrated.

"Are You Ready For the Sex Girls" was definitely in The Last American Virgin. Don't remember if it was in Nerds too.

i could just put these:

private idaho
looking for clues
88 lines
new toy
fade to grey
stool pigeon

in a hat and draw.

Lots of great songs, but Making Plans for Nigel is one of my favorites of all time.

"Cars", but I'll admit to having developed a certain liking for "Stool Pigeon" after initially being exposed to it via a sample on the Avalanches' "Close to You"

Looking For Clues vs. Stool Pigeon, gonna go with the Palmer

1980s, WTF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8mhSOWMY38

Looking like a cross between Mick Jagger, Lindsey Buckingham and Klaus Kinski.

i like that there's a quasi-narrative playing out thru the playlist - driving around bored, trying to get some wallflower friend to actually go out ('private idaho' and 'nigel' back to back like that), looking for clues for where the party is, getting to the party, all yr ex-gf's are there of course, the highs of partying, sublime (visage) and ecstatic (kid creole), and then o what's this, i think she's into you, wait omg she's actually into you, what a great party, omg you're gonna get laid, are you ready for the sex girls?

Brilliant analysis.

lol, that is great.

If I was charge of doing track selections for comps like this, that's how I'd do it!

The drum pattern on Making Plans for Nigel vs Ricky Wilson on Private Idaho - for me anyway

i've mentioned this before on fb or something, but gleaming spires' pie-making technique is spot-on!

xp the opening drum pattern on that track is so eerie, sounds like a helicopter blade (I know there's another track on the album called "Helicopter," but still)

i have been singing "Are You Ready For The Sex Girls?" all day the problem was i don't know all they lyrics so i was just making things up.

ha, didn't think i knew that Robert Palmer song but turns out it do.

wonder how many other song that i don't think i know but actually do know?

ie "Stool Pigeon."

A lot of the more obscure songs on these comps, or songs I don't necessarily recognize by name, I totally recall from fleeting moments in '80s movies.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Voted Nigel cos that arrangement is just so killer, and I love that synthy guitar tone they have.

in the end this was either new toy, 88 lines, or fade to grey, they each seem particularly emblematic of 80s-ness to me, and without existing within a band's general body of work (at least, in my head- like, i love nigel, but my knowledge and appreciation of all of that period of xtc makes it feel inessential, somehow. same with numan, selecter, private idaho, clues, even kid creole. and the other stuff mostly seems like the same old rawk to me.)

i voted new toy, it's so goddamn exuberant.

I'm sick of the TV,
Well look at the news.
I'm sick of the radio,
But what can you do?
I'm sick of the Hoover,
But what is the cure?
I'm sick of it all, so what can I do?

damn lady, you knew how i'd end up

"Tempted" after all.

cars. forever and always cars. its perfect.

"88 Lines About 44 Women" reminds me so much of driving around L.A. doing shitty runner jobs all through the 1990s listening to Richard Blade's Flashback Lunch on KROQ.
I doubt I've heard it since 1997 but I bet I could do the whole song from memory once it kicks in.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

poor The Humans

also weird that the Selecter don't get more love - they were a huge deal kinda

ilx is not ready for the sex girls

One of the joys of revisiting these polls via the "Bridesmaid" poll is that there are a few songs which had previously escaped my attention, either back in the 80s or more recently.

I had never heard "I Live in the City" before last week, and I think I've now played it 10 times. I find it genuinely exciting! Love the riffs, love the keyboard, love the snotty vocal... it's just wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mTQgS9LaAY