I'm having a party at my place this Saturday(you're all invited).
Any recommendations for music?
I found this website, but all the music there seems to repeat and I noticed an absence of Siouxsie and the Banshees and Depeche Mode. I'm in the mood for darker 80's New Wave (Post-punk?) like Bauhaus, Joy Division, Siouxsie, etc... but still danceable.
Key dark-but-danceable artists of the era: Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, New Order, the Cure, PiL, early Simple Minds (i.e., pre-Breakfast Club), Adam Ant, Chameleons UK, early XTC...
There is no way that I'm going to go through all of those reviews, but I can make a few suggestions, though there's a lot of music for you to choose from. I'm guessing that you're wanting more serious and less cheery stuff. I can probably recommend better stuff if you want really super fun stuff.
Real Life "Send Me An Angel" (which mixes really well with Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now", by the way)
When In Rome "The Promise"
Erasure "A Little Respect"
New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle"
Missing Persons "Destination Unknown"
Human League "Don't You Want Me" "Mirror Man" "Fascination"
Soft Cell "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go" -- everyone loves this. it never fails.
Tears For Fears "Head Over Heals"
A Certain Ratio "Knife Slits Water" or "Shack Up"
Echo & The Bunnymen "The Cutter", "Do It Clean"
any upbeat Smiths song, especially "Hand In Glove", "Bigmouth Strikes Again", "Ask" or "This Charming Man"
PiL "Rise"
I'm sort of at a loss - there's so much to pick from and I'm not clear on where you're going with this.
You can always slip on an Interpol after a Joy Division tune just to see if anyone really notices.
If you're doing this in the US then to have an authentic 'New Wave' evening you have to have a Huey Lewis & The News song along with an Oingo Boingo track. It's the rules, apparently.
Incidently, you would love the Electric Dreams club night in Soho, London - it's electronic! it's goth! it makes no sense! but it's still fun!
Devo - "Beautiful World" "Freedom of Choice" "Girl U Want"
Berlin - "Masquerade"
Anything off the soundtrack to "Valley Girl" (available on Rhino Records).
There's some label - I know Tullycraft has done stuff with them - that's *really into* the stuff you're describing. Only it's all new. They did release a compile of 80s New Wave hits where Tullycraft did 'Hold Me Now' (originally by the Thompson Twins).
Oh, and
Wall of Voodoo - "Morricone Themes" if you can find it. It's a mix of "Hang 'Em High," "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" and one other... "Fistful of Dollars"?... done as the B-side to the "Ring of Fire" single. Which is also great.
Best bass hook ever, too: one note, over and over, with the accents moving around in incredibly driving manner—and a guitar line that reinvents Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part II" as something deeply sinister. It's a great song—a masterpiece of tension and release.
Isn't "The Light Pours Out of Me" a Peter Murphy song? Did he cover
it or write it? Am I mad or just getting old?
Neither. Murphy covered it in 1986, on his first post-Dali's Car solo album, Should the World Fail to Fall Apart. Haven't heard his version, but I can't imagine his delivery being better than Howard Devoto's.
Hm. A glance at All Music Guide informs me that the song was also covered by the delightfully-named Trotsky Icepick. How charming.
And further more that Pete Shelley has a co-writing credit on the tune. The great Buzzcocks song that never was, then.
Ahh, thank yoo Jack Fear, I now feel saner if not younger. I could so
remember Mr.Murphy doing the song live with a fantastic stance in
front of lime lights and if I had been making that up, well... hmm.
Shouldn't an '80's revamp include early early Ministry stuff like
"effigy"?
Fashion?
Cocteau Twins?
March Violets?
Kajagoogoo?(urgh)
ever since watching donnie darko i've been into all things 80's so this thread is excellent but... do you mind flux giving me your suggestions for 'super fun stuff'?
