Salami

I remember arguing with Il Duce about that very song! Personally, I'll have to give "Solsbury Hill" another plug here, because the instrumentation is a lot softer for synth, and also that song is a much more personal experience!

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I like "Solsbury Hill" better as a song as well, but "Frontiers" fits in better with my week of what I'll call now similar sounding songs from the 80's (since there's been so much talk of what style of music this actually is)

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bob.

just fyi.....Violator came out in 1990 great song but a very definitive turn for this band out of "new wave" 80s type stuff

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Duran Duran didn't come along until the whole New Romantic thing was long underway, and pretty much jumped on the bandwagon. Before that they were playing basic 70s rock.

The people involved with the Blitz club like Steve Strange where the whole new romantic thing started hated Duran Duran and saw them as nothing more than major labels cashing in on something they started.

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Yeah, great point. I realized that as well after I posted that song. I thought I remembered the song going back to the mid-80's, but you're definitely right about the '90 release date (and it is a great song).

My whole thread has kind of fallen on its face as it started as my week of 80's new-wave pop, but my picks didn't really end up being all new-wave by definition, and they're not all from the 80's either, but I'm going to tread on with my final-4 picks... as they all kind of have the same vibe to me.

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Unknown Soldier

hahaha things don`t always pan out how you want them to, most of the stuff you`ve picked with the exception of Peter Gabriel, is stuff that grew out of the new-wave and new romantic movement, most of your picks are synth-pop. But I guess in the States, you guys think of A Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, Tears For Fears and Men Without Hats as being new-wave

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Happy Thanksgiving- Thursday: The Police "Synchronicity II".

Great song and video... kind of a Billy Idol meets Mad Max beyond Thunderdome. Just for the record, this thread has officially become a week of songs from the 80's (and 90's) that I don't normally listen to, but enjoy...

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Howard the Duck

have you read its lyrics?:-

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so.much heartache he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

simultaneously rubbish and pretentious but that's Sting for ya

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I had not read the lyrics until this morning when I saw them listed under the YouTube video, and I thought the same thing. I remember thinking this video was very tough and cool when it came in the early 80's, but then you have Sting singing about rice crispy's. The video content doesn't really seem to fit the lyrics at all, but still a cool video and song.

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Friday: Talking Heads: "Girlfriend is Better"

Great song, and I think "Speaking with Tongues" is the first TH album without Ono since their debut.

Two more songs to go, and and then my week countdown of new-wave/ synth-pop/ 80's songs that I like/ or however you want to classify these songs is over. I know everyone is on the edge of their seat to see what the final two picks are

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