New Wave Albums: 1984

Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward

None at the moment of typing this, I mean THIS, but don't discount a vote to be finalised quite some words after "this", "this", or the following this that comes after this this, or this one. Now I'm confused, where was I with this? I know I have heard songs here and there of most of these, and I know I have heard some full albums here (by Ultravox and Talking Heads), but my recollection is lousy. I love later Talk Talk. Well, I actually might have that Echo & the Bunnymen album on cassette tape somewhere as a kind person I didn't really know gave me an E@tB tape when I was laid up in hospital. People really can be so kind -- that would make a "nice" thread, a thread on those acts of kindness we most remember and still get a warm "humanity can be so wonderful" feeling over. And one of the "let's wipe everyone out because people are shi*s" (or at least pirates who work on ships) ilk for balance. We need some balance in the universe, and one assh**e can make a Samaritan smell all the sweeter. I think Samaritans may not have traditionally bathed much except in rivers which likely would have raw sewage in them due to the lack of plumbing and sewers, septic tanks etc.. Historians can correct me, and although Samaritans refers to a person who helps out another when that person is in trouble, if all Samaritans were good we would not have a parable called the Good Samaritan, although good can be subjective, and some just disliked the Samaritans period (tribalism runs deep). Biblical scholars can elucidate me.

The band I had hoped to see is Cocteau Twins, but then I don't see it listed at sites as New Wave. !984's Treasure is a treasure, and I don't just say that because the album name is treasure, that would be really cheesy.

In the 1980s I was too busy listening to 60s and 70s classic rock with my friends to pay as much attention as I might have to New Wave. I watched music videos and heard a lot of New Wave songs that way. That said, one I love from the 80s, and I loved it in the 80s is the Australian band Divinyls, who put the divine in de vinyl, or more like the raunchy. And that I do see labelled as pop-rock and New Wave (and power pop) at RYM. A tape of Divinyls What a Life! from 1985 was given to me by the same guy at the same time as the Echo & The Bunnymen tape. I loved it and played it so much that I rather forgot about Echo... even though I like it. One of my friends liked it even more, but I did not give it to him because I'm not as charitable as some have been to me. Sorry universe. Balance, for givers to give you need takers to take. Seriously, I try to give, I'm just not that generous generally or thoughtful.

This was me typing while passing time and listening to various music from the playlist but mostly one album by one act that I should have listened to properly many years ago. As I am on the laptop listening -- I won't be indiscrete by saying whose laptop I am sitting on I though I might as well have some fun typing at the same time. Someone should make a portable computer with keyboard that dances called a laptop dancer, but I digress....

I am liking that Echo and the Bummymen very much, and will give it a vote. It's also to pay my respects to that person whose name I don't recall for that act of kindness back in 1986. I will now give it a proper full listen. I do think that was the album he gave me. I am hugely prone to typos and I notice that I misspelled Bunnymen. I could go back and edit, but instead I will write it here properly by hand to give more respect to him and the band (no copy-paste pour moi): Echo & The Bunnymen, not Echo and the Bummymen.

I hope this is readable, the more I type like this, the messier it tends to get. Anyway, in summation, I like that Echo... album from my listening now. Cocteau Twins rocks, New Wave or not -- new waves rock the boat even if the New Wave itself does not rock. And Divinyls is one I would include for the following year, and it rocks.

verslibre wrote: Cristi wrote: I love this album, but not in the poll. I would have voted for it.  Now you can!

After The Fixx, my choice would be Lament by Ultravox, which is a fantastic album.

verslibre wrote:

Much better than the last list. Talk Talk It's My Life is such a big step forward after their debut. Welcome to the Pleasuredome is big fun. Still these don't quite reach the top two here which are The Flat Earth and Stop Making Sense. Vote for Thomas Dolby.