New Wave Albums: 1979
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Topic: New Wave Albums: 1979
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: New Wave Albums: 1979
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 11:06
 1979: The B-52's - The B-52's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZNdaL75118" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZNdaL75118  1979: Blondie - Eat to the Beat - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOkgiQfN1H91ukvupMERBHkTbHASoGZys" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOkgiQfN1H91ukvupMERBHkTbHASoGZys 1979: The Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lG0FvjqjQcE4X4voUFIqINXvoYhg-JL_w" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lG0FvjqjQcE4X4voUFIqINXvoYhg-JL_w 1979: David Bowie - Lodger - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXLUFAfOWT0Ax6VJTHjChWPWuWEe0jUGQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXLUFAfOWT0Ax6VJTHjChWPWuWEe0jUGQ 1979: The Cars - Candy-O - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nVOV08coz1Zsd-wlJflHt_9iC0IZnJ1x8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nVOV08coz1Zsd-wlJflHt_9iC0IZnJ1x8 1979: The Clash - London Calling - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nY4cg7X3mkJovrJebYc8GlS82gAcjsX_U" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nY4cg7X3mkJovrJebYc8GlS82gAcjsX_U 1979: Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUzB_JSClpJhdWQFfOKfKaeX0Rcr5b3-S" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUzB_JSClpJhdWQFfOKfKaeX0Rcr5b3-S 1979: The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_S6tYQwhaA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_S6tYQwhaA 1979: The Human League - Reproduction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH8fGPG4xV4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH8fGPG4xV4 1979: Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m1App3XZeVi3mtSHPTbvzIWQCyj0WAIo4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m1App3XZeVi3mtSHPTbvzIWQCyj0WAIo4 1979: The Jam - Setting Sons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSaNJS9EV1k" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSaNJS9EV1k 1979: Japan - Quiet Life - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nkMmrFVaNMlCsLaJ48Tfi23_-f6j5GvgI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nkMmrFVaNMlCsLaJ48Tfi23_-f6j5GvgI 1979: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo7lt0lLOvg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo7lt0lLOvg 1979: Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vSDv4SAsEetGsmkOR5_WHXB5rhbDjYG" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vSDv4SAsEetGsmkOR5_WHXB5rhbDjYG 1979: The Police - Reggatta de Blanc - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBnJv6rImVe9d2c5lJRP2ThrQ0ypway1j" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBnJv6rImVe9d2c5lJRP2ThrQ0ypway1j 1979: Pretenders - Pretenders - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwpEmD6-QU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwpEmD6-QU 1979: Simple Minds - Life in a Day - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nfiJhVX0HcRLrvh28OvF1IRDj_KBQPdNQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nfiJhVX0HcRLrvh28OvF1IRDj_KBQPdNQ  1979: Siouxsie & the Banshees - Join Hands - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmOGABgZVZsufs7XaG3FFH2mOyzzvM9rk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmOGABgZVZsufs7XaG3FFH2mOyzzvM9rk 1979: Squeeze - Cool for Cats - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVcWM0lqXE6Qd_1DyZdWe7y6Te5JFiXu" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVcWM0lqXE6Qd_1DyZdWe7y6Te5JFiXu 1979: The Stranglers - The Raven - https://ww.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k8O7lZjeBKPQMbObw9gwI4WJxfDGt0C0c" rel="nofollow - http://ww.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k8O7lZjeBKPQMbObw9gwI4WJxfDGt0C0c 1979: Talking Heads - Fear of Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij57gRfcoFI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij57gRfcoFI 1979: Toyah - Sheep Farming in Barnet - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNr6i_8wxCuiHKJrWucuyimB0UsAP4f1l" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNr6i_8wxCuiHKJrWucuyimB0UsAP4f1l 1979: Tubeway Army - Replicas - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m_dKyKQiiZMVQw_oVVfC716UK6I49CseY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m_dKyKQiiZMVQw_oVVfC716UK6I49CseY 1979: The Undertones - The Undertones - https://youtube.com/watch?v=aQakCeVa48M" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQakCeVa48M 1979: XTC - Drums and Wires - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N66oJVIjk2M" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N66oJVIjk2M |
Replies:
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 12:26
| Candy-O but, I love The B-52's, too. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 12:28
| Simple Minds - Life in a Day |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 12:56
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Wow, some cracking albums here. Joy Division > XTC, The Stranglers, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Devo, Gary Numan, Tubeway Army Prompted to to go look for copies of Wire, Bauhaus, The Fall, Souixsie & The Banshees, The Fall. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 12:57
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Gary Numan ~ The Pleasure Principle ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 13:03
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The Clash - London Calling I'm also quite fond of The Police - Reggatta de Blanc Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 13:19
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Lodger is actually among my favorite Bowie-albums. So another Bowie-vote from me. Most of these albums got something to them. Both Gary Numan and Tubeway Army are great. Joy Division, The Cure, Japan, Boomtown Rats, Talking Heads are all good (never been as crazy about Joy Division as I know many are). Blondie is a wonderful singles band, and there's very little I dislike here. Even Clash sounds occasionally semidecent by now at times. But some of the ones I'm actually a fan of (Siouxsie & The Cure in particular), got more interesting - and better - in the early eighties. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 13:42
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Late Entry..... 1979: The Human League - Reproduction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH8fGPG4xV4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH8fGPG4xV4 |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 14:46
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Nice collection, again, of which I - discarding Bowie - personally like The B-52's, Japan, Gary Numan, Talking Heads, Toyah and Tubeway Army. Will vote for The Pleasure Principle. ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 14:47
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Magazine 'Second hand daylight' There are a lot of great lps and artists listed here too, a few real game changers. ------------- |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 15:23
| Pretenders, specially Private Life. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 15:37
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Things become seriously good here with Cure & Joy Division making their debut in the series, and Talking Heads, Japan & Stranglers getting better and better. My winner however is Joe Jackson. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 15:58
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Talking Heads followed by Bowie. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 19:31
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From this list: Replicas But the best that year was P-Model: In a Model Room ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Boi_da_boi_124
Date Posted: May 23 2023 at 19:42
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Gary Numan I am honestly surprised how many people like this album. I certainly do. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 24 2023 at 15:44
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A poor year for Prog, but some of the better New Wave albums are to be found here: The Police, Joy Division, Tubeway Army. Not the hideous Lodger, but Bowie is quite out of place in this niche. And the time for the Simple Minds had not yet come. I choose Regatta de Blanc.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 24 2023 at 16:06
And it gets even better in 1980, when there are so many New Wave albums to choose from that it Buggles the mind trying to narrow it down to just 25 albums for the poll.
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someone_else wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 25 2023 at 06:28
Tough choice between two of my favourite band - The Jam and XTC. The former just edge it as XTC hadn't quite peaked on Drums and Wires imo (even so, no way is it a 2 star album  )
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 25 2023 at 06:35
Sorry, I've never been a fan of XTC, so I doubt if any of their albums are going to get any higher than a 2-star rating from me.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 26 2023 at 05:53
I was quite fond of this album at the time of its release and for some years later on.  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 26 2023 at 06:16
Blondie won my vote easily in this poll, but deciding who to include and who to leave out of these polls is always The Hardest Part. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 26 2023 at 08:31
The first thing is of course the question of definition - at least as I see it. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 26 2023 at 09:02
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^ But anyway, I can surely imagine, it's not easy. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 26 2023 at 10:33
It's tempting to drop any albums I've only rated two stars from the poll, but it's the two-star albums that often go on to win the poll.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: May 26 2023 at 12:28
 ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: June 04 2023 at 17:57
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Bram Tchaicovsky used to be considered New Wave, if memory serves me. |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: June 04 2023 at 21:53
| Joy Division > The Cure > Joe Jackson |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 05 2023 at 10:02
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1979: Blondie - Eat to the Beat - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOkgiQfN1H91ukvupMERBHkTbHASoGZys" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOkgiQfN1H91ukvupMERBHkTbHASoGZys I have fond memories of Dreaming about Debbie Harry in 1979.  |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 06 2023 at 10:26
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1979: Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vSDv4SAsEetGsmkOR5_WHXB5rhbDjYG" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vSDv4SAsEetGsmkOR5_WHXB5rhbDjYG Gary Numan - Cars - an era-defining video where giving a robotic performance is seen as being a good thing. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 06 2023 at 14:16
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1979: Pretenders - Pretenders - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwpEmD6-QU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwpEmD6-QU Contrary to popular belief, Brass in Pocket is not about scraping a living as an underpaid and overworked waitress in a backstreet cafe, but it's about the confidence (or brass neck) one needs to perform well on stage - according to Chrissie Hynde. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 11:22
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Tubeway Army - Replicas The Stranglers - The Raven XTC - Drums & Wires Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
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