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Poll Question: Who make best music'
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U2 is anything but cold and emotionless. I say if you call The Joshua Tree that, it's you who's cold and emotionless.
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^^Tha Jam....Squeeze....cold and emotionless??? Definitely NOT!!! Even U2  not, methinks.
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I don't really like any of these bands, but if forced to vote I will raise my hand for Ultravox. The music all these bands made was strangely cold and emotionless (which of course was fashionable at the time it was made; showing no emotions was definitely en vogue). Typical and very descriptive of that aera is the song "Eiszeit" ("Ice Age") by German band Ideal, which contains the lines:
"Alle Worte tausendmal gesagt,
alle Fragen tausendmal gefragt,
alle Gefühle tausendmal gefühlt,
tiefgefroren, tiefgekühlt"
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"All words already said a thousand times,
all questions already asked a thousand times,
all feelings already felt a thousand times,
deep frozen, low temperature cooled".


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I went with Joe Jackson, although I think of his first two as straight ahead punk than 80's new wave, they both came out in '79 I believe. I was a bit of a punker back then.
 
PS - Shouldn't Rush be on this list? (See Power Windows, Hold Your Fire) Tongue Wink
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Originally posted by Melomaniac Melomaniac wrote:

I like quite a few of the artists mentionned here, but I go with The Police, if only for Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, a quintessential 80's album by a quintessential 80's band.
 


Ditto!Clap

Personally, I'd mention Talking Heads as well. I don't think U2 are new wave, though. I would've also added one of my favourite '80s band to the list - that is, The Pretenders.


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The Talking Heads for me,what a great band.
 
I also really used to like the Cars and Joe Jackson,who I still think is pretty awesome.


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Maybe too experimental to be New Wave? This is favorite:
1. Lemon Kittens

Too punk?
2. Athletico Spizz

Love these to:
Ultravox
Devo
Human League... more or less the rest, but defenatly not Simply Red, Huey Lewis and the News or Mr. Mister! What are they doing here?




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Don't forget "Missing Persons" with Terry Bozzio on drums.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

From this list....The Jam, even though it covers the end of their career.
Immaculate taste as always, Ian.


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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

From this list....The Jam, even though it covers the end of their career.
Immaculate taste as always, Ian.
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voted The Jam
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From this list....The Jam, even though it covers the end of their career.
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I think we had this same poll a couple of weeks ago....

still the same... dead heat between the Talking Heads and Duran Duran.

Tina over John. .....

Talking Heads... by the width of a G string hahhahahhaha
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Originally posted by Melomaniac Melomaniac wrote:

 
Spandau Ballet ?  LOL
 
What? "Journeys to Glory" is a great album. And the rest is not so bad either.
Bigger on the inside.
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Swingout Sister seriously under-rated.
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Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO! Gotta love that album.
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I like quite a few of the artists mentionned here, but I go with The Police, if only for Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, a quintessential 80's album by a quintessential 80's band.
 
Spandau Ballet ?  LOL
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Damn you for making me remember how much I like some of these bands. For me it's a tie between:
 
Tears for Fears (who I think are good in the 80's, GREAT in the 90's and beyond)
Madness (c'mon, how can anyone not like Madness?)
Eurythmics (Dave Stewart is a genious, is solo albums are gems)
Duran Duran (for the Taylor Brothers and Nick Rhodes hair)
and the unmentioned Spandau Ballet (Tony Hatley had the best vocals of the 80's)
Bigger on the inside.
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