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    Posted: December 30 2007 at 22:06
oh u love em too?  Mr Mister rulez!!!!!  though i love Simple Minds for the consistency and ideas but Mr Mister is cheese heaven!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 15:18
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2007 at 03:12

 The Jam.

 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2007 at 22:47
ULTRAVOX FOR ME!!
 
Their 'Vienna' song is top class British pop-rock at its artiest, combining electronic techno-pop, new romantics and sheer symphonic prog in a very fluid manner. Their "Rage in Eden" album is their absolute peak, and the peak of British pop of all time.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2007 at 04:48
Originally posted by Bob Greece Bob Greece wrote:

I voted Tears For Fears but my favourites are Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Propaganda.


I LOVE Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Incidentally, Steve Howe collaborated with them too - on YouTube you can find a video of them performing "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (my favourite song by the band), with Steve on steel guitar.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2007 at 04:23
I voted Tears For Fears but my favourites are Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Propaganda.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2007 at 03:54
Originally posted by E-Dub E-Dub wrote:

If anyone has a chance to pick up Glen Tilbrook's (Squeeze) The Incomplete Glen Tilbrook and Transatlantic Ping Pong, I highly urge you to do so. Absolutely spectacular discs, and "Genitalia Of A Fool" will have you gasping for air from laughter.

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I had the priviledge of seeing Glenn Tilbrook play a small acoustic gig a while back (the gig was small, the acoustic was normal size). He played an amazingly varied set which included Squeeze classics and covers like Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well. And when he played Genitalia of a Fool I nearly wet myself!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2007 at 02:28
If anyone has a chance to pick up Glen Tilbrook's (Squeeze) The Incomplete Glen Tilbrook and Transatlantic Ping Pong, I highly urge you to do so. Absolutely spectacular discs, and "Genitalia Of A Fool" will have you gasping for air from laughter.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2007 at 06:34
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by markosherrera markosherrera wrote:

OK TALKING HEADS,U2,POLICE,TEARS FOR FEARS    are winning... some one talk me about flying lizards?       because     I   check in Amazon    ..they appea r but  without  samplers,..  I   readed   that   Michael Nyman ,the same of The Piano..picture,  friend of Brian Eno,   play in one album of this band..   .somebody in the forum know something about this group?

 
Flying Lizards were formed by David Cunningham, who has also worked with people like John Greaves, and they specialised in bizarre cover versions of pop classics with some equally quirky songs of their own. I'm not sure about Nyman, but sundry free jazz improvisors from the London Musicians Collective (David Toop, Steve Beresford and others) worked with them and even got to appear on Top Of The Pops as a result.
 
Their debut album (4th Wall if I remember rightly) sits nicely alongside Morgan Fisher's Hybrid Kids as an example of avant garde musicians applying the punk/new wave DIY aesthetic to pop music and having a lot of fun with it. It's a long time since I heard it, but if you like Residents cover versions or Slapp happy's skewed pop you'll probably enjoy it.
 
I heard The Flying Lizards singer described as sounding like a kidnap victim being forced to make a ransom video.
 
Have you heard The (Hypothetical) Prophets? Their Person To Person single is a favourite of mine.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2007 at 06:27
Originally posted by blaughida blaughida wrote:

I've never seen Huey Lewis and the News classified as new wave, but it's a label that has been put on a lot of music from the 1977-1985 period, so I won't object as it's something everyone defines differently (hmm, never heard of a genre like that before).
 
An early incarnation of Huey Lewis & the News (called Clover) was the backing band on Elvis Costello's first album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2007 at 20:17
War is a great album!! That's my favorite U2 album.  I love their 80's work.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2007 at 20:15
Men at work are good, but this one go's to 80's u2, War is a great album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2007 at 20:14
I can't decide. There are too many that I love!  Just last night we were listening to the Cars Candy-o while putting up the christmas tree.  I hadn't played their album in years and I forgot how much I like them. 

     I also love Devo, Gary Numan, U2, Talk Talk, Ultravox, Simple Minds, Missing Persons, Joe Jackson -well, I love all of them.  (Teenager in the 80's so forgive me). Ah - I'll go with the police.  Love new wave (but not as much as Prog - but it's close!)

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2007 at 16:26
The Police is my favorite on this list.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2007 at 15:53
I prefer The Police myself.
 
But I also love the music of Squeeze,Talking Heads,The Cars,SImple Minds,Joe Jackson and Tears for Fears.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2007 at 15:52
Other notable mentions:

Echo and the Bunnymen
Chameleons (UK)
Psychedelic Furs
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2007 at 15:49
A lot of good ones, but had to go with U2. Love Simple Minds, The Police, Tears For Fears and Squeeze though.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2007 at 15:39
In the 80s, U2 no doubt.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2007 at 01:25
I like 'Police' and 'Ultravox',
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