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  • boredjedi
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    One of those songs that always gets you to sing the chorus along with them

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      This song has a weirdly Edwardian vibe, like it's something you might expect in a dance hall from 1910. But yeah it has a great chorus.

      Vocals in this band are always very subdued and echoey, that's part of why they invoke the feeling in me that they are from the distant past, they are almost an echo.
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    http://eighteenlightyearsago.ytmnd.com/

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      Wow I seem to recall assuming this song was by Depeche Mode. Eerily similar sound and even vocals.

    • boredjedi
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      I read the comments on that video yesterday. People thought so too. The band use to tour with Depeche Mode. Opening act I do believe. Depeche rubbed off on them.
  • chuft
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    • boredjedi
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      #34
      Oingo Boingo pops up a lot on these 80s lists.
      Along with another band





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      • chuft
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        #35
        I am not using any lists, I am going from memory.









        Album title Dazzle Ships was a reference to a camouflage strategy used on British ships in WW1.



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        They look silly close up but from far away these patterns make it hard to see the outlines of the ship or where it began or ended, they broke up the silhouette and could even make it hard to tell if it was coming towards you, away, or sailing parallel. or whether it was a big ship dar away or a smaller one closer to you.


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          Surprised they didn't call them the Zebra class heh.
      • chuft
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        #36
        I really didn't care much for that Duran Duran song, or that album. But this song from that album was good I thought. A little more romantic than "I don't want your love."



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        • chuft
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          #37
          This OMD song actually got a lot of airplay on mainstream US radio stations. I recall listening to it while driving through the green summer of New Jersey back then.



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            It was also in one of those Brat Pack movies if I remember.

          • chuft
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            It was recorded for Pretty In Pink, which does not mean what most people think it does.
        • boredjedi
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          #38
          A French Annie Lenox 1989 (I vaguely remember this one)




          1983


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            Never cared for Annie Lenox or her stuff.
        • boredjedi
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          Originally posted by chuft
          I really didn't care much for that Duran Duran song, or that album. But this song from that album was good I thought. A little more romantic than "I don't want your love."
          I have an even better one



          http://eighteenlightyearsago.ytmnd.com/

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          • chuft
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            #40
            I have always loved that song. But why the short version?


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              I guess they thought the ending sax bit was a bit redundant.
          • boredjedi
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            I've only been posting what I've been coming across

            I always liked this one (did a quick check to check if I posted it before. But I don't I did.)

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            • chuft
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              Never heard it. Not really a new wave sound so I can see why.

            • boredjedi
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              I don't know how those two ended up collaborating. But it wasn't for that long.
              That song was played a lot on MTV. Jan Hammer's real claim to fame is the
              theme song for Miami Vice. Neal Schon is from Journey.
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            #42
            Mani Svavarrson took inspiration from Duran Duran's orchestral stings for 'Man on a Mission'.

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            • boredjedi
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              #43
              Originally posted by chuft
              It was recorded for Pretty In Pink, which does not mean what most people think it does.
              I moved the comment post outside to this area because I want to expand on that

              An article from 2020 and they still talking about.

              Psychedelic Furs frontman says Pretty In Pink filmmaker misinterpreted song


              John Hughes took the meaning literally and had the film center on a woman in pink, instead of a wayward girl.....".​
              https://news.sky.com/story/psychedel...-song-12050816

              Different song.






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              • boredjedi
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                http://eighteenlightyearsago.ytmnd.com/

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                • chuft
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                  Some B-sides






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                    Can't remember the details but there was a band or two that actually ended up with the B side being the hit not the A side.
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