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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 15, 2020 17:45:45 GMT -5
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Post by born on Mar 15, 2020 17:46:42 GMT -5
This would've been rather low for me. Cool production though.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 15, 2020 17:47:04 GMT -5
Damnit!
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 15, 2020 17:50:45 GMT -5
and with today's last song we will reveal SIX top 10s (most so far) & not a bottom 10 to be found...yet this still fell 7 points shy of making the top 10
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 15, 2020 17:59:53 GMT -5
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 15, 2020 18:05:05 GMT -5
your 80s Underground Top 10: Will You Be There? - Celebrate The Nun (Germany) Alone Again Or - The Damned (England) No Stars - Figures On A Beach (Detroit) Escalator Of Life - Robert Hazard (Philadelphia) White Coats - New Model Army (England) Dr Mabuse - Propaganda (Germany) Broken Heart - Red Flag (San Diego) Synthicide - SSQ (Los Angeles) Living On Video - Trans-X (Canada) Heaven - Until December (San Francisco) any surprises? disappointments? predictions? Since born didn't submit, i'm curious as to what he likes/dislikes from the 40 songs revealed so far
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 15, 2020 18:16:38 GMT -5
My remaining rankings are
1 6 8 9 11 13 15 17 19 27
Pretty good top 10. Rooting for Propaganda to take the win after they were shafted in my rankdown. Very happy to see New Model Army in this top 10 too. However, I hope I'm not alone in not being high on "Living On Video".
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Post by born on Mar 15, 2020 18:35:04 GMT -5
Ngl, "88 Lines About 44 Women" is kinda brilliant. I think many of the songs I consider good went out in this set. "Like Dust" and "Don't Tell Me" lead the pack. "Computer Games" should've been a cult classic ![:love:](http://i.imgur.com/2smy76v.gif)
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 15, 2020 19:22:50 GMT -5
we have EIGHT PPPPPs ... FIVE #1s ... & one lonely bottom 10 (mine) remaining
every song has at least one top 5 rank...all but two songs have a bottom 20 to weight them down...but all ten of the songs have at least one bottom half ranking
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Post by peacebone on Mar 16, 2020 0:04:27 GMT -5
Had you gone with "Living on the Ceiling" for Blancmange instead, that would've landed in my top 5
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Mar 16, 2020 1:15:11 GMT -5
#20: "Sex Beat" - Sex Beat So we were ranking "Pump" instead. I would have given that a higher ranking. Also because of the music video. "Sexbeat" was good tho. It gave me Early Billy Idol vibes.
#19: "Moskow Diskow" - Telex This kinda became an NRG club classic. I just wish there had been more to the vocal department. "Rock Around The Clock" was way too much for me.
#17: "Don Quichotte" - Magazine 60 This was a jam. KPWR always played this one. It came in at #53 for KPWR's top 106 of 1986. I think I posted that list for you guys in the 1986 RD? Anyway great song. My cousins would spin this one at all the Latin Disco house parties. I was there "gofor" which basically meant I would pick out the 12's they wanted to spin. I remembered all the songs by the sleeve covers. That's why I'm such a freak over Album art.
#17: "Say It Again" - Danse Society Another massive dance jam from 1986. I thought this was Dead Or Alive for many years until I bought the 12 inch single for myself. This is like Hi-NRG Goth. "Heaven Is Waiting" is another song I'll gladly take. Interesting to know That Dead Or Alive also had a goth vibe before they turned Hi- Energy.
#16. "Collapsing New People" - Fad Gadget This is pure early 80's New Wave. The music videos were very important to this band, because all those different effects you here are completely real. All that rubbing bottles on fences , etc.. are the actual sounds used in recordings of the songs. "Ladyshave" again the real Dark New Wave sound before it all went SynthpopIf you liked early Human League then you could probably ease into this band's style.
#15: "New York" - Microchip League I was a little kinder to the Hi-NRG synths. but the rest of it is just too noizy. BiGod 20 - Carpe Diem - Industrial songs like this just kinda freak me out. The music is all a bit too nervous to handle.
#14: "88 Lines About 44 Women" - The Nails I mean this song has classic KROQ status so it makes my top 20. This song has more women in it than an 80's Glam Metal song. LOL! "88 Lines about 44 Simpsons" LOL! This song is actually singing about The Simpsons.
#13: "Like Dust" - Passion Puppets Almost got this rank right. I liked the New Wave vibe here a lot. This has more Adam and The Ants in it than you realize. "Beyond The Pale" was equally entertaining. After previewing more of there music I gotta say this band deserved more success.
#12: "Clear" - Cybotron Clearly not the sound I was into. I really didn't like this early Freestyle sound until vocals started coming into the picture. Tho you can hear a bit of "Diamond Girl" in this one too.
#11: "Don't Tell Me" - Blancmange Another Modern Rock radio classic. The vocals take this one to the heights. "Blind Vision". Again the vocals find that perfect New Wave vibe.
The top 10 is pretty hot. My #1 is still in there plus three more top 10's. Also Stacey Q makes the cut. F U C K yeah!
Will You Be There? - Celebrate The Nun (Germany) Alone Again Or - The Damned (England) No Stars - Figures On A Beach (Detroit) Escalator Of Life - Robert Hazard (Philadelphia) White Coats - New Model Army (England) Dr Mabuse - Propaganda (Germany) Broken Heart - Red Flag (San Diego) Synthicide - SSQ (Los Angeles) Living On Video - Trans-X (Canada) Heaven - Until December (San Francisco)
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 16, 2020 10:14:41 GMT -5
#20: "Sex Beat" - Sex Beat So we were ranking "Pump" instead. I would have given that a higher ranking. Also because of the music video. "Sexbeat" was good tho. It gave me Early Billy Idol vibes. no, we were ranking "Sex Beat" the song...but since the mv was only on FB & not on youtube, i had to simply supply a hyperlink to it instead of embedding the video
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 16, 2020 10:19:49 GMT -5
Had you gone with " Living on the Ceiling" for Blancmange instead, that would've landed in my top 5 yet another amazing song by this underrated band...it was one of the 3 songs of theirs i had heard before recently
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 19, 2020 13:40:31 GMT -5
we're going to get started on the last leg of reveals right now...starting off with a not too exciting reveal as we will see our 2nd lowest standard deviation with only 3 top 10s & only 1 bottom 20...but we do award a PPPPP!
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 19, 2020 13:55:12 GMT -5
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 19, 2020 14:08:11 GMT -5
next, a song with SIX top 10s, THREE bottom 20s & not one, but TWO PPPPPs!!
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 19, 2020 14:17:37 GMT -5
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 19, 2020 14:24:21 GMT -5
*** #1 Rank Alert! ***
and the final bottom 10 rank is revealed
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 19, 2020 14:46:12 GMT -5
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Post by Mirago on Mar 19, 2020 15:11:21 GMT -5
Escalator of Life was my favourite discovery here - relatable lyrics too only now we’re shopping in the Amazon mall.
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Post by Albie on Mar 19, 2020 17:21:17 GMT -5
Man I was THIS close to making "Clear" my #1 but "Don Quichotte" has been a favorite of mine for as long as I can recall.
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Post by newpower on Mar 19, 2020 17:40:57 GMT -5
Will You Be There? was my favorite discovery.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 22:39:05 GMT -5
The synths on "Will You Be There?" were awesome
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Mar 19, 2020 23:05:44 GMT -5
#10: "Broken Heart" - Red FlagThis one was alright. I sacrificed this one a bit cuz all it really was was a poor man's version of early Depeche Mode. The sounds were sorta weak, but it does have a nice melody. "Russian Radio" sounded more interesting. I would have put that one in my top 15. #9: "Escalator Of Life" - Robert HazardThis one had a really cool dark New wave sound. like early Ministry. I especially liked the guitars and bass. Together they made a sort of galloping sound which became an important style in late 80's Italo Disco. Hold the phone. So Robert is the original creator of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"?. I gotta say that I loved his version even if it is only a demo. #8: "Will You Be There?" - Celebrate The NunThis was also a first time listen for me. The synths took me captive. Great melody, uptempo. Surprised I never heard of it, but the bigger question would be? Why wasn't this huge on Pop radio? "Ordinary Town" was equally as great. My guess is this bands came out when Synthpop was on its down spiral? Butterflies & Hurricanes . I wonder whose list would be longer. Your untapped New Wave bands or my untapped Hair Bands?
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 20, 2020 10:05:00 GMT -5
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 20, 2020 16:55:59 GMT -5
SOUND THE ALARM!!!we have a tie, not only in the top 10, but in the TOP 5 !!!!! they have a single bottom 20 rank each (from the same person no less) ... 1 of these songs has SEVEN top 10s, but it loses the tie to the other song which has only four top 10s because unlike the other song, it has no... *** #1 Rank Alert! ***
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 20, 2020 18:19:49 GMT -5
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 20, 2020 18:42:15 GMT -5
our Top 3:
White Coats - New Model Army Dr Mabuse - Propaganda Living On Video - Trans-X
we have 22 top 10s, FOUR #1s, THREE PPPPPs ... plus somebody's #34 is still hanging out there
predictions?
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