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Greatest Hits

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: The Style Council

Release Date July 14, 2003
Speaking about this band the other day with workmate, he said "The Style Council...wasn't that when Weller went a bit gay and French?" (I'm only quoting). They don't have the obvious integrity and outsider status of other great '80s bands like Smiths as they were deliberately making slick pop music. The range of influences on their music made them a conundrum to many Jam fans and still inspires love/hate reaction: socialist nouvelle vague 80s casual cockney synthesiser soul. But 25 years later you can clearly hear the progression from the later Jam to earlier TSC: Speak Like a Child, Solid Bond in your Heart, You're the Best Thing, Money Go Round, Shout to the Top, Walls Come Tumbling Down and Come to Milton Keynes for example are every bit ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 192
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Perverted By Language

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: The Fall

Release Date February 26, 2008
Ludd Gang = "I hate the guts of Shakin' Stevens 4 what he has done/the massacre of blue xmas - on him I'd like to land one on!

'Perverted by Language' is one of the many very good Fall-albums, and a key one at that - coming on the heels of the patchy 'Room to Live' (also 1983) and the exit of Marc Riley/the arrival of Brix Smith. The ever present MES is joined by long-time accomplices Craig Scanlon & Steve Hanley alongside Paul Hanley (drums, electronics) and Karl Burns (drums, bass) - who has been a member of the Fall in the 70s, 80s and 90s. A glutton for punishment? 'Perverted by Language' saw the Fall briefly return to Rough Trade after the collapse of Kamera (where they recorded 'Hex Enduction ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 193
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Time After Time: The Best of Cyndi Lauper

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Cyndi Lauper

Release Date August 13, 2001
After one unsuccessful album, Cyndi recorded three albums in the eighties (She's so unusual, True colors, A night to remember) that gave her plenty of success and it is from these three albums that this compilation is mainly assembled. Some of her later albums, though less successful, are well worth hearing but it is the eighties that most people associate with Cyndi.

So, this compilation includes all of Cyndi's important hits of the eighties including Girls just want to have fun, Time after time (later covered by Eva Cassady among others), She bop, All through the night, True colors, Change of heart (with the Bangles on backing vocals), What's going on (a cover of a Marvin Gaye classic) and I drove all night (which also became a top ten UK hit for ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 194
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Once in a Lifetime: the Best of Talking Heads

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Talking Heads

Release Date October 12, 1992
I was a great fan of Talking Heads during the 80's after watching them in concert on TV. The song that's always stayed with me over the years is 'Once in a Lifetime', which is probably their best known track and should be their signature. I bought this CD when I was feeling nostalgic, but I'm so pleased I did - brilliant - I'm still a fan! 'Road to Nowhere', 'Psycho Killer', etc., I can still imagine the young David Byrne in concert as I happily dance around the living room! It's right on top of the pile now and enjoys a very regular play.

CD-Charts Position 195
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The Very Best Of Adam & The Ants

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Adam & The Ants, Adam Ant

Release Date May 24, 2004
I love this album it starts off with the amazing stand and deliver which is amazing and then there is prince charming which is a masterpiece ans continues to his solo career with goody two shoes which is truly great but then it continues on to one of the best songs on there which is antmusic i hope you enjoy.

CD-Charts Position 196
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Ocean Rain

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Echo & The Bunnymen

Release Date November 03, 2003
"We wanted to make something conceptual with lush orchestration , not Mantovani , something with a twist". So said Echo & The Bunnymens guitarist Will Sergeant about their fourth album 1984,s brilliant Ocean Rain. I,d say they succeeded spectacularly well for Ocean Rain does indeed have lush orchestration, courtesy of a 35 piece orchestra ,and it,s definitely not Mantovani . Indeed it,s one of the great albums of the much maligned 1980,s a salty tanged windswept classic.
Recorded in such diverse locations as Paris, Bath and the bands hometown Liverpool it,s clear just from looking at the albums beautiful deep blue cover ( designed by Martyn Atkins) that this is an unashamed opulent production. As well as the spectacular sweeping string arrangements there ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 197
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The John Peel Sessions

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Siouxsie And The Banshees

Release Date October 23, 2006
Siouxsie and the Banshees, one of the greatest forgotten bands of all time. If you ever listened to their earlier albums and were blown away by their depth, originality, glory - then this is for you. These sessions sound, blaspherically, even better than the album tracks. I honestly expected poxy 'liveish' recordings, a little echo[e]y, a little, well, crap really. But these are just outstanding; it really is like listening to each individual track for the first time. Oh you generations of now, you 'You' children, wallowing in the morass of cover, of intertextual pap; you will never know what it was like to be truly outside, to make music like no-one else on earth. This still is, unmistakably, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and if you need a starting point, stumbling upon them for ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 198
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The Definitive Singles Collection 1984-2004

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: A-Ha

Release Date April 25, 2005
The video of Take On Me would not play on either of my (XP) machines for some reason. (No info is provided about the video to help). Otherwise the music's fine. Just me?

CD-Charts Position 199
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Revolutions Per Minute

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Rise Against

Release Date April 07, 2003
This is one of the only albums that I can listen to all the way through and not get bored of or dislike any of the songs. It is one of my favourite albums of all time. Tim McIlrath's voice is amazing - going from screaming/ shouting to really melodic in the same breath. I would recommend this album to everyone!

CD-Charts Position 200
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The Best of Sparks

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Sparks

Release Date July 29, 2002
Sparks first hit the limelight in about 1974 with the quirky This Town Ain't Big Enough, a powerful hook-filled pop song with dynamic falsetto vocals. It was a UK Top 20 hit but didn't do much elsewhere. Other seventies successes included Amateur Hour, Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth and Something For The Girl With Everything.

Sparks continued to make music throughout the 1970s but remained fairly obscure until 1979 when the groundbreaking electronic synth-masterpiece Number One In Heaven (produced by Giorgio Moroder) gained them critical respect and commercial success again. Tracks like Beat The Clock, Number One Song In Heaven and Tryouts For The Human Race are drawn from that one while the equally enjoyable Cool Places comes from 1983.

These tuneful songs ... Read More: