New Romantic
Various Artists
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- The Basics
Foppish shirt, powdered facial white-out, pulsating synth backdrop . . . and, of course, a predilection for extravagant romanticism. Such were the trappings of the theatrical, yet streetwise, artists who created and defined the New Romantic movement that turned Top of the Pops into a weekly carnivale during the early '80s. We begin with Ultravox's epic, cinematic single "Vienna". Follow the trail of electropop and glamour to Next Steps.
£21.36 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 Vienna Ultravox 4:54 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 Ashes to Ashes David Bowie 4:24 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 Fade to Grey Visage 3:50 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 To Cut a Long Story Short Spandau Ballet 3:20 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Girls On Film Duran Duran 3:36 £0.79 View In iTunes 6 The Model Kraftwerk 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 Same Old Scene Roxy Music 3:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Are "Friends" Electric? Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 5:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Einstein a Go-Go Landscape 2:59 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Temptation Heaven 17 3:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 11 Love Action (I Believe in Love) The Human League 3:51 £0.79 View In iTunes 12 Ghosts Japan 4:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 13 It's a Mystery Toyah 4:08 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Poison Arrow ABC 3:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 15 Tainted Love (Original 12") Soft Cell 8:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 3:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Culture Club 4:29 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 I'm In Love With a German Film Star The Passions 3:59 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Living On the Ceiling Blancmange 4:02 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 3:44 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Situation (US 12 Inch Mix) Yazoo 5:46 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 After a Fashion Midge Ure 4:00 £0.99 View In iTunes 23 Stand and Deliver Adam Ant 3:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 24 Calling Your Name Marilyn 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Next Steps
Vince Clarke was a lynchpin figure in the musical direction of the New Romantic movement — he was a founding member of Depeche Mode ("New Life"), but became more visible as the keyboard fella in Yazoo ("Don't Go") alongside Alison Moyet, before going on to form Erasure ("Sometimes") with singer Andy Bell, who sounds — let's face it — a lot like Moyet. You'll also find Clarke with the Assembly, and much more besides, in Deep Cuts.
£22.16 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 Don't You Want Me The Human League 3:58 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 Too Shy Kajagoogoo 3:42 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 All Tomorrow's Parties (7" Version) Japan 4:13 £0.99 View In iTunes 4 Brilliant Mind Furniture 3:41 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) (12'' Version) Spandau Ballet 5:47 £0.79 View In iTunes 6 Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) A Flock of Seagulls 5:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 The Look of Love ABC 3:29 £0.99 View In iTunes 8 Fashion David Bowie 4:47 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Together in Electric Dreams The Human League 3:53 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Cars Gary Numan 3:58 £0.99 View In iTunes 11 We Are Detective Thompson Twins 3:06 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 All Stood Still Ultravox 4:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 Sometimes Erasure 3:41 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 More Than This Roxy Music 4:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 15 Never Ending Story Kajagoogoo and Limahl 3:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 16 Planet Earth (Single Version) Duran Duran 3:57 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Pull Up to the Bumper (12" Version) Grace Jones 7:17 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 Maid Of Orleans Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 4:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 Don't Go Yazoo 3:06 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 Is It a Dream Classix Nouveaux 3:37 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Dog Eat Dog Adam Ant 3:08 £0.59 View In iTunes 22 Bedsitter Soft Cell 3:38 £0.99 View In iTunes 23 Today (Single Version) Talk Talk 3:13 £0.99 View In iTunes 24 All of My Heart ABC 5:17 £0.99 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Deep Cuts
There was plenty of cross-pollination within the ranks of the New Romantics, which is why you'll find common threads across fairly disparate styles. Gary Numan ("Music for Chameleons", "Down in the Park") affected a look of po-faced androgyny that owed a debt to David Bowie ("Boys Keep Swinging"), while a more cheerful vein of pop links the chirpy songs of Haircut 100 and Kajagoogoo.
£22.75 Deep Cuts
Name Artist Time Price 1 I Want to Be Free Toyah 3:10 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 Penthouse and Pavement Heaven 17 6:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 New Life Depeche Mode 3:45 £0.99 View In iTunes 4 Careless Memories (Single Version) Duran Duran 3:54 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 I Could Be Happy (Single Version) Altered Images 3:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Karma Chameleon Culture Club 4:12 £0.79 View In iTunes 7 Music for Chameleons Gary Numan 6:06 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Boys Keep Swinging David Bowie 3:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 John Wayne Is Big Leggy Haysi Fantayzee 3:20 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Go Wild In the Country Bow Wow Wow 2:42 £0.99 View In iTunes 11 Never Never The Assembly 3:46 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 I Ran (So Far Away) A Flock of Seagulls 5:06 £0.59 View In iTunes 13 Life In Tokyo Japan 3:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 14 Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Haircut 100 3:05 £0.99 View In iTunes 15 She’s In Parties Bauhaus 5:46 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 (Feels Like) Heaven Fiction Factory 3:33 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 Bamboo Houses David Sylvian 5:21 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 3:41 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 Kiss Me (1983) Stephen Duffy 3:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 Blind Vision Blancmange 3:57 £0.79 View In iTunes 21 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 3:13 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 Eighth Day Hazel O'Connor 3:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 23 Dream to Sleep H2O 3:53 £0.99 View In iTunes 24 Moskow Diskow (English Version) [2004 Remaster] Telex 4:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 25 Cry Boy Cry Blue Zoo 3:57 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Complete Set
If you had the soul (and flouncy shirts) of a consumptive 19th-century poet and the musical circuitry of a 25th-century android — and you were turning heads on the streets of Soho during the early '80s — chances are you were a New Romantic. The movement would ultimately spread away from its underground club roots (Boy George was the cloakroom attendant at the influential Blitz Club in Covent Garden) and onto the charts, from which we've pulled this selection of still-electrifying tracks. Trace the trend from A Flock of Seagulls to Yazoo.
£66.27 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 Vienna Ultravox 4:54 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 Ashes to Ashes David Bowie 4:24 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 Fade to Grey Visage 3:50 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 To Cut a Long Story Short Spandau Ballet 3:20 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Girls On Film Duran Duran 3:36 £0.79 View In iTunes 6 The Model Kraftwerk 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 Same Old Scene Roxy Music 3:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Are "Friends" Electric? Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 5:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Einstein a Go-Go Landscape 2:59 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Temptation Heaven 17 3:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 11 Love Action (I Believe in Love) The Human League 3:51 £0.79 View In iTunes 12 Ghosts Japan 4:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 13 It's a Mystery Toyah 4:08 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Poison Arrow ABC 3:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 15 Tainted Love (Original 12") Soft Cell 8:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 3:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Culture Club 4:29 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 I'm In Love With a German Film Star The Passions 3:59 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Living On the Ceiling Blancmange 4:02 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 3:44 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Situation (US 12 Inch Mix) Yazoo 5:46 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 After a Fashion Midge Ure 4:00 £0.99 View In iTunes 23 Stand and Deliver Adam Ant 3:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 24 Calling Your Name Marilyn 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 25 Don't You Want Me The Human League 3:58 £0.99 View In iTunes 26 Too Shy Kajagoogoo 3:42 £0.79 View In iTunes 27 All Tomorrow's Parties (7" Version) Japan 4:13 £0.99 View In iTunes 28 Brilliant Mind Furniture 3:41 £0.99 View In iTunes 29 Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) (12'' Version) Spandau Ballet 5:47 £0.79 View In iTunes 30 Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) A Flock of Seagulls 5:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 31 The Look of Love ABC 3:29 £0.99 View In iTunes 32 Fashion David Bowie 4:47 £0.79 View In iTunes 33 Together in Electric Dreams The Human League 3:53 £0.99 View In iTunes 34 Cars Gary Numan 3:58 £0.99 View In iTunes 35 We Are Detective Thompson Twins 3:06 £0.99 View In iTunes 36 All Stood Still Ultravox 4:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 37 Sometimes Erasure 3:41 £0.79 View In iTunes 38 More Than This Roxy Music 4:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 39 Never Ending Story Kajagoogoo and Limahl 3:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 40 Planet Earth (Single Version) Duran Duran 3:57 £0.79 View In iTunes 41 Pull Up to the Bumper (12" Version) Grace Jones 7:17 £0.99 View In iTunes 42 Maid Of Orleans Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 4:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 43 Don't Go Yazoo 3:06 £0.99 View In iTunes 44 Is It a Dream Classix Nouveaux 3:37 £0.99 View In iTunes 45 Dog Eat Dog Adam Ant 3:08 £0.59 View In iTunes 46 Bedsitter Soft Cell 3:38 £0.99 View In iTunes 47 Today (Single Version) Talk Talk 3:13 £0.99 View In iTunes 48 All of My Heart ABC 5:17 £0.99 View In iTunes 49 I Want to Be Free Toyah 3:10 £0.79 View In iTunes 50 Penthouse and Pavement Heaven 17 6:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 51 New Life Depeche Mode 3:45 £0.99 View In iTunes 52 Careless Memories (Single Version) Duran Duran 3:54 £0.99 View In iTunes 53 I Could Be Happy (Single Version) Altered Images 3:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 54 Karma Chameleon Culture Club 4:12 £0.79 View In iTunes 55 Music for Chameleons Gary Numan 6:06 £0.79 View In iTunes 56 Boys Keep Swinging David Bowie 3:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 57 John Wayne Is Big Leggy Haysi Fantayzee 3:20 £0.99 View In iTunes 58 Go Wild In the Country Bow Wow Wow 2:42 £0.99 View In iTunes 59 Never Never The Assembly 3:46 £0.99 View In iTunes 60 I Ran (So Far Away) A Flock of Seagulls 5:06 £0.59 View In iTunes 61 Life In Tokyo Japan 3:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 62 Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Haircut 100 3:05 £0.99 View In iTunes 63 She’s In Parties Bauhaus 5:46 £0.79 View In iTunes 64 (Feels Like) Heaven Fiction Factory 3:33 £0.99 View In iTunes 65 Bamboo Houses David Sylvian 5:21 £0.99 View In iTunes 66 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 3:41 £0.99 View In iTunes 67 Kiss Me (1983) Stephen Duffy 3:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 68 Blind Vision Blancmange 3:57 £0.79 View In iTunes 69 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 3:13 £0.99 View In iTunes 70 Eighth Day Hazel O'Connor 3:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 71 Dream to Sleep H2O 3:53 £0.99 View In iTunes 72 Moskow Diskow (English Version) [2004 Remaster] Telex 4:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 73 Cry Boy Cry Blue Zoo 3:57 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 73 Songs
Customer Reviews
Quality 80's in a nutshell
Damn I wished I lived in the 1980's I'm pretty sure this is the perfect soundtrack to a drive along the california coast to, pastel coloured linen suit, brick at ear, coiffured hair, there's quality all the way to the end of deep cuts, a marvel of a playlist.
This was what it was all about
Spot's and weird hair do's ..... yea it was 1977 and i just discovered Kraftwerk what followed was 35 years of music bliss and a vast majority of them are featured here ... if you wore pixie boot's with baggy trousers and numan shirt's and painted your face like Mr Strange took the ridicule from friends and foe as i did all for the desire to listen to Visage, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Ultravox then this is the collection for you .... headphones on .... sit back .... and enjoy :)
Quality Box Set?
So many I love, and old memories. I'd buy a box set like this, only the price of these downloads is a bit much.
where to start? John Wayne is big leggy - old memories of my brother playing that at 78rpm. Yup the things we did before the internet....
Great variety here, from Gary Numan to Duran Duran to Furniture and David Bowie to name a few.
