New Romantic
Various Artists
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- The Basics
Foppish shirt, powdered facial whiteout, pulsating synth backdrop . . . and, of course, a passion for extravagant romanticism. Such were the trappings of the theatrical yet streetwise artists who created and defined the New Romantic movement in London's clubland, then turned U.K. TV's weekly music show, Top of the Pops, into a weekly carnivale during the early '80s, before spearheading the Second British Invasion of the U.S. Duran Duran's sci-fi style-fest "Planet Earth" gets us underway, Ultravox's epic, cinematic single "Vienna" blends artful sophistication with a sense of mystery, and Visage's "Fade to Grey" invites a superior degree of poseur-ability.
Follow the trail of electro-pop, make-up, and glamour to Next Steps.$29.16 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 Planet Earth (Single Version) Duran Duran 3:57 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Culture Club 4:24 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 The Look of Love, Pt. 1 ABC 3:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Ashes to Ashes David Bowie 3:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 5 True Spandau Ballet 5:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 I Melt With You Modern English 4:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics 3:36 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Fade to Grey Visage 3:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Don't You Want Me The Human League 3:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Hold Me Now Thompson Twins 4:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Love Plus One Nick Heyward & Haircut 100 3:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones 3:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 Too Shy Kajagoogoo and Limahl 3:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 3:40 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 I Ran (So Far Away) A Flock of Seagulls 5:07 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 More Than This Roxy Music 4:18 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go (Extended Version) Soft Cell 8:56 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 Mad World Tears for Fears 3:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 3:32 $1.29 View In iTunes 20 Young Guns (Go for It) Wham! 3:39 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Let Me Go Heaven 17 4:16 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Cars Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 3:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Life In Tokyo Japan 3:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Vienna (Single Version) Ultravox 4:39 $1.29 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, but became more visible as the keyboard presence in Yaz ("Don't Go") alongside Alison Moyet, before going on to form Erasure. Limahl marked his solo breakaway from Kajagoogoo by scoring a global hit with the theme song from the 1984 movie The Neverending Story; Boy George went even bigger in the States the same year, spending three weeks at the top of the charts with Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon"; and Alphaville sowed the seeds for a future appearance on the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack with "Forever Young."
American New Romantics were few and far between, but you'll find a band apart, in Deep Cuts.$29.16 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 4:27 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Who's That Girl? Eurythmics 3:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Karma Chameleon Culture Club 4:14 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Don't Go Yaz 3:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 5 Promised You a Miracle Simple Minds 3:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 Girls On Film Duran Duran 3:27 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Never Ending Story Limahl 3:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Dear Prudence (Single) Siouxsie and the Banshees 3:49 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Poison Arrow (Single Version) ABC 3:23 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 I Want Candy Bow Wow Wow 2:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Blue Monday New Order 7:26 $1.29 View In iTunes 12 Lies Thompson Twins 3:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Forever Young Alphaville 3:46 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 Kiss Me (1983) Stephen Duffy 3:26 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Nick Heyward & Haircut 100 3:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Fashion David Bowie 3:27 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 It's My Life Talk Talk 3:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 (Keep Feeling) Fascination The Human League 3:44 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Single Version) Ultravox 4:09 $1.29 View In iTunes 20 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 3:41 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 Ghosts Japan 4:36 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Perfect Way Scritti Politti 4:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Temptation Heaven 17 4:39 $1.29 View In iTunes 24 Here Comes the Rain Again Eurythmics 4:50 $1.29 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 a fairly disparate array of styles. Gary Numan ("Are 'Friends' Electric?") 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 tunes of Altered Images ("Happy Birthday") and King ("Love & Pride"). And while the New Romantic movement was primarily a British phenomenon, New Orleans' Red Rockers snuck in at the fringes with their dreamy evocation of "China," which peaked at #53 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983.
$28.56 Deep Cuts
Name Artist Time Price 1 Time (Clock of the Heart) Culture Club 3:44 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 If You Were Here Thompson Twins 2:56 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 Same Old Scene Roxy Music 3:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Love & Pride King 3:20 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 The Chauffeur Duran Duran 5:12 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 New Life Depeche Mode 3:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Boys Keep Swinging David Bowie 3:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) Scritti Politti 4:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Together In Electric Dreams The Human League 3:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 If I Was Midge Ure 5:22 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Be Near Me ABC 3:37 $1.29 View In iTunes 12 Talk Talk Talk Talk 3:18 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 Happy Birthday Altered Images 2:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 4:30 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 Pale Shelter Tears for Fears 4:25 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 Since Yesterday Strawberry Switchblade 2:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) A Flock of Seagulls 5:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 Are 'Friends' Electric? Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 5:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Sex Dwarf (Original Version) Soft Cell 5:16 $1.29 View In iTunes 20 Love Missile F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 3:47 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 Penthouse and Pavement Heaven 17 4:04 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 The Model Kraftwerk 3:40 $1.29 View In iTunes 23 Love Theme (From "Blade Runner") Vangelis 4:57 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 China Red Rockers 4:01 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 24 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 London's Soho during the early '80s — chances are you were a New Romantic. The movement would ultimately spread away from its underground club roots (Culture Club's Boy George was the cloakroom attendant at the influential Blitz Club in Covent Garden) and into the charts, from which we've pulled this selection of still-electrifying tracks. Trace the trend from A Flock of Seagulls to Yaz, lingering flamboyantly with the likes of Japan ("Life In Tokyo"), ABC ("The Look of Love, Pt. 1"), and Adam Ant ("Stand and Deliver").
$86.88 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 Planet Earth (Single Version) Duran Duran 3:57 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Culture Club 4:24 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 The Look of Love, Pt. 1 ABC 3:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Ashes to Ashes David Bowie 3:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 5 True Spandau Ballet 5:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 I Melt With You Modern English 4:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics 3:36 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Fade to Grey Visage 3:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Don't You Want Me The Human League 3:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Hold Me Now Thompson Twins 4:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Love Plus One Nick Heyward & Haircut 100 3:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones 3:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 Too Shy Kajagoogoo and Limahl 3:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 3:40 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 I Ran (So Far Away) A Flock of Seagulls 5:07 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 More Than This Roxy Music 4:18 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go (Extended Version) Soft Cell 8:56 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 Mad World Tears for Fears 3:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 3:32 $1.29 View In iTunes 20 Young Guns (Go for It) Wham! 3:39 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Let Me Go Heaven 17 4:16 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Cars Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 3:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Life In Tokyo Japan 3:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Vienna (Single Version) Ultravox 4:39 $1.29 View In iTunes 25 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 4:27 $1.29 View In iTunes 26 Who's That Girl? Eurythmics 3:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 27 Karma Chameleon Culture Club 4:14 $1.29 View In iTunes 28 Don't Go Yaz 3:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 29 Promised You a Miracle Simple Minds 3:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 30 Girls On Film Duran Duran 3:27 $1.29 View In iTunes 31 Never Ending Story Limahl 3:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 32 Dear Prudence (Single) Siouxsie and the Banshees 3:49 $1.29 View In iTunes 33 Poison Arrow (Single Version) ABC 3:23 $1.29 View In iTunes 34 I Want Candy Bow Wow Wow 2:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 35 Blue Monday New Order 7:26 $1.29 View In iTunes 36 Lies Thompson Twins 3:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 37 Forever Young Alphaville 3:46 $1.29 View In iTunes 38 Kiss Me (1983) Stephen Duffy 3:26 $1.29 View In iTunes 39 Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Nick Heyward & Haircut 100 3:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 40 Fashion David Bowie 3:27 $1.29 View In iTunes 41 It's My Life Talk Talk 3:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 42 (Keep Feeling) Fascination The Human League 3:44 $1.29 View In iTunes 43 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Single Version) Ultravox 4:09 $1.29 View In iTunes 44 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 3:41 $1.29 View In iTunes 45 Ghosts Japan 4:36 $1.29 View In iTunes 46 Perfect Way Scritti Politti 4:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 47 Temptation Heaven 17 4:39 $1.29 View In iTunes 48 Here Comes the Rain Again Eurythmics 4:50 $1.29 View In iTunes 49 Time (Clock of the Heart) Culture Club 3:44 $1.29 View In iTunes 50 If You Were Here Thompson Twins 2:56 $1.29 View In iTunes 51 Same Old Scene Roxy Music 3:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 52 Love & Pride King 3:20 $0.99 View In iTunes 53 The Chauffeur Duran Duran 5:12 $1.29 View In iTunes 54 New Life Depeche Mode 3:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 55 Boys Keep Swinging David Bowie 3:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 56 Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) Scritti Politti 4:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 57 Together In Electric Dreams The Human League 3:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 58 If I Was Midge Ure 5:22 $1.29 View In iTunes 59 Be Near Me ABC 3:37 $1.29 View In iTunes 60 Talk Talk Talk Talk 3:18 $1.29 View In iTunes 61 Happy Birthday Altered Images 2:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 62 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 4:30 $1.29 View In iTunes 63 Pale Shelter Tears for Fears 4:25 $1.29 View In iTunes 64 Since Yesterday Strawberry Switchblade 2:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 65 Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) A Flock of Seagulls 5:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 66 Are 'Friends' Electric? Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 5:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 67 Sex Dwarf (Original Version) Soft Cell 5:16 $1.29 View In iTunes 68 Love Missile F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 3:47 $1.29 View In iTunes 69 Penthouse and Pavement Heaven 17 4:04 $1.29 View In iTunes 70 The Model Kraftwerk 3:40 $1.29 View In iTunes 71 Love Theme (From "Blade Runner") Vangelis 4:57 $0.99 View In iTunes 72 China Red Rockers 4:01 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 72 Songs
Customer Reviews
Give 'Em A Break, It's A Good Collection
This compilation was probably created by a twenty something whose total knowledge of the eighties is derived from retro 80s dance clubs and John Hughes Movies. Bottom line is, the songs are good! And technically New Ro or not, chances are you did have Siouxie right next to Ultravox records in your milk crate anyway. So I say… spray your head with Aquanet Extra Super Hold, spark up a clove, put on way to much eyeliner (boys and girls), and enjoy the collection. It’s good! :D
Did a 20 year old compile this?
A small percentage of these tracks would actually have been classified as "New Ro" by anyone who actually lived through the era. Try again "essentials" team. This time do your research or find someone who actually wore frilly shirts and wore their hair over the eyes.
WTF?
Siouxsie & Bow Wow Wow are "New Romantic"???
I don't think so!
