Name your 10 favourite [New wave / Synth-pop 80's] Songs.

From the Bunker · October 26, 2025, 09:20:34 PM

Tunes that were the soundtracks to my childhood
They were often frowned upon at the time.
But I appreciate their influences now.

Erasure - Love to Hate you
Depeche Mode - See you
Blacmange - Living on the Ceiling
Yazoo - Don't Go
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Bronski Beat - Small town Boy
Jan Hammer - Crocketts theme
Heaven 17 - Temptation
AHA - The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
OMD – Enola Gay

Genocide Organ · October 26, 2025, 09:53:25 PM

Quote from: From the Bunker on October 26, 2025, 09:20:34 PMTunes that were the soundtracks to my childhood
They were often frowned upon at the time.
But I appreciate their influences now.

Erasure - Love to Hate you
Depeche Mode - See you
Blacmange - Living on the Ceiling
Yazoo - Don't Go
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Bronski Beat - Small town Boy
Jan Hammer - Crocketts theme
Heaven 17 - Temptation
AHA - The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
OMD – Enola Gay

Nice list. Right up my street. Off the top of my head, I'll go with;

Depeche Mode - Stripped
The Human League - Being Boiled
Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric
Fad Gadget - Back To Nature
Soft Cell - Memorabilia
Public Image Limited - Death Disco
OMD - Electricity
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Coil - The Wheel
The The - This Is The Day

ONeill · October 26, 2025, 10:30:26 PM

Just too many to mention.

I never really left the 80s. Stuck.

Rufus T Firefly · October 28, 2025, 09:11:38 AM

Tried to keep it to one per artist. Could easily have done a top 200.

Heaven 17 - The Height of the Fighting
Human League - Being Boiled
Depeche Mode - New Life
Cure - The Walk
Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
Spandau Ballet - The Freeze
Captain Sensible - Glad It's All Over
Kane Gang - Closest Thing To Heaven
Gary Numan - I Die You Die
PhD - I Won't Let You Down

Armamike · October 28, 2025, 12:08:34 PM

Associates - Party fears two
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
Depeche Mode - Shake the disease
Visage - Fade to grey
The Cure - Boys don't cry
Gary Numan - Cars
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
Kraftwerk - The model
Erasure - Sometimes
Heaven 17 - Come live with me

weareros · October 28, 2025, 12:40:32 PM

Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Whip It - Devo
Da Da Da - Trio
Crash - Primitives
Blue Monday - New Order
Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil

Substandard · October 28, 2025, 02:49:28 PM

Fiction Factory- Feels like Heaven
Masquerade- Guardian Angel
PHD- I won't let you down
Eurythmics- Love is a stranger
Visage- Fade to grey
Baltimora- Tarzan Boy
Spagna- Call me
Dusty Springfield- In private
PSB/ DS- What have I done to deserve this
Jon and Vangelis- I'll find my way home
Industry- State of the nation.

11 there, in case one or two of them don't qualify by time or genre. Every now and then enjoy going back and trawling youtube playlists around any of these. Nostalgia is medicine.

Ronnie · October 28, 2025, 04:36:51 PM

Take on Me - A-ha
Invisible Touch - Genesis
Temptation - New Order
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
True - Spandau Ballet
Enola Gay - OMD
A Little Respect- Erasure
Rise - Public Image Limited
Thorn in my Side - Eurythmics
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

weareros · October 28, 2025, 09:48:52 PM

Quote from: weareros on October 28, 2025, 12:40:32 PMMorrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Whip It - Devo
Da Da Da - Trio
Crash - Primitives
Blue Monday - New Order
Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil

Somehow forgot Golden Brown - The Stranglers (never knew it was about heroin either)

sensethetone · **Today** at 10:44:58 AM

Tarzan Boy- Baltimora
Always on my mind- Pet shop boys
Stay on these roads- A-HA
The Promise- When in Rome
Enjoy the silence- Depeche Mode
Call Me- Spagna
Live it up- Mental as anything
Feels like heaven- Fiction Factory