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 New Wave
| "How could we ever believe you, radio? Now that we've learned to deceive you..." Not exactly haunting lyrics but "Russian Radio" by this band was a club favorite and had a half dozen re-mixes including a decade version released in 2001.
Who the heck sings it? | Are you New Wave?
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Red Flag. A band that had high hopes and instantly attracted a lot of electronic music fans in the early 1990's with "If I ever" and "Russian radio."
Alas, they too flew off into the Bermuda Triangle of the music industry never to be heard from again until 2001 with the re-release of newly mixed original songs.
| This band,was an 80's icon and can be categorized solo. Who are they?
Please, please tell me now! | Are you New Wave?
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Duran Duran. Duran Duran has more than a couple of classics that never seem to get old. One of the few bands which everyone knows at least one song or tune.
| Before hip-hop, what blonde female singer 'rapped' it up in a ground- breaking song entitled 'Rapture?' | Are you New Wave?
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Deborah Harry. The lead singer of Blondie 'represented' before such an expression was yet known. Who can forget the dude spray-painting 'Rap' on the wall or the guys wearing the flashing lights on their glasses or clothes?
| This man with wild hair claims indirectly that only the fair sex is supposed to shed a tear. Why is it most of the songs he sings make us cry? | Are you New Wave?
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Robert Smith. The Cure has changed Band Members more often than we can keep track of but their sound is enduring. The Cure can also be considered as one of the forerunners of Goth. Seemingly enough, the band's front man Robert Smith is the most enduring member of the group and the best known.
| Used to be in Depeche Mode, went off to Yaz and landed a permanent gig at Erasure. Who is he? | Are you New Wave?
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Vince Clarke. Andy Bell and Vince Clarke are icons. Vince has the distiction of being an original member of Depeche although you would never know it.
Erasure shows are exactly that...instead of a concert, every song is performed with distinct props and costumes or a theme.
New Order. Joy Division's lead-singer Ian Curtis had an untimely death, the band reformed into the Constantinople of New Wave music, New Order.
| They wore blue jeans, black tank-tops and had only two hit songs. One in particular that we really remember 'She drives me crazy' who were they? | Are you New Wave?
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Fine Young Cannibals. Hey, they wore bouncing air cushion soles and created a song that will serve as a jingle for generations to come. What more do you want from FYC?
| This band makes the claim in a song to "hate all music and especially Rap". Their name has inspired a bunch of meanings. Does anyone know who they are? | Are you New Wave?
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KMFDM. KMFDM claims that their song 'KMFDM sucks' is a parody and that they actually listen to and enjoy Rap music. One of the translations for their acronym has been taken by many as a swipe at Depeche Mode using colorful language. The band has also denied this claim.
| The lyrics of this song keep ringing in my head..."Not now, James- We're busy"
Who sings it? | Are you New Wave?
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Pop will eat itself. Great Band, I always thought they were border-line Industrial but who's telling?
Strange Love. Every Depeche Fan has to know this. Red mega-phone or black and white if you are watching the 'Strange' VHS.
| You listen to Informatik, Frontline Assembly, X marks the Pedwalk, Cult of Xymox, Velvet Acid Christ...you wear military fatiques and a crew cut...what is the nick name for your music? | Are you New Wave?
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Industrial. The mosh pit may have started with punk, but it was perfected by the electronic body music worshipping rivet-heads. Industrial music and electronic goth is still going strong with bands like Laether-Strip, Switch Blade Symphony and Clan of Xymox in the forefront. It has come a long way since the days of Front 242, a band still revered and suprised its fans by recently releasing an all new album entitled 'Pulse.'
Anything Box. Yes, their album is a must have! (At least in my opinion.) Every now and then a band comes along and moves you, you memorize all the music and they vanish...that is certainly Anything Box. This electro-band is smooth and relaxing and can still inspire a jig in the tradition of Marc Almond.
| Which Yaz song has the following lyrics: "To your credit the thirty faces you created. To your headache to the shape of the 1980's."? | Early New Wave Music
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Goodbye Seventies. Lead singer Alison Moyet was also known as Alf Moyet. The album this song appeared on is "Upstairs At Eric's". The band known as Yaz in the US went by the name Yazoo in the UK - there were copyright issues in the States.
| Which Tears For Fears song has the following lyrics: "Scratch the ice. Let the telephone ring. Sense of time is a powerful thing."? | Early New Wave Music
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Start Of The Breakdown. Roland and Curt had gotten their start in a five piece ska band called Graduate, but left due to the bands lack of creativity. The album this song appeared on is "The Hurting."
| Which Adam Ant song has the following lyrics: "The devil take your stereo and your record collection! The way you look you'll qualify for next year's old age pension!"? | Early New Wave Music
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Stand And Deliver. Adam and his Ants were at first considered to be unfashionable by the British press. By the time the USA saw Adam on MTV he was a fashion icon. "Stand and Deliver" is on the "Prince Charming" album.
| Which Police song has the following lyrics: "Limp wrist, tight fist, contact, no twist."? | Early New Wave Music
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It's Alright For You. Drummer Stewart Copeland came up with the name The Police because "it gave them free publicity in every country in the world." The album this song appears on is "Reggatta de Blanc."
| Which Aztec Camera song has the following lyrics: "I wear a picture of you wearing black and kissing me behind the butler's back."? | Early New Wave Music
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The Birth Of The True. Lead singer Roddy Frame writes and arranges all of Aztec Camera's music. Impressive considering he was only a teenager when he started in the band. This song appears on the "Knife" album.
| Which Roxy Music song has the following lyrics: "Heart to heart as we hit the floor. Lumbered up limbo down, the locked embrace stumble round."? | Early New Wave Music
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Love Is The Drug. Roxy Music have been around since the 1970's. Lead singer Bryan Ferry has carried the glam music scene well into the 1980's with such great songs like "Slave To Love" and "More Than This". This song appears on the "Siren" album.
| Which Devo song has the following lyrics: "You told me people like to suffer, you told me thats the way it is."? | Early New Wave Music
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Jerkin' Me Back And Forth. Devo came about from the theory later dubbed "De-evolution". This theory states that "mankind, rather than progressing was actually going backwards". "Jerkin' Me Back And Forth" is on the "New Traditionalists" album.
| Which Depeche Mode song has the following lyrics: "Such a small affair a relapse someone closing like the night club door."? | Early New Wave Music
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Any Second Now. This song is also played as an instrumental on the B-side to "Just Can't Get Enough". "Any Second Now" appears on the "Speak And Spell" album.
| Which Cars song has the following lyrics: "You get the force fed future. Get the funk after death. Get the wisenheimer brainstorm."? | Early New Wave Music
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I'm In Touch With Your World. Lead singer Ric Ocasek had a background in beat poetry which he combined with "a timeless AM-radio spirit" to form The Cars. This song appears on the album "The Cars".
| Which Blondie song has the following lyrics: "Lead you to the supermarket checkout. Some specials and rat food, get lost in the crowd."? | Early New Wave Music
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One Way or Another. "One Way or Another" originated from a surf piece created in a portable studio Debbie had bought in Japan. The original song had "started out with a spaghetti western guitar". This song appears on the "Parallel Lines" album.
| Which Sparks song has the following lyrics: "It's worse than war, it's worse than death. Their ain't too many left who..."? | Early New Wave Music
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Eaten By The Monster Of Love. Sparks started in the early 1970's by the Mael brothers whose strange mix of big band, marching tunes, and hoe down made them one of the oddest bands to come out of the New Wave scene. This song appears on the "Angst In My Pants" album.
| Which Blancmange song has the following lyrics: "I'll climb the mountain, reaching for the skies and all too soon I jump the moon and find I'm losing my mind."? | Early New Wave Music
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Don't Tell Me. The duo known as Blancmange were known for bringing together unrelated sounds and images to graft their unique style. In their early career they toured with bands like Depeche Mode. This song appears on the album "Mange Tout."
| Which Squeeze song has the following lyrics: "Lazing about the beach all day. At night the crickets creepy."? | Early New Wave Music
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Pulling Mussels (From The Shell). Tilbrook and Difford had written over 1,000 original songs as of the late 1980's. The album on which this song appears is "Argybargy" which when translated means "violent jocular chaos".
| Which Tones On Tail song contains the following lyrics: "Swap your dull grey thoughts, for fierce demands you can stand up to."? | Early New Wave Music
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Go. The main idea of Tones On Tail was "to be spontaneous and otherworldly." They "wanted to sound like a band from Venus or Mars". This song appears as the B-side for the song Lions" from the album "Pop".
| Which Talking Heads song contains the following lyrics: "I remember when sittin' in the tub. Pulled out the plug. The water was runnin' out."? | Early New Wave Music
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Slippery People. When the Talking Heads started they were considered "art rock" by many reviewers. This was fitting because all three original members had met at art school. This song appears originally on the album "Speaking In Tongues", but is also on the better known "Stop Making Sense" album.
| "The greatest band in the world." "The greatest album ever made." "We are Shakespeare and the Simple Minds are crap." Don't take my word for it, it's this bands' singer talking. He also said the following lines, in song: "Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching. Say we can, say we will. Not just another drop in the ocean." What song? | More New Wave / Post Punk Quotes
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"The Cutter" - Echo and the Bunnymen. "The Cutter" was on the band's third album, "Porcupine", released in 1983. "The greatest album ever made" was however the slogan with which their modest singer Ian McCulloch insisted their fourth album, "Ocean Rain" (1984), was promoted.
| The craziest man in Liverpool once sang these lyrics and suddenly saw himself and his band turned into pop idols overnight: "Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news. The king sits on his face buttons all askew. All wrapped up the same. All wrapped up the same. They can't have it. You can't have it. I can't have it too." Which song?
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"Reward" - The Teardrop Explodes. Julian Cope was the singer with The Teardrop Explodes. He also used to take a lot of acid. And I mean a lot. This made him quite paranoid. It got so bad that during the recording of the Teardrop's third album he chased keyboard player David Balfe all over creation with a shotgun. This of course meant the end for the band.
| An entire movie was based on this 1981 song, but only on the title. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the lyrics which went as follows: "Caroline laughs and it's raining all day, she loves to be one of the girls. She lives in the place in the side of our lives where nothing is ever put straight. She turns her self round and she smiles and she says: "This is it. That's the end of the joke" and loses herself in her dreaming and sleep and her lovers walk through in their coats." Which song was this? | More New Wave / Post Punk Quotes
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"Pretty In Pink" - The Psychedelic Furs. "Pretty in Pink", the movie, starred Molly Ringwald, John Cryer, Andrew McCarthy, Harry Dean Stanton and James Spader. It was a nice little romantic movie, filled with brat-packers. Molly Ringwald wears a pink dress in it. "Pretty in Pink", the song, was about a naked girl. She didn't wear a dress at all.
| This next quote comes from a single by a band that was not so much abrasively modernistic, but quirky and poppy. They were, in fact, direct forerunners of indie rock. Their best loved 1979 single began thus: "When the rich die last. Like the rabbits. Running from a lucky past. Full of shadow cunning. And the world lights up. For the final day. We will all be poor. Having had our say." What is it? | More New Wave / Post Punk Quotes
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"Final Day" - Young Marble Giants. Sadly Young Marble Giants had a very short lifespan. They released two singles, "Final Day" and "Testcard", and one full length album, "Colossal Youth". Their song "Credit in the Straight World" was covered by Courtney Love's band Hole, on their "Live Through This" album.
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