Japanese Whispers
By - The Cure
The title of the album is a play on words with the children's game Chinese whispers, it includes the singles "Let's Go to Bed", "The Walk" and "The Love Cats". At the time that "The Love Cats" was written, Robert Smith the lead vocalist for The Cure was very much interested [...]
A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (Remastered & Expanded)
By - Siouxsie & The Banshees
A Kiss in the Dreamhouse was the first album on which the Banshees really exploited the possibilities of the studio. They allowed themselves to be inspired by sounds. Engineer Mike Hedges, who was interested in vocals, put different effects on Siouxsie's voice and multi-lay [...]
Violator
By - Depeche Mode
The World Violation Tour was a 1990 concert tour by English electronic group Depeche Mode in support of the act's seventh studio album, Violator. The tour started in May 1990 and ran through the end of that year, and was the first Depeche Mode tour to see the band regularly [...]
Pink Suit Blue Day
By - Eurogliders
Pink Suit Blue Day is the debut album by Australian rock band Eurogliders, released in 1982. Their debut single, "Without You", was released in June and entered the top 40 of the Australian Kent Music Report singles chart. A follow-up single, "Laughing Matter" in September [...]
Heartbeat City (Expanded Edition)
By - The Cars
The Cars were at the forefront of the merger of 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that became popular in the early 1980s. Music critic Robert Palmer of The New York Times and Rolling Stone wrote that the band's musical style, "...have taken so [...]
Kissing to Be Clever
By - Culture Club
Kissing to Be Clever is the debut album by the English band Culture Club, released on 8 October 1982 in the United Kingdom. It includes Culture Club's international breakthrough hit single, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", which reached number one in the band's native UK an [...]
Arena (Recorded Around the World 1984) [Bonus Track Version]
By - Duran Duran
Arena was Duran Duran's first live album, released at the peak of their commercial success in late 1984. It included one new song, the studio recorded "The Wild Boys", which as a single was a worldwide hit, reaching no. 2 in both the UK and the US. Arena was released togeth [...]
The Best Of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
By - Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark
"If You Leave" is the group's highest-charting single on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it reached number four in May 1986. The song was also a top-five hit in Canada and New Zealand and charted at number 15 in Australia. A defining track of the 1980s, it was described by [...]
Upstairs at Eric’s
By - Yazoo
Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America) were an English synth-pop duo from Basildon, Essex, formed in late 1981 by Alison Moyet (vocals) and former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards). The pair released two albums, Upstairs at Eric's (1982) and You and Me Both (1983) [...]
Songs from the Big Chair
By - Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the synth-pop bands of the 1980s, and attained internat [...]
Greatest Hits
By - Devo
"Whip It" is a song by American new wave band Devo from their third studio album Freedom of Choice (1980). It is a new wave and synth-pop song that features a synthesizer, electric guitar, bass guitar, and drums in its instrumentation. The apparently nonsensical lyrics have [...]
A Flock of Seagulls
By - A Flock of Seagulls
A Flock of Seagulls is an English new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1979. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds, hit the peak of their chart success in the early 1980s.
The group had a string of internati [...]
