New Wave (3)
80’s New Wave gave us some of the best party music ever made, but the most of the songs had an undercurrent of melancholy. There’s a parallel to the current moment: a lot of people are getting giddy about their impending release from lockdown, but there is also a lot of sadness over what has been lost. Here are a few more New Wave era songs, just because.
UB40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AeRMrZCPGk
Alison Moyet, 1986:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDdAgJxdgcQ
More UB40. This one you have certainly heard before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXt56MB-3vc
Alison Moyet, 1987 (oh, that voice):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nti6WDc8IDc
Here’s a twist on social distancing: send a stand-in. Siouxie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi53rgdJyvI
“Enjoy the Silence” was last major release from Depeche Mode. Here are Lacuna Coil, with a more menacing version of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx58hXh4pVA
And to top it off, my favorite version of “New York, New York”.