Quirky late 1970's-1980's New Wave novelty songs

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26 Feb 2014, 11:58 am

There was a type a quirky bouncy pop that flourished during the New Wave era. The videos would be on MTV a few times, "New Music/Alternative" stations like WLIR and KROQ would play them incessantly for about two weeks then the song and usually the group would quickly disappear until YouTube brought them back. Intellectually and musically were cringe-worth but they were somehow irresistible to me anyway because I was just as awkward and cringe-worthy as them. I am very glad there was not camaras everywhere back then to record me "dancing" to these songs in my room

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_mvejvEdKc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCOp0yCszg0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqCTGoWMZcQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVcjuLiJHqA[/youtube]

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27 Feb 2014, 7:33 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Lec3m1pLY[/youtube]

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27 Feb 2014, 7:35 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaxTWj1ti84[/youtube]

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27 Feb 2014, 7:38 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDsPRSRC3s[/youtube]

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27 Feb 2014, 7:43 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T4QuAK7oCE[/youtube]

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27 Feb 2014, 9:09 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dun-YF48gvo[/youtube]

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27 Feb 2014, 12:36 pm

MannyBoo wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dun-YF48gvo[/youtube]

Oh, so it wasn't just the UK that was making tooth-achingly camp synth music back then :lol:

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27 Feb 2014, 5:58 pm

Lene Lovich had more then one hit and not so cringe worthy but certainly quirky and she's just great.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIJOO__jVo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPYh13wuYbg[/youtube]
Look for Thomas Dolby on keyboards below
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VgDSNxlGU[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3tLIEfoWQ[/youtube]
She is still as great as ever
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxej5gY9BFQ[/youtube]

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28 Feb 2014, 5:37 am

puddingmouse wrote:

Oh, so it wasn't just the UK that was making tooth-achingly camp synth music back then :lol:

any tooth-achingly camp synth music, from any country, its all synthelicious :lol:

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28 Feb 2014, 6:42 am

Where Danny Elfman started, and thankfully distanced himself from:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jItz-uNjoZA&feature=kp[/youtube]

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03 Mar 2014, 12:28 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHhYbVVDuoA[/youtube]

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03 Mar 2014, 12:29 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ[/youtube]

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21 Feb 2015, 10:13 pm

Some of these might have appeared earlier in the thread before the new website messed up the links

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