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Originally Posted by dankrsta
^^That's very interesting VEGANGELICA. It's always nice to hear this from a personal perspective. I was a little younger in the 80's, more specificaly, I was in elementary school. I used to listen to a more commercial music from that time like Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Holywood, and I liked electro pop (I can't remember what exactly). That's why I still have a soft spot for the 80's pop. Only later I learned about the term new wave and what was it all about and what other more interesting bands I was missing.
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Oh, I also love a lot of the music from the 80s, dankstra. I remember Gary Numan's "Cars" (1979), which you posted earlier, though I didn't realize until today that is officially considered New Wave.
Duran Duran! Hee hee! Frankie Goes to Hollywood! They were very popular when I was in high school. I remember listening to them at parties with friends. And I remember when I was in Berlin in 1987 I went to a Duran Duran show. Somewhere around then I saw Frankie Goes to Hollywood, too. I don't think of them as New Wave but as pop.
But since we're on the topic of Duran Duran, I just looked up Duran Duran in Berlin and found the show I went to: "April 16 Duran Duran: Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany (no opening act)." Duran Duran was a guilty pleasure: I hated the fact that they were so mainstream and popular and I hated the blatant sexuality of "Hungry like a wolf." I didn't want to succumb! But I really liked that "Rio" song and some others. And I thought the singers were cute. Gaa! I remember an Italian friend and I both bought the big, glossy show program...for the pictures.
