New Wave Radio
There’s an excellent radio station a co-worker introduced me to: Radio Nigel. Just point your streaming audio tool at stream.radionigel.com, and Bob’s your uncle.
I don’t believe that I’ve pointed this out before, but 80s new wave really is the pinnacle of musical development. Thousands of years of years of musical development starting with the first caveman to hit two rocks together to get a beat going, and it peaked with synth-pop. Everything after that has been just…sad.
Recently I had to put together a list of essential new wave for a friend. The final playlist—formed after much consultation with my co-workers, all of whom were young men two decades ago—was:
- Dead or Alive: You Spin Me Round
- Dream Academy: Please, Please, Please Let Me
- Madness: Our House
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: If You Leave
- New Order: Blue Monday
- Heaven 17: Let Me Go
- The Smiths: How Soon is Now
- Thompson Twins: Hold Me Now
- Modern English: I Melt with You
- The Church: Under the Milky Way
- When in Rome: The Promise
- Depeche Mode: Just Can’t Get Enough
Anyone who doesn’t like these songs is that much less than human.
