I used to get them as often as possible, but lately, of course, I haven;t had the money. The last combo I got was a Polydor TV 2-CD set called Electric Dreams, and it POPS baby.
Many of the usual suspects are on here, Midge Ure, Soft Cell, OMD, Erasure, Human League, but not always with the songs that must US folk heard. Each of the tracks charted in the UK...
Other artists:
New Order (duh)
Eurythmics
Blondie (!)
Tears For Fears (2, including "Change")
Heaven 17
Scritti Politti
Blancmange
Yazoo (2, including "Don't Go")
Duran Duran ("Careless Memories" what they could/should have been)
Japan
Ultravox (x2)
Spandau Ballet
Talk Talk
Go West
Re-Flex ("Politics of Dancing" of cuss)
Visage
Assembly
Tubeway Army
Flock of Seagulls
China Crisis
Passions
Classix Nouveaux
teardrop Explodes
Thompson Twins
Sharpe & Numan
XTC ("Sgt. Rock")
Nik Kershaw
and Fashion
People at the station have borrowed/copied it about 100 times. Anyone have others that top this one?
Hear hear! THAT'S the one I really want to see...aside from Berlin! And I missed it! Ggrrrr!! Although... It sounds like they're concentrating more on the "reality" aspect ("The bitter break-up! The re-union!
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