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| Best 80s New Wave @mitchagain Great list!! I love M & M---Echo Beach and Black Stations/White Stations. I've got CDs or vinyl of just about every artist you listed. Honorable mentions:REM (early)Prefab SproutIcehouseRomeo VoidOcean BlueThe BelovedErasurePete S... | |
| Brick & mortar or chains Thanks @douglas_schroeder Good points! I guess I'm being a little nostalgic too. I plan to go to the Washington DC audio show this November (my first) and hopefully my first AXPONA next year. I've learned so much by just reading discussions on A... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? New Order - Dreams never end from Movement (2015 remaster). On the back porch with a cold beer enjoying the nice weather. | |
| Best 80s New Wave @vespacraig1966 Absolutely---You & Me Both was also a good album. Early Bananarama and Dead or Alive were huge club acts. You can't turn on a radio in the summer and not hear 'Cruel summer' somewhere. | |
| Best 80s New Wave @jplunkettj Blancmange is such an underrated 80s band. When I first heard 'Don't tell me' in a club back in the day, I immediately went out and bought the 12" single.Let's not forget Nina Hagen! | |
| Best 80s New Wave @n80 @lowrider57 Another band that changed its colors was Ministry---remember the album With Sympathy? Very 'new wave' synth pop---then they went hard core industrial. The B-52's Whammy was very new wave---Legal Tender was a great song.Sparks w/J... | |
| Best 80s New Wave @shadorne Great list!! The bass line in China Crisis' Fire and Steel is so good! How could I forget Yaz?! Upstairs at Erics is one of my fav albums. I have more 12" singles than albums but I'm getting a lot of reissues on vinyl. | |
| Best 80s New Wave One of my fave Cars song is 'Touch and go'. Visage 'Fade to grey' is one of the finest early new romantic songs from 1980. Midge Ure wrote it then went on to Ultravox. Vienna is one of their best songs. Architecture & Morality by OMD is a clas... | |
| Dynaudio Special 40 in the house @techno_dude I have Special 40s as well--I love them!! I have a Marantz PM8006 integrated amp (using as a preamp) and a Bel Canto REF500S amp. I'm going to upgrade my preamp soon and was wondering about the C47 and Bel Canto combo. I'm really impr... | |
| Best 80s New Wave @pdreher Good List!! I love OMD's Sugar Tax from '91 even though Paul Humphries wasn't on that release. | |
| Best 80s New Wave @folkfreak Yep, I have the NO 12" singles and a few Madonna 12" singles from the 80s. I was also into OMD, Blancmange and Trevor Horn's ZTT project back then: -FGTH-Propaganda-Grace Jones-Art of NoiseGood stuff!!! | |
| Best 80s New Wave @folkfreak So true about the 12" singles (Blue Monday?) and Duel single. Do you have Propaganda's remix album Wishful Thinking? Soooo good! | |
| Best 80s New Wave Totally agree with DM early albums---I love Music for the Masses. I saw that concert with OMD back in'88. DD's Rio is excellent as well. | |
| 3 great tube preamps. Which would you purchase? @goldprintaudio Thanks for the suggestions regarding the Bel Canto amp---would the PS Audio Stellar GS DAC be a good fit as well? I've also heard good reviews about the Bel Canto and Rogue combo. Question: What interconnects work well with this co... | |
| Audio racks Thanks guys---I've never heard of Core or Massif. Nice stuff for sure!! I'm definitely going to check them out as well. |