I Want My New Wave (2005)

Product Summary Label: Razor And Tie Records UPC: 00793018909327 Release Date: 1/25/2005 Buy.com Sku: 63939387 Item#: MP265C Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow ~ Various Artists 2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors ~ Various Artists 3. Girls On Film - Duran Duran ~ Various Artists 4. One Way Or Another - Blondie ~ Various Artists 5. Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs ~ Various Artists 6. I Know What Boys LIke - The Waitresses ~ Various Artists 7. Mexican Radio - Wall Of Voodoo ~ Various Artists 8. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure (unknown mix) ~ Various Artists 9. I Got You - Split Enz ~ Various Artists 10. This Charming Man - The Smiths ~ Various Artists 11. Rock Lobster - The B-52's ~ Various Artists 12. Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant ~ Various Artists 13. Save It For Later - English Beat ~ Various Artists 14. I Melt With You - Modern English ~ Various Artists 15. Metro, The - Berlin ~ Various Artists 16. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo ~ Various Artists 17. Killing Moon, The - Echo & The Bunnymen ~ Various Artists 18. Pump It Up - Elvis Costello ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Illustrator: Dan Levine . When Razor & Tie sells I Want My New Wave on late-night television, it's as a 32-track, two-disc set. This retail version pares that down to one disc, and features 18 of the decade's standard bearing tracks. Bow Wow Wow ("I Want Candy"), Duran Duran ("Girls on Film"), the B-52's "Rock Lobster" ("There goes a narwhale!"), Blondie ("One Way or Another") -- even the casual '80s fan has a lot of the material here, whether on other comps or nostalgic soundtracks. Of course, that also makes for considerably less filler. Split Enz' "I Got You" will always have one of the best choruses of the decade; Berlin's "Metro" is a masterful cocktail of pulsing synth and cold emotions; and Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes" is pure skinny tie, flailing elbows kitsch. I Want My New Wave also mixes in a few deep cuts -- or at least songs that more often appear on Left of the Dial-style collections -- including the Smiths' "This Charming Man," "Boys Don't Cry," from the Cure, and Echo & the Bunnymen's "Killing Moon." It's difficult for any '80s compilation to stand out in 2005, but I Want My New Wave isn't really trying to. It's more of a cursory survey, and in that it succeeds capably. ~ Johnny Loftus   Technical Info Release Date : 01/25/2005 Original Release Date : 2005 Catalog ID : 89093 Label : Razor & Tie Music Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00793018909327    Product Image