Music should move you, I can also not really stand still!
As Lemmy sang: “Know your body’s made to move, you feel it in your guts. Rock ‘n’ roll ain’t worth the name if it don’t make you strut”
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Thank you @mediaklan ! I had to take a break from the 50-song list, but now I’m back to battling #39, Time Bomb!
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Clan of Xymox is the full name 
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I really like your covers (and all the expressions you can get out of your face :-)), but I even more like the inspiration I get for new tracks to purchase!
Keep’m coming!
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You’ve got to play to the camera 
I have more covers planned - I currently have about 5 or 6 I’m working on - but every time I listen to stuff on iTunes, I think gosh, can I have a go at that 
?
It’s a rabbit hole!! 
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That’s why I avoid Spotify and the like … I have more than 4000 CD’s (you are old enough to remember them, right) and purchased quite some more as downloads (don’t like the cloud!), so currently my music server has about 100.000 tracks.
I got to a state where I am happy NOT to discover new music … only to enjoy even more, when something new gets me ^^
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Don’t forget the classic!
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My faves would actually be “Stranger” and “A Day”, sure
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“A day” … always reminds me of a certain girl. Thanks for bringing back that memory!
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Just had a quick listen. I’m getting The Cure, New Order and a bit of Sisters of Mercy. Probably about as depressing!
I think I’ll pass on them 
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Depression is the happiness of the 80s!!!
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Which explains why I was always a Duranie! Duran2 were from Birmingham, in the West Midland, UK. I was brought up in a town on the edge of the greater Birmingham conurbation. In the 80s, much of the manufacturing base was failing, resulting in significant unemployment and well, depression. There were plenty of bands writing about this, The Specials and UB40 come to mind, but Duran2 were different. They were up beat, positive, aspirational! And that was me - I remember watching the videos, especially the Sri Lanka ones and thinking, wow! They sold a dream, I bought it…and I travelled the world, both in my mind’s eye, and by getting on planes as soon as I was earning money! 
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Yeah, you were obviously one of those other kids that ended up with Wham, drinking cocktail in a pool
I quite enjoyed the darkness of it all, you know, the “Don’t follow me, I’m lost too!” feeling. Not like those artificially-being-depressed-kids-that-meet-up-in-graveyards, which I found quite pathetic, but giving myself to the darks side of things in a Bohemian way … the concrete, the steel, the glass, the Nihilism of it all. And of course the arrogant joy of being an outcast - there is a peculiar kind of fun to be found there
So, now I have to smile about my 80s self … and I kind of envied Wham for the girls in that pool too (didn’t know that the girls were just for show then) ^^
This track sums up everything I felt between 1981 and 1986:
Still listen to it with great pleasure, even as I became everything I hated when I was younger…
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I was a ‘goth’ for my last two years at university, but I could escape the Duran optimism. Ok, I back-combed my hair and dabbled with eyeliner, but I didn’t wear black. I was a peacock in a multicoloured jacket. I also had a blue stripped jacket that I loved and a suit that looked like it was made out vibrant curtains. My girlfriend at the time was an artist, she painted shirts, so there was more colour there!
I was the only freakin’ goth that was happy .
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………… nice job brother!
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They were kind of the edge of the New Romantics, who had that kind of vibe. A lot of others there. Visage, Boy George, Flock of Seagulls, Japan (and later David Sylvian), Spandau Ballet (before their crap ballad pop), etc. Almost all of the bands knew each other and hung out in one particular club together
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[quote=“howard, post:763, topic:50380”] Visage,
, Boy George, Flock of Seagulls, Japan (and later David Sylvian), Spandau Ballet
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Are you sure Visage and Japan wants to be in that list?
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Visage absolutely, Steven Strange founded the New Romantic movement
Japan would refuse to be labeled but it’s hard to argue otherwise for David Sylvian
And of course, Duran Duran
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Japan were really interesting. The really early stuff - Adolescent Sex - was very edgy. They were also an influence on Duran2, you can really hear it on the first album. Their later stuff was very cool at the time, but I’m not sure it has aged particularly well.
Now Flock of Seagulls, I was never sure if they were supposed to be serious or a joke
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