It was a cracking show on New Wave Rewind this past weekend – here’s what you heard (or missed):
Squeeze – Annie Get Your Gun
Sinead O’Connor – Mandinka
The Cars – Heartbeat City
Arcadia – Election Day
The Church – Metropolis (see them at Asbury Lanes 3 April 2023)
World Party – Is It Like Today?
Madness – House of Fun (Happy 62nd, Suggs!)
Big Audio Dynamite – Just Play Music (Happy 67th, Don Letts!)
The Police – Driven to Tears
David Bowie – Absolute Beginners
Robyn Hitchcock – Balloon Man
Kate Bush – Rubberband Girl
The Psychedelic Furs – Heartbreak Beat
Icehouse – Crazy
The Alarm – Rescue Me
NOW & THEN (Now)
Boy George – Music is the Best Medicine
NOW & THEN (Then)
Culture Club – War Song
Belly – Feed the Tree
Concrete Blonde – Joey
UNDERCOVER
Chrissie Hynde & Jeff Beck – Mystery Train
HISTORY NEVER REPEATS
Blondie – Rapture (released as a single this week in ’81)
The Waitresses – I Know What Boys Like (Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful? released this week in ’82)
Nena – 99 Luftballons (Nena released this week in ’83)
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (Number 1 single in UK this week in ’86)
TOP 3 “Honey” Songs
Number 3: Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
TOP 3 “Honey” Songs
Number 2: R.E.M. – Me in Honey
TOP 3 “Honey” Songs
Number 1: Hipsway – The Honeythief