VA - Music For New Romantics (3CD, 2022)

In the aftermath of punk rock, and inspired by the glamour of the likes of David Bowie, young elites in England’s major cities threw off the shackles of grey, damp and dreary turn-of-the-80s Britain and sought something more refined and cultured than punk’s primal howl. Armed with wardrobes full of colourful and outrageous second-hand clothes, cheap make-up, extensive record collections, their own extroverted imaginations and an urge to dance (not pogo), a collection of DJs, dancers and junkshop fashionistas would frequent clubs such as The Wag in London, Pips in Manchester and The Rum Runner in Birmingham. The resulting scene would famously go on to spawn countless 80s pop scene faces and trigger what became the New Romantic movement.

Track List:
Disc: 1
1 Mott the Hoople -All Theyoung Dudes
2 The Lounge Lizards-Harlem Nocturne
3 Alice Cooper -I'm Eighteen
4 New York Dolls-Personality Crisis
5 Zager & Evans- in the Year2525
6 Iggy Pop -Nightclubbing
7 Roxy Music -Do the Strand
8 Kim Fowley -Motorboat
9 Lou Reed -Vicious
10 Wayne County & the Electric Chairs- Berlin
11 Nina Hagen Tv-Glotzer (White Punks on Dope)
12 La Düsseldorf -Viva
13 Mick Ronson -Only After Dark
14 Rah Band- the Crunch
15 Fox S-S-S-Single Bed
16 The Warlord- the Ultimate Warlord
17 Donna Summer -Love to Love You Baby
18 Grace Jones- la Vie en Rose
19 Giorgio Moroder -Chase
20 The Sweet -The Ballroom Blitz
21 Gary Miller with the Barry Gray Orchestra-Stingray

Disc: 2
1 Tubeway Army -Down in the Park
2 The Cure -A Forest
3 The Human League -Being Boiled
4 The Normal- Warm Leatherette
5 Suicide- Ghost Rider
6 Orchestral Manoeuvres
7 In the Dark- Electricity
8 John Foxx- Underpass
9 Thomas Dolby -She Blinded Me with Science
10 Visage -Visage
11 Simple Minds- Changeling
12 Landscape Einstein- a Go Go
13 The Flying Lizards -Money
14 Telex- Moskow Diskow
15 Throbbing Gristle- Hot
16 On the Heels of Love
17 Japan- Life in Tokyo
18 Yello- Bostich
19 Nightmares in Wax -Blackleather
20 Heaven 17- (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
21 Spandau Ballet- to Cut a
22 Long Story Short
23 Magazine- Shot By Both Sides
24 Siouxsie and the Banshees- Hong Kong Garden

Disc: 3
1 Marianne Faithfull-Broken English
2 The Associates- Club Country
3 Abc- Tears Are Not Enough
4 M M- Factor
5 Tom Tom Club- Genius of Love
6 Blue Rondo À la Turk-Klactoveesedstein
7 A Certain Ratio- Shack Up
8 New Order- Everything's Gone Green
9 Glaxo Babies- Shake (The Foundations)
10 Heat Exchange- Shake Down
11 Chaz Jankel -Ai No Corrida
12 Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band- I'm An Indian Too
13 Coati Mundi Me- No Pop I
14 Gina X- Performance No G.D.M
15 Sister Sledge- Lost in Music
16 Lipps Inc- Funky Town
17 The Barry Gray-Orchestra Captain Scarlet