Sunday, May 26, 2024

Flopcast 629: The New Wave Game Part 3 - Talk to a Pretty Girl

Our first two installments of the New Wave Game ended in ties, because we were both quite clueless. This week we move even deeper into the Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80s CD series, as we attempt to guess each other's favorite songs on each volume. Among the weirder, more obscure stuff (any other fans of "I Eat Cannibals"?), we find plenty of new wave classics from Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby, The Tubes, The Fixx, Scandal, Dexy's Midnight Runners, and lots more. Can we possibly resist an oddity called "Chicken Outlaw"? Do we just wish we were in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana? Hop on the escalator of life with us to find out.

Show Notes

The Mayor recently discussed Infocom text adventure games on The Best Stuff In the World! And thanks to listener Eclectic Lee, she discovered the song It Is Pitch Dark by MC Frontalot. Fittingly, the video was filmed in a basement in Massachusetts, which is where she played most of the aforementioned games.

As a reminder, all the tracklists for this series can be found on Wikipedia. And an enterprising YouTuber has put together a playlist of all 240 songs in the collection!

Kevin's Picks:

Vol. 7

Vol. 8

Vol. 9

Kornflake's Picks:

Vol. 7

Vol. 8

Vol. 9

The Mayor's Favorites: