Here's another NEW WAVE mp3 compilation which was released here in MANILA wayback 2004 entitled "NEW WAVE DANCE (All New Remix Versions)". My good friend JACK J. finally was able to dig this mp3 selection from his vaults. NEW WAVE mp3 again? So what's this genre again all about? I'm just glad we have another "ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES" classic. He He He!! Well, I'm going to include here in my blogpost the exact contents of the Back Cover that explains about NEW WAVE. So here it goes:
NEW WAVE.... What is it? Well, essentially It's POST-PUNK ERA Music(starting circa 1979), that journalists, record label A&R people, disc jockeys, and assorted music-biz folk didn't want to call PUNK ROCK. Despite PUNK's grassroots success, to describe "PUNK" still doomed it commercially. Why? Mainly because PUNK ROCK was relegated outsider status; music that was considered too harsh, radical, and alienating to speak to larger, more traditional rock and pop audiences. Hence, the term "NEW WAVE" (whose cultural origins go back to it's use as description of Avant-Garde French-filmmaking in the late 50s) was substituted to indicate bands that were progressive, different, but not necessarily threatening, nor devoid of commercial potential. A YIN/YANG concept in the truest sense, NEW WAVE yielded many fine bands and great records. Many of which are included in this Ultimate New Wave mp3 collection.
That's the entire content that was written on the mp3 collection's Back Cover. Hmmmp!! I find it very interesting. The compilation includes 75 great extended, remix versions of the songs from the NEW WAVE ERA that was very popular here in MANILA. Bands like DEAD OR ALIVE, INFORMATION SOCIEY, HUMAN LEAGUE, SOFT CELL, REAL LIFE, and a lot more that could let you dance all day and all of the night. He He He!! All remixes here guys and no album or single version included so definitely once you start listening to it you just can't stop dancing. Uploading the entire 75 songs? Naaah!! I'm very sorry because that's too heavy for a file and no time for me to do such a toxic thing. Let's leave it to other Blogs that specialized on it. How about the Tracklisting? Hmmmp!! Let's see what CAPTAIN HOOK will do about it, if you got my drift. He He He!!
There are lots of NEW ORDER, DEPECHE MODE, ERASURE, and TEARS FOR FEARS stuffs here for those who loves these bands.
So Let's Dance To TheNEW WAVE DANCE!!-DR. STIRRING RHOD-
It was year 2006 when a batch of MP3 CDs entitled "THE ULTIMATE EIGHTIES COLLECTION" hit MANILA's shopping malls. Are these official releases from record companies? NOPE!! Just another bootleg If I may say since there were 10 volumes of these MP3 CDs which were sold remembering the entire decade of the 80s. The series were divided into 10 MP3 CDs each containing more than a hundred songs per CD namely 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989. Did I missed a year? He He He!! WOW!! I just remembered FONZIE would say on "THE FONZ AND THE HAPPY DAYS GANG" cartoons back in the 80s: "Can You Dig It?". Hmmmp!! Can you dig this compilation? Those were happy days indeed KABAYAN watching "SATURDAY FUN MACHINE" at RPN 9 during the 80s here in MANILA. A time travel cartoon series back then that is fitted to my blogpost.
The CDs highlighted the Best Hits of each year crossing the borders of the 80s decade. Last August 2008, I was able to spot the said 80s compilation but in a different format. YUP!! This time It's in DVD format but the 10 CDs became only two DVDs entitled "The Ultimate Eighties Collection Volume One and Volume Two". I bought the two DVDs for the purpose of listening to it since I wasn't able to buy any of the original 10 MP3 CDs which were released back in 2006 and I got to travel back each year from 1980 to 1989. Hmmmp!! Why not come up with an Ultimate Eighties New Wave Collection? Well, now each DVD contains more than 500 songs from the 80s and so that means buying the two volumes would give you more than 1,000 songs. Wheeew!! So It was divided into the years 1980-1984, and 1985-1989 depicting the first 5 years and later 5 years of the decade. Of course, It's not strictly New Wave because the title didn't indicate it. Definitely, It's about the pop culture of the 80s which I consider one of the great decades for good music whether any forms or genres.
The packaging of these two DVDs are very different from the original MP3 CDs, but the Logo remains the same. If you guys have the first series and wasn't able to complete it because you have to buy all 10 of them before, then this time you could complete the entire series by buying these two DVDs. I guess It's just the process of trying to recall the songs which hit the charts each year coming from 1980 to 1989. All sorts of Artists from different musical genres that includes THE BANGLES, FOREIGNER, HEART, PHIL COLLINS, THE POLICE, MICHAEL JACKSON, and a lot more to spin you around your time machine. How about joining FONZIE and the gang on their time machine with CUPCAKE and MR. COOL to go back to our childhood years? I guess we will just remember CASEY KASEM's "American TOP 40 Countdown" or even the BILLBOARD Charts. GREAT MEMORIES of the 80s!!
Btw, I bought a small souvenir guitar on one of my visits to the provinces and I was amazed that the cover of the second volume fits the guitar. TRIP LANG!! He He He!!ULTIMATE EIGHTIES indeed!!-DR. STIRRING RHOD-
Here's another NEW WAVE mp3 compilation which was released here in MANILA wayback 2004 entitled "NEW WAVE DANCE (All New Remix Versions)". My good friend JACK J. finally was able to dig this mp3 selection from his vaults. NEW WAVE mp3 again? So what's this genre again all about? I'm just glad we have another "ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES" classic. He He He!! Well, I'm going to include here in my blogpost the exact contents of the Back Cover that explains about NEW WAVE. So here it goes:
