Artist	Song
Duran Duran	Planet Earth (Single Version)
from Greatest (2008)
Culture Club	Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
from Culture Club: Greatest Hits (2005)
ABC	The Look of Love, Pt. 1
from Look of Love - The Very Best of ABC (2001)
David Bowie	Ashes to Ashes
from Best of Bowie (2002)
Spandau Ballet	True
from This Is... 1983 (2008)
Modern English	I Melt With You
from After the Snow (1998)
Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
from Eurythmics: Ultimate Collection (Remastered) (2005)
Visage	Fade to Grey
from Fade to Grey - The Best of Visage (1993)
The Human League	Don't You Want Me
from The Very Best of the Human League (2005)
Thompson Twins	Hold Me Now
from Thompson Twins: Greatest Hits - Love, Lies and Other Strange Things (1996)
Adam Ant	Goody Two Shoes
from The Essential Adam Ant (2003)
Nick Heyward & Haircut 100	Love Plus One
from The Very Best Of (2003)
Howard Jones	Things Can Only Get Better
from Best of Howard Jones (2008)
Kajagoogoo and Limahl	Too Shy
from Too Shy: The Singles and More (1993)
Depeche Mode	Just Can't Get Enough
from The Best of Depeche Mode, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Version) (2006)
A Flock of Seagulls	I Ran (So Far Away)
from The Best of A Flock of Seagulls (1999)
Roxy Music	More Than This
from The Best of Roxy Music (2001)
Soft Cell	Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: Best of the '80s (2000)
Tears for Fears	Mad World
from Shout - The Very Best of Tears for Fears (2001)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark	Enola Gay
from The OMD Singles (1998)
Wham!	Young Guns (Go for It)
from Fantastic (1985)
Heaven 17	Let Me Go
from Best of Heaven 17 (2003)
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army	Cars
from Gary Numan & Tubeway Army: Premier Hits (1997)
Japan	Life In Tokyo
from Assemblage (2006)
Ultravox	Vienna (Single Version)
from The Very Best of Ultravox (2009)
Dead or Alive	You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
from Rip It Up (1988)
Eurythmics	Who's That Girl?
from Eurythmics: Ultimate Collection (Remastered) (2005)
Culture Club	Karma Chameleon
from Culture Club: Greatest Hits (2005)
Yaz	Don't Go
from The Best of Yaz (2008)
Simple Minds	Promised You a Miracle
from The Best of Simple Minds (Remastered) (2009)
Duran Duran	Girls On Film
from Greatest (2008)
Limahl	Never Ending Story
from So Far So Good (2005)
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Dear Prudence
from The Best of Siouxsie and The Banshees (2002)
ABC	Poison Arrow
from Look of Love - The Very Best of ABC (2001)
Bow Wow Wow	I Want Candy
from The Best of Bow Wow Wow (1998)
Adam Ant	Stand and Deliver
from The Essential Adam Ant (2003)
New Order	Blue Monday
from Singles (2005)
Thompson Twins	Lies
from Thompson Twins: Greatest Hits - Love, Lies and Other Strange Things (1996)
Alphaville	Forever Young
from First Harvest 1984-1992 (2005)
Stephen Duffy	Kiss Me (1983)
from They Called Him Tin Tin (2003)
Nick Heyward & Haircut 100	Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
from The Very Best Of (2003)
David Bowie	Fashion
from Best of Bowie (2002)
Talk Talk	It's My Life
from Natural History - The Very Best of Talk Talk (2007)
The Human League	(Keep Feeling) Fascination
from The Very Best of the Human League (2005)
Ultravox	Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Single Version)
from The Very Best of Ultravox (2009)
Thomas Dolby	She Blinded Me With Science
from The Best of Thomas Dolby - Retrospectacle (1995)
Japan	Ghosts
from Tin Drum (2003 Remaster) (2008)
Scritti Politti	Perfect Way
from Cupid & Psyche 85 (2005)
Heaven 17	Temptation
from So80s (So Eighties), Vol. 2 [Presented By Blank & Jones] (2010)
Eurythmics	Here Comes the Rain Again
from Eurythmics: Ultimate Collection (Remastered) (2005)
Culture Club	Time (Clock of the Heart)
from Culture Club: Greatest Hits (2005)
Thompson Twins	If You Were Here
from Thompson Twins: Greatest Hits - Love, Lies and Other Strange Things (1996)
Roxy Music	Same Old Scene
from The Best of Roxy Music (2001)
King	Love & Pride
from Love and Pride - The Best of King (2000)
Duran Duran	The Chauffeur
from Rio (Remastered) (2008)
Depeche Mode	New Life
from The Best of Depeche Mode, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Version) (2006)
David Bowie	Boys Keep Swinging
from Lodger (1999)
Scritti Politti	Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
from Cupid & Psyche 85 (2005)
The Human League	Together In Electric Dreams
from The Very Best of the Human League (2005)
Midge Ure	If I Was
from The Gift (2003)
ABC	Be Near Me
from Look of Love - The Very Best of ABC (2001)
Talk Talk	Talk Talk
from Natural History - The Very Best of Talk Talk (2007)
Altered Images	Happy Birthday
from Happy Birthday (1995)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark	If You Leave
from The OMD Singles (1998)
Tears for Fears	Pale Shelter
from Shout - The Very Best of Tears for Fears (2001)
Strawberry Switchblade	Since Yesterday
from Strawberry Switchblade (2006)
David Sylvian	Forbidden Colours
from Secrets of the Beehive (1992)
A Flock of Seagulls	Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
from The Best of A Flock of Seagulls (1999)
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army	Are 'Friends' Electric?
from Gary Numan & Tubeway Army: Premier Hits (1997)
Soft Cell	Sex Dwarf
from The Very Best of Soft Cell (2002)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik	Love Missile F1-11
from 21st Century Boys - The Best Of (2003)
Heaven 17	Penthouse and Pavement
from Best of Heaven 17 (2003)
Kraftwerk	The Model
from The Man Machine (Remastered) (2009)
Vangelis	Love Theme (From "Blade Runner")
from Blade Runner Trilogy (Music from the Motion Picture) [25th Anniversary Edition] (2007)
Red Rockers	China
from Good As Gold (2009)

Comment:

If you had the soul (and flouncy shirts) of a consumptive 19th-century poet and the musical circuitry of a 25th-century android — and you were turning heads on the streets of London's Soho during the early '80s — chances are you were a New Romantic. The movement would ultimately spread away from its underground club roots (Culture Club's Boy George was the cloakroom attendant at the influential Blitz Club in Covent Garden) and into the charts, from which we've pulled this selection of still-electrifying tracks. Trace the trend from A Flock of Seagulls to Yaz, lingering flamboyantly with the likes of Japan ("Life In Tokyo"), ABC ("The Look of Love, Pt. 1"), and Adam Ant ("Stand and Deliver").

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