Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the ’80s, Vol. 1

1994: Rhino R2 71694

1. Ça plane pour moi
   

   Plastic Bertrand

2. Warm Leatherette
   

   The Normal

3. One Way or Another
   

   Blondie

4. Hey, St Peter
   

   Flash & The Pan

5. Cruel to Be Kind
   

   Nick Lowe

6. Too Young to Date
   

   D-Day

7. Local Girls
   

   Graham Parker

8. Rock ’n’ Roll High School
   

   Ramones

9. My Sharona
   

   The Knack

10. Girls Talk
    

    Dave Edmunds

11. Video Killed the Radio Star
    

    The Buggles

12. I Do the Rock
    

    Tim Curry

13. Dirty Water
    

    The Inmates

14. I’m a Believer
    

    Tin Huey

15. Gidget Goes to Hell
    

    Suburban Lawns

16. Money (That’s What I Want)
    

    The Flying Lizards

Ironically this first of the Just Can’t Get Enough series contains a really weak roster “My Sharona&148; and “Cruel to be Kind” being the only genuine “hits” and the others being presumably one-hit-wonders in the UK that never even registered in the US—if you can even call them “hits”—oddities, really. The Flying Lizards cover of “Money (That’s What I Want)” might be a good example of the justification for this collection: a non-hit that became more popular much later when presented in retrospect as archetypal New Wave weirdness. (I happen to like it.)

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