When Rap and New Wave collided.

[highway1pch]

Five examples came readily to mind. Can you name any more?

[i]Rapture[/i]
Blondie
I think this is the one that would come first to mind for most. What a great song.

[i]New Religion[/i]
Duran Duran
This is one of Duran Duran's greats. Perhaps it doesn't get the same airplay as the others because of it's length - perhaps because of its genre crossover nature. Say what you want about the Duran Duran cover album [i]Thank You[/i], but their tribute to Grandmaster Flash's influence with [i]White Lines[/i] is awesome in concert.

[i]World Destruction[/i]
Time Zone
John Lydon and Afrika Bambaataa were a devestating pair on the cut [i]World Destruction[/i]. The lyrics are more relevant today than ever. It's hard-hitting and danceable at the same time. What an unforgettable mix.

[i]Wordy Rappinghood[/i]
Tom Tom Club
Wow. This one's a mouthful and plenty of fun as the Tom Tom Club always is. [i]Genius Of Love[/i] off the same album may get sampled more often in Hip Hop tunes, but the rap influence on this cut is far more direct.

[i]Christmas Wrapping[/i]
The Waitresses
Every December this little gift comes around. It makes me want to go out to the store and grab some cranberry sauce.


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[firefall]

Adam Ant-Cajun Twister(from his ''Friend or Foe'' period,an amazing song of catchy pop-rap with horns)

Kevin Coyne-Tell us the truth(In Cherry Red and from the album''Politicz'',this very important folk veteran combines rap-protest singing with noises from a music box.Perhaps he didn't really know what he did,but everything after that wasn't the same.It was the 80s,you know...)

I can also recall Attila the Stockbrocker for some proto-rapping in his first three albums similar to Patrick Fitzerald and John Cooper Clarke.

[WolverineSyr]

The Vel's Look My Way had a cute white girl rap in it.

Holiday by the Other Ones also had something close to a rap...[;)]

[beatschool]

The unforgettable "Wham Rap" by Wham. Georgie boy never sounded tougher.

[oneno]

The bubbleman rap by the bubblemen aka love and rockets
Rap Phenomena-YMO

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[My Aural Stimulator]

The Pet Shop Boys have always touted "West End Girls" as being the first rap song to reach #1 in the U.S.

[Peter Venkman]

[quote][i]Originally posted by My Aural Stimulator[/i]
<br>The Pet Shop Boys have always touted "West End Girls" as being the first rap song to reach #1 in the U.S.
[/quote]

They can tout it all they want.

Rapture is technically first.

<font size=1 color=#CC6600>[i]"Sometimes I want to die in my bed,
All I can think about is "When are we leaving?",
Everytime I think of you I want a cigarette,
Man chooses himself, hero with a thousand faces,
It's the third night and the walls are shaking"[/i]--Tuxedomoon, "Desire"</font>

[2Nu]

There's definitely rap lines /elements in the following:

Calling All Nations - INXS

Chant #1 - Spandau Ballet

Dirty Boulevard - Lou Reed

Heart and Soul - T'Pau

Justified & Ancient - KLF & Tammy Wynette

Madame Butterfly - Malcolm McLaren

New York New York - Nina Hagen

One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head

One Step - KTP

Sun City - Artists United Against Apartheid

Radio Song - REM

State Farm - Yaz

The Magnificent Seven - The Clash


Annd..Just about anything put out by Falco..

Der Kommissar

Maschine Brennt

Rock Me Amadeus

Vienna Calling

Wiener Blut


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[beatschool]

( Favourite Shirts) Boy Meets Girl - Haircut One Hundred

[Jeffrey]

Don't forget, "Wot" by Captain Sensible. And, "My Spine (Is the Bassline)" by Shriekback.


Jeffrey

[SomebodySomewhere]

"Ant Rap" by Adam and the Ants.

"Under the Gun" by Face to Face. Of course it was just a thin rewrite of Blondie's "Rapture" and Epic Records hammered the nails into their coffin by releasing it and they weren't really a new wave group otherwise, but they still made it.

[MARV]

Perfect Kiss, New Order
A Party, Big Audio Dynamite

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[profpike]

ummmm...The magnificent seven by the clash?

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[edisonoside]

I love a man in uniform - Gang of four

[manekineko]

Lots of songs by Romeo Void, as Deborah Iyall speaks the lyrics more than she sings. Never Say Never and Just Too Easy off the top of my head.

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