Continuing in the nostalgia theme, here's one from right around the time I first started developing taste in music that I wouldn't be embarrassed to admit to later.
I was never a huge Heaven 17 fan. Most of their songs ranged from pleasant but uninspired ("We Live So Fast") to annoying ("Temptation") to downright creepy ("Come Live With Me"). I suppose they had good politics - we don't, after all, need that fascist groove thang - but you couldn't exactly say they did the most eloquent job of expressing them. I don't think they were awful or anything, but they were just kind of mediocre then and their music hasn't really improved with age.
As is so often the case, however, there is one shining exception. "Let Me Go" is a perfect piece of atmospheric early '80s synth-pop, with simple but surprisingly affecting lyrics over a subtle but infectious beat. When I was sneaking into dance clubs in the mid-to-late eighties it was the one song guaranteed to get even the hardest goth out on the floor. And, really, if you can't have a great time watching hard goths shake their thing to early-'80s-new-wave-techno-pop, you just can't enjoy life.
Nice video, too.
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