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    Default since when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    OK...this is really a geeky 80's question - how did Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough" become a retro hit (everyone always sings along with it) when it was never a hit in the 80's, in fact it was totally unknown. I was a big Depeche Mode fan in high school when no one knew of them (yes, I'm old) and I know that song never got any radio play or MTV rotation - anyone else old enough to remember this? No one knew who they were till "People Are People."

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    Default Re:sionce when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    face it...we are old!

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    Default Re:sionce when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    yep

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    Default Re:sionce when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    Wasn't it in a burger king comercial? Or was that "I melt with you" by modern english? That's when you know it's old.
    Also when all the girls you work with were babies when you were dancing to them at clubs! These girls don't even know what a 45 is!

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    Default Re:sionce when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    I LOVE that song. I love the Cure and DP.
    I always loved, "I just cant get enough"
    And I am 23

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    Default Re:sionce when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    I guess my question was just that I'm not sure how it became a hit after 20 years since it was never a hit back then --- of course a lot of the music that was really overlooked by the mainstream back then (Smiths, Cure, etc) is really popular today -- it's funny, more people listen to the Smiths now than when they were together

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    Default Re:sionce when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    I LOVE depeche mode!

    Just can't get enough was one of my faves!!! I have no clue luckyfew.. maybe people are just starting to appreciate the bands that they overlooked long ago.

    I do agree with your statement about the Smiths though. A lot of the girls I work with who are early 20's are really into the Smiths, the cure and dead or alive(WTF???) and back when they were popular everyone hated them...
    I've always had a wide range of musical tastes and I am seeing the same things you are in terms of songs that were never popular that are gaining popularity 20 years later...


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    Default Re:sionce when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    A friend had an interesting observation - nowadays frat boys go crazy and sing along with Blister in the Sun - 20 years ago frat boys beat up the kind of alternative geeks who listened to things like Blister in the Sun

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    Default Re:sionce when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    Ever since that GAP commercial a few years ago it came back. But I was always a Depechie.
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    Default Re:since when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    Hmm....maybe its from hanging out at Numbers when I was 13 on retro night, that was 88/89??

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    Default Re:since when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    Quote Originally Posted by Katrine link=board=7;threadid=8556;start=msg101607#msg1016 07 date=1083000623
    Hmm....maybe its from hanging out at Numbers when I was 13 on retro night, that was 88/89??

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    weird thing is, last time I was in Houston Numbers was still the cool club to go to

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    Default Re:since when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    That's how I recognize the song, JDS, from that gap commercial...Maybe I shouldn't ask...but now you got me curious, what IS a 45?

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    Default Re:since when is "Just Can't Get Enough" a retro hit?

    I still own a record player and I'm not THAT old.


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