Yeah, don't rub it in

Weird

simpsons and new order BOTH over-rated.

Go TROLL elsewhere

Between 1981 and 1983 there were only six studio albums by British groups that spent 15 or more weeks in the UK top 10. Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants | 33 weejs Dare - Human League | 22 weeks Rio - Duran Duran | 25 weeks Lexicon Of Love - ABC | 16 weeks True - Spandau Ballet | 22 weeks Colour by Numbers - Culture Club | 17 weeks All were associated to a greater or lesser extent with the New Romantic movement. Let's not forget that the movement was not something exclusive to the UK. For example, in Germany, "Fade To Grey" was #1 for 7 weeks, in Spain, the most popular Spanish group during that period of time was Mecano, who began imitating the English New Romantics, in aesthetics, videos and music. Also something to highlight is how the New Romantics aesthetic became a general fashion of the 80s, regardless of who wore it, which is why people like Olivia Newton-John or Sheena Easton could be seen using that aesthetic. On May 10, 1981, while in the UK Adam And The Ants was #1, in Germany Visage, in Belgium and the Netherlands Ultravox, and in Australia Roxy Music avoided a sixth week of Adam & The Ants at #1. In the USA, "Bette Davis Eyes" reached first place, a song with enormous influence from the New Romantics. Kim Carnes herself commented that they decided to work with director Russell Mulcahy after seeing his work in a video by Classix Nouveaux. the director, who had also worked with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Ultravox and The Human League, made a magnificent video, where you can see several New Romantics in it, just as Bowie had already done in Ashes To Ashes almost a year before. The song turned out to be the best-selling song of the year in the USA! Which ended up resulting the following year with the second British insavion full of New Romantics groups.