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Epitomizing the cheesy part — an enormous cut of Velveeta, actually — of ‘80s new wave, the tiny Girls had been two teenagers who required bubblegum to its sugar-sweet limit, composing goofy novelty songs which were either brilliantly satirical or annoyingly stupid, based on your perspective. If Punky Brewster made …

Using their wild and fun live show, Boston’s the Fools brought the Tubes’ love of life in to the age of new wave and, like their NEW YORK competition Blotto, had a novelty hit in the first ’80s. Shaped in 1975, the Fools became a preferred of Boston radio in …

For a short while in 1983, JoBoxers appeared as if they would be considered a successful British pop band within the soul-dance design popular at that time. By the finish of the entire year, nevertheless, the group’s charm had started to fade. Four from the five music group users, all …