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Well known awful person keeps beong awful. Culture Club had some sick tunes and are on the lower rung of 80s new wave one hit wonders who have some better stuff than their hits but the guy is a monster so they don't get recommended to people when an 80s Playlist comes on at work. The best one hit wonder new wave bands are 1) Soft Cell. Thwir second biggest song is called Sex Dwarf and is closer to what they normally did 2) A Flock of Seagulls (seriously listen to their first album, it is wall to wall perfect synthpop hits, I Ran is the weakest one), 3) Ah-Ha
Soft Cell's second album (The Art of Falling Apart) is one of the best Synthpop albums ever made.
Space Age Love Song should have been their big hit
The Edgelord from U2 literally ripped off his guitar effects layering from them, too. Paul Reynolds was massively influential on the synthpop scene for stacking the ever-loving shit out of modulation effects, and as a result, he's kind of the missing link between the post-punk/shoegaze sound and what we normally associate with New Wave.
It was their second biggest. Messages, Telecommunications and Dont Ask Me as well ask the sorta hit Modern Love is Automatic hit so fucking hard too.