OK folks, I'll need your input on this one.

My plan is this: Rather than pepper the book with unlicensed lyric quotes ala early White Wolf, my plan is to instead name each section after an appropriate 80s song title.

For example:

I NEED A HERO (Character Creation)
ROCK THIS TOWN (Combat)
WIERD SCIENCE (gadgets)

I'd like as many suggestions from you guys as possible, since I'm sure that some of you will suggest things that I haven't considered. Yes, I know that you aren't aware of what the sections will be. Doesn't matter. Just come up with some like I did above.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with....

GMS

One Hit Wonders - one shot start up adventure section
Another idea for the gadgets section - 8 Bit Technology
GMs section on mood, setting and such - I wear my sunglasses at night

Trying to think of some arcade style references since they were all over the place in the 80's but currently I am drawing a blank.

We so need Rotwang! on this one-

WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO - NPC Section
SHOCK THE MONKEY - Bestial Adversaries
DARE TO BE STUPID - The GM Section
CUTS LIKE A KNIFE - Equipment (as opposed to gadgets)
TUFF ENOUGH - Damage Section
I THINK I'M A CLONE NOW - Screwing with players
WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME - World Building

and my IMHO grossly superior selection for the combat section:

HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT - Combat :)

WAR GAMES might also be a good combat section title.

Okay. To start off here's a couple from John Lodge.

Hole in the World. The lands outside reality.
Under my Feet. Villains and their henchmen.

Finally, from Ray Thomas.

Veteran Cosmic Rocker. The hassles of fame.

You did say 80s song titles, you didn't say they had to be well known. Which fits in with what White Wolf used.:D

THE BROTHERHOOD STRIKES BACK - the section detailing the Sin Brotherhood.

PUTTING ON THE RITZ - Hook section

VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR - Section describing the history about what happened to all the heroes that used to be.

Some of these sound like great suppliment titles:

EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD - villians and antagonists
SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE - gadgets and superscience
ROCK ME AMADEUS - a great name for a suppliment on New Wave Europe
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME - damage and healing
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT - combat (i know someone said this, but it bears repeating)
MONEY FOR NOTHING - skills, or shopping (an important part of the 80s)
HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF - animals
DER KOMMISAR - New Wave adventures behind the Iron Curtain
KARMA CHAMELEON - Magic of the New Wave
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY - GM Section
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE - History of the New Wave
THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT, I GOTTA WEAR SHADES - Adventure seeds, or maybe just an overview of the times

WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE? (character creation)
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (title for a scenario)
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE (mass-damage rules)
DEAD MAN'S PARTY (zombie/undead sourcebook)

"Where's the Fire?" by Tim Feehan -- The World of the New Wave
"Mystic Rhythms" by Rush -- Wild Talents and Neon Sorcery
"Beat It" -- High Speed Chases and Hot Pursuit

Plumbing the alternative 80s a bit...

THIS CORROSION -- the section detailing the Sin Brotherhood
DOMINION - MOTHER RUSSIA -- about the Cold War during the New Pulp era
VISION THING -- GM advice section
ZIGGY STARDUST -- aliens in the New Wave
BELA LEGOSI'S DEAD -- the supernatural in the New Wave
TV PARTY -- media inspirations for the game
LET'S HAVE A WAR -- combat section
WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN -- complications
CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES -- a closer look at the United States of the New Wave world

Okay, in a more pop vien...

MATERIAL GIRL -- equipment section
DEAD MAN'S PARTY -- health and healing
NEVERENDING STORY -- notes on running a campaign
TAKE ON ME -- character creation (i.e. characters are a take on yourself)

Loki's obviously looking at the Repo Man soundtrack. :-)
Dead Man's Party should be about PC death, and player participation after death.

If the name doesn't suggest a section then it's not good enough, so I'll let you make the assumptions.

I think the Police have some of the best name recognition for songs from the 80's:
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
Murder by Numbers
Can't Stand Losing You
King of Pain
Spirits In The Material World
When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
Demolition Man

Gotta have some Ozzy:
Diary of a Madman (or Crazy Train)
Bark at the Moon
Shot in the Dark

Hmm, nothing good from The Cars. Here are others I thought might be useful:
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Madness - One Step Beyond
Prince - Sign O The Times
Queen - A Kind of Magic
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Sade - Smooth Operator
Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Scorpions - Big City Nights
Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro
Heart - If Looks Could Kill
Asia - Heat of the Moment

If it suits, there are a ton of Metallica titles that could fit. Hell, you could write a whole RPG from Metallica titles alone.

Mike

Mike Holmes wrote: Hmm, nothing good from The Cars.
Mike

Love and Rockets would be a nice section title.

If it suits, there are a ton of Metallica titles that could fit. Hell, you could write a whole RPG from Metallica titles alone.

No, see, it's Metallica from the Eighties, before they released "The Delicate Sounds of Metallica" AKA The Black Album. Yeah, it's only 4 albums, but there's enough there for all your sections. Even if half of it is stolen from literature ("For Whom the Bell Tolls").

GM Section - Master of Puppets
Combat Subsections - Battery, Seek & Destroy, Kill 'em All, Fight Fire With Fire, Damage Inc.
Environmental Rules - Trapped Under Ice or Jump in the Fire
Character Death - Disposable Heroes
Scene Framing - Fade to Black
Sanity Mechanics - Sanitarium, The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Alignment - Am I Evil?
Beasties - The Thing that Should Not Be (or, hey, we could do a game called Call of Ktulu)
Setting Notes - Blackened, ...and Justice For All, Creeping Death, Harvester of Sorrow
Magic - Ride the Lightning, Eye of the Beholder

Mike

Hmm.. this is harder than I thought. Everytime I think of a song I find out it's either a 70's or 90's song. That's the trouble with never growing up I guess.

Also, do you need Hit song titles or are titles of B-sides or more obscure songs good enough too? And any genre or only New Wave groups? And I keep thinking of songs I love but whose title has no use for your project.

Here are some:

Introduction :
- Like a virgin (Madonna)
- Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (Franky goes to Holywood)
- Absolute beginners (David Bowie)
- Play the game (Queen)

Character Generation :
- Small town boy (Bronskie Beat)
- Kings of the wild frontier (AdamAnt)
- Demolition man (the Police)

Skills :
- It ain't what you do; it's the way that you do it (Fun Boy Three & Bananarama)
- The reflex (Duran Duran)

Combat :
- Kung Fu Fighting (Carl Douglas) (1974!)
- When two tribes go to war (Franky goes to Holywood)
- Life on the line (Fad Gadget)

Damage and Healing :
- Open you heart (Human League)
- Doctor doctor (UFO) (damn 1971! I'm too old for this shit)
- I will survive (Gloria Gaynor)

Equipment :
- 68 guns (Alarm)
- Swords of a thousand men (Ten Pole Tudor)

Vehicles section :
- Behind the wheel (Depeche Mode)

Paranormal :
- Promissed you a miracle (Simple Minds)
- Dream police (Cheap Trick)
- It's a Sin (Talk Talk)
- Land of confusion (Genesis)

Game master Hints :
- The voice (Ultravox)
- Master and servant (Depeche Mode)
- No more fear of flying (Gary Brooker) (1979! Would somebody please do a 70's game? Bill Bixby IS the Magician!))

NPC's :
- People are people (Depeche Mode)
- Robert DeNiro's waiting (Bananarama)
- Another brick in the wall (Pink Floyd)

Scenario seeds :
- Stories for boys (U2)
- Play for today (the Cure)

Experience points :
- Glittering prize (Simple Minds)

Index :
Is Vic there? (Department S)

Cheers,
Marc

I hope it's not too late to post in this thread...

A few that I remember that nobody has brought up yet that might fit in somewhere.

- I come from the Land Down Under (Men At Work) (Worldbuilding or Character Creation?)
- Life in One Day (Howard Jones) (Character Creation?)
- King of Pain (Police) (Combat? Injury?)
- I Want a New Drug (Huey Lewis & the News) (Medicine/Healing?)
- Sweet Dreams are Made of This (Eurythmics) ("What is Roleplaying?", Adventure Seeds?)
- Invisible Touch (Genesis) (Paranormal?)
- Run Run Away (Slade) (Disengaging from Combat?)
- Electric Avenue (?) (Equipment)
- All I Need is a Miracle (Mike + the Mechanics) (Paranormal? Luck? Resolution mechanics?)
- Violence (Pet Shop Boys) (Combat)
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pet Shop Boys) (Adventure Seeds?)
- Money Changes Everything (Cyndi Lauper) (Er, Money? Equipment?)
- Shoot High Aim Low (Yes) (Combat)
- We Got the Beat (Go-gos) (Combat)
- I Hope that I get Old before I Die (TMBG) (Aging, Injury)
- Elvis is Everywhere (?) (Sounds like an Adventure Seed to me...)

Peter Gabriel is a rich vein:
- Don't Give Up
- I Have the Touch (Skills? Advantages?)
- I Don't Remember
- Shock the Monkey (combat?)

Sure, 'She Blinded Me With Science' is a good choice, but you have lots to play with when it comes to Thomas Dolby:

- My Brain is Like a Seive (Skills?)
- Aliens Ate my Buick (Adventure Seeds?)
- Europa and the Pirate Twins
- May the Cube Be With You