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Smiths - Meat is Murder/Queen is Dead

Talking heads - Stop making sense

The cult - love

New Order - Power Corruption/low life

Echo and the Bunnymen - ocean rain

XTC - English settlement

Jesus and Mary chain - psychocandy
Depeche Mode - music for the masses

The cure - head on the door/kiss me

Public image - this is what you want

Let's active - big plans for everybody

The the - soul mining/infected

Hoodoo gurus - mars needs guitars/Stone Age romeos

Now this is a solid list. Yeah, I cant' figure out who's Dark wave vs New Wave. IMO, U2, REM or INXS isn't new wave. When I think of New Wave I think British or New York area with crazy hair and wacky makeup or Avant-garde approach.

Since he said 1980, I'm just going to say Blondie - Eat to the Beat(1979) should top any New Wave list if you don't have Talking Heads-Stop making sense there.

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Posted by Shockthamonkey

Member since Jul 2016

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Posted on 3/9/17 at 8:26 am to Cdawg

I always liked Claude Bessy's take on the term New Wave:

I have excellent news for the world. There's no such thing as New Wave. It does not exist. It's a figment of a lame count's imagination. There was never any such thing as New Wave. It was the polite thing to say when you were trying to explain you were not into the boring old rock 'n roll but you didn't dare to say punk because you were afraid to get kicked out of the party and they wouldn't give you coke any more. There's New Music, there's New Underground Sound, there's Noise, there's Punk, there's Power Pop, there's Ska, there's Rockabilly, but New Wave doesn't mean shite.

And Romeo Void and Flock of Seagulls are the only two bands on the OP's list that would be considered "New Wave".

This post was edited on 3/9/17 at 8:29 am

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