re: Your greatest New Wave albums 1980-1985

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".