re: What are the ten best new (first) wave tracks of the 1980&#39;s based upon:

Posted by Cdawg

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Posted on 9/1/15 at 11:16 am to AlxTgr

Simple Minds - All the things She said
XTC - Peter PumpkinHead
Icicle Works - Evangeline
Peter Murphy - Cuts You up
Love & Rockets - All in my Mind
Echo & the Bunnymen - seven Seas
Erasure - Hideaway
The Bolshoi - Away
The Cure - A night Like This
New Order - Temptation
World Party - Way Down Now

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Posted by AlxTgr

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Posted on 9/1/15 at 11:24 am to Cdawg

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Echo & the Bunnymen - seven Seas

Gotta love how they say tortoise.

Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 9/1/15 at 11:27 am to Cdawg

ok another 10 from me (some of these still give me chills):

howard jones - hide and seek
thompson twins - if you were here
thomas dolby - dissidents
prefab sprout - king of rock and roll
abc - that was then this is now
talk talk - its my life
paul young - love of the common people/stay
spandou ballet - communication
fine young canniabals - johnny
shriekback - nemisis

(i'm making a playlist now)

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Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 9/1/15 at 11:34 am to CAD703X

- grace jones - my jamaican guy/strange (toss up)
- scritti politti - perfect way
- duran duran - the chauffer (yeah i know its been mentioned but this is worthy of another vote)
- fabulous stains - join the professionals

- big audio dynamite - medicine show
- legendary pink dots - curious guy
- jazz butcher - Human Jungle <---

criminally unknown
- prime movers - on the trail
- OMD - so in love
- dead milkmen - bitchin' camaro

eta go listen to that jazz butcher track i linked.

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Posted by JumpingTheShark

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Posted on 9/1/15 at 11:49 am to RockAndRollDetective

quote:
Radio Free Europe - R.E.M

Love this song

Posted by Vandyrone

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Posted on 9/1/15 at 12:32 pm to CAD703X

quote:
prefab sprout - king of rock and roll

Love me some prefab sprout.

Posted by LuckySo-n-So

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Posted on 9/1/15 at 6:13 pm to CAD703X

quote:
shriekback - nemisis

quote:
- dead milkmen - bitchin' camaro

Posted by The First Cut

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Posted on 9/1/15 at 6:52 pm to Cdawg

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Peter Murphy - Cuts You up

Never, ever does this song come even close to getting old.

Posted by AlxTgr

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Posted on 9/2/15 at 8:46 am to JumpingTheShark

quote:
Radio Free Europe - R.E.M

Love this song

Seeing it on American bandstand and realizing there's kind of a dance thing going on in it almost ruined it for me.

Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 9/2/15 at 10:04 am to AlxTgr

My love for REM came and went after 'can't get there from here'and 'driver 8'.

Posted by AlxTgr

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Posted on 9/2/15 at 10:29 am to CAD703X

There was really only one more after that worth buying.

Posted by RockAndRollDetective

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Posted on 9/2/15 at 10:41 am to PiscesTiger

I forgot, there are several songs by the Producers that are worthy of mentioning. My personal favorite would be "She Sheila" but there's also "What's He Got" and "I Love Lucy". They were more on the power poppy side of new wave, but the first two albums were quite solid.

Posted by AlxTgr

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Posted on 9/2/15 at 11:06 am to RockAndRollDetective

Love all of those but my favorite is probably Certain Kind of Girl.

Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 9/2/15 at 11:16 am to AlxTgr

Another forgotten treasure.

Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday

Posted by SystemsGo

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Posted on 9/4/15 at 2:31 pm to RockAndRollDetective

I dont' think I have a great understanding of what this genre encapsulates, but I'll take a stab nonetheless:

A-ha - take on me
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Buggles - Video killed the radio star
INXS - need you tonight
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Culture Club - Do you really want to hurt me
Tears for Fears - everybody wants to rule the world
Jefferson Starship - We built this city
Heart - these dreams
Pat Benetar - we belong
Eurythmics - sweet dreams
Thompson Twins - hold me now
Glass Tiger - don't forget me when I'm gone

Posted by The Spleen

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Posted on 9/4/15 at 3:01 pm to SystemsGo

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I dont' think I have a great understanding of what this genre encapsulates

New Wave was originally the syth-heavy bands, mostly from England, that rose to fame in the early/mid-80's Over the years, it's come to encapsulate the entire 80's alternative genre.

No way I could do a top 10. I'd leave way too many off.

Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 10/13/15 at 4:06 pm to The Spleen

bump for accndefense. great 80s tracks here that aren't necessarily the ones that get played to death

Posted by fontell

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Posted on 10/13/15 at 5:56 pm to CAD703X

The Fixx -One thing leads to another held up pretty well (their other stuff too)

For those discussing The Producers

What She Does to Me

This post was edited on 10/13/15 at 8:07 pm