Top 100 New Wave Songs

[FreeWave]

bump. Some great lists! [:0] Need more.

[FreeWave]

Cmon guys only 5 people turned in lists. That's pretty low.... [}:)]

[FreeWave]

Still 5. I can't do grand totals until i get at least 10.... [xx(]

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by FreeWave[/i]
<br>Still 5. I can't do grand totals until i get at least 10.... [xx(]

[/quote]
What do you expect FreeWave, it's actually a music post. I've struck out on a couple of these types of threads too. I guess it's just tooooo haaaard... [:(!]

[Otters Walk Among Us]

I was away for a few days, I'll contribute one by tomorrow.

[FreeWave]

thanks otters!! [:D]

So music threads don't do as good as the remembering about old clubs threads eh? Sad. [xx(]

[dead_irony@yahoo.com]

I'll have mine any day now. It's pretty much all consuming.

[FreeWave]

lol.sweet! [:D]

[Otters Walk Among Us]

OK, here's a stab at it, divided into groups for your points breakdown. I'd explode trying to rank them exactly

1-10
Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Split Enz - I Got You
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love?
New Order - Blue Monday
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
ABC - The Look Of Love
The English Beat - Save It For Later
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods

11-30
Elvis Costello - The Beat
Talking Heads - Cities
The Records - Starry Eyes
Joy Division - Novelty
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Squeeze - Pulling Mussels From The Shell
Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach
Japan - Quiet Life
Psychedelic Furs - Imitation Of Christ
New Order - Ceremony
Human League - Seconds
Berlin - The Metro
Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
Peter Godwin - Images Of Heaven
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Icicle Works - Whisper To A Scream
The The - Uncertain Smile
Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines
Blancmange - Why Don't They Leave Things Alone?
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

31-50
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
The Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone
The Undertones - Get Over You
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
The Jam - Going Underground
Mission Of Burma - Academy Fight Song
OMD - Messages
XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
The Undertones - It's Going To Happen
ABC - Poison Arrow
The Cure - A Strange Day
The English Beat - I Confess
Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Black - Wonderful Life
The dB's - Big Brown Eyes
Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Xymox - No Words
The Chameleons - Perfumed Garden

51-100
The Damned - New Rose
Nick Lowe - So It Goes
The Blue Nile - Stay
Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven
Talking Heads - Pulled Up
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
999 - Homicide
Devo - It Takes A Worried Man
The Cars - You're All I've Got Tonight
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
The Other Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
Talk Talk - My Foolish Friend
Blondie - Accidents Never Happen
Cowboys International - Thrash
Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind
U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Code Blue - Face To Face
The Cure - A Forest
Fischer-Z - Going Deaf For A Living
The Fools - It's A Night For Beautiful Girls
Abecedarians - They Said Tomorrow
Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Talking Heads - What A Day That Was
Visage - Fade To Grey
The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
The Truth - Exception Of Love
Japan - Ghosts
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Medium Medium - Hungry So Angry
Sad Lovers And Giants - Things We Never Did
Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry
Depeche Mode - Shout
Dislocation Dance - Show Me
The Bluebelles - Cath
Roxy Music - More Than This
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter
Blancmange - Blind Vision
Duran Duran - Anyone Out There?
China Crisis - Working With Fire And Steel
The Church - Columbus
Freur - Doot Doot
Men At Work - Overkill
Lotus Eaters - First Picture Of You
Microdisney - Town To Town
Julian Cope - The Greatness & Perfection Of Love

[Frau_Blucher]

Otters, I love that list!

...but then again, cross-pollinating eachother with 24 gigs of eachother's music may have had strange and unanticipated consequences. [:0]

[FreeWave]

Awesome!! We got 6!! [:D]

Nice list! [:p]

[Otters Walk Among Us]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Otters, I love that list!

...but then again, cross-pollinating eachother with 24 gigs of eachother's music may have had strange and unanticipated consequences. [:0]
[/quote]

Indeed, I gained much wisdom from the trading. And I'm still learning more stuff from others' discs. In another year, as I listen to more and more, I'd bet the lower half might change a bit, although I'd be hard pressed to believe that some obscurity could at this point break into the top half. A new wave tune I discover now just can't possibly have the same impact as a tune I've known since I was 12.

[ru480s2]

Thinking up 100 and ranking them isn't easy. Couldn't people just give you less, and you can still apply the same point system? (eg. If somebody only listed their top 20, the first 10 get 5 points, and the rest get 4 pts). There's some good ones here, that were from awhile back. . .

http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=630

After saying that, I did manage to come up 100. (It took a couple days, and I know it's still not right).

1. Kate Bush "Wuthering Heights"
2. Gang Of Four "Damaged Goods"
3. Echo & The Bunnymen "The Cutter"
4. Joy Division "Decades"
5. OMD "Electricity"
6. Gary Numan "Cars"
7. Roxy Music "Over You"
8. Yazoo "Nobody's Diary"
9. Black "Everythings Coming Up Roses"
10. Colourfield "Castles in the Air"

11. David Bowie "Cat People"
12. Bauhaus "Lagartija Nick"
13. Cars "Heartbeat City"
14. Church "Under the Milky Way"
15. New Order "Love Vigilantes"
16. Eurythmics "Love Is A Stranger"
17. Human League "Don't You Want Me"
18. The Jam "That's Entertainment"
19. Split Enz "I Got You"
20. Spoons "Arias & Symphonies"
21. The Silencers "Painted Moon"
22. Echo & The Bunnymen "Rollercoaster"
23. Peter Schilling "Major Tom"
24. Savage Progress "My Soul Unwraps Tonight"
25. Big Country "Wonderland"
26. Crowded House "Now We're Getting Somewhere"
27. Payalos "Eyes Of A Stranger"
28. The Cure "A Forest"
29. Soft Cell "Tainted Love"
30. New Order "Shell Shock"

31. Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way"
32. Jesus & Mary Chain "Darkland"
33. Alphaville "Dance With Me"
34. Bauhaus "She's In Parties"
35. Dear Enemy "The Good Life"
36. The Clash "Police On My Back"
37. A Flock Of Seagulls "Remember David"
38. Devo "Workin' In Coalmine"
39. Pale Fountains "Jean's Not Happening"
40. Echo & The Bunnymen "Pictures On The Wall"
41. Kate Bush "Cloudbusting"
42. Quarterflash "Find Another Fool"
43. Jennifer Warnes "First We Take Manhattan"
44. David Bowie "Scary Monsters"
45. Real Life "Send Me An Angel"
46. Style Council "My Ever Changing Mood"
47. Tears For Fears "Change"
48. The Clash "Rock The Casbah"
49. Squeeze "Take Me I'm Yours"
50. Blue Peter "Don't Walk Past"

51. Freur "Look In The Back For Answers"
52. Virgin Prunes "Pagan Lovesong"
53. Diodes "Cat Walker"
54. Yello "Desire"
55. Talking Heads "Road To Nowhere"
56. Romantics "Talking In Your Sleep"
57. Woodentops "Well Well Well"
58. Sisters Of Mercy "Black Planet"
59. Bourgie Bourgie "Breaking Point"
60. U2 "Gloria"
61. Depeche Mode "Route 66"
62. Payalos "Soldier"
63. Duran Duran "Hungry Like The Wolf"
64. Elvis Costello "Pump It Up"
65. Frida "I Know There's Something Going On"
66. Haircut One Hundred "Love Plus One"
67. New Order "Face Up"
68. Real Life "Send Me An Angel"
69. Split Enz "Six Months In A Leaky Boat"
70. Visage "Fade To Grey"
71. Passion Puppets "Like Dust"
72. Big Supreme "Don't Walk"
73. Trans X "Living On Video"
74. Motorcycle Boy "Big Rock Candy Mountain"
75. Pigbag "Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag"
76. B-Movie "Nowhere Girl"
77. Gazebo "I Like Chopin"
78. Alphaville "Forever Young"
79. Church "The Unguarded Moment"
80. Devo "Jerkin Back & Forth"
81. Guadalcanal Diary "Watusi Rodeo"
82. Modern English "I'll Melt With You"
83. Roxy Music "More Than This"
84. Billy Bragg "It Says Here"
85. Sisters Of Mercy "Walk Away"
86. Style Council "Walls Come Tumbling Down"
87. Tears For Fears "Pale Shelter"
88. Nobodys "No Guarantees"
89. Vicious Pink "Cccan't You See"
90. Bauhaus "Bella Lugosi's Dead"
91. The Cure "10:15 Saturday Night"
92. ABC "The Look Of Love"
93. Teenage Head "Something On My Mind"
94. Freeez "IOU"
95. OMD "So In Love"
96. Blue Peter "Radio Silence"
97. Robert Hazard "Escalator Of Life"
98. Devo "Beautiful World"
99. New Order "Blue Monday"
100. Torch Song "Prepare To Energize"

[FreeWave]

If people don't want to take on the task of 100 choices I'll take smaller lists from people BUT it means that you will undoubtably leave many good songs off.

I still would prefer 100 but I'll take what people want to give. [;)]

[skeggia]

here's my list

1. joy division - 24 hours
2. joy division - disorder
3. red lorry yellow lorry - chance
4. breathless - monkey talk
5. the clash - stay free
6. echo & the bunnymen - silver
7. killing joke - requiem
8. loop - straight to your heart
9. loop - arc-lite
10. red lorry yellow lorry - talk about the weather
11. joy division - heart and soul
12. joy division - colony
13. pil - public image
14. red lorry yellow lorry - cut down
15. red lorry yellow lorry - pushing on
16. new order - dreams never end
17. breathless - smash palace
18. breathless - all my eye and betty martin
19. breathless - count on angels
20. bauhaus - bela lugosi's dead
21. killing joke - change
22. killing joke - fall of because
23. killing joke - unspeakable
24. loop - black sun
25. loop - collision
26. love and rockets - a private future
27. minimal compact - autumn leaves
28. wire - dot dash
29. xtc - making plans for nigel
30. red lorry yellow lorry - this today
31. breathless - new chapter
32. breathless - here by chance
33. capt sensible - brenda
34. chameleons - caution
35. the clash - safe european home
36. cure - just like heaven
37. echo & the bunnymen - show of strenght
38. gang of four - outside the trains don't run on time
39. joy division - dead souls
40. joy division - ceremony
41. police - can't stand losing you
42. red lorry yellow lorry - hold yourself down
43. red lorry yellow lorry - nothing wrong
44. section 25 - melt close
45. sisters of mercy - heartland
46. sonic youthc furs - imitation of christ
47. stranglers - no more heros
48. swll maps - vertical slum
49. sonic youth - total trash
50. wire - map.ref. 41n 93w
51. echo & the bunnymen - angels and devils
52. joy division - autosuggestion
53. smiths - barbarism
54. sisters of mercy - body electric
55. sonic youth - kill yr idols
56. wire - blessed state
57. chameleons - don't fall
58. red lorry yellow lorry - happy to see me
59. breathless - ageless
60. the clash - the guns of brixton
61. cure - in between days
62. echo & the bunnymen - going up
63. joy division - something must break
64. joy division - insight
65. red lorry yellow lorry - hands off me
66. red lorry yellow lorry - big stick
67. section 25 - be brave
68. sisters of mercy - kiss the carpet
69. breathless - heartburst
70. cure - boys don't cry
71. damned - smash it up
72. the fall - put away
73. the fall - prole art threat
74. wire - too late
75. wire - otdoor miner
76. wire - ahead
77. wire - our swimmer
78. the clash - complete control
79. cure - jumping so train
80. echo & the bunnymen - in bluer skies
81. the fall - fiery jack
82. the fall - room to live
83. mission of burma - that's when i reach for my revolver
84. new order - everything's gone green
85. new order - the him
86. new order - i.c.b.
87. new order - procession
88. sonic youthc furs - sister europe
89. sonic youthc furs - dumbwaiters
90. angelic upstarts - woman in disguise
91. and also the trees - secret sea
92. joe jackson - sunday papers
93. rem - talk about the passion
94. siouxsie & the banshees - hybrid
95. stiff little fingers - bloody sunday
96. smiths - this charming man
97. sisters of mercy - alice
98. swans - big strong boss
99. tuxedomoon - where interests lie
100. virgin prunes - sweethome under white clouds