Top 100 New Wave Songs

[MikeP]

I think this is great Freewave! I'd love to see the entire list tabulated -- I'm sure it would make for an awesome 1000+ essential new wave songs list! In fact, I'd like to post it somewhere else on my site for easier access later.

[manekineko]

Sorry to keep you hanging, Freewave. I have been frightfully busy lately and am still generating my list. I'm still going to be a couple days. If you need to cut it off and start tabulating, you don't have to wait for me. Thanks for being so patient! With or without my input, it's going to be a great list.

[FreeWave]

Page 1 is now raw tabulatable (a word?) data in an excel file (and soon to be in an access file (thanks Microsoft). If you edit anything on page 1 it won't be reflected in the tallies. I'll wait until tomorrow before crunching part of page 2.

I'll try to hold off on final results until next week,
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June 2nd,
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which is the official cutoff date. Hopefully I'll have tallies very shortly after. Post your lists and represent!! [:p]

[FreeWave]

Sure thing. Not that hard all in all.

Its amazing what you can do by just cut & pasting the lists into excel (as one big column) and then just sort into the appropriate collumns using "Text to Columns" Command. Its bloody brilliant!! [:D]

Thanks to those who capitalized and didn't stray from the rank-artist-song format!! [:p]

[more than this]

Trying to keep busy...

1. Tears - The Chameleons
2. Someone Somewhere In Summertime - Simple Minds
3. Modigliani - Book Of Love
4. Secret - OMD
5. Away - The Bolshoi
6. Uncertain Smile - The The
7. The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
8. Hunting High And Low - A-ha
9. Not My Slave - Oingo Boingo
10. A Beat For You - Pseudo Echo

11. Brilliant Mind - Furniture
12. New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) - Simple Minds
13. Catch Me I'm Falling - Real Life
14. Young Boys - The Hawaiian Pups
15. Heartbreak Beat - The Psychedelic Furs
16. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
17. Love Cats - The Cure
18. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
19. Nowhere Girl - B-Movie
20. If You Were Here - Thompson Twins

21. King In A Catholic Style - China Crisis
22. Dance With Me - Lords Of The New Church
23. Bow Down - The Housemartins
24. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
25. Space Age Lovesong - A Flock Of Seagulls
26. Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
27. Deeper And Deeper - The Fixx
28. Alone Again Or - The Damned
29. Whisper To A Scream - Icicle Works
30. Forever And A Day - Classix Nouveaux

31. Dr. Mabuse - Propaganda
32. Wasteland - The Mission UK
33. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - Ultravox
34. Heart - Pet Shop Boys
35. Love Is A Shield - Camouflage
36. Arias & Symphonies - Spoons
37. The Promise - When In Rome
38. Images Of Heaven - Peter Godwin
39. All Night Long - Peter Murphy
40. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears

41. Eyes Of A Stranger - The Payola$
42. Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees
43. Like To Get To Know You Well - Howard Jones
44. House Of Stone - Roaring Boys
45. Summer Spies - Fatal Charm
46. The Magician - Secession
47. Wanting - Moev
48. It's My Life - Talk Talk
49. Suedehead - Morrissey
50. No Promises - Icehouse

51. Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade
52. It Must Be Love - Madness
53. Sensoria - Cabaret Voltaire
54. A Little Respect - Erasure
55. Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
56. Fade To Grey - Visage
57. Say You Will - Blanket Of Secrecy
58. So Alive - Love & Rockets
59. Chance - Big Country
60. Love Comes Quickly - Pet Shop Boys

61. Rock Against Romance - Holly & The Italians
62. Anywhere With You - Rubber Rodeo
63. Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics
64. Lucretia My Reflection - The Sisters Of Mercy
65. More Than This - Roxy Music
66. Change Reaction - Robert Hazard
67. Love & Pride - King
68. Heartache Feeds Heartache - A Drop In The Gray
69. If I Was - Midge Ure
70. I'm Falling - The Comsat Angels

71. Arrested By You - Rupert Hine
72. Don't Tell Me - Blancmange
73. Oblivious - Aztec Camera
74. Imagination - Clan Of Xymox
75. Kiss In The Dark - Strange Advance
76. Look Of Love - ABC
77. Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
78. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
79. Feels Like Heaven - Fiction Factory
80. Secret Land - Sandra

81. Talk To Me - Iam Siam
82. Big In Japan - Alphaville
83. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Dream Academy
84. Melt With You - Modern English
85. The Hardest Walk - The Jesus And Mary Chain
86. Train In Vain - The Clash
87. Beat Box - Art Of Noise
88. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell
89. Our Lips Are Sealed - The Go-Go's
90. By My Side - INXS

91. Romanticide - Combo Audio
92. Wonderful Life - Black
93. Effigy - Ministry
94. You Think You Know Her - Cause & Effect
95. Atomic - Blondie
96. Certain Things Are Likely - Kissing The Pink
97. The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones
98. Modern Lovers - Fay Ray
99. You Might Think - The Cars
100. Destination Unknown - Missing Persons

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[quote][i]Originally posted by FreeWave[/i]
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Thanks to those who capitalized and didn't stray from the rank-artist-song format!! [:p]
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OOPS.

[egg-roger]

OK I fixed mine.

[more than this]

Can't sleep. Hours later, my list is hilarious! So many great songs forgotten! I am still happy with my top 10 though. How do you fit 300 songs onto a top 100 list anyway? Looking forward to the final list FreeWave.

[hexicon]

I haven't had time to do mine but maybe I can just merge kimiiii's and otters' lists . . . . amazing what you can learn from this kind of exercise!

[FreeWave]

Added everything above Temple of NW's list so no chance to re-edit and affect results. As i stated get your votes in by next Thursday as we'll have results. [:D]

[FreeWave]

[quote][i]Originally posted by hexicon[/i]
<br>I haven't had time to do mine but maybe I can just merge kimiiii's and otters' lists . . . . amazing what you can learn from this kind of exercise!
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Sure that's a real easy thing to do is pick from some favorite lists . Just be sure NOT to post songs twice (or more on your list)[:(!][;)]

[manekineko]

I'm working hard to get my list done, but it is so hard to eliminate some of my favorite songs! I feel like I'm part of the crew on the Titanic, deciding who gets to survive in a life boat and who has to go down with the ship!

[manekineko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by kimiiii[/i]
<br>Stripped of their lifejackets, Kimiiii THROWS The Clash overboard...
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Looks like you don't agonize over the question "should I stay or should I go"!

[FreeWave]

Sad thing is that some classics have been ignored. [:(] Still I've done some early totaling and it looks really good although there are some songs that passed me by that have done real well! [:0]

[manekineko]

I just grouped them in general rankings. I would go crazy being any more specific than this.
Edit: I added/deleted some songs in the 51-100 category. I have marked them with a ***.

1-10, in no order:

New Order - Blue Monday
Killing Joke – Love Like Blood
Joy Division – Dead Souls
The Smiths – Big Mouth Strikes Again
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Talk Talk – It’s My Life
Romeo Void - Just Too Easy
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up

11-30, in no order:

X – White Girl
The Church - Under the Milky Way
Brian Ferry - Love Me Madly Again
New Order – Perfect Kiss
The Raybeats - Calhoun Surf
The Clash – Hateful
Re-Flex – The Politics of Dancing
The Cure – Lovesong
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
The Revillos – Rev Up!
The Fabulous Poodles – Anna Rexia
The English Beat - Hands Off She’s Mine
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts
Devo – Peekaboo
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cities in Dust
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make?
The Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
The Clash – Rudie Can’t Fail
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
The Replacements – I Will Dare

31-50, in no order:

The Beat Farmers – Goldmine
Rockpile – If Sugar Was as Sweet as You
The Saints – This Perfect Day
The Raybeats – B-Gas Rickshaw
The Cure - Fascination Street
Roxy Music - Love is the Drug
Depeche Mode – Get the Balance Right
Joy Division – Transmission
The Replacements – Sixteen Blue
New Order – Ceremony
Split Enz – I Got You
Roxy Music – Angel Eyes (original version)
Heaven 17 – Let Me Go
Berlin – The Metro
Jim Carroll Band – It’s Too Late
Shriekback – All Lined Up
The B-52’s - Rock Lobster
Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles
Husker Du – Could You Be the One

51-100, in no order:

Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
The The – Infected
***Blanket of Secrecy - Say You Will (delete Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives)
Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science
Squeeze - Pulling Mussels
Echo and the Bunnymen – Never Stop
Violent Femmes - Prove My Love
Talking Heads - Swamp
Sniff ‘n’ the Tears – Driver’s Seat
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
The Pogues – Sally Maclennane
The Smithereens - Time and Time Again
The Damned – I Just Can’t Be Happy Today
Public Image Limited – Happy?
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
Blondie – Rapture
The Vapors – Turning Japanese
Tones On Tail – Go
Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Killing Jar
Untouchables – Free Yourself
Modern English – I Melt With You
Television – Friction
The English Beat – Best Friend
***Ministry - Every Day is Halloween (delete Berlin – Sex (I’m a…))
Naked Eyes – Promises, Promises
Stan Ridgway – Don’t Box Me In
Let’s Active – Flags for Everything
Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home
The Beat – Working Too Hard
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians – Heaven
Wire Train – Chamber of Hellos
The Bangles – Hero Takes a Fall
***Gang of Four - Damaged Goods (delete Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf)
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels/Broken
The Cars – Just What I Needed
The Pretenders – Wait
Fabulous Poodles – Oh, Cheryl
Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over
Roxy Music – To Turn You On
Tom Verlaine – Five Miles of You
The B-52’s - Mesopotamia
Madness – One Step Beyond
The Damned – Alone Again Or
Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy
Iggy Pop – Real Wild Child (Wild One)
The Go Go’s – Our Lips Are Sealed
The Dream Syndicate – Halloween
Nick Lowe – Switchboard Susan
Devo – Girl U Want
***Morrissey - Suedehead (delete Flash and the Pan – Hey St. Peter)

(Edited 6/1/05 to correct formatting of artist/title)