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We're not talking about covers but distinct songs that just happen to have the same names? Which are the best or your favorites? I guess it's kinda like asking which father-son combo had the most hits in baseball or something...not really significant except out of curiosity in the anomaly. Some of mine, starting with 2 songs that are done by 4 bands each:

A Girl Like You by 20/20, Smithereens, Edwyn Collins, and The Wolfgang Press. I'm pretty sure each is distinct.
Ambition by Subway Sect, Dalek I Love You, Robert Marlow, and Graduate.

I started going blind just going thru the "A's" but I can't say any of these are the best. There must be some killer songs that fit this description. Others?

Absolute Beginners by Bowie and The Jam
Again by Tuxedomoon then by Lenny Kravitz much later on
All Fall Down by Ultravox and B-Movie
All I Want was probably done best by Toad the Wet Sprocket but can't forget Echo & the Bunnymen and a girl punk one by Snatch.
All I Want Is You by U2 and Roxy Music
All the Way by New Order and a pretty track by Ladytron just this year
American Music by Violent Femmes and The Blasters

Boys will be boys-Fast,Rabbitt(Trevor Rabin's first south african band),Hero

No more Mr Nice Guy(s)-Alice Cooper,Sparks

More Than This / Cure & Roxy Music
New Life, Depeche Mode / A New Life, Pet Shop Boys
Aero Dynamik, Kraftwerk / Aerodynamic, Daft Punk
Aeroplane / Bjork & Red Hot Chili Peppers
All Apologies / Nirvana & Sinead O'Connor
Always / Erasure, Pet Shop Boys & U2
Angel / Erasure, Eurythmics, Happy Mondays, Saint Etienne & Kirsty MacColl
Another Day / Air, the Cure, Johnny Marr & the Healers
Around the World / Red Hot Chili Peppers & Daft Punk
Bad / Big Audio Dynamite & U2
Beautiful / Moby & Smashing Pumpkins
Breakdown / Electronic & Suede
Breathe / Cure, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Ministry
Burnin' / Daft Punk & Ride
Butterfly / Book of Love, Weezer & Jamiroquai
Call Me / Blondie, Go West, Al Green
Carnival / Natalie Merchant & the Cardigans
Change / Lightning Seeds & Tears For Fears
Coming Up / Cure & Cornershop
Contact / Big Audio Dynamite, Police, Fat Lady Sings
Dangerous / Depeche Mode & Frente
Disappointed / Electronic, Morrissey, Public Image Limited
Don't Go / Yaz & Yazoo [:p]
Don't Let Go / Weezer & Lightning Seeds
Don't Look Back / Fine Young Cannibals & Luscious Jackson
Don't Stop / King, Madonna, Stone Roses
Dream On / Chemical Brothers & Depeche Mode
Falling / Alison Moyet & Jamiroquai
Fire / U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fish / King, Throwing Muses
Fools / King, Depeche Mode, Lightning Seeds
For You / Electronic, Sandbox
Forever / Moby, Goldfrapp
Freedom / Erasure, Psychefunkapuss, George Michael
Girl / Frente, Tori Amos
Gloomy Sunday / Bjork, Sinead O'Connor
Go / Moby, Tones On Tail
Gone / U2, Martin Gore, Voodoo Child, Esthero
Goodbye / Dubstar, Grabity Kills
Grace / Moby, U2, Erasure
Guilty / Gravity Kills, UB40

*whew* ok, I need a break. Great topic Blir but just a little tedious, lol! I'll be back with more. There are lots of same titles between artists but I have alot outside of New Wave so I did'nt bother to include them. I did deviate slightly in my list but they could all be considered alternative in it's fairly broad accepted meaning.

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[quote][i]Originally posted by marvymarv[/i]
<br>*whew* ok, I need a break. Great topic Blir but just a little tedious, lol!
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Okay, I think we've primed the idea well enough. Now let's try to get to "best" rather than a complete list of all songs that have the same name. So far I'm liking your "Dissapointed" and my "Absolute Beginners". I'm sure there's gonna be some abosulte killer one where we go "Doh! Of course!!!"

Not all are New Wave, but all these songs are on my "favorites" itunes play list

Change - Tears For Fears & John Waite
Clean - Depeche Mode & Anything Box
Creep - Radiohead & TLC
Don't Tell Me - Madonna & Avril Lavigne
Heaven - Psychedelic Furs, Talking Heads & Euro Gliders
It's My Life - Talk Talk & Bon Jovi
Save Me - Aimee Mann & Jem
Stay - Dubstar & Shakespear's Sister
Superman - REM & Lazlo Bane
This Is the Day - The The & Ivy
Trouble - Coldplay & Lindsey Buckingham

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[quote][i]Originally posted by marvymarv[/i]
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Don't Go / Yaz & Yazoo [:p]


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Marv:

You should be docked 50 posts for that one.[:D]

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[quote][i]Originally posted by Dan Coogan[/i]
<br>Not all are New Wave, but all these songs are on my "favorites" itunes play list
Don't Tell Me - Madonna & Avril Lavigne
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Ummm.... and Blancmange[:D]

Forever Young - Alphaville, Rod Stewart. (oh, you said "best"...)

Lies - Thompson Twins, Fleetwood Mac

Great topic, Blir
Haven't had time to sit down and think this through, but the one song that comes to me immediately:
Temptation: Heaven 17 and New Order

I'll dwell on this....

"Up All Night"--the Records and the Boomtown Rats

[quote][i]Originally posted by ElectricLash[/i]
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Hypnotized - The Undertones, The Mighty Lemon Drops
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and also Scritti Politti

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Dreaming - Blondie, The Beat
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and also Kate Bush.

great list, ElectricLash!

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<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by ElectricLash[/i]
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Hypnotized - The Undertones, The Mighty Lemon Drops
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and also Scritti Politti

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Dreaming - Blondie, The Beat
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and also Kate Bush.

great list, ElectricLash!
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Thanks!

[quote][i]Originally posted by ElectricLash[/i]
<br>Gloria - Hurrah!, U2
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...not to mention Patti Smith and (aheh) Them.

Appropos of those, do check out Art Brut's "Good Weekend", which includes a naughty parody of the "she's coming down my street..." bit from the Them version...)

"First we went to the cinema...
Then we came back from the cinema...
We went through the front door...
Up the stairs...
Through my bedroom door...
ONTO my bedroom floor...

...I've seen her naked twice!
I've seen her NAKED...TWICE!!"

(Love that song...)

-Sean
Altrok Radio at <A href="http://www.altrokradio.com">http://www.altrokradio.com</a>
Playing when Posted: Ministry, "Over The Shoulder"

I really like the Alison, December, and Secrets groups.

And could there be two songs for different than the Dianes by Husker Du and Material Issue?

not all new wave:
Alison - Elvis Costello, Pixies, Slowdive
Atmosphere - Joy Division, Velvet Crush
Breakdown - Buzzcocks, Tom Petty
Change - Tears For Fears, Dumptruck
Chelsea Girl - Simple Minds, Ride
Christine - House of Love, Siouxsie & the Banshees
Crystal - Husker Du, New Order
Dagenham Dave - Stranglers, Morrissey
Dear God - XTC, Midge Ure
December - Waterboys, For Against, Teenage Fanclub
Diane - Husker Du, Material Issue
Dreaming - OMD, Blondie
Face to Face - Code Blue, Real Life
Fly - The Bolshoi, The Church
Ghosts - Abecedarians, Japan
Girlfriend - Modern Lovers, Matthew Sweet, The Beautiful South
I Believe - Buzzcocks, Tears For Fears, REM, Booth & the Bad Angel
I See Red - Split Enz, The Silencers
I'm Falling - Ministry, Comsat Angels
In The Name Of Love - Thompson Twins, Naked Eyes
Jerusalem - Belouis Some, The Fall
King For A Day - Thompson Twins, XTC
Let's Go - The Cars, The Feelies, New Order
Limbo - Fischer-Z, Throwing Muses
Love Song - Simple Minds, The Cure, The Ocean Blue
Never Enough - Limited Warranty, The Cure
Nostalgia - Buzzcocks, Weekend, The Chameleons
Obsession - Animotion, Xymox
Oh Yeah - Roxy Music, Yello, Ash
Paradise - Buzzcocks, Black, The Bodines
Round and Round - Spandau Ballet, New Order, Ratt
Secrets - The Cure, Mission of Burma, Dumptruck, The Primitives
Ship of Fools - World Party, Erasure
Shout - Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears
Some People - The Fixx, Belouis Some
Sometimes - Blue In Heaven, Erasure, Firehose
Souvenir - OMD, Rubber Rodeo
Stay - The Blue Nile, Oingo Boingo, The Grapes of Wrath
Too Late - Shoes, Wire
We Close Our Eyes - Go West, Oingo Boingo

[quote][i]Originally posted by marvymarv[/i]
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Go / Moby, Tones On Tail

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Hmmm... Does this really count? After all, they're not exactly two "distinct" songs...Moby sampled Tones On Tail.