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by **nowhere girl** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:00 am

My list: The Replacements
The Ocean Blue
B-52s
Ultravox
The Dead Milkmen
Erasure
The Untouchables
Depeche Mode
Yaz
Style Council

Nowhere Girl

by **WoodlandParkPunk** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:34 am

The Ramones
G.B.H
The Cars
Social Distortion
Devo
Spandau Ballet
AC/DC
The Misfits
George Micheal
Keith Urban

by **KYYX4ever** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:38 am

Woodland,
didja list George Michael just to see if we were actually reading each other's lists?[}:)]

by **WoodlandParkPunk** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:28 am

No, I think he has a great voice. I know I'll probably take a lot of shit for it, but the dude can sing.

by **nopretties** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:48 am

Wow. Great responses. Thanks everyone!

Various thoughts:

AC/DC is not a NW group (but maybe we can post an all-genre list on the non-NW forum here?)

Nowheregirl: Ocean Blue was SO close to making my list. I love them. Seen 'em three times, all

by **Glen** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:07 am

The Church
Duran Duran
Ramones
Depeche Mode
The Cure
U2
Colin Hay
Lloyd Cole
New Order
Psychedelic Furs/Love Spit Love

Narrowly missing the cut: The Clash, The Damned, The Fixx, Big Country, Human League, Nik Kershaw

Jaybag: You are correc

by **Berserker** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:14 am

Ultravox - Along with it, all of Midge's solo stuff

Gary Numan

Devo

a-ha - As well as the individual members' solo stuff

Sparks

Bill Nelson - This guy's catalogue alone could keep me busy for years.

Adam (& The) Ant(s)

YMO - Big bonus

by **i_like_lectric_motors** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:32 am

I know I have some postpunk and industrial/experimental but this is what I'd take.

Sonic Youth
Coil
Foetus
The Fall
Talk Talk
Joy Division
Swans
The Cure
Controlled Bleeding
Peter Gabriel

It was pretty hard to leave off Keith Urban though.

by **randy** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:58 am

80'S era?

Cars
Chameleons
Clash
Classix Nouveaux
Comsat Angels
Alphaville
Flash and the Pan
Rational Youth
Payolas
Mi Sex

Ask me tomorrow and the list will change.

by **nowhere girl** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:07 am

Nopretties,
I wish the Ocean Blue were still together, but their website mentioned a breakup. Still, I never get tired of their music. The first time I heard it, I was hooked. The Replacements are one of my other favorites. I saw one live show where

by **edisonoside** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:10 am

A Tropical deserted island I hope:[8D]

*Bow wow wow.
*Shriekback.
*Roxy music.
*Blondie.
*Kraftwerk.
*Depeche mode.
*The The.
*A flock of seagulls.
*Brian Eno.
*David Bowie.

by **marie3** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:30 am

This is not an easy list to make but here goes.

U2
The Jam
Yaz/Yazoo
New Order
Brian Ferry/Roxy Music
Depeche Mode
China Crisis (they have some great songs)
The CLash
Cocteau Twins
Echo and the Bunnymen
The The
(I left out Elvis Costello an

by **ben_at_work** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:44 am

All my picks have been listed already. If I also got to pick a non NW band it would be Steely Dan.

by **egg-roger** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:52 am

Surely somewhere in this new wave archipelago there is room for Prefab Sprout.

by **MikeP** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:56 am

Hmmmm...

Talk Talk
China Crisis
The Church
The Stranglers
Icehouse
Depeche Mode
R.E.M.
Japan/David Sylvian
O.M.D.
The Police/Sting

Almost but not quite: The Cars, Ultravox, Split Enz, The Cure, Echo, U2, New Order, Chameleons, Shriekback, T

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