Top 100 New Wave Songs - 2007 edition (RESULTS IN)

[MikeP]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by schwenko[/i]
<br>a few questions:
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I'm just sayin' it'll help. So...
e.g.

"The Human League - Don't You Want Me" with the spaces would be best.

Listing #1 as the first line down to #100 but without the actual numbers would again be best.

"EATB" would indeed be unacceptable in the Blirnited Nations.

"Yazoo-Situation(electro remix)" would get your whole list tossed out if I were King of Blirnovia. [;)]
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Thanks for your suggestions! While I may be a bit of a statistics novice, I am damn good at parsing, scripting, and working with databases. So while I agree that misspellings and abbreviations are an inevitable bitch, I think I can manage to match them up with the correct song/artist. I already have the results from the last two indexed in my database and a huge new wave song database (that <a href="../songs.asp" target="new">Songs List</a> on my site).

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by MikeP[/i]
<br>Thanks for your suggestions! While I may be a bit of a statistics novice, I am damn good at parsing, scripting, and working with databases. So while I agree that misspellings and abbreviations are an inevitable bitch, I think I can manage to match them up with the correct song/artist. I already have the results from the last two indexed in my database and a huge new wave song database (that <a href="../songs.asp" target="new">Songs List</a> on my site).
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I still say you ban anyone with a "DJ Jizzbomb Alnight Extended Jizzy Mix" submission...for life! [:o)]

[WolverineSyr]

Damn Blir, I was just coming back to put that in as my #1!

Great lists everyone, I had to go back & edit mine after looking at these. I totally forgot about Jo Jo Zepp - Hit & Run and Secret Service - Hey Johnny! Those are two songs I always hit "repeat" when they come around on the ipod.

[Berserker]

[quote][i]Originally posted by dcappe[/i]
<br>Ultravox - One Fine Day[/quote]I think you probably mean "One Small Day".

[dcappe]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Berserker[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by dcappe[/i]
<br>Ultravox - One Fine Day[/quote]I think you probably mean "One Small Day".
[/quote]
You know my brain has been unable to call it One Small Day for 23 years despite my best efforts.

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[MikeP]

Here's mine (with some revision sure to follow):

New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - Simple Minds
Train in Vain (Stand By Me) - The Clash
Your Silent Face - New Order
Up the Down Escalator - The Chameleons
Chance (7" Version) - Big Country
Someone's Calling - Modern English
Tinseltown in the Rain - The Blue Nile
The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
Street Café - Icehouse
Save It for Later - The English Beat

Cars - Gary Numan
Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange
More Than This - Roxy Music
I Got You - Split Enz
Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone) - Prefab Sprout
This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) - Talking Heads
Atomic - Blondie
Numbers with Wings - The Bongos
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) - A Flock of Seagulls
The Flat Earth - Thomas Dolby

P-Machinery - Propaganda
Telegraph - OMD
Beautiful World - Devo
Touch and Go - The Cars
Love Comes Quickly - Pet Shop Boys
Nova Heart - Spoons
Fade to Grey - Visage
Computer Love - Kraftwerk
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Brass in Pocket - Pretenders

Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs
Harmony in My Head - Buzzcocks
Generals and Majors - XTC
Talking to a Stranger - Hunters & Collectors
Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hotrods
Un-Alone - Translator
Myrrh - The Church
Don’t Change - INXS
Damned Don't Cry - Visage
Change - Tears for Fears

De Do Do Do De Da Da Da - The Police
Uncertain Smile - The The
Love Is... - Troy Tate
She Sheila - The Producers
The Voice - Ultravox
Loaded - Deacon Blue
Fallen Angel - Alphaville
Let Me Go - Heaven 17
Do You Wanna Hold Me - Bow Wow Wow
The Promise - Arcadia

Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Call of the Wild - Polyrock
Hand on My Heart - Shriekback
Operation - The Producers
Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc) - OMD
Change Reaction - Robert Hazard
Love Plus One - Haircut 100
Heartache Feeds Heartache - A Drop in the Gray
Love Is the Law - The Suburbs
Get the Balance Right! - Depeche Mode

Seconds - The Human League
Fall on Me - R.E.M.
Skin Deep - The Stranglers
Doot Doot - Freur
Appetite - Prefab Sprout
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club
When the Lights Go Out - Naked Eyes
Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
My Everchanging Moods - The Style Council
Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime - The Korgis

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Message Is You - Gary Myrick
True - Spandau Ballet
Radio Silence - Thomas Dolby
Flaming Desire - Bill Nelson
Cue - YMO
Our Lips Are Sealed - Fun Boy Three
Eyes of a Stranger - Payola$
Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
Send My Heart - The Adventures

The Walk - The Cure
It's You Only You (Mein Schmerz) - Lene Lovich
House of Stone - Roaring Boys
Reward - The Teardrop Explodes
Leave in Silence - Depeche Mode
I Love You (Miss Robot) - The Buggles
Canvas of Life - Minor Detail
Saved by Zero - The Fixx
Effigy (I'm Not An) - Ministry
I Love You (7" Version) - Yello

Hold Back the Rain - Duran Duran
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Chamber of Hellos - Wire Train
Get Over You - The Undertones
Love Is a Stranger - Eurythmics
Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Total Eclipse - The Expression
Overkill - Men at Work
Modern Day Love - Dial M
Starry Eyes - The Records

[Blitz Boy]

Just a question before completing my list:

What we here in Spain and most of Europe call New Wave... is New Wave for the aim of this site?

Examples:

Phil Seymour is New Wave? I'd vote for "Baby it's you" if it is...
Barracudas, Romantics, Rubinoos, Back Seat Romeos... are New Wave?

I'd never place R.E.M. or Patti Smith, whom I've seen in some lists, as New Wave. In the context of this site, NW is more what we here call "80's music" in a general way.

Just thinking, to make my list more accurate to the interests of the boarders.

Thanks.

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blitz Boy[/i]
<br>Just a question before completing my list:

What we here in Spain and most of Europe call New Wave... is New Wave for the aim of this site?

Examples:

Phil Seymour is New Wave? I'd vote for "Baby it's you" if it is...
Barracudas, Romantics, Rubinoos, Back Seat Romeos... are New Wave?

I'd never place R.E.M. or Patti Smith, whom I've seen in some lists, as New Wave. In the context of this site, NW is more what we here call "80's music" in a general way.

Just thinking, to make my list more accurate to the interests of the boarders.

Thanks.
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I would suggest just posting your list; inevitably somebody will object to your selection, but you can fall back on this description by this site's owner:

New wave proved to be breathtaking in its scope—it was hard to perceive where it began and ended, both chronologically and musically. I would venture that new wave music occupied the era from 1978 to 1986, after which there was a notable decline offset by movements such as Industrial and Acid House (both seeds of Techno) and the great rise in college indie rock (alternative rock). Musically, new wave should not be pigeonholed or written off simply as "skinny ties," synthesizer geeks, new romantics, and pretentious, fashion-as-content bands. Certainly at the core of most new wave *was* an infectious dance beat or D.I.Y. energy, and more mainstream artists like Joe Jackson, Greg Kihn and rock veterans like David Bowie and The Kinks brushed the fringes of this musical tapestry. Movements like the more guitar-driven Power Pop often seemed to mesh virtually indistinguishably.

Movements and styles such as Synthpop (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Human League, Soft Cell) and New Romantic (Ultravox, Visage, Classix Nouveaux, Spoons, Peter Godwin, early Talk Talk) were, to many, the defining styles of new wave. Gary Numan's "Cars," Soft Cell's stark electronic take on "Tainted Love," and The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" helped push this new futuristic synthesizer-driven sound into the US mainstream. New romanticism, on the other hand, never managed much of an impression in the US—it remained very much a European (and Canadian) movement. Despite the general inadequacy of pigeonholing, there were the other requisite, defining styles from the era: Goth (Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Cure, Specimen, Bauhaus), Postpunk (The Chills, Gang of Four, The Sound, Joy Division, Comsat Angels), Ska (Madness, The Specials, The English Beat, The Untouchables, Bad Manners), Rockabilly (Dave Edmunds, Stray Cats, Polecats, The Cramps), and Power Pop (The Vapors, The Producers, 20/20, The Records). And still that's only scratching the surface.

[Blitz Boy]

[quote]
I would suggest just posting your list; inevitably somebody will object to your selection, but you can fall back on this description by this site's owner:
[/quote]

Good suggestion, I'll do. [:)]

It was years since I read the owner's description. With this, I can virtually place almost any songs of first 80's, except metal... [:D]

Thanks.

[randy]

Updated from my old list...

The Cars--All Mixed Up
Payolas--Eyes Of A Stranger
Alphaville--Forever Young
Robert Hazard--Escalator Of Life
Thomas Dilby--One Of Our Submarines
Flash And The Pan--Hey St. Peter
Little Bo Bitch--Annoying All The Neighbors
Lords Of TRhe New Church--Open Your Eyes
The Cure--Night Like This
The Stranglers--Walk On By

Australian Crawl--Boys Light Up
Ministry--Revenge
The Producers--What He's Got
Original Mirrors--Could This Be Heaven?
Blanket Of Secrecy--Say You Will
Mi-Sex--But You Don't Care
The Clash--London Calling
The Atlantics--Wrong Number
The Jam--Liza Radley
The Church--Reptile

The Cretones--Empty Heart
Dirty Looks--12 Oclock High
The Chameleons--Less Than Human
Fabulous Poodles--Oh Cheryl
The Expression--With Closed Eyes
The Cars--Dangerous Type
Sniff N The Tears--Drivers Seat
Alphaville--Big In Japan
The Cars--Just What I Needed
Inbase--Christine

The Stranglers--Nice N Sleazy
The Bongos--Numbers With Wings
Embarrassement--Patio Set
The Bureau--Only For Sheep
Positive Noise--Change Of Heart
The Nits--In The Dutch Mountains
Comsat Angels--Will You Stay Tonight?
Jon Astley--Janes Getting Serious
Tuff Darts--Your Love Is Like A Nuclear Waste
Jona Lewie--You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties

REM--Boxcars
Zaine Griff--Ashes And Diamonds
Boomtown Rats--Windchill Factor Minus Zero
Wild Men Of Wonga--Why Don't Pretty Girls Look At Me?
The A's--Insomnia
Jim Carroll Band--City Drops Into Night
The Triffids--Hell Of A Summer
Rational Youth--Saturdays In Silesia
Men Without Hats--Security
Nordland--Just Keep It Away

Wide Boy Awake--Come Back Friday
Talking Heads--Psycho Killer
The The--Jealous Of Youth
The Cramps--Like A Bad Girl Should
Flash And The Pan--Lights In The Night
Burning Sensations--Belly Of The Whale
Original Mirrors--Swing Together
The Members--Working Girl
The Clash--Guns Of Brixton
The Kinks--State Of Confusion

Mi-Sex--I Don't Know
Boomtown Rats--Diamond Smiles
Split Enz--I Got You
Funboy Thtree--The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum
Ian North--My Girlfriends Dead
Made For TV--So Afraid Of The Russians
Alphaville--Jerusalem
Laurie Anderson--Big Science
The Schemers--I Want Some Fun
Wreckless Eric--Whole Wide World

Original Mirrors--Panic In The Night
Payolas--Hastings Street
Blancmange--Gods Kitchen
Wall Of Voodoo--Tomorrow
The Police--Murder By Numbers
Thompson Twins--Rollover
The Cars--Bye Bye Love
Siousex And The Banshees--Face To Face
The Real Popes--Things I Saw Today
Underground Cartoons--Not That Stupid

Flash And The Pan--Down Among The Dead Men
Little Bo Bitch--I'm Confused
Cortex--The Freaks
Soft Cell--Tainted Love
Yellowcard--Down At The Vortex
The Nobody's--They Didn't Offer Me You
Ultravox--The Man Who Dies Everyday
U2--New Years Day
XTC--Great Fire
D.B. Cooper--Chasing Rainbows In The Night

New Models--Permanent Vacation
The Fixx--Stand Or Fall
Hurry For What--Misanthrope
The 77's--I Can't Get Over It
Fischer-Z--The Writer
Big Boys--Complete Control
The Records--Girls That Don't Exist
Violent Femmes--Breaking Up
Demics--New York City
Waterboys--Red Army Blues

Thats it for now.....I think.

[scramjet]

Man these things are painful. I could spend days and still not have a list I'm happy with. Here's what I could come up with in the time I've been able to spend. Revisions to come, no doubt.

Thomas Dolby - One of Our Submarines
The Cars - Let's Go
U2 - New Year's Day
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make
Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
B-52's - Rock Lobster
Blondie - Heart of Glass
A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
Tears for Fears - Mad World
R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
Haircut One Hundred - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
Split Enz - I Got You
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
Freur - Doot Doot
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Joe Jackson - I'm the Man
Yaz - Nobody's Diary
The Police - I Can't Stand Losing You
Duran Duran - Rio
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter
The English Beat - Best Friend
INXS - Don't Change
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter
The Clash - Train In Vain
Elvis Costello - Alison
Devo - Mongoloid
OMD - Electricity
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl
Roxy Music - More Than This
Thomas Dolby - Europa and the Pirate Twins
U2 - I Will Follow
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
Gary Numan - Cars
The Knack - My Sharona
The Bongos - Numbers With Wings
The Fixx - Red Skies
The Producers - She Sheila
The Police - Message In A Bottle
Felt - Primitive Painters
Tears For Fears - Change
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
The Cars - Good Times Roll
New Order - Bizzare Love Triangle
The English Beat - Ranking Full Stop
General Public - Tenderness
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Depeche Mode - Dreaming of Me
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Duran Duran - Hold Back the Rain
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
The Cure - A Forest
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
The Police - Roxanne
Duran Duran - My Own Way
The English Beat - I Confess
New Musik - Straight Lines
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Housemartins - Happy Hour
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Ignatius Jones - Like A Ghost
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
The Fixx - Stand or Fall
INXS - The One Thing
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
The Clash - Clampdown
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
Duran Duran - Planet Earth
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
New Order - Blue Monday
Slow Children - President Am I
Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
B-52's - Private Idaho
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
Burning Sensations - Belly of the Whale
Devo - Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
The Cars - Dangerous Type
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
The Go-Go's - Head Over Heels
When In Rome - The Promise
Blanket of Secrecy - Say You Will
Dial M - Secret Sound
Adam Ant - The Something Girls
The Ocean Blue - Between Something and Nothing

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[schwenko]

Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
New Order – Blue Monday
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Blondie – In The Flesh
B-Movie – Nowhere Girl
Freur – Doot Doot
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Peter Godwin – Images Of Heaven
Miro Miroe – Nights Of Arabia
New Musik – Straight Lines
Simple Minds – I Travel
Television – See No Evil
Propaganda – Duel
The Pretenders – Kid
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Technopolis
Kraftwerk – The Model
Lene Lovich – Never Never Land
Split Enz – I Got You
Echo and the Bunnymen – The Cutter
Yazoo – Situation
New Order – Temptation
Joy Division – Atmosphere
Blondie – Heart Of Glass
Scars – All About You
Modern Eon – Euthenics
The Speedies – Let me Take Your Photo
Nervus Rex – Go Go Girl
The Clash – Train In Vain
Modern English – Life In the Gladhouse
Clan of Xymox – Stranger
China Crisis – Working With Fire and Steel
Joe Jackson – Look Sharp
The Stranglers – Midnight Summer Dream
The Cars – Just What I Needed
The Modern Lovers – Road Runner
The Blue Nile – Stay
Visage – Fade to Grey
Ultravox – Vienna
Pete Shelley – Millions of People (No One Like You)
Gary Numan - Cars
M – Pop Music
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
The dBs – Black and White
The Police – Message In a Bottle
Martha and the Muffins – Echo Beach
Spoons – Nova Heart
Blue Peter – Don’t Walk Past
Shoc Corridor – On Reflection
Man Parrish – Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)
Miharu Koshi – L’Amour Toujours
Shox Lumania – Shoes
Devo – Whip It
Fiat Lux – Blue Emotion
Leisure Process – Love Cascade
U.S. Ape – Ignorance Is Bliss
John Foxx – Your Dress
Section 25 – From A Hilltop
Cabaret Voltaire – Yashar
Ippu Do – Chinese Reggae
The Slits – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Flying Lizards – Money
Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark – Enola Gay
Japan – Quiet Life
Blancmange – Blind Vision
Pylon – Cool
Roxy Music – Over You
Mi-Sex – Computer Games
XTC – Ten Feet Tall
The Teardrop Explodes – When I Dream
The Comsat Angels – Independence Day
The Damned – Smash It Up
Rational Youth – Saturdays In Silesia
Bill Nelson – Eros Arriving
James White and the Blacks – Contort Yourself
Savage Progress – My Soul Unwraps Tonight
The Cure – Let’s Go to Bed
The Cure – In Between Days
Mink DeVille – Let Me Dream If I Want To
Suicide – Cheree
The Primitives – Crash
Thomas Dolby – Europa and the Pirate Twins
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
The Armoury Show – Castles In Spain
The Fixx – Red Skies
The Vapors – Turning Japanese
Television – Marquee Moon
The Church – Reptile
Japan – Visions of China
The Colors – All I Want
Tom Verlaine – Always
Nick Lowe – Cruel to Be Kind
Dragon – Rain
Chandra – Concentration
Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark – Souvenir
Ellen Foley – Torchlight
Bush Tetras – Too Many Creeps
Patti Smith – Piss Factory
Theoretical Girls – U.S. Millie
Unknown Artist – Stay (Second Time Around)

[club80]

Hmmm....I'll have mine in before the deadline but I'll really have to think about this?

Eight6...don't be bullied out! Get your picks in! Your long time contributions should give you a pass on what others might think about their qualifications. Of course, if go and disappoint us with Hall and Oates, I can't be responsible for the carnage that will surely follow.




We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
-Johnny Ramone-

[eight6]

[quote][i]Originally posted by club80[/i]
<br>Hmmm....I'll have mine in before the deadline but I'll really have to think about this?

Eight6...don't be bullied out! Get your picks in! Your long time contributions should give you a pass on what others might think about their qualifications. Of course, if go and disappoint us with Hall and Oates, I can't be responsible for the carnage that will surely follow.




We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
-Johnny Ramone-
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LOL...sincere thanks for the encouragement club80. The truth is I'm just too lazy to hammer out a list 100 items deep. Most here know my tastes are a bit off the beaten track as far as Top xxx lists go.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by eight6[/i]
<br>LOL...sincere thanks for the encouragement club80.[/quote]
He must have sensed your reticence to offer an opinion...you blushing flower! [:D]

I do hope you submit though...just seeing the cluster plots of how far an outlier that you, OperaPrima, and Yipyipcoyote were in comparison to other more-normalized choices was a treat onto itself. [:p]