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

[enzfan]

Me tabulate, I have the attention span of a 4 year old.[:)]

[waldnorm]

[quote][i]Originally posted by glokstadt[/i]
<br>Too late? Forgot to do list, and slowed by no computer... [:(]


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Glad to see Mike's response--as I'd feel that a cumulative list of all of our favorites without the inclusion of well-known regular, Glok's, would definitely not be a real list!

[MikeP]

[b]And the results are in![/b] I received 36 submissions, a few with less than a full 100 songs submitted.

I opted to use the fairly straightforward scoring system below for song rankings:

1 = 8 points
2-5 = 7 points
6-10 = 6 points
11-20 = 5 points
21-30 = 4 points
31-40 = 3 points
41-50 = 2 points
51-100 = 1 point

There were definitely some surprises and I can definitely see that for us connoisseurs, much of the standard radio fare like "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This", "Our House", "She Blinded Me with Science" and "Anarchy in the UK" was shunned entirely. In other cases, big hits were ranked lower than other album cuts and even b-sides - for example, The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" was trumped significantly by "Seconds".

For you number-crunchers like Blir or Enzfan, <a href="../samples/temp/TopSongs2007.csv">click here</a> to grab a CSV file of the submissions (member, rank, artist, song) so you can illuminate us with further in-depth analysis.

So without further ado, here are the Top 106 (all those with a score of 14 or higher). Due to the weaker turnout, there tend to be a lot of ties once the score gets down to 20.

<TABLE style="font-size:11px"><tr><td>[b]Artist[/b]</td><td>[b]Song Title[/b]</td><td>[b]Score[/b]</td><td>[b]Count[/b]</td></tr><TR><TD>Joy Division</TD><TD>Love Will Tear Us Apart</TD><TD>80</TD><TD>17</TD></TR><TR><TD>B-Movie</TD><TD>Nowhere Girl</TD><TD>58</TD><TD>14</TD></TR><TR><TD>Freur</TD><TD>Doot Doot</TD><TD>49</TD><TD>13</TD></TR><TR><TD>A Flock of Seagulls</TD><TD>Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You)</TD><TD>46</TD><TD>13</TD></TR><TR><TD>Tears for Fears</TD><TD>Pale Shelter</TD><TD>46</TD><TD>12</TD></TR><TR><TD>New Order</TD><TD>Blue Monday</TD><TD>42</TD><TD>14</TD></TR><TR><TD>Heaven 17</TD><TD>Let Me Go</TD><TD>39</TD><TD>12</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Smiths</TD><TD>How Soon Is Now?</TD><TD>38</TD><TD>10</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Smiths</TD><TD>There Is a Light That Never Goes Out</TD><TD>36</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Joy Division</TD><TD>Transmission</TD><TD>35</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Clash</TD><TD>Train in Vain</TD><TD>35</TD><TD>11</TD></TR><TR><TD>Japan</TD><TD>Quiet Life</TD><TD>35</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Simple Minds</TD><TD>New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)</TD><TD>34</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Roxy Music</TD><TD>More Than This</TD><TD>34</TD><TD>11</TD></TR><TR><TD>Echo & The Bunnymen</TD><TD>The Killing Moon</TD><TD>34</TD><TD>11</TD></TR><TR><TD>OMD</TD><TD>Souvenir</TD><TD>31</TD><TD>9</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Human League</TD><TD>Seconds</TD><TD>31</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>New Order</TD><TD>Bizarre Love Triangle</TD><TD>31</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Siouxsie & The Banshees</TD><TD>Dazzle</TD><TD>31</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Comsat Angels</TD><TD>Will You Stay Tonight?</TD><TD>31</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Psychedelic Furs</TD><TD>Love My Way</TD><TD>30</TD><TD>9</TD></TR><TR><TD>Thomas Dolby</TD><TD>One of Our Submarines</TD><TD>29</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>The The</TD><TD>Uncertain Smile</TD><TD>29</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Talk Talk</TD><TD>It's My Life</TD><TD>29</TD><TD>11</TD></TR><TR><TD>Yaz</TD><TD>Situation</TD><TD>29</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Ultravox</TD><TD>Reap the Wild Wind</TD><TD>29</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Gary Numan</TD><TD>Cars</TD><TD>29</TD><TD>10</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Chameleons</TD><TD>Up the Down Escalator</TD><TD>28</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Cure</TD><TD>Just Like Heaven</TD><TD>28</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Ministry</TD><TD>Revenge</TD><TD>27</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Church</TD><TD>Under the Milky Way</TD><TD>27</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>New Order</TD><TD>Temptation</TD><TD>25</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Visage</TD><TD>Fade to Grey</TD><TD>25</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>New Order</TD><TD>Your Silent Face</TD><TD>25</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>INXS</TD><TD>Don't Change</TD><TD>24</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Split Enz</TD><TD>I Got You</TD><TD>24</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Big Country</TD><TD>In a Big Country</TD><TD>23</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Ultravox</TD><TD>Vienna</TD><TD>22</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Damned</TD><TD>Alone Again Or</TD><TD>22</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Cure</TD><TD>In Between Days</TD><TD>22</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Thomas Dolby</TD><TD>Europa & the Pirate Twins</TD><TD>22</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Chameleons</TD><TD>Swamp Thing</TD><TD>21</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Tears for Fears</TD><TD>Change</TD><TD>21</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Jam</TD><TD>Town Called Malice</TD><TD>21</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Berlin</TD><TD>The Metro</TD><TD>21</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Blancmange</TD><TD>Blind Vision</TD><TD>21</TD><TD>9</TD></TR><TR><TD>OMD</TD><TD>Electricity</TD><TD>20</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Duran Duran</TD><TD>Planet Earth</TD><TD>20</TD><TD>9</TD></TR><TR><TD>Echo & The Bunnymen</TD><TD>The Cutter</TD><TD>20</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Aztec Camera</TD><TD>Oblivious</TD><TD>20</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>ABC</TD><TD>The Look of Love</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>OMD</TD><TD>Joan of Arc (Maid Of Orleans)</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>Gang of Four</TD><TD>I Found That Essence Rare</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>Howard Devoto</TD><TD>Rainy Season</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>XTC</TD><TD>Life Begins at the Hop</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Nick Lowe</TD><TD>Cruel to Be Kind</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Depeche Mode</TD><TD>Get the Balance Right!</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>Spoons</TD><TD>Nova Heart</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Blondie</TD><TD>Dreaming</TD><TD>19</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Kraftwerk</TD><TD>Tour de France</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Icicle Works</TD><TD>Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>Talking Heads</TD><TD>Psycho Killer</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Cars</TD><TD>All Mixed Up</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Armoury Show</TD><TD>Castles in Spain</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>9</TD></TR><TR><TD>OMD</TD><TD>Messages</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Duran Duran</TD><TD>Save a Prayer</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Public Image Ltd.</TD><TD>Public Image</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Slow Children</TD><TD>Spring in Fialta</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Missing Persons</TD><TD>Destination Unknown</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>8</TD></TR><TR><TD>New Order</TD><TD>Dreams Never End</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>Talking Heads</TD><TD>This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Bongos</TD><TD>Numbers with Wings</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Gang of Four</TD><TD>I Love a Man in a Uniform</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Bill Nelson</TD><TD>Flaming Desire</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Joy Division</TD><TD>Atmosphere</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Human League</TD><TD>Don’t You Want Me</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Intaferon</TD><TD>Get out of London</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>Gary Numan/Tubeway Army</TD><TD>Are "Friends" Electric?</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Alphaville</TD><TD>Forever Young</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>Kate Bush</TD><TD>Running up That Hill</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Clash</TD><TD>Janie Jones</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>Pete Shelley</TD><TD>Homosapien</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Industry</TD><TD>State of the Nation </TD><TD>16</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Propaganda</TD><TD>Duel </TD><TD>16</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>The English Beat</TD><TD>I Confess</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Psychedelic Furs</TD><TD>The Ghost in You</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Cure</TD><TD>Let’s Go to Bed</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>The English Beat</TD><TD>Save It for Later</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Secession</TD><TD>Touch</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Blue Nile</TD><TD>Downtown Lights</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>A Flock of Seagulls</TD><TD>I Ran</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>Pet Shop Boys</TD><TD>West End Girls</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Vapors</TD><TD>Turning Japanese</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>U2</TD><TD>New Year's Day</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>Yaz</TD><TD>Only You</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Records</TD><TD>Starry Eyes</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Fixx</TD><TD>Stand or Fall</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Altered Images</TD><TD>I Could Be Happy</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>The Cars</TD><TD>Good Times Roll</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>The B-52's</TD><TD>Rock Lobster</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>5</TD></TR><TR><TD>Talk Talk</TD><TD>It’s My Life</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>2</TD></TR><TR><TD>Psychedelic Furs</TD><TD>Pretty in Pink</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>7</TD></TR><TR><TD>New Order</TD><TD>Ceremony</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>Modern English</TD><TD>I Melt with You</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>6</TD></TR><TR><TD>Kraftwerk</TD><TD>The Model/Das Model</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>4</TD></TR><TR><TD>Depeche Mode</TD><TD>But Not Tonight</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>3</TD></TR></TABLE>

[Frau_Blucher]

Very cool Miguel! There are some surprising rankings. The biggest one to me is Simple Minds' "New Gold Dream" easily trumping both "Promised You a Miracle" and "Someone Somewhere in Summertime".

There's a couple of tallies that don't look quite right. It looks mostly due to weird parsing of symbols like apostrophes or spelling:

Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - had a couple of misspellings that seems to take it to 46 points and far higher in the poll.

Wire Train - Chamber of Hellos - ditto above and thus creeps into the list at 17 points.

INXS - Don't Change - goes even higher to 34 points.

Blancmange - Don't Tell Me - 15 points and sneaks into the list with one extra #3 ranking.

Berlin - Sex (I'm a...) - 15 points, ditto to above but with 2 and 3 points more.

U2 - New Year's Day - squeezes 2 more points to 17.

The Human League - Don't You Want Me - gets into the list at 17 points but still gets trumped by Seconds.

All-in-all, pretty good rook. [;)] And big thanks of course.


PS. I've dug up the cumulative tables for 2005 and 2006. 75 unique participants (including glok and some oldies)! Bwaaahahahahahah!!!!

[NuWaveRx]

Very nice. A big thanks, as always, to everyone who took the time to compile and analyize the date. Now, Mike--do we have a 2008 t-shirt?[:p]

[MikeP]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
There's a couple of tallies that don't look quite right. It looks mostly due to weird parsing of symbols like apostrophes or spelling:
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It's probably the single quote/apostrophe issue (’ vs. ') that frequently turns up based on whether the list was created in a word processor or plain text editor. Thanks for noticing this.

[scramjet]

Blir's top two end up as the top two in the poll?

I call foul!

Well anyway, no badmouthing anyone who ends up with a high correlation to the consensus in your tree diagram.

Or maybe everyone is just swayed by Blir's opinions. Or vice versa.

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[scramjet]

No Devo or Police in the top 100? Harsh, just harsh. I suppose some disagreement over the best song by these bands is partly to blame. I'd love to see the data broken out by band. The same point system could be used with each song going toward the band's total.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by scramjet[/i]
<br>No Devo or Police in the top 100? Harsh, just harsh. I suppose some disagreement over the best song by these bands is partly to blame. I'd love to see the data broken out by band. The same point system could be used with each song going toward the band's total.
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Do you think I would not have that data handy?? [8D]

[scramjet]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
Do you think I would not have that data handy?? [8D]
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I know damn well you have it handy. Come on. The suspense is killing me.

[rotator]

Again 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' with a commanding victory (22 pts seperating #1 + #2 !!!), ...biggest shock : Modern English "Melt With You" with a poor showing....I like the results. thanks for doing the hard work Mike.

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[glokstadt]

[quote][i]Originally posted by waldnorm[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by glokstadt[/i]
<br>Too late? Forgot to do list, and slowed by no computer... [:(]


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Glad to see Mike's response--as I'd feel that a cumulative list of all of our favorites without the inclusion of well-known regular, Glok's, would definitely not be a real list!
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Well thanks fro the kind words Waldnorm; however, too late as usual, no computer access dampens my mood daily, I'm at a local hotel lobby using the "free" computer Internet access... and yielding to anyone waiting to use the terminal, as I'm hogging it up! I wonder if the staff is tired of seeing me over and over again, and that I've been staying here for overe two weeks now or what!? Maybe they can't tell... I'll see when I get the 'boot!' Heh, heh! [:D]


Edit: Besides, I don't know if my contribution would make a huge difference...

[glokstadt]

[quote][i]Originally posted by MikeP[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by glokstadt[/i]
<br>Too late? Forgot to do list, and slowed by no computer... [:(]
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Hi Glokstadt ... go ahead and post your list today if you can.[8D] I'm currently consolidating & tabulating. I should have the results posted late tonight.
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Thank you anyway! [:D]


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[glokstadt]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
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PS. I've dug up the cumulative tables for 2005 and 2006. 75 unique participants (including glok and some oldies)! Bwaaahahahahahah!!!!
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You could just compile my last list in then... Bwaaaaahahahahahaha!!![:p]


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