For those of you who are fans of 80's music, what are your favorite "New Wave" tracks? For those of you who live in SoCal, these are the songs that KROQ built its reputation as a legend on.

It's difficult for me to pick just one because I like so many of them. But the one I do seem to enjoy playing just a bit more than others would be "New Gold Dream" by Simple Minds. A sample of it playing is demo'd by my trusty X-2000R.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNE4nkD7QR8

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"Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division

"Strange Pursuit" by Devo off of "Duty Now for the Future." This LP was produced by Ken Scott of David Bowie fame.

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division

Rhino is re-releasing a sh*tload of Joy Division stuff, and are actually running a contest right now for a Joy Division box set.

http://www.rhino.com/rzine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=1103

For those of you who are fans of 80's music, what are your favorite "New Wave" tracks? For those of you who live in SoCal, these are the songs that KROQ built its reputation as a legend on.Didn't they build their reputation on punk from the late 70's and early 80's and keep it going with songs from the "New Wave" of post punk bands? That's my take anyway. I started listening to them in early 1980 and that's where I got my first listen of X.

Some of my favorites are Poison Arrow from ABC from the album The Lexicon of Love. Or how about Primary from the Cure on Faith. Or Situation from Yaz on Upstairs at Eric's.

I second ABC's Lexicon of Love. That album is the pinnacle of New Wave for me.

I was a teen in that era and listend to a lot of New Wave and Punk. New Wave to me includes:

Power Pop
Synth Pop
Ska
Reggae Pop
Pub Rock

I am been listening to a lot of Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, and Reckless Eric the last few days.

John

Don't You (Forget About Me) - The Simple Minds

From The Breakfast Club soundtrack. Always loved (and still do) that tune.

Some others:

I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls
Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Obsession - Animotion

Shout & Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears (the entire Songs From The Big Chair album is good)

Is Joe Jackson considered new wave or was he considered more punky? At any rate....

Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson (from the most excellent album Night And Day)

Take on Me- Aha
Tenderness- General Public
Forever Young-Alphaville
Don't Dream Its Over-Crowded House
No one is to blame-Howard Jones

Claus Nomi - Birdies
Gary Numan - Random
Siouxie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
Talking Heads - The Great Curve

Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) - Squeeze
True - Spandau Ballet
Senses Working Overtime, Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead,
That's Really Super, Supergirl - XTC
Save It for Later - The English Beat
Tenderness - General Public
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
In a Big Country - Big Country
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
I Got You - Split Enz
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears
I Melt With You - Modern English
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Concrete Blonde - Joey
Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)
The Outfield - Your Love
Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka
The Pretenders - Talk of the Town
Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You
Red Rockers - China, Just Like Me
Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not
Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
New Order - Everybody's Going Green, first song on "Low Life"


these are just a few

Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) - Squeeze
True - Spandau Ballet
Senses Working Overtime, Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead,
That's Really Super, Supergirl - XTC
Save It for Later - The English Beat
Tenderness - General Public
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
In a Big Country - Big Country
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
I Got You - Split Enz
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears
I Melt With You - Modern English
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Concrete Blonde - Joey
Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)
The Outfield - Your Love
Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka
The Pretenders - Talk of the Town
Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You
Red Rockers - China, Just Like Me
Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not
Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
New Order - Everybody's Going Green, first song on "Low Life"


these are just a fewNow there's a good list. Figures, we're the same age. :thmbsp:

Is Joe Jackson considered new wave or was he considered more punky? At any rate....

Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson (from the most excellent album Night And Day)


Joe Jackson was all over the place genre wise. However, I think he fits the New Wave label very well. He started out as sort of a post punk /pub rock /songwriter in the same vein as Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, and Graham Parker. His "hit" off his 1st LP, Look Sharp, was "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" His 2nd LP, I'm The Man, was sort of the same.

His 3rd LP, Beat Crazy, was reggae-inluenced.
His 4th LP, Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive, was big band swing/rock.
His 4th LP, Night and Day, was sort of blue-eyed soul with a Cole Porter influence.
His 5th LP, Body and Soul, was jazz influenced.
His 6th LP, Big World, was a college rock album
His 7th LP, Will Power, was a classical LP.

John

Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners


Seconded. Not a big fan of 80's music but love that song - violins!

Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4&mode=related&search=

It was a pretty broad category as used in the States. Bands as diverse as New York punk scene groups that you couldn't really call punk, like Television and Blondie, were lumped in with British Beatlesque pop revivalists like XTC and The Jam. I was turning sixteen at just about the time that punk (d?)evolved into new wave. So I like a lot of stuff from that era, in particular:

Cars- Gary Numan
Senses Working Overtime- XTC
Mirror in the Bathroom- English Beat
This is the Modern World- The Jam
Bondage, Up Yours- X-Ray Spex
Cruel to be Kind- Nick Lowe
See No Evil- Television
Up Against the Wall- Tom Robinson
30 Seconds over Tokyo- Pere Ubu
Poptones- PiL
Ca Plane Pour Moi- Plastic Bertrand
Uncontrollable Urge- Devo
Rock Lobster- B-52s

Funny how some of us in the 40-50 age group can relate to "New Wave."

My list is endless.

btw...was it that long ago?

Love and Rockets...My Drug

Never Say Never- Romeo Void

The Metro- Berlin

People Who died- Jim Carroll

tainted Love- soft Cell

99 Luftballoons- Nena

Hey Mickey- Toni Basil

Roadrunner- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

Cars- Gary Neuman

down in the Park- Gary Neuman

I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

Joy Division- Love Will Tear Us Apart

Peek-A-boo- Siouxie and the Banshees

Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling

Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners

I Melt With You - Modern English

Running Up That Hill- Kate Bush

Joey- Concrete Blonde

Wendy- concrete blones

Vampire song- concrete Blond

Another Girl, Another Planet- Only Ones

Pere Ubu, Devo, Television, nina Hagen, Pearl Harbor, so many more...

'Take On Me' is what always pops into my head when I hear the term "New Wave", but as I recall it's a pretty wide field, with everyone from Elvis Costello (who is so NOT New Wave it's insane) and Graham Parker to Duran Duran and Flock Of Seagulls categorized together. It's too neat. I remember thinking the Pretenders were a New Wave band at the time, but many people tend to use the term to describe keyboard/synth based pop music of the mid '80's. Or super-jangly chorused guitar hooks.
I see the likes of Costello, the Pretenders, Blondie, the Talking Heads, and the Cars in the very late 70's as the real New Wave bands and the keyboard based pop of the early-mid '80's as it's own thing, which I know not what to call. It was really the early 80's resurgence of the keyboard due to synthesizer technology taking off that changes things in the music for me. That and MTV. Back when they played music on MTV. The mid 80's were a scary time to be a guitar player who didn't play like Van Halen.

Trio - Da Da Da Da

I've got a bunch of this stuff on LP. One of my favs, The Fixx-Red Skies

Anybody remember John Farnham's You're the voice?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=99P7TTvpO1g

Primary Duff, what a tune!

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