Top 100 New Wave Songs

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No.	Song	Artist	Album	Year	Previous Rank
1	True	Spandau Ballet	True	1983	3
2	I Melt with you	Modern English	After the Snow	1982	New
3	Always Something There to Remind me (Cover)	Naked Eyes	Burning Bridges	1983	5
4	Don't you Forget about me	Simple Minds	Soundtrack: Breakfast Club	1985	12
5	Take my Breath Away	Berlin	Soundtrack: Top Gun	1986	20
6	Sweet Dreams	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams	1983	14
7	Love will Tear us Apart	Joy Division	Single	1980	New
8	Personal Jesus	Depeche Mode	Violator	1989	1
9	Tainted Love (Cover)	Soft Cell	Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret	1981	6
10	Just Like Heaven	The Cure	Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me	1987	New
11	The Riddle	Nik Kershaw	The Riddle	1984	New
12	Heart of Glass	Blondie	Parallel Lines	1978	39
13	I Need you Tonight	INXS	Kick	1987	16
14	Smalltown Boy	Bronski Beat	The Age of Consent	1984	10
15	You Spin me Round	Dead or Alive	Youthquake	1985	4
16	The Promise	When in Rome	When in Rome	1988	9
17	Down Under	Men at Work	Business as Usual	1982	24
18	Cheri Cheri Lady	Modern Talking	Let's Talk About Love	1985	New
19	I can Dream About you	Dan Hartman	I can Dream About you	1984	New
20	Take on Me	A-ha	Hunting High and Low	1985	26
21	Wouldn't it be Good	Nik Kershaw	Human Racing	1983	New
22	Chains of Love	Erasure	Innocents	1988	30
23	She Drives me Crazy	Fine Young Cannibals	The Raw and the Cooked	1989	2
24	Never Let me Down Again	Depeche Mode	Music for the Masses	1987	New
25	Beds are Burning	Midnight Oil	Diesel and Dust	1987	25
26	Don't you want me?	The Human League	Dare	1981	13
27	Girls Just want to have Fun (Cover)	Cyndi Lauper	She's so Unusual	1984	New
28	Mad World	Tears for Fears	The Hurting	1983	21
29	Middle of the Road	The Pretenders	Learning to Crawl	1982	New
30	Love my Way	The Psychedelic Furs	Forever Now	1982	New
31	You can Win if you want	Modern Talking	1st Album	1984	New
32	Love Song	The Cure	Disintegration	1989	New
33	True Faith	New Order	Substance	1987	23
34	You're my Heart, You're my Soul	Modern Talking	1st Album	1984	New
35	Crash	The Primitives	Lovely	1987	New
36	Blue Monday	New Order	Power, Corruption & Lies	1983	28
37	Shout	Tears for Fears	Songs from the Big Chair	1985	29
38	Flashdance	Irene Cara	Soundtrack: Flashdance	1983	New
39	Lucky	Til Tuesday	Everything's Different Now	1988	New
40	You Might Think	The Cars	Heartbeat City	1984	New
41	Karma Chameleon	Culture Club	Colour by Numbers	1983	New
42	Big in Japan	Alphaville	Forever Young	1984	33
43	Ship of Fools	Erasure	Innocents	1988	New
44	Tempted	Squeeze	East Side Story	1981	18
45	Break my Stride	Matthew Wilder	I Don't Speak the Language	1983	New
46	Self Control	Laura Branigan	Self Control	1984	New
47	I Ran	A Flock of Seagulls	A Flock of Seagulls	1982	32
48	Never Say Never	Romeo Void	Benefactor	1982	11
49	My Sharona	The Knack	Get the Knack	1979	38
50	Cars	Gary Numan	The Pleasure Principle	1980	New
51	Every Breath you Take	The Police	Synchronicity	1983	New
52	A Little Respect	Erasure	Innocents	1988	New
53	Go Insane	Lindsey Buckingham	Go Insane	1984	New
54	Kyrie	Mr. Mister	Welcome to the Real World	1985	New
55	Bizarre Love Triangle	New Order	Brotherhood	1986	35
56	Voices Carry	Til Tuesday	Voices Carry	1985	New
57	Der Kommissar (Cover)	After the Fire	Der Kommissar	1982	31
58	Dead Man's Party	Oingo Boingo	Dead Man's Party	1985	8
59	We Belong	Pat Benatar	Tropico	1984	New
60	Somewhere in my Heart	Aztec Camera	Love	1987	New
61	Broken Wings	Mr. Mister	Welcome to the Real World	1985	New
62	Too Shy	Kajagoogoo	White Feathers	1983	17
63	Come on Eileen	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Too-Rye-Ay	1982	New
64	And she was	Talking Heads	Little Creatures	1985	New
65	All I Need is a Miracle	Mike & the Mechanics	Mike & the Mechanics	1985	New
66	Pictures of you	The Cure	Disintegration	1989	New
67	Obsession	Animotion	Animotion	1984	40
68	Our House	Madness	The Rise and Fall	1982	New
69	Stay up Late	Talking Heads	Little Creatures	1985	New
70	Everybody wants to Rule the World	Tears for Fears	Songs from the Big Chair	1985	New
71	Sunglasses at Night	Corey Hart	First Offense	1983	New
72	Everytime you go Away (Cover)	Paul Young	The Secret of Association	1985	New
73	88 Lines About 44 Women	The Nails	Mood Swing	1984	New
74	Who can it be Now?	Men at Work	Business as Usual	1982	37
75	Relax	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Welcome to Pleasuredome	1984	New
76	China Girl	David Bowie	Let's Dance	1983	New
77	World Shut your Mouth	Julian Cope	Saint Julian	1987	New
78	Making Plans for Nigel	XTC	Drums and Wires	1979	New
79	A View to a Kill	Duran Duran	Soundtrack: A View to a Kill	1985	New
80	Roam	The B-52s	Cosmic Thing	1989	New
81	Psycho Killer	Talking Heads	Talking Heads: 77	1977	New
82	8675309	Tommy Tutone	Tommy Tutone II	1982	New
83	Love Vigilantes	New Order	Low-Life	1985	New
84	Say Hello Wave Goodbye	Soft Cell	Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret	1981	34
85	Enola Gay	OMD	Organisation	1980	New
86	Talking in your Sleep	The Romantics	In Heat	1983	36
87	Everybody Have Fun Tonight	Wang Chung	Mosaic	1986	New
88	Our Lips are Sealed	The Go Gos	Beauty and the Beat	1981	New
89	Brand New Lover	Dead or Alive	Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know	1986	New
90	Vienna	Ultravox	Vienna	1980	New
91	Brass in Pocket	The Pretenders	The Pretenders	1980	New
92	Time After Time	Cyndi Lauper	She's So Unusual	1984	New
93	Oh L'amour	Erasure	Wonderland	1986	New
94	Hungry Like the Wolf	Duran Duran	Rio	1982	New
95	Such a Shame	Talk Talk	It's my Life	1984	New
96	Walk Like an Egyptian	Bangles	Different Light	1986	New
97	We got the Beat	The Go Gos	Beauty and the Beat	1981	New
98	My Best Friends Girl	The Cars	The Cars	1978	New
99	Call Me	Blondie	Soundtrack: American Gigolo	1980	New
100	It's a Sin	Pet Shop Boys	Actually	1987	New

	Updated; 08/29/08: Extended from 40 to 100 by the Rock Czar

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0 #1 jc 2010-10-23 22:08

good music

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0 #2 RE: Top 100 New Wave Songs — Aaron 2011-08-03 15:32

Video Killed the Radio Star and Rock ME Amadeus? For being so huge, I'd think they'd have to be on. Also Rock Lobster and Mexican Radio, due simply to, if nothing else, the creativity displayed and the cultural impact (especially of Rock Lobster).I'd also include Forever Young, The Reflex, The Killing Moon, Always (Erasure), Town Called Malice, Walking on Sunshine, Kids in America, Overkill, Safety Dance, If You Leave, Stay (Shakespeare's Sister), Once in a Lifetime, Turning Japanese, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. But as for what's there rather than what's not, pretty solid.

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