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The 100 Greatest “New Wave” songs 1. Everybody Wants to Rule the World-Tears for Fears (1 Viewer)

timschochet said:
30. “Life During Wartime” Talking Heads (1979, from Fear of Music) 

https://youtu.be/OVHNwBbkSj4

The link is to a live version from the concert film Stop Making Sense. If you’re unfamiliar with this, I strongly suggest you watch it from beginning to end, as I rate this to be the single finest live performance I have ever seen captured on film or video. The entire band is simply unreal, Byrne is beyond unreal, and Tina is great and sexy as hell. 

At the end of this amazing performance, David Byrne asks if anyone has any questions. The answer, then and now, is no. 
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He was great on SNL the other night. The stage was a mini version of his American Utopia setup. Great song btw.

 
timschochet said:
30. “Life During Wartime” Talking Heads (1979, from Fear of Music) 

https://youtu.be/OVHNwBbkSj4

The link is to a live version from the concert film Stop Making Sense. If you’re unfamiliar with this, I strongly suggest you watch it from beginning to end, as I rate this to be the single finest live performance I have ever seen captured on film or video. The entire band is simply unreal, Byrne is beyond unreal, and Tina is great and sexy as hell. 

At the end of this amazing performance, David Byrne asks if anyone has any questions. The answer, then and now, is no. 
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I saw this for the first time just recently and will forevermore kick myself for not getting on board with the Talking Heads back in the day.  So far ahead of their time we still haven't caught up with them.

 
timschochet said:
30. “Life During Wartime” Talking Heads (1979, from Fear of Music) 

https://youtu.be/OVHNwBbkSj4

The link is to a live version from the concert film Stop Making Sense. If you’re unfamiliar with this, I strongly suggest you watch it from beginning to end, as I rate this to be the single finest live performance I have ever seen captured on film or video. The entire band is simply unreal, Byrne is beyond unreal, and Tina is great and sexy as hell. 

At the end of this amazing performance, David Byrne asks if anyone has any questions. The answer, then and now, is no. 
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As good as this song / performance may be, there's no way it should be over the "only New Order song".  Yowzers.

Again, just my 2 cents, not trying to be a jerkwad.

 
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timschochet said:
30. “Life During Wartime” Talking Heads (1979, from Fear of Music) 

https://youtu.be/OVHNwBbkSj4

The link is to a live version from the concert film Stop Making Sense. If you’re unfamiliar with this, I strongly suggest you watch it from beginning to end, as I rate this to be the single finest live performance I have ever seen captured on film or video. The entire band is simply unreal, Byrne is beyond unreal, and Tina is great and sexy as hell. 

At the end of this amazing performance, David Byrne asks if anyone has any questions. The answer, then and now, is no. 
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That was exhausting for me and Im just sitting here

Holy cow

 
29. “Tempted” Squeeze (1981, from East Side Story) 

https://youtu.be/22CNnjcW2bk

Room for one more Squeeze song on the list, and it’s one of the very best songs of the decade, produced (and partly sung) by Elvis Costello. “Tempted” is a masterpiece of pop music, and a classic of the genre. 

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
Yep. This is another really great song. And another song that I could see being ranked +/- 20 spots higher.

I think the New Waveyiest Squeeze song is Cool For Cats, which surely won't make this list.
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It’s a great one for sure. 

 
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I'm not going to debate what's new wave or not, but the last 4 songs have been real duds in my book.  Can we get this hunk of junk streak over with by having Somebody's Watching Me and Part Time Lover as the next 2 New Wave songs? 

 
Brony said:
I'm not going to debate what's new wave or not, but the last 4 songs have been real duds in my book.  Can we get this hunk of junk streak over with by having Somebody's Watching Me and Part Time Lover as the next 2 New Wave songs? 
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Classics. Don’t forget the Ghostbusters theme song. 

 
I never much cared for Tempted, and time has not help its cause for me.   I get the appeal of it for others; it just doesn't do much for me. 

Here Comes the Rain Again is a killer song (as stated earlier in the thread), and one of my go-to songs on my 80's playlist. 

Life During Wartime is a very good song, but not one of my favorite by the Heads, or even from Fear of Music.  Seems to be one of those songs that critics went bananas over and thus it seems to always be considered one of their best even though they, by my watch, have many that are better. 

 
I have avoided this thread because I never finished the Rolling Stones or Dylan threads and thought I should do those first, but I’ve followed the title changes with interest.  Popping in only to say Tempted is one of my all-time favorite songs (along with Pulling Mussels From A Shell).   :thumbup:

 
krista4 said:
I have avoided this thread because I never finished the Rolling Stones or Dylan threads and thought I should do those first, but I’ve followed the title changes with interest.  Popping in only to say Tempted is one of my all-time favorite songs (along with Pulling Mussels From A Shell).   :thumbup:
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Nice of you to cruise on in here.

 
28. “Roxanne” The Police (1978, from Outlandos D’Amor) 

https://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ

They called it “Reggae Rock”, and it was a totally different sound in 1978 from anything else on the radio. And it changed the landscape. 

Of course, The Police were by no means the only band that attempted to infuse reggae into pop songs- a punk rock band called The Clash had already been doing it for a couple of years. And there were others as well. But the Police were the first ones to get the general public to listen. 

 
timschochet said:
28. “Roxanne” The Police (1978, from Outlandos D’Amor) 

https://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ

They called it “Reggae Rock”, and it was a totally different sound in 1978 from anything else on the radio. And it changed the landscape. 

Of course, The Police were by no means the only band that attempted to infuse reggae into pop songs- a punk rock band called The Clash had already been doing it for a couple of years. And there were others as well. But the Police were the first ones to get the general public to listen. 
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One of my least favorite Police songs.  Vocals are grating.  

 
timschochet said:
28. “Roxanne” The Police (1978, from Outlandos D’Amor) 

https://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ

They called it “Reggae Rock”, and it was a totally different sound in 1978 from anything else on the radio. And it changed the landscape. 

Of course, The Police were by no means the only band that attempted to infuse reggae into pop songs- a punk rock band called The Clash had already been doing it for a couple of years. And there were others as well. But the Police were the first ones to get the general public to listen. 
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Now it's called "Cultural Appropriation Rock". :lol:

 
The Police have a lot of good songs. 

Roxanne is not one of them. This song is on my Mount Rushmore of “songs I can’t believe are so popular.”  Sting’s vocals in this song make me want to dive head first into a pool of piranhas. 

 
timschochet said:
28. “Roxanne” The Police (1978, from Outlandos D’Amor) 

https://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ

They called it “Reggae Rock”, and it was a totally different sound in 1978 from anything else on the radio. And it changed the landscape. 

Of course, The Police were by no means the only band that attempted to infuse reggae into pop songs- a punk rock band called The Clash had already been doing it for a couple of years. And there were others as well. But the Police were the first ones to get the general public to listen. 
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The Clash should definitely be featuring on this list. I know they started off as punk, but from London Calling (voted by Rolling Stone as the best album of the 1980s here) their whole sound changed. 

 
timschochet said:
28. “Roxanne” The Police (1978, from Outlandos D’Amor) 

https://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ

They called it “Reggae Rock”, and it was a totally different sound in 1978 from anything else on the radio. And it changed the landscape. 

Of course, The Police were by no means the only band that attempted to infuse reggae into pop songs- a punk rock band called The Clash had already been doing it for a couple of years. And there were others as well. But the Police were the first ones to get the general public to listen. 
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Strange hearing backlash to this in the posts above...I like the song, and definitely iconic.

No argument though that Clapton was the first to reggae rock on a massive level for the US public, not the police. But they certainly infused it into their sound and made it more their own rather than just covering it.

 
27. “How Soon Is Now?” The Smiths (1984, from Hatful of Hollow)

https://youtu.be/hnpILIIo9ek

I’m really not a guy who hates anyone. I don’t even hate Donald Trump. I hate Lane Kiffin, and I hate The Smiths with a passion. Not Johnny Marr, I don’t mind him. Basically I just hate Morrisey. Long before the world discovered what a ######## Morrisey is, I knew it. I hate his whiny voice, I hate his haircut from the 80s, I hate his poseur attitude, I hate his punchable face. Sorry @HellToupee

I am forced, against my will, to add this song and even rank it pretty high because it’s so iconic. Actually it’s one of only two Smiths songs I can even tolerate (the other is “Girlfriend in a Coma.”) But even this song is made unbearable by the whiny way he sings the chorus: “I am human and I need to be loooved”. First off I’m not sure you are, and second, no you don’t. 

 
Top 10 song for me... But lol at timmehs morrisey-angst

I like them, but can't do more than a song or two at a time...even though I like a lot of their songs. Too samesy and kinda with Tim on the whiney woe is me lyrics.

 
timschochet said:
28. “Roxanne” The Police (1978, from Outlandos D’Amor) 

https://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ

They called it “Reggae Rock”, and it was a totally different sound in 1978 from anything else on the radio. And it changed the landscape. 

Of course, The Police were by no means the only band that attempted to infuse reggae into pop songs- a punk rock band called The Clash had already been doing it for a couple of years. And there were others as well. But the Police were the first ones to get the general public to listen. 
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Folks aint appreciating what a voice-from-the-wilderness this was when first heard. The angst & willing offkeyness of the cries but razor sharp assuredness behind it. Reminds me of the old Cosby bit about a baby being born with a drink in one hand and a cigar in the other, yelling "who's in charge here?!" Putting the world on notice from the start. I put another copsong on my own top 20 because i believe the Police were a genre band in the beginning and it's not New Wave for genre artists until/unless they get the self-awareness to elevate their genre into the mainstream.

 
I didn't like the people in high school that were fans of The Smiths.  Turns out, I do like their music.  Jury is still out on their fans. 

 
timschochet said:
27. “How Soon Is Now?” The Smiths (1984, from Hatful of Hollow)

https://youtu.be/hnpILIIo9ek

I’m really not a guy who hates anyone. I don’t even hate Donald Trump. I hate Lane Kiffin, and I hate The Smiths with a passion. Not Johnny Marr, I don’t mind him. Basically I just hate Morrisey. Long before the world discovered what a ######## Morrisey is, I knew it. I hate his whiny voice, I hate his haircut from the 80s, I hate his poseur attitude, I hate his punchable face. Sorry @HellToupee

I am forced, against my will, to add this song and even rank it pretty high because it’s so iconic. Actually it’s one of only two Smiths songs I can even tolerate (the other is “Girlfriend in a Coma.”) But even this song is made unbearable by the whiny way he sings the chorus: “I am human and I need to be loooved”. First off I’m not sure you are, and second, no you don’t. 
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This is such a great song that means so many different things to people. A very personal song, I like his own  description .  
 

.  When you’re a teenager and in your early twenties it seems desperately eternal and excruciatingly painful. Whereas as you grow older you realise that most things are excruciatingly painful and that is the human condition. Most of us continue to survive because we’re convinced that somewhere along the line, with grit and determination and perseverance, we will end up in some magical union with somebody. It’s a fallacy, of course, but it’s a form of religion. You have to believe. There is a light that never goes out and it’s called hope."  
 

 
Have heard this song more times than I could ever count. Richard Butler’s (Love Split Love) cover isn’t bad. Certainly not my favorite Smiths song by far. Gonna add Oscillate Wildly here. 

 
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