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The 100 Greatest “New Wave” songs 1. Everybody Wants to Rule the World-Tears for Fears (2 Viewers)

The_Man said:
I saw Fine Young Cannibals open for The Cure in like 1986. That was a fun show, so so many alternachicks 
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Wow... great show.

I saw FYC in SF somewhere around there, touring to support their first album. Lead singer was not comfortable on stage at all. But the rest of the band was great.

 
Getzlaf15 said:
They are on a lot of New Wave lists on the innerwebs.
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They are but I doubt that Wake Me Up Before I Go-Go is listed as among the top 100 songs of the New Wave of all time on many lists. It was a calculated pop song (as Andrew Ridgley noted in interviews) and Wham recording it does not change the fact it is a lightweight pop song (which again, I really still like).

 
rockaction said:
Once you admit the school board fired you for that, we can get to the root of the matter.

Once you admit the school board fired you for that, we can get to the root of the matter. 
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I've been down to the heart of the matter 

I've been way down to the heart of the matter 

 
squistion said:
They are but I doubt that Wake Me Up Before I Go-Go is listed as among the top 100 songs of the New Wave of all time on many lists. It was a calculated pop song (as Andrew Ridgley noted in interviews) and Wham recording it does not change the fact it is a lightweight pop song (which again, I really still like).
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If I'm Tim, I'd say I made a typo and tell everyone it's ranked #39 now.

 
I get the appeal of The Cure, but for some reason they never really grabbed me, outside of a few tunes.  Boys Don't Cry was hugely popular with the crowd, so its high placement here makes sense. 

 
squistion said:
They are but I doubt that Wake Me Up Before I Go-Go is listed as among the top 100 songs of the New Wave of all time on many lists. It was a calculated pop song (as Andrew Ridgley noted in interviews) and Wham recording it does not change the fact it is a lightweight pop song (which again, I really still like).
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- per the Basement Times - Squizz Bangs

 
For me, Head on the Door is an all around great album and my favorite. There are a lot of tracks out there as b-sides and other obscure tracks I like quite a bit. Harold and Joe and Cut Here come to mind.

ETA: Their Unplugged session back in the day was pretty awesome too.

 
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21. “Down Under” Men at Work (1981, from Business at Usual) 

https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s

Nearly 40 years after this song was written, and I’ve still never had a Vegemite sandwich. Not even sure what one is. But I’ve been told by those who do that I’m not missing anything. 

A few years ago Colin Hay recorded an acoustic version of this song with a latin sound- it’s really beautiful: 

https://youtu.be/miF2IHOwJsU

 
timschochet said:
21. “Down Under” Men at Work (1981, from Business at Usual) 

https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s

Nearly 40 years after this song was written, and I’ve still never had a Vegemite sandwich. Not even sure what one is. But I’ve been told by those who do that I’m not missing anything. 

A few years ago Colin Hay recorded an acoustic version of this song with a latin sound- it’s really beautiful: 

https://youtu.be/miF2IHOwJsU
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Great band imo. Finally seeing Colin Hay solo in May. It’s catchy, but Overkill and some others resonate more with me.

 
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timschochet said:
21. “Down Under” Men at Work (1981, from Business at Usual) 

https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s

Nearly 40 years after this song was written, and I’ve still never had a Vegemite sandwich. Not even sure what one is. But I’ve been told by those who do that I’m not missing anything. 

A few years ago Colin Hay recorded an acoustic version of this song with a latin sound- it’s really beautiful: 

https://youtu.be/miF2IHOwJsU
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MTV Classic.  It's the song I remember most when MTV went on the air.

 
timschochet said:
21. “Down Under” Men at Work (1981, from Business at Usual) 

https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s

Nearly 40 years after this song was written, and I’ve still never had a Vegemite sandwich. Not even sure what one is. But I’ve been told by those who do that I’m not missing anything. 

A few years ago Colin Hay recorded an acoustic version of this song with a latin sound- it’s really beautiful: 

https://youtu.be/miF2IHOwJsU
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Entertaining song.  Fun band.  

 
timschochet said:
22. “Boys Don’t Cry” The Cure (1980, from Boys Don’t Cry) 

https://youtu.be/Q460cEwJgCI

The title song to a pretty incredible album. It didn’t really become a radio staple until about 5 years later after the band was known for a few other songs. But this remains one of their best, and one of the finest pop songs of the era. 
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Great selection!  Although there are a number of their songs that I like better (Charlotte Sometimes, A Forest, In Between Days, Lovesong), there is no doubt that Boys Don't Cry was an iconic tune for them (although not necessarily a "hit").

 
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The cover art  for the single, who happens to be Sharona the inspiration for the song.  :wub:  

On the controversial side, she was only 17 in the photo which is borderline NSFW.

 
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squistion said:
After some recent missteps, an excellent choice.  :thumbup:

Not sure I would call it a pop song exactly, but I would imagine that most of The Cure fans would list as their favorite or close to it, although oddly in a Rolling Stone readers poll of their top 10 it was voted only #10 (?).

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-cure-songs-162300/boys-dont-cry-93893/
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Four of those songs are from Disintegration which is the best album ever.  I could see Rolling Stone readers ranking a lot of those songs high.  Honestly, it's a better list than I thought it would be.  Note that a lot of popular songs like "Love Song" and "Friday, I'm in Love" aren't on it.  

If I were to rank The Cure songs, I'd probably have "Boys Don't Cry" in the 50s or thereabouts.  

 
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Juxtatarot said:
Four of those songs are from Disintegration which is the best album ever.  I could see Rolling Stone readers ranking a lot of those songs high.  Honestly, it's a better list than I thought it would be.  Note that a long of popular songs like "Love Song" and "Friday, I'm in Love" aren't on it.  

If I were to rank The Cure songs, I'd probably have "Boys Don't Cry" in the 50s or thereabouts.  
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For what it’s worth, it may be overplayed, but I think Lovesong is an amazingly well-crafted song. 

 
I've always been partial to Jumping On Someone Else's Train, Let's Go To Bed, Fascination Street, 10:15 Saturday Night.

 
timschochet said:
21. “Down Under” Men at Work (1981, from Business at Usual) 

https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s

Nearly 40 years after this song was written, and I’ve still never had a Vegemite sandwich. Not even sure what one is. But I’ve been told by those who do that I’m not missing anything. 

A few years ago Colin Hay recorded an acoustic version of this song with a latin sound- it’s really beautiful: 

https://youtu.be/miF2IHOwJsU
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Quite possibly my favorite song of all time, regardless of period/genre/etc.

bigbottom said:
For what it’s worth, it may be overplayed, but I think Lovesong is an amazingly well-crafted song. 
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My favorite Cure song.

 
My Sharona is probably my favorite single of all time. It came out in my misspent days of youth when I spent a lot of time listening to the radio. I have heard it hundreds if not thousands of times over the years. It's about as rock as rock can get, but somehow there are places that cite The Knack as new wave. I guess that's fine if performers like Pat Benatar (Heartbreaker), Heart (Barracuda), and Loverboy (Working For The Weekend) count as new wave. Those songs have similar chord progressions, instrumentation, and sound somewhat similar. Like many other songs discussed and debated in here, perhaps it's just best to throw anything and everything into the new wave bucket and not fret about it.

 
Juxtatarot said:
:thumbup:  Both songs make my top 10.
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There’s so many I can pick from every album plus all the rare stuff so I am refraining from other than what I’ve already posted. Head on the Door is my favorite album

I was in France for 4 weeks in the summer of 1989 (parts of July and August) Disintegration came out and Fascination Street was in heavy rotation. The Lovesong video was released in the states and the Lullaby video was released in Europe at pretty much the same time. I remember coming home (Milwaukee) and my sister was so happy to show me the Lovesong video and asked if that’s what I saw while in France. I said no, but then the Lullaby video was showing on 120 minutes the next month. For a brief moment, I thought for once I actually “outcooled” my sister who is 4 years older than me. I like both songs and when I hear either song, it makes me think of that summer. I also like Plainsong off the album.

 
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Just a comment on Disintegration and some other albums mentioned: nothing that came out post 1985 was considered. I know that eliminates a lot of good material...

 
Anarchy99 said:
My Sharona is probably my favorite single of all time. It came out in my misspent days of youth when I spent a lot of time listening to the radio. I have heard it hundreds if not thousands of times over the years. It's about as rock as rock can get, but somehow there are places that cite The Knack as new wave. I guess that's fine if performers like Pat Benatar (Heartbreaker), Heart (Barracuda), and Loverboy (Working For The Weekend) count as new wave. Those songs have similar chord progressions, instrumentation, and sound somewhat similar. Like many other songs discussed and debated in here, perhaps it's just best to throw anything and everything into the new wave bucket and not fret about it.
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Yes. I have great anticipation for What A Fool Believes coming in at number one here.

 
timschochet said:
Just a comment on Disintegration and some other albums mentioned: nothing that came out post 1985 was considered. I know that eliminates a lot of good material...
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Just curious . . . was there a date stamp on the front side as well? Nothing before a certain year?

 
timschochet said:
Just a comment on Disintegration and some other albums mentioned: nothing that came out post 1985 was considered. I know that eliminates a lot of good material...
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Considering you're not really sticking to a specific genre, this seems a strangely arbitrary thing to do.

 
timschochet said:
Just a comment on Disintegration and some other albums mentioned: nothing that came out post 1985 was considered. I know that eliminates a lot of good material...
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I knew that your list was more joined by "time and place" than any rigid musical commonality ... but I didn't realize quite how much.

New wave carried on forward in time as synth-pop, goth, electronica, trance, house, indy-pop, etc. While the labels changed, the stream never stopped flowing. Now that I know this song won't be on your list, here's a great (IMHO) new wave song that got released in 1989. This one's by the band Electronic, which was essentially a new-wave supergroup -- Bernard Sumner from New Order, Johnny Marr from The Smiths, and Neil Tennant from The Pet Shop Boys. The other Pet Shop Boy, Chris Lowe, also played on Electronic's self-titled debut album.

"Getting Away With It", Electronic

 
we need a Seinfeld gif to the effect of. "There's noooo Wave. Where's the Wave, George?! Show me the Wave! No wave, George....no WAVE......" for this thread

 
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