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The 100 Greatest “New Wave” songs 1. Everybody Wants to Rule the World-Tears for Fears (3 Viewers)

since we're listing favorite Cure songs, for me it's Push by a mile!

When I had an "alternative" college radio show that a group of 4 of us did in '86, this was the very first track we played to kick off the Saturday night "party" time slot. It was actually pretty controversial to be playing "popular new wave" songs on this college radio stations since most of their content was VERY weird, out there, noisy, artsie programming.

Push a is fantastic song. Full stop. Any dissenting opinions lead to chains vs. knives in the back alley.

 
joey said:
since we're listing favorite Cure songs, for me it's Push by a mile!

When I had an "alternative" college radio show that a group of 4 of us did in '86, this was the very first track we played to kick off the Saturday night "party" time slot. It was actually pretty controversial to be playing "popular new wave" songs on this college radio stations since most of their content was VERY weird, out there, noisy, artsie programming.

Push a is fantastic song. Full stop. Any dissenting opinions lead to chains vs. knives in the back alley.
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Great track 

 
timschochet said:
19. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Cyndi Lauper (1983, from She’s So Unusual) 

https://youtu.be/PIb6AZdTr-A

Yet another iconic video. Actually, this is a pretty damn good pop album, and “Girls” was one of the few songs not written by Cyndi. 
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This was my first concert as a kid. I saw her with Eddie Money opening (RIP) at the Spectrum in Philly. Her stage had large sliding boards at least 20-30 feet up on each side connected by a catwalk. It was a pretty good show. Definitely not unusual. 

 
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Anarchy99 said:
Just curious . . . was there a date stamp on the front side as well? Nothing before a certain year?
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1977-78. That was the start of New Wave. As far as 1985 goes- it just stopped being “New” at that point, it seems to me. It simply became “alternative”. 

 
timschochet said:
1977-78. That was the start of New Wave. As far as 1985 goes- it just stopped being “New” at that point, it seems to me. It simply became “alternative”. 
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Fun Fact:

The genre of music known as New Wave officially ended on some unascertained date in 1985, when Tim Schochet (best known as the author of Mr. Ishida's Bookstore) announced that "at that point...it just stopped being "New" to him and morphed into "alternative." 

 
I found myself at a free concert years ago in downtown Orlando, some series the local radio station put on each year.  A homeless lady wandered onto the stage and then the band followed and she sang Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.  So, dressing like that in the 80s when you were young worked fine, but still doing it in your 50s or later in aughts and you easily get mistaken as a hobo

 
Just pulled out a really old running race shirt for my jog this morning...was called Run Hit Wonder...bands played along the course: flock of seagulls, Devo, Tommy tutone, tone loc, kajagoogoo.

Stupid idea for something where you're supposed to be moving, not stopping and listening.

 
El Floppo said:
Just pulled out a really old running race shirt for my jog this morning...was called Run Hit Wonder...bands played along the course: flock of seagulls, Devo, Tommy tutone, tone loc, kajagoogoo.

Stupid idea for something where you're supposed to be moving, not stopping and listening.
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I was there. 

 
El Floppo said:
Just pulled out a really old running race shirt for my jog this morning...was called Run Hit Wonder...bands played along the course: flock of seagulls, Devo, Tommy tutone, tone loc, kajagoogoo.
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“Funky Cold Medina” is new wave?

The next year, did Run Hit Wonder feature acts like Slayer, King Diamond, Motörhead, Reba McEntire, and Sepultura?

 
Doug B said:
“Funky Cold Medina” is new wave?

The next year, did Run Hit Wonder feature acts like Slayer, King Diamond, Motörhead, Reba McEntire, and Sepultura?
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That sounds like an incredible show!   I would definitely go to that.   Unfortunately, Lemmy is in heaven’s basement torturing the devil these days and isn’t able to entertain us live.  

 
Down Under is such a great song. Easily one of the best hits of the 80's, and how can you not like a song that good that features the flute?!  This might be the best song featured in this countdown so far. 

 
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18. “Bad” U2 (1984, from The Unforgettable Fire)

https://youtu.be/l2puvI4IfG0

As I mentioned earlier I’ve never been a huge fan of these guys but there are a couple of songs that I absolutely love and this is probably the one I love the most. Still I almost didn’t include it because even though it’s by a New Wave band from 1984, it doesn’t sound like the rest of this band’s early output. It sounds much more like a preview of U2’s later material that would place them beyond the New Wave, alternative genre and make them international rock superstars. 

But in the end of course I ranked it and high. It’s an incredible ballad. 

 
Bad is an incredible song, easily one of U2's best, and certainly one where you have to see or hear a live version to fully grasp its sheer power and greatness. 

I wouldn't call it a ballad, though.  It's more a slow burner that ends up rocking your balls off. 

 
Ghost Rider said:
Bad is an incredible song, easily one of U2's best, and certainly one where you have to see or hear a live version to fully grasp its sheer power and greatness. 

I wouldn't call it a ballad, though.  It's more a slow burner that ends up rocking your balls off. 
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"New wave" "ballad"

 
El Floppo said:
"New wave" "ballad"
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Hey, New Wave everything back then, maaaan. We even did New Wave caroling at Christmas - Sweet Dreams Are Made of Sugarplums,  I Wrap, Dont You (Forget To Make A List & Check It Twice), What's So Funny 'Bout Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh, Tainted Tinsel, Frankie ReGift, She Blinded Me With Snowballs. And the hits just keep on comin...

 
timschochet said:
18. “Bad” U2 (1984, from The Unforgettable Fire)

https://youtu.be/l2puvI4IfG0

As I mentioned earlier I’ve never been a huge fan of these guys but there are a couple of songs that I absolutely love and this is probably the one I love the most. Still I almost didn’t include it because even though it’s by a New Wave band from 1984, it doesn’t sound like the rest of this band’s early output. It sounds much more like a preview of U2’s later material that would place them beyond the New Wave, alternative genre and make them international rock superstars. 

But in the end of course I ranked it and high. It’s an incredible ballad. 
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Love the selection, but I’m not sure I follow your statement about Bad being a preview of U2’s later material. Bad is very much at home and consistent with the other cuts on The Unforgettable Fire.

 
That one guy said:
IMO, Huey Lewis and The News’ Power Of Love comes in for the body blow, and that just opens us up for Hall & Oates’ Method Of Modern Love to deliver the knockout blow...pandemonium surely shall ensue
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Too bad 1985 is apparently the cutoff year here, otherwise neither of those would stand a chance against the Kenny Loggins classic Playing with the Boys. 

bigbottom said:
Love the selection, but I’m not sure I follow your statement about Bad being a preview of U2’s later material. Bad is very much at home and consistent with the other cuts on The Unforgettable Fire.
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Agreed.  Tim said he is not a big fan of U2, so I am guessing he probably hasn't listened to them enough to get the nuances and whatnot (which I mean in the nicest way) of each era. You can't really get them by just hearing the hits on the radio. 

 
That one guy said:
IMO, Huey Lewis and The News’ Power Of Love comes in for the body blow, and that just opens us up for Hall & Oates’ Method Of Modern Love to deliver the knockout blow...pandemonium surely shall ensue
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.... “What’s that, Mean Gene? Someone’s running down the gangway now ...

... it’s BARRY FREAKIN’ MANILOW! With mic in hand! Belting out “Some Kind of Friend”!!!

Its on now, Mean Gene! Manilow throws Huey Lewis out the ring!!! Darryl Hall locking up Barry, John Oates is loading his boot ... holy moly!!! Manilow reverses the hold and suplexes Darryl right on top of John!!! Barry Manilow is the last man standing in the Not-New-Wave New Wave Battle Royal!!”

(ringside bell rings frantically)

 
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