Numanoid

You flatter me, sir.

Try these:

Bolland - You´re In The Army Now
Colourbox - Hot Doggie
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
Gleaming Spires - Are You Ready For The Sex Girls
Industry - State Of The Nation
March Violets - Turn To The Sky
Mi-Sex - Computer Games
Payola$ - Eyes Of A Stranger
Robert Hazard - Escalator Of Life
Bill Nelson - Flaming Desire
China Crisis - Working With Fire And Steel
Chris & Cosey - October (Love Song)
Fischer-Z - So Long
Icehouse - Icehouse
Rational Youth - Saturdays In Silesia

Some great original versions of songs you didn't know were covers:

Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
Peter Godwin - Criminal World
Michael DesBarres - Obsession

And a really great cover of an original you do know:

Frazier Chorus - Anarchy In The UK

jessecrx

Some may not be totally New Wave.....many of these always take me back to the New Wave era

2 Cynthia - Endless Night 08:10
5 Dont You Forget About Me - Breakfast Club 04:21
Anything Box - Living In Oblivion 05:08
- I Wanna Be A Cowboy 03:26
8 Marrs - Pump Up The Volume 03:58
9 B52's - Love Shack 04:19
10 B-52s - Roam 04:49
11 Banarama - Cruel Summer 03:26
12 The Bangels - Walk Like An Egyptian 03:24
13 Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 04:14
14 Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way 05:09
16 Billy Idol - Dancin With Myself 05:59
17 Billy Idol - Moni Moni 05:02
Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
18 BLONDIE CALL ME 03:32
19 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy 02:46
20 Boy George - Karma Khamelion 04:14
21 Culture Club - I'll tumble 4 ya 02:38
22 Mickey - Tony Basil 03:27
24 Brian Adams - Summer of '69 03:34
25 Camouflage - The Great Commandment 04:12
27 Chaka Khan - I Feel For You 05:48
29 Dino - Summer Girls 06:14
30 Company B - Fascinated (Extended Mix) 07:28
31 The Cover Girls - Show Me 04:44
32 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 04:03
33 David Bowie - China Girl 05:29
34 Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round 04:27
35 Debarge-The Last Dragon Sndtrk - Rhythm Of The Night 03:55
37 Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough 06:44
38 Depeche Mode - People Are People 03:51
39 Depeche Mode - Strangelove 04:56
40 Devo - Whip It 02:39
41 A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran 05:07
43 Duran Duran - Rio 05:34
44 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf 03:27
46 Erasure - Break These Chains Of Love 03:32
47 Erasure - Sometimes 03:30
48 Erasure - A Little Respect 03:32
49 Erasure - Blue Savannah 04:23
50 Erasure - Oh l'amour! 03:07
51 Erasure - Take a Chance on Me 03:45
52 Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again 05:04
53 Expose - Point Of No Return 06:08
54 Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy 03:36
55 Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy 03:51
56 Joan Jett - I Love Rock n Roll 02:54
58 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax 03:52
61 We Got The Beat - The Go Gos 02:30
62 Information Society - Pure Energy 04:35
63 Information Society - Walking Away (Space Age Mix) 06:36
64 INXS - Devil Inside 05:14
65 Jackson Browne - Somebody's Baby 04:02
68 The Jets - Crush On You 04:29
69 Jimmy Buffet - I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme) 03:06
70 Tuff Turf Soundtrack - Love Hates 04:20
72 Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Pro 04:01
73 Lil Suzy - Take Me In Your Arms 05:11
74 LIL SUZY PROMISE ME 03:55
75 LISA LISA AND THE CULT JAM 05:35
76 Living Color - Cult Of Personality 04:54
82 March Violets - Turn To The Sky 03:57
85 Martika - Toy Soldiers 04:40
91 Various - Turning Japanese 03:14
93 Modern English - I Melt With You 03:52
97 Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance 05:41
101 New Order - Everytime 06:42
102 Night Ranger - Sister Christian 05:00
103 Noel - Silent Morning 04:24
104 Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party 06:22
105 Ready For The World - Oh Shiela 03:59
106 Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark - If You Leave 04:27
107 Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson - Say Say Say 03:55
109 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 03:55
110 Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities 03:38
111 Pet Shop Boys - Western Girls 03:59
112 Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This 04:19
113 Peter Schilling - The Different Story 03:52
114 Prince - Purple Rain - I Would Die For You 02:57
115 Prince - Kiss 03:46
116 Prince - Lets Go Crazy 09:33
117 Prince - Little Red Corvette 04:56
119 Prince - Purple Rain 08:40
120 Prince - Raspberry Beret 03:32
121 Prince - Purple Rain - When Doves Cry 05:54
122 Rad Soundtrack - Break The Ice 03:26
123 Real Life - Send Me An Angel 06:14
124 REM - its the end of the world as we 04:04
125 Last American Virgin Sndtrack - Keep on Lovin You 03:22
126 Stevie B - I wanna be the One 05:00
128 Rick Springfield - Jesses Girl 03:16
131 ROBERT PALMER ADDICTED TO 04:04
133 Roxette - The Look 03:57
134 Scandal - The Warrior 03:58
135 Sheena Easton - The Lover In Me 04:56
136 Soft Cell - Tainted Love 02:42
137 Some Kind Of Wonderful Sndtrk. - She Loves Me 03:42
138 The March Violets - Miss Amanda Jones 03:18
140 Stevie B. - Dreaming Of Love 04:11
141 Stevie B - Spring Love 05:58
142 Thompson Twins - Sugar Daddy 03:30
143 Stevie B - In My Eyes 05:17
144 STRAY CATS ROCK THIS TOWN 03:26
145 Superhits of the 80s - 99 Red Balloons (Nena) 03:51
146 T PAU A - LITTLE BIT OF HEART AND SOUL 04:14
147 Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule World 04:14
148 TEARS FOR FEARS HEAD OVER HEELS 04:14
149 Friday, I'm In Love - The Cure 03:38
150 The Cure - Love Song 03:26
151 The Cure - Pictures of You 04:45
152 The Cars - You Might Think 03:05
156 Wang Chung - everybody have fun tonight 04:17
157 U2 - Where the Streets Have No Names 05:37
158 Vanity Six - Nasty Girl 05:15
159 Wham! & George Michael - Careless whisper 06:08
160 Wham! - Wake Me Up 03:51
161 When In Rome - The Promise 06:23
Ceta Javu - Have In Mind

Lot's of chees but chees makes it taste better

Nabalab

My faves include -

Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon
Escape Club - Wild Wild West, Shake for the Sheik.
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
A Little Respect, Oh Lamour - Erasure
Slang Teacher - Wide Boy Awake
Brand New Lover - Dead or Alive
Head Over Heels - Go-Go's (TFF version rocks too!)
Fascination - Human League
Kiss Me - Tin Tin Duffy
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
Yaz - Only You
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peekaboo
B-52's - Roam
Bangles - Going Down to Liverpool, In Your Room, many more.
OMD - If You Leave, Stand Above Me (may have been in the 90's)

Also INXS, Duran Duran, Cure, REM - waaay too many to list that I like.

Buttmunker

Glad I'm Not A Kennedy was pretty neat. Forgot the artist.

Buford T Pusser

Where did those originally come from?

jessecrx

I made an HTML playlist from my Winamp Media Player

atlantamoi

Love those songs.

I'll add:

Blanket of Secrecy "Say You Will"
The Call "Walls Came Down"
Bill Nelson "Do You Dream In Colour"
Icehouse "Hey Little Girl"
Off Broadway "Stay In Time"
Adventures "Send My Heart"
Donnie Iris "Ah Leah"
The Kings "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide"
Plastic Bertrand "Ca Plane Pour Moi"

Where to stop?

This is my favorite kind of music. I love how new wave songs can encompass different styles and be fun to listen to. What an era.

Jazzbutcher

Shoina Lang

Toonview

Oingo Boingo's "Only A Lad", both the song and the album, got me into the whole New Wave/Modern Music scene. 25 years later Elfman and the boys are still my all time favorite band.

The B-52's "Rock Lobster" is the ultimate New Wave 80's party song even though I believe it was actually released in 1978! I must've bheard that one at every party I went to in the 80's.

For a great streaming 80's fix, try Daygloradio.com . I stumbled across this recently in my iTunes list. It's great and has plenty of the more obscure New Wave that others don't play.

SoSpacey

If you have XM satellite radio turn the dial to either 44 or 46 (preset 4 for me) to a channel called Fred. All 80s New Wave/Alternative. And not only The Cure - Just Like Heaven type of songs, they play some deep cuts on that station.

I listen to a lot of Electronic Dance Music now (after growing up wih New Wave) and the funny thing is that a lot of these 80s Alternative songs are being remade into modern EDM songs. And I dont mean cheesy wedding style dance music either.

jessecrx

Woops! I think I misunderstood your question. I got most of these songs back when napster and kazaa were in their infancy stages.....

You could find almost ANY song you wanted back then. I even found the Uncle Pecos song from Tom and Jerry "CRAMBO!!!!" and "IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN'T MY BABAYYY!!!!"

Someone had the entire Tuff Turf, Rad, Last American Virgin, Some Kind Of Wonderful and Excalibur soundtracks with a 192 KB rating on them. Of course I had to get them

I can hardly find any of this stuff anymore.

Buford T Pusser

You misunderstood my question twice!

Since there were numbers I thought you got it from a magazine or online list.

jessecrx

I'm sorry I suck at the internet

Buford T Pusser

Rubix

i like
simple minds - don't you (forget about me)
and
billy idol - eyes without a face

Buford T Pusser

So I finally started looking through my cds. Some of these might be from 79 or 91 etc. or not even New Wave, but I think of them all in the same genre since I was really into New Wave-not the synth stuff so much though. Some may have even been hits-I didn't listen to the radio much so I don't even know. If I knew they were big hits I didn't list them.



Adult Net-Waking Up In the Sun, Take Me
Altered Images-Happy Birthday
Adam Ant-Kings of the Wild Frontier, tempted to list a few others
B52's-52 Girls, Private Idaho
Big Audio Dynamite-The Bottom Line, Other 99, C'mon Every Beatbox
Blake Babies-Out There, I'll Take Anything
Blondie-One Way or Another, Hanging On the Telephone, Dreaming
Blue Aeroplanes-Fun
Bluebells-Young At Heart
Blur-She's So High
Book of Love-I Touch Roses
Cars-Candy-O
Chills-Heavenly Pop Hit
Cocteau Twins-Iceblink Luck
Darling Buds-everything from the cds Pop Said.. and Crawdaddy
Danielle Dax-ID Parade
Dead Milkmen-Punk Rock Girl
DEVO-everything from Freedom of Choice, Through Being Cool
Divinyls-Hey Little Boy
Echo and the Bunnymen-Lips Like Sugar
Elvis Brothers-everything from the cds Movin' Up and Adventure Time (kinda rockabilly/power pop though)
Falling Joys-everything from Wish List
Frazier Chorus-Cloud 8


I got to the letter F and didn't have anymore time to look through my cds. Hopefully (or if anyone cares) I'll be able to continue looking. I'm sure there are a bunch of things on vinyl I'm forgetting.

BiMonSciFiCon

Missing Persons - nobody walks in L.A.

Buford T Pusser

Missing Persons-Mental Hopscotch is a WINNER!

Buttmunker

It was a long, long time before I learned that Peter Gabriel did Games Without Frontiers, but for years I considered it a NewWave song. Guess I can't, anymore, but it did have that bouncy, newWave sound and had it mixed with authentic newWave songs from the 80's. (Should I remove it?)

Numanoid

I would definitely consider Games Without Frontiers a New Wave song. Why don't you think so?

BTW, check out the 5.1 remix of that song on the new Gabriel DVD Play. Fantastic. (All of the songs are remixed on the 5.1 track of that DVD)

Buttmunker

Because I thought Peter Gabriel was considered PROGRESSIVE in that period of his career - until the album So came out, then he was mainstream popular. Genesis, during that period before Phil Collins took over lead vocals, was also Progressive, no?

JAA

The whole album, Spring Session M, should be considered a New Wave landmark. Not a bad track on the entire thing . . . and a very talented band.

Numanoid

Oh heck no. I'd place his 3rd and 4th albums, aka Melt and Security, squarely in the middle of New Wave.

Damfino

During the late 70s and early 80s, progressive rock stations were playing stuff like Styx, Journey, and Foreigner. You would never have heard Games Without Frontiers on one of those stations. The song was heard frequently on New Wave and college stations though.

Hokeyboy

Anything by Peabo Bryson.