So here I was tagging some photos for uploading, and I decided to bring me up a nice little 80's New Wave playlist. It was a lot of photos, and therefore, I needed quite a bit of New Wave to get things going.
New Wave music does have a great deal of significance to me. It was that time in high school when I decided to listen to something other than the usual Debbie Gibson, Rick Astley and Fra Lippo Lippi (who?). Pop radio was getting increasingly annoying at the time. So me and a few friends decided to, well, soak up on something else.
Years later, when I joined a radio station, I realized that New Wave as a music genre comes in all kinds of music styles. Then your American New Wave doesn't necessarily translate to what was considered New Wave in Europe, and for some strange reason, here in the Philippines, you have people lumping in overplayed pop songs with the New Wave genre.
The lines get blurry, but now I've differentiated 80's music into 3 sub-genres: 80's pop music (which has your usual FM radio fare), 80's rock music (which has your music from The Outfield, U2, Aerosmith, etc.), and then your 80's alternative, in which New Wave falls in (along with 80's Coffeehouse, but that's another post completely).
So anyway, here's a list of a hundred 80's New Wave songs you might want to cue up in your player as well. Enjoy!
- 10,000 Maniacs - The Peace Train
3 o'Clock - On Paper- The Adventures - Broken Land
- The Alarm - Rain in the Summertime
- Marc Almond - Say Hello Wave Goodbye
- Alphaville - Forever Young
- Altered Images - Happy Birthday
- Aztec Camera - How Men Are
- The B-52's - Legal Tender
- B-Movie - Switch On, Switch Off
- Bananarama - He Was Really Sayin' Something
- Berlin - Like Flames
- The Bible - Graceland
- Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
- Big Country - In a Big Country
- Blue Nile - Stay
- Blue Zoo - Love Moves In Strange Ways
- The Bolshoi - Please
- Book of Love - Book of Love
- Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians - What I Am
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy- The Care - Whatever Possessed You
- The Chameleons - Tears
- China Crisis - Some People I Know To Lead Fantastic Lives
- The Church - No Explanation
- The Clash - Rock The Casbah
- Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rich
- The Colourfield - Thinking of You
- Concrete Blonde - Joey
- The Cure - Love Song
- Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight
- The Dream Academy - Life In a Northern Town
- Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
- Erasure - Chains of Love
- Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven
- Figures on a Beach - No Stars
- The Fixx - Red Skies
- Flesh for Lulu - Postcards from Paradise
- A Flock of Seagulls - Transfer Affection
- Friends Again - State of Art
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips are Sealed- Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
- General Public - Tenderness
- H2O - Blue Diamonds
- Heaven 17 - Let Me Go
- Howard Jones - Life in One Day
- The Housemartins - Build
- Icehouse - No Promises
- Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)
- Billy Idol - Catch My Fall
- Information Society - What's On Your Mind?
- INXS - I Send a Message
- Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
- King - Love and Pride
- The Lotus Eaters - Palm of my Hand
- Love & Rockets - So Alive
- Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
- Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart
- The Mighty Lemon Drops - Inside Out
- Missing Persons - Words
Modern English - Ink and Paper- Nena - 99 Luftballons
- New Order - The Perfect Kiss
- Gary Numan - Cars
- Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark - Forever Live and Die
- Oingo Boingo - We Close Our Eyes
- The Pale Fountains - Thank You
- Positive Noise - When Lightning Strikes
- The Primitives - Crash
- The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
- The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
- The Railway Children - A Gentle Sound
- REM - It's The End of the world (And I Feel Fine)
- Real Life - Catch Me I'm Fallin'
- Red Rockers - China
- Seona Dancing - More To Lose
- Shriekback - Nemesis
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
- Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking
- The Sisters of Mercy - Walk Away
The Smiths - Ask- The Sound - Total Recall
- So - Are You Sure?
- Soft Cell - Kitchen Sink Drama
- Strawberry Switchblade - Who Knows What Love Is?
- The Style Council - My Everchanging Moods
- The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends
- Tears for Fears - The Way You Are
- The The - This is the Day
- The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
- Tuesday Blue - Love Me Simple
- Ultravox - All Stood Still
- Midge Ure - Dear God
- Suzanne Vega - Left of Center
- The Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
- White China - Smiles & Jokes
- The Wild Swans - The Worst Year of My Life
- X'mal Deutschland - Matador
- XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
- Vitamin Z - Burning Flame
Wanna know what Renzie is listening to right now? Welcome to "Renzie's 100 Songs"- a special feature on "My Thoughts In Stereo" featuring a hundred songs currently playing on Renzie's digital music player- a little over 7 hours worth of great tuneage to set the mood for whatever it is you need to get done.
Share your list by emailing Renzie, or by posting a list of your own via a comment.
Cheers, everyone!
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