sorry about the smilies…?
Man, I’m out of control…
One more thing, any real New Romantic, will freely admit that all they really are doing is playing a modified version of Motown, Disco or any other African-American influenced music form…as the Brits are apt to do.
A little know fact, i guess it’s a fact…most New Romantics first got airplay on the “black” radio stations in the USA…where their R&B roots had a resonance with the audience.
I remember some guy on WBLS in NY, commenting on Annie Lennox’s red hair from the “Sweet Dreams…era” (1983) WAY before the TOP 40 stations ever considered playing them…
The original version by Michael DesBarres with Holly Knight was IMHO much better - you got much more of the raw emotion behind the lyrics. (Michael DesBarres later toured as the lead singer for The Power Station when Robert Palmer backed out; he’s also the hubby of famous groupie Pamela DesBarres.)
More tunes:
“Reap the Wild Wind” - Ultravox
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” - Joy Division
“What Is Love?” - Howard Jones
Well, add that one to list of songs I didn’t know were covers. Thanks for info, I’ll have to look for the original version.
There is no Tears For Fears in this thread. This must be corrected, preferably with “Mad World”, “Shout” or Head Over Heels".
Can we make a case for Welcome To The Pleasuredome, or any other FGTH track? It wouldn’t be 1981-86 without one.
I think XTC belongs on your list, but not for the songs mentioned. For the New Wave sound, I’d stick to tracks from their first two albums, when keyboardist Barry Andrews was still part of the lineup (“Meccanic Dancing,” “The Rhythm,” or"Statue of Liberty"), or from their hopped-up third lp Drums and Wires (“Helicopter,” “When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty,” or “Real By Reel”). As for the New Romantic sound, I never thought of them in that context, but tracks like “Grass/The Meeting Place” (off of Skylarking), “Love On a Farmboy’s Wages” (from Mummer) and “You’re the Wish You Are (I Had)” (from The Big Express) probably qualify.
Other tracks:
“Uh, Uh” – Yello
“Mexican Radio” – Wall of Voodoo
“Strobe Light” and “Dance This Mess Around” – The B-52’s
“Der Kommissar” – After the Fire
“I Love a Man In Uniform” – Gang of Four
“Storm Warning” – The dB’s
“Loveless Love,” “Original Love” or “The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness” – The Feelies
“Shrivel-Up” – Devo
“Walking on the Moon” or “Do, Do, Do” – The Police
“My Wife and My Dead Wife” – Robyn Hitchcock
“Cities In Dust” – Siouxsie & the Banshees
Do you mean Yaz? I don’t recall a Yazoo.
Mine eyes are surely decieved… no Gary Numan or Tubaway Army? For shame!
I would go with “Are friends electric” vs the over done cars song.
Also, I would add:
Split Enz - one step ahead
Talk Talk - it’s my life
AFAIK, Yazoo was one incarnation of Yaz. I don’t know all the ins and outs of it, but I usually just take Yazoo to be essentially equal to Yaz. I’d call 'em Yaz before I’d call 'em Yazoo, though.
they were yazoo first and us old timers are stuck in our ways…
Cars by Gary Numan
She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby
Whip It by Devo
Der Kommissar is by Falco, isn’t it?
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco
Peekaboo by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Just Like Heaven by The Cure
Boys Don’t Cry by The Cure
Letter to Elise by The Cure
Heh, Neverending Story by Lamahl
Twist in My Sobriety by Tinata Tikarim
Trouble Me by 10,000 Maniacs
Kyrie by Mr. Mister
Safey Dance and Pop Goes the World by Men Without Hats
Words by Missing Persons
One Thing Leads To Another by The Fixx
Close (to the Edit) by Art of Noise
Your Wildest Dreams byThe Moody Blues
Cruel Summer by Banarama
(Keep Feeling) Fascination by Human League
People Are People by Depeche Mode
Puttin’ On The Ritz by Taco
Send Me An Angel by Real Life
Cuts You Up by Peter Murphy (LOVE that song)
Life In A Northern Town by The Dream Academy
Definitely Pop Muzik by M
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" “Would I Lie to You?” “King and Queen of America” and “Here Comes the Rain Again by The Eurythmics” can’t believe no one’s suggested them yet! At the very least, the first and last of those I listed should be included.
Who Can It Be Now? or Man Down Under by Men At Work
She’s A Beauty by The Tubes
Come On Eileen is by Dexys Midnight Runners
I Melt With You by Modern English
Pride (In The Name Of Love) by U2
Let’s Dance by David Bowie
Road To Nowhere by Talking Heads
The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades by Timbuk 3?
**I Wanna Be A Cowboy by Boys Don’t Cry **?
I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
Maybe Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac?
Maybe Pictures Of Matchstick Men by Camper Van Beethoven?
Maybe O Superman (For Massenet) by Laurie Anderson?
Maybe Mickey by Toni Basil?
Maybe They Don’t Know by Tracy Ullman?
Heh, Sunglasses At Night by Corey Hart?
Maybe Berlin’s Take My Breath Away orThe Metro?
There are some good ones in there, hope they bring back some good memories. 
Scanning the lists, I saw no Go-Go’s or early Madonna. So I suggest
“Head Over Heels” by the Go-Go’s
“Get Into the Groove” by Madonna
Also, “Be Near Me” by ABC and “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles (very important because it was the first song played on MTV…and the 80’s were all about MTV)
“Girls on Film” by Duran Duran
“In Between Days” by The Cure
“Walking In L.A.” by Missing Persons or Berlin–I get those two bands confused for some reason.
I guess X was never heard much out of LA. They don’t ever seem to be mentioned, even though they were, truly, The Greatest Los Angeles Rock Band Ever.
“White Girl”
“Nausea”
“Once Over Twice”
“Adult Books”
and more, all big hits on K-ROCK.
The best individual new wave cut (and very obscure):
“Goodbye Frankie” by Brian Briggs. (See you on the other side…)
**B Movie - Nowhere Girl
Robert Hazard - Change Reaction **
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Always - Erasure
Eurogliders - Heaven
Giorgio Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams
**Heaven 17 - Let Me Go (awesome song)
Images in Vogue - In The House (good luck finding this one!)**
Joy Division - Love Will Tears us Apart
OMD - Enola Gay
**Peter Schilling - The Different Story (really awesome song)
Spoons - Romantic Traffic / Arias & Symphonies / Nova Heart (all good)**
Strange Advance - Worlds Away
Talk Talk - Such a Shame
Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive
Trans-X - Living on Video
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears in my Eyes (pure 80s coolness)
Visage - Fade to Gray (just oozing with synthesizer sexiness)
The bolded titles are especially unique/totally wicked songs.
(PS. Can anyone identify my sig? And no using Google!)
Sorry, that should’ve been
Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life
Though Change Reaction is good, too (though good luck finding either of them).
Nah, I was just teasing. I should have used a ;).
I would def call them Yaz before Yazoo, also.
Yazoo makes you sound reeeeeeally old.
(;))
Yeah. Blue Monday is the classic (even heard it a couple of times in the dance tent at Coachella). Perfect Kiss is my favorite (you want the 8 minute version). Bizarre Love Triangle is a great song.
I don’t think that these have been suggested yet:
Obsession by Xymox
Mystereality by Orchestral Manuevres in the Dark
She’s Lost Control By Joy Division
Transmission by Joy Division
Living in Oblivion by Anything Box
Noise in this World by The English Beat
Tears of a Clown by The English Beat
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) by Information Society
Ich Bin Ein Auslander) by Pop Will Eat Itself
Touched By The Hand Of God by New Order
You gotta get The Cult on there! I suggest:
She Sells Sanctuary
Rain
Little Face
Miscellany:
Zeromancer- Send me an Angel
Joy Division- Love will tear us apart
Maybe some Bryan Ferry or Roxy Music
Borderline:
Buzzcocks
Violent Femmes
Asia
Indeed. Yaz and Yazoo were the same act at the same time. The duo had to use a different name in the US for legal reasons, is all. So far from looking older by knowing who Yazoo are, you’re looking more clued up to music from outside the US.
These are more quasipop and don’t have the same feel but fall into the timeline.
Nu Shoooz
The Cars
Corey Hart
and that one song, " Future’s so bright I gotta wear shades" -dunno who sings it.