OMD - Architecture & Morality Duran Duran - Self Titled Elvis Costello - This Years Model Human League - Dare The Boomtown Rats - Fine art of Surfacing Tears For Fears - Songs from the big Chair Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time Soft Cell - Nonstop erotic cabaret Yazoo - Upstairs at Erics Adam & the Ants - Prince Charming A Flock of Seagulls - Self Titled Haircut 100 - Pelican West A-Ha - Hunting high and Low Talk Talk - the Partys Over The Stranglers - Dreamtime To name just a few notable records of mention for any one new to New Wave :)
It's honestly nuts how perfect that album is. And how incredibly ahead of it's time it sounds. There are several Talking Heads songs/albums that I honestly think would turn heads if released today as new modern music. Nothing about it sounds dated somehow. There's PLENTY of music I love that is great, but sounds SO of the time it came from. INXS album "Kick" is one that immediately comes to mind. It sounds hilariously late 80s. Almost like it was made today...in an attempt to distil that late 80s, scooped mids, gated reverb, antiseptically clean, quasi new-jack-swing sound. But still a great album. But then there are other albums....that are objectively timeless and sound like they're from every decade...or no decade. Remain in Light is one of those. I'd also say....Revolver(but _not_ Sgt Pepper). Also much of the music of The Police. And maybe Tool's Aenima and Lateralus. OH....and Animal Collective's brilliant Merriweather Post Pavilion. Albums that don't scream "This is when I was made!" and instead work simply due to the music being effortlessly excellent.
My favorite new wave albums: Nothing to Fear - Oingo Boingo Nada Personal - Soda Stereo Heartbreak Highway - Rubber Rodeo Nena - NENA Working with Fire and Steel - China Crisis
If you're into the synthpop side of New Wave, it's vital you listen to Japan's 'Gentlemen Take Polaroids' and 'Tin Drum'. In my opinion, Tin Drum is the finest New Wave album ever released.
I lived through those years and love all these albums and was in a new wave band at the time. I associate different records maybe, but it's subjective. The Cure, The Smiths, Simple Minds,, Joy Division, Echo & Bunnymen, Siouxsie & The Banshees Great job tough
As a massive new wave fan , these are brilliant choices. Also worthy B52's - B52's. XTC - Black Sea. Skids - Days In Europa . Sparks - No 1 Song In Heaven
Great picks - I have owned all 5 of these albums pretty much since their release - makes me realize I was in my teens and twenties at the best time for music
Man I was just about to eat my dinner looking for a nice video to watch while I do and nothing could catch my attention... And when I was just about to give up you drop this! Thanks Oliver, you're a lifesaver.
Devo’s 1st album B-52’s 1st album Talking Heads 1st album Cars 1st album Blondie 1st album That pretty much solidifies the first litter of Sister Ray’s spoiled brats..it was her illegitimate brood aka No Wavers that really kept her spirit alive and kickin’
Altough i personnaly preffer Pornography, Disintegration is trully one of the greatest albums of all time. So il probably think its better to go with Disintegration
this list could never be big enough to hold all the essential new wave albums and these are 5 great records, but I definitely think Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair deserved a spot here
Oh, that would be horrendous. Maybe it would work if Numan was more like the MOR, American new wave bands like Blondie or The Cars, but he has more in common with Suicide, Kraftwerk, and Cluster.
@@gdmatter2286 I respectfully disagree, my friend. Their later albums are pop - true, but early ones - anything but! I am talking War, Boy, October, Unforgettable Fire.
I enjoyed this video and your picks. Good stuff man. My faves? Okay here I go.. 1. JAPAN-Quiet Life (1979) 2. GARY NUMAN-The Pleasure Principle (1979) 3. HUANG CHUNG (1982) aka Wang Chung 4. FASHION-Fabrique (1982) 5. DURAN DURAN-Rio (1982) 6. BUGGLES-The Age Of Plastic (1980) 7. THOMAS DOLBY-The Golden Age Of Wireless (1981-1982 different releases) 8. ROXY MUSIC-Flesh + Blood (1980) 9. MISSING PERSONS-Spring Session M (1982) 10. SIMPLE MINDS-New Gold Dream (1982)
Nice! I love Synchronicity. I really think people underestimate the Police, mostly because of Stings solo career and Every breath you take. Any ways, great list!
Awesome list. The only change I'd make would be to switch Ghost in the Machine for Synchronicity. But everything The Police created was magical, so I won't quibble too much on that.
@@pablovargasfuentes817 Television were sharing the stage w/ all the punk pioneers at CBGBs, so chronologically they're not post-punk. The punk genre was not monolithic in its first wave, the NYC wave. Looking back, bands like Talking Heads and Blondie, who were also stars of the CB's scene are rightly sorted out as new wave. But a whole slew of bands, like Television, the Dictators, Suicide, Hot Lunch, 8 Eyed Spy, etc are harder to categorize. They were too hard-edged to be new wave, but not in the Ramones minimalist mindset either.
@@MrThistlethwaite i remember very well ,in '77- '78 all this new band was called "Punk" ,Ramones & Television,Patty Smith Group & Blondie ,Sex Pistols & Police ...
Would have been cool to see Tears for Fears make the list. Otherwise, excellent list! And I'm glad that you made me remember how brilliant Remain in Light is. As soon as I'm done watching this....I'm gonna pull that album up. Almost forgot how perfect it is....sounds WAY ahead of it's time.
Power, Corruption and Lies has achieved such a legend status that I feel it often outshines another excellent New Order record: Brotherhood. While it is a much less groundbreaking and innovative album, it should by no means be ignored as I feel it iterated on Power, Corruption and Lies reaching and even surpassing it in many aspects.
All of these are great albums and it's nice to see The Police getting some love. For me I would add in The Jam (All Mod Cons, Setting Sons or Sound Affects) and any of Elvis Costello's first 4 albums.I wouldn't class New Order as New Wave but it's a small point and I don't really care for such labels anyway.
Great channel, great list, but I think Synchronicity and Power, Corruption and Lies came along late to be "New Wave." I can't think of better examples than Parallel Lines and Freedom of Choice though. Well done.
Check out any of the first 5 albums by Squeeze. I would personally recommend East Side Story (4th album) only just above Cool For Cats (2nd). For those who do not know, this band also featured a certain Mr. Jools Holland.
Great New Wave Top 5! Parallel Lines is one of the LP’s that is classic from start to finish. You didn’t point out that ‘Fade Away Radiate’ featured Robert Fripp on Lead G. Also, your emphasis on TH Remain In Light is justified! An incredibly bold production! It’s ‘flip side’ being the monumental ‘My Life In The Bush of Ghosts’ which was also Produced by Byrne/Eno at the same time! Also, it seems New Order straddled Post Punk (Movement) and New Wave (Power, Corruption and Lies).
For New Wave: The Cars 1st Album, Yaz Upstairs at Eric’s, Any Early New Order, Elvis Costello Armed Forces, Erasure The Innocents, The Police Zenyata Mondatta. Such great music and such variety.. Other Must hears -Madness, The English Best, The Smiths, Blondie, Romeo Void. -only to name a fee
After buying the Power, Corruption & Lies album on release, I played the B side first. This was how I always listened to the album. Then damned CDs came along and ruined it. I've still not become accustomed to playing the album in its correct running order.
It's honestly nuts how perfect *Remain in Light* is. And how incredibly ahead of it's time it sounds. I honestly think it would turn heads if released today as new modern music. Nothing about it sounds dated somehow. There's PLENTY of music I love that is great, but sounds SO of the time it came from. INXS album "Kick" is one that immediately comes to mind. It sounds hilariously late 80s. Almost like it was made today...in an attempt to distil that late 80s, scooped mids, gated reverb, antiseptically clean, quasi new-jack-swing sound. But still a great album lol. But then there are other albums....that are objectively timeless and sound like they're from every decade...or no decade. Remain in Light is one of those. I'd also say....Revolver(but _not_ Sgt Pepper). Also much of the music of The Police. And maybe Tool's Aenima and Lateralus. OH....and Animal Collective's brilliant Merriweather Post Pavilion. Albums that don't scream "This is when I was made!" and instead work simply due to the music being effortlessly excellent.
I think Speaking In Tongues is a more poppy and digestible album than Remain In Light, if one is not super familiar with new wave. Otherwise, solid list. I get that you’re deep cuts, but I think Unknown Pleasures is the best thing the New Order guys ever did.
The five highlighted albums are my meat and drink, the soundtrack of my life. Devo's live freedom of choice theme merging into whip it from power of positive thinking is stronger, better than stand alone whip it on freedom of choice. If there's one band fantastic band from the era that nobody has heard of I could put you on to it is japanese band jagatara.
New to this channel- I’m 63 now and was a big New Wave fan from the get-go. Interesting list and topic not a best of per se. Anyway my 5 choices: “This Year”s Model, Elvis Costello, Construction Time Again Depeche Mode, PCL New Order, Architecture and Morality OMD, Drums and Wires XTC
Great video and amazing channel, those are wonderful picks for new wave, I wonder If you could do a Sonic Youth or The Cure guide in the future. Greetings and massive support from Mexico City !
It's more electronica than new wave. The latter is more guitar-based and ragged than the majorly calculated, sequenced perfectionism of 'Violator', or any album of theirs from 1984-1997.
@@somebraveapollo8211 this is not accurate. Synth pop and new wave overlap heavily. The idea that new wave is always guitar oriented is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read.
Skylarking aaaaa!!!! ^o^ The way you made the introduction to New Order was funny, like you were desperately trying to make them recognised in their own right, and bury any of the troubled existence of Joy Division. Usually most people would describe New Order as "Oh, it's just Joy Division after Ian Curtis died." It goes to show how dependent New Order is on the context of Joy Division, and how the shadow of Ian Curtis still looms dark and tall above them.
I would have thought a British chap would have included our arguably best New Wave band, XTC. Making Plans For Nigel: an absolute New Wave classic. Far more interesting than anything than anything New Order ever did. No Costello? Have a listen to This Year's Model. Keep up the good work. I enjoyed your post-punk 5.
Great list but you need some honorable mentions: 1. Elvis Costello,Armed Forces 2. Pretenders self-titled Debut 3. The Cars Self-titled debut 4. Billy Idol Rebel Yell 5. Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual.
My new Wave fav albums ,only in NYC Patty Smith Group - Horses/ Television - Marquee Moon/Talking Head - Fear of Music//Suicide - Suicide/Contorsion - Buy .Rest of America : Pere Ubu - New Picnic Time /Chrome - Half Machine Lips Move/Tuxedo Moon - Half Mute/Mx 80 Sound - Out of the Tunnel/Devo - Are we not men?We are Devo!/Feelies-Crazy Rhytms. Best Uk New Wave Albums :Joy Division - Unknow Pleausure/P.I.L. - Metal Box/Pop Group - Y /Wire - 154 /Clock DVA - Thirst .This from a veteran boomer (ps. Cabaret Voltaire - Mix Up)ppss.Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
With the exception of POWER, CORRUPTION, & LIES (which I've never heard all the way through), I can certainly vouch for the excellence of all these albums. FREEDOM OF CHOICE was one of the very first albums I ever purchased, so it is particularly close to my heart. :) My Gnu Wave Top 5: 1) OUTLANDOS D'AMOUR - The Police (1978) 2) MY AIM IS TRUE - Elvis Costello (1977) 3) Q: ARE WE NOT MEN? A: WE ARE DEVO! - Devo (1978) 4) S/T - The B-52's (1979) 5) PARALLEL LINES - Blondie (1978)
Here's your guide: pick up This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy and Trust. Listen to them. A LOT. Marinade. Pick up King of America because you're interested in hearing what he can do with a more acoustic album. If you like those 5 albums - which are about as great as he gets - move on to Imperial Bedroom and Blood And Chocolate. While those two aren't as consistent (to my ears...I know there are many who think Imperial Bedroom is incredible), they do have some of his highest highs. If you're still onboard the Elvis Costello train, you might be wondering why I hadn't suggested My Aim Is True. I just never liked it. If you do like it - I'm sure at least a million people have - more power to you. The next tier of records I would suggest include Almost Blue (for some good country-rock), Spike (for a wide variety of music), Brutal Youth (for a more "Attractions"-like sound), All this Useless Beauty and maybe When I Was Cruel. If you like those, you don't need my help anymore. Just move on to whatever else he's recorded. There are some hit-and-miss records out there. Some people think (insert record I haven't mentioned here) is one of the greatest records they've ever heard. But those first five albums I mentioned are just about perfect and the only albums I'd recommend to everyone.
@@chrisdelisle3954 BRAVO, mate! My first "punk" album was This Year's Model. Imperial Bedroom is not only my fave EC album but is in the Top Ten of my all-time faves.
I came to the comment section to talk about A Flock Of Seagulls, actually. I really enjoy their first three records, and I agree with you about their debut. Incredibly influential
@@curtisthedrummer6200 All 3 of their early records are just magnificent. Paul Reynolds' guitar work is undeniably influential on the whole of the 80s, The Edge definitely took some notes, but that's not to undermine Mike Score's vocals and songwriting, both are great!
Before looking it up, I was like "no way, it was the 80s, how dumb could it be that it would be ridiculed in the 80s" Yeah. Its like if anime hair of like Yu gi oh took lsd
I’m an 80s new wave enthusiast (not really, just a junkie) so allow me to drop my favorites: Oingo Boingo Gang Of Four B-52’s Adam Ant Wall Of Voodoo ABC A Flock Of Seagulls Pet Shop Boys
There is a little band very well known on my country called "Descontrolados" who were called new wave and post-punk by a magazine, i don't really call them post-punk but the music is really new wave-ish. Check out their EP "Piedad"
@@mistymangham4410 Nobody said Indie in the early 80s,. And these bands weren't hidden gems - they were massively successful. Parallel Lines was stuffed full of chart-toppers. The Police has been mentioned. Blue Monday was (and is) the world's biggest 12" single. So they weren't really "Indie". The music genre at the time was "Indie" if you like. Devo were more obscure, and Talking Heads were more of a student band - intellectual (certainly lyrics-wise). None of the well-known Talking Heads hits were anything like their best songs, in my view. They were just the radio-friendly ones. Radios were not going to be playing "Born Under Punches" - more's the pity.
Good reviews. That said, I always had a problem in separating new wave from post-punk and to make my mind up about the pertinence of separating the two. To my mind remain in light and devo are post-punkers but, all in all, is good music that matters.
@@swigginstevesbargainbeerre1612 Here are your first 3 records to look into: Selling England By The Pound, A Trick Of The Tail and Duke. I don’t mention them because they are my 3 favorites, but because they represent the cream of 3 different eras. If you like Selling England, move back to Foxtrot and ahead to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. If you like A Trick of The Tail, check out Wind And Wuthering or The Lamb album. If you like Duke, move on to Abacab and And Then There Were Three. If you like the Peter Gabriel albums, you’ll have to check out Nursery Cryme. The rest is up to your curiosity. For the record, my 3 favorites are Foxtrot, Selling England and The Lamb.
@@theadelisle2964 I have recently being listening to genesis actually and I've gotta say its Peter Gabriel all the way for me. Love nursery crime until lamb. Brilliant records!
Good list, but I'm never quite sure whether New Wave encompasses Post-Punk and Synthpop or if they are different genres altogether, sort of how Krautrock encompasses most of German music from the 70s, be it rock or electronica. Some of my favourite New Wave albums: Simple Minds - Empires and Dance (1980), The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China (1981), Echo and the Bunnymen (first four albums), OMD - Organisation (1980) and Dazzle Ships (1983), Tears for Fears - The Hurting (1983), first three U2 albums (although they're more alternative rock than New Wave), and Ultravox - Vienna (1980).
