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May 16, 2024 · 7 reranks. Latest additions: It Must Have Been Love (live/studio), Mirror in the Bathroom, It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Most divisive: Holding Back the Years. Over 3.4K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best '80s New Wave Songs.
May 16, 2024 · So, what are the best New Wave bands? Any list of New Wave musicians has to include British groups like The Cure, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, Psychedelic Furs, Duran Duran, and The Police, just to name a few. With the constant 80s nostalgia across pop culture, mixed with these groups' iconic careers, it's not surprising that New Wave made a ...
Apr 15, 2010 · Posted By Pia Sooney on Apr 15, 2010 | 6 comments. The New Wave music genre gave us many amazing bands. One of the most interesting aspects of New Wave was the fact that it was so open-ended in terms of style. This meant that a wide range of groups were able to contribute to the genre thanks to it lacking a certain musical homogeneity.
Oct 13, 2020 · The Vapors: New Clear Days (1980) British new wavers The Vapors are often looked at as one-hit wonders with their hit single “Turning Japanese,” a song whose meaning was up for debate upon...
May 31, 2023 · Given the genre's breadth, most pop-rock bands of the late '70s and early '80s were labeled new wave at one point or another. Despite its range — or perhaps because of it — a sense of musical ...
Apr 19, 2019 · Updated on 04/19/19. When people consider the variety of music genres that peaked during the '80s, new wave often comes up as one of the first topics of discussion. Once a term used somewhat interchangeably with punk rock, new wave eventually expanded to include almost any quirky yet mainstream pop/rock form of the first half of the decade.
New wave, category of popular music spanning the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Taking its name from the French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s, this catchall classification was defined in opposition to punk (which was generally more raw, rough edged, and political) and to mainstream “corporate”
