(Finished December 5th, 2025) Part 7 of The Best of New Wave Alphabetically

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It's again about time to relive that great time of the early to mid 80s of New Wave music. New Wave is a genre that has quirky people, quairly lyrics and quirky music. It doesn't work all the time, but when it work at it's best the songs are great.

What exactly is/ was New Wave music. Well two things New Wave typically is energetic and fun. New Wave never took itself too seriously. The lyrics weren't serious. New Wave is basically just fun upbeat music to dance to. Who were some of the best New Wave musicians? The Thompson Twins, Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, Howard Jones and many others have to be considered the best New Wave bands.

You may see this and wonder why I didn't include U2 and The Police- both of who many lumped in with the New Wave movement. However both bands, especially The Police, feel like old fashioned rock bands to me. Other bands that were lumped in with New Wave, that I don't really consider New Wave, include The Talking Heads, Men At Work, Elvis Costello, The Go-Go's, The Eurythmics  and David Bowie. Duran Duran was lumped in with the New Wave crowd and I'm not sure they are truly a New Wave band.

103) The Cure "Lovesong":

104) Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart":

105) Fun Boy Three "Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum":

106) Tears For Fears "Mad World":

107) Peter Schilling "Major Tom (Coming Home)":

108) Depeche Mode "Master and Servant":

109) Berlin "The Metro":

110) Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio":

111) The Plimsouls "A Million Miles Away":

112) The English Beat "Mirror In The Bathroom":

113) The Human League "Mirror Man":

114) Dollar "Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour)":

115) The Flying Lizards "Money (That's What I Want):

116) Roxy Music "More Than This":

117) The Smiths "Mr. Bigmouth Strikes Again":

118) INXS "Need You Tonight":

119) INXS "New Sensation":

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(Finished December 1st, 2025) Part 2 of October Birthdays for Musicians

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It only took me thirteen months to finish this blog.

I'm not sure how accurate this is, but according to Wikipedia all of these people were born on October 2nd. I looked for other musicians with birthdays in October, but these were the five best musicians.

This song is so deservedly a classic. He seems to capture every emotion and it's a shot of pure unadulterated nostalgia. Don McLean was born on October 2nd, 1945. These next four songs are all by Don McLean. 18) American Pie":

19) "Crying":

20) "American Boys":

21) "Castles In The Air":

Genesis' Mike Rutherford was born on October 2nd, 1950. He's most well known for his work with Genesis, these next ten songs are all Genesis songs. 

22) "Follow You Follow Me":

This song was after Phil Collins left the band to just Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks. This is from Genesis' last studio CD "Calling All Stations". This CD features Ray Wilson on vocals. 23) "Calling All Stations":

24) "Land of Confusion":

25) "Turn It On Again":

26) "Mama":

27) "Misunderstanding":

28) "Illegal Alien":

29) "Abacab":

30) "Invisible Touch":

31) "That's All":

32) Mike Rutherford "Halfway There":

These next three songs are all by Mike and the Mechanic 33) "Living Years":

34) "Silent Running":

35) "All I Need Is A Miracle":

Tiffany was born on October 2nd, 1971. These next five songs are by Tiffany. 36) "I Think We're Alone Now":

37) "I Saw Him Standing There":

38) "All This Time":

39) "Could've Been":

40) "Feelings of Forever":

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