Artists who had the 100 greatest new wave songs according to DigitalDreamDoor.com Quiz by Talkinghead

Rank	Artist	Song
1		Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
2		Don't You (Forget About Me)
3		Everybody Wants To Rule The World
4		Relax
5		One Way Or Another
6		Burning Down The House
7		Tainted Love
8		Down Under
9		I Ran (So Far Away)
10		Don't You Want Me
11		You Might Think
12		I Melt With You
13		Take On Me
14		Hungry Like The Wolf
15		Once In A Lifetime
16		Whip It!
17		Blue Monday
18		(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?
19		Don't Stand So Close To Me
20		Shout
21		People Are People
22		True
23		Brass In Pocket
24		Something About You
25		Hold Me Now
26		Turning Japanese
27		She Blinded Me With Science
28		Psycho Killer
29		Is She Really Going Out With Him?
30		Poison Arrow
31		Rock Lobster
32		Need You Tonight
33		Come On Eileen
34		Heart Of Glass

Rank	Artist	Song
35		Everyday I Write The Book
36		Cars
37		Tempted
38		Who Can It Be Now?
39		It's My Life
40		West End Girls
41		Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
42		Pump It Up
43		Doctor! Doctor!
44		Promises, Promises
45		Spirits In The Material World
46		Goody Two Shoes
47		More Than This
48		Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
49		Love My Way
50		Wouldn't It Be Good
51		Two Tribes
52		Senses Working Overtime
53		Obsession
54		Save It For Later
55		Alive And Kicking
56		Saved By Zero
57		Here Comes The Rain Again
58		Tenderness
59		Voices Carry
60		Mexican Radio
61		Beds Are Burning
62		Send Me An Angel
63		Always Something There To Remind Me
64		Steppin' Out
65		Why Me?
66		No One Is To Blame
67		Shake It Up
68		The Metro

Rank	Artist	Song
69		You Spin Me 'Round (Like A Record)
70		The Safety Dance
71		One Thing Leads To Another
72		She's A Beauty
73		Rock Me Amadeus
74		In A Big Country
75		Life In A Northern Town
76		Major Tom (Coming Home)
77		Just What I Needed
78		Time (Clock Of The Heart)
79		The Sun Always Shines On TV
80		Come Back And Stay
81		Der Kommissar
82		Video Killed The Radio Star
83		Girls On Film
84		Only The Lonely
85		Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
86		Avalon
87		I Want Candy
88		Too Shy
89		Dance Hall Days
90		A Little Respect
91		Our House
92		Reap The Wild Wind
93		Destination Unknown
94		Messages
95		Working Girl
96		I Got You
97		So In Love
98		I Don't Like Mondays
99		Lawnchairs
100		Love Plus One

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100 Greatest New Wave Songs Quiz

by Talkinghead

Created Feb 24, 2013 in Music
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	rockgolf:	Feb 25th, 2013 at 04:42 GMT		4 points
	As with every DigitalDreamDoor sourced list, there's a combination of good choices, obvious exception, and completely left field inclusions.

	sharpdale:	Feb 25th, 2013 at 18:53 GMT		7 points
	Fine quiz! ****ty list, but fine quiz! Does DDD actually have any concept of what constituted a "new wave" song? This is more like a list of "100 Songs from 1978-87 That Gained Enough Popularity Through MTV Airplay to Hit the Billboard Top 40". Anyway, thanks for a good quiz and a stroll down memory lane.

	Talkinghead:	Feb 25th, 2013 at 19:01 GMT		3 points
	I agree with both of you guys. The list was not the best one ever made but I thought it could make a good quiz. It is really hard/impossible to make a "greatest of" list that everyone agrees on...

	trivial:	Feb 26th, 2013 at 03:26 GMT		5 points
	The omission of "How Soon is Now?" is glaring.

	Mutford:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 00:24 GMT		2 points
	Why is it that grunge gets all the slack for being an ill-defined genre? I've never heard anyone adequately explain what the hell new wave was. And this list just proves it. Synthy-pop-rock without a lot of bass or blues influences?

	bwood1957:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 05:01 GMT		0 points
	No Billy Idol-White Wedding & Rebel Yell???

	shakirafan:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 13:07 GMT		3 points
	Oh, how young and naive we were, never imagining that one day "NEW WAVE" would become "oldies!"

	packsoldier:	Mar 10th, 2013 at 17:45 GMT		2 points
	I was a metalhead in the '80s and therefore obligated to hate New Wave music. Can't believe how many of these I got right - and how many of these songs have stuck with me. I would definitely quibble with some of the "New Wave" categorization though. Joe Jackson?

	AtomicIce:	Mar 11th, 2013 at 21:10 GMT		1 point
	I LOVE New Wave, and I was going to say I haven't even heard of 2 of these (Working Girl, and Why Me?), until I listened to them on YouTube and they sound VAGUELY familar. Those 2 are still some seriously obscure choices, though. Not the quizmaker's fault for what's on the list, however.

	ipswichtown:	Mar 12th, 2013 at 16:24 GMT		-1 points
	The smiths are not New Wave. How Soon is Now? should not be on the list

	imclala:	Mar 12th, 2013 at 17:28 GMT		1 point
	The quiz says "can you name the songs," but you give us the songs. Which is fine, but it's not what your title implies. Dexys Midnight Runners does not have an apostrophe.

	Talkinghead:	Mar 12th, 2013 at 18:45 GMT		1 point
	Thank you imclala! I have made both of the changes.

	fnc:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 13:43 GMT		1 point
	I enjoyed the quiz but we quibble over terms overseas. In the UK, new-wave was like a record-label follow up to punk rock without the amateurism and a lot of the attitude. Kinda better musicians but not hippies. Costello, Joe Jackson, maybe Tom Petty and the poppier end of real punk like Talking Heads and Blondie. Most of your British bands here would be categorised as new romantic or synth pop in the UK.

	chriskotx:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 18:01 GMT		1 point
	What I learned from this quiz: I was listening to NewWave in the 80's and I didn't even know it.

	SHED:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 20:01 GMT		3 points
	I realise there was an American band called The Beat and so the Ska/2-Tone band added the 'English' in the US to avoid confusion but please accept it without the prefix as most British people wouldn't know they are called that across the pond.

	Talkinghead:	Mar 28th, 2013 at 19:17 GMT		1 point
	Thank you SHED! It now accepts both answers.