Various - Hang The DJ: The Very Best Of New Wave, Punk And The Rest flac album

New Wave music meant a lot of things in the late 1970s. It encompassed pretty much everything that followed the punk movement that still served as an alternative to mainstream pop and rock. There was power-pop, neo-psychedelia, acid-punk, art rock and lots and lots of keyboards. And while that international hit may be forever associated with a certain time and place, the rest of The Age of Plastic has aged quite well. Buggles were essentially Trevor Horn and Geoffrey Downes, two geeky British musicians who, like Gary Numan, were disciples of bands like Kraftwerk and were dabbling in their own future sounds in the late-’70s. The Age of Plastic’s New Wave influence was forged less in British punk and more in prog rock (both Horn and Downes would later join prog institution Yes on their Drama record).

Even today, the best New Wave bands are still important and still sell out arenas and headline festivals around the world. So, what are the best New Wave bands? Any list of New Wave bands has to include British bands like The Cure, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, Psychedelic Furs, Duran Duran, and The Police just to name a few. There are so many great New Wave bands that it's hard to limit naming them to just this few, but, that's the beauty of this list. If you like New Wave music, you should be familiar with many of the names on here

Perhaps it’s best illustrated by one of the iconic bands of the post-punk era: Joy Division. Formed after seeing The Sex Pistols live, the Manchester quartet took that raw energy and made it into a sound at once dark and muscular, streamlined and haunting in atmosphere, eclectic yet singular. And stories like that poured out of various locales: Manchester, Athens, New York City, Glasgow and Cleveland. Adam and the Ants’ lineage branches out into various factions of post-punk and new wave, including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bow Wow Wow and The Monochrome Set. Though Adam Ant himself is a singular figure, dressed in revolutionary dandy garb and giving New Romantic a rebellious figurehead.

The only real criticism would be that the punk side of the coin, or to be more specific, the hardcore punk scene, is barely represented, which seems a little odd considering the wealth of acts that sprung up around Britannia in the '70s and '80s.

The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward. Acts associated with these revivals are found in the list of post-punk revival bands article. Groups and artists with aliases are listed by the first letter in their name, and individuals are listed by their surname.

Rights Society: SACEM, SACD, SGDL, SDRM, BIEM.

KAJAGOOGOO The Very Best of Kajagoogoo. Kajagoogoo Kajagoogoo 3:15. Kajagoogoo Big Apple 4:11. BEST OF THE 80s. NEW ROMANTIC. Style: Punk/New Wave. No Rest For The Wicked was released on EMI Gold ‎– CD GOLD 1019. The CDs are in Very Good Condition with only a few light surface marks but these do not affect the audio quality.

There not really punk there new wave - Darby Crash. Saw them in 1976, better than the pistols and clash at that time, closer to the Detroit sound than the rest. Best group of any generation gigs are still amazing. The Damned brought out the first TRUE punk record, New Rose. Best band from the punk era fact very talented. Love them since 1977. Anyone who saw The Stranglers in their early years would've witnessed 'punk' at it's very finest. By far and away better than any other punk band. 47 Ian Dury and The Blockheads. Blockheads still touring 2104 amazing live band - without Ian of course.