Recommend me your top new-wave/post-punk tracks

[MegBusset]

Am adding some tracks to iTunes along these lines. So far I have...

Whip It - Devo
Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission Of Burma
Rip It Up - Orange Juice

What else shall I get??

Orgasm Addict/I Don't Mind - Buzzocks
Treason/Reward - Teardrop Explodes
Golden Brown - Stranglers
Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs
Pop Muzik - M
Seventeen - the Regents
This Town Aint Big Enough for the Both of us - Sparks
Any early Violent Femmes
Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Drury
Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
Brilliant Mind - Furniture

Omg I could go on forever if I set my mind to it (my era ).

devo - (can't get no) satisfaction
gang of four - to hell with poverty
bauhaus - kick in the eye
throbbing gristle - hot on the heels of love
wire - kidney bingos
human league - being boiled
simple minds - i travel
brian eno - strong flashes of light
public image ltd - public image
talking heads - i zimbra
television - marquee moon

ooo love all this too!!!

Magazine!

Oh yes, fine choice....

But 'The Light Pours Out of Me' would be a better choice.

...and the first, eponymous Violent Femmes album is a marvel, too. It was fun to hear 'Blister in the Sun' revived for an incongruous beer ad on tele recently. I loved the cover of the album as well....

...The Triffids.

I love The Triffids, This is one good reason why...

I saw Magazine !
loved Lloyd Cole too

Anthrax - Gang of Four

....you saw Magazine???

I see your Magazine, and I trump it with The Smiths live in 1983.....

Joy Division.

...especially Unknown Pleasures.

(too young to have seen them live. Saw New Order in 1984, though. The night before my History A level. Didn't get home 'til 3. The grade 'E' was THEIR FAULT!)

...was reading the list you linked to, KM.

I was a little shocked to find this shite on the list....

...I had erased it from my memory. Now, I shall be forever reminded that 'John Wayne is Big Leggy'

Quite

Song from Under teh Floorboards - Magazine
Into the Valley - Skids

This is my era and my mind has gone blank. Will keep posting as think of ones. Some ace ones suggested

My Perfect Cousin/Teenage Kicks - Undertones
Surely The Pogues - they supported just about every band I ever saw between 1984 - 1988.

Retiredgoth - does this mean you were a 'Sisters of Mercy' fan . Or Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (I still love 'Are you Walking on Your Hands'!)?

Ah you made me go reminiscey as well

red lorry yellow lorry

...yes indeed I loved the Sisters of Mercy, especially live.

They had a sense of irony, unlike a number of other 'goth' bands (HATED The Mission, for example..)

....as evidenced by this Dolly Parton cover

splendid!

KM, you shared a flat with the Residents?

Crikey. My claim to fame is that I have seen Roni Size on the terraces at Bristol Rovers. Not quite the same....

...thanks for the Red Lorry Yellow Lorry link.

I had forgotten that song, and (unlike the Hayzee Fantayzee number), was glad to be reminded of it....

wire - I am the fly
television - marquee moon

how about a bit of aztec camera - maybe Pillar to Post?

nag nag nag - cabaret voltaire

ghost rider - suicide

pablo picasso - modern lovers

and not new wave but

both ends burning - roxy music

I want more - can

Magazine!!! hooray! - I'm jealous MaryAnnSingleton!

Honeymoon Killers

Can I be shallow and tell retiredgoth that Andrew Eldritch asked me out on a date once?
I said no because I'd been brainwashed into a fear of groupiedom. Oh, how i wish I'd had a misspent youth now.

And I'm well jealous of you, too, KM.

You must have had a brilliant time in NY!

Went to bed early last night so missed all these new posts. Cheers -- lots I've heard but plenty of new stuff to check out too

KM, you are far too rock'n'roll!

What a fantastic list - its my era too. have recently been rediscovering XTC esp Drums and Wires. Am a bit obsessed by Day in day out at the moment.

Ooh just came to this topic to look for some ideas for music but came across this thread so hope no-one minds if I do a bit of a hijack and ask you all to take a look here and help me!

loving this thread, i am going to see magazine in Manchester on 14th Feb. how about some Dickies? Or Hazel O'Connor or some Cure? The Glove or wedding Present or Half Man Half Biscuit? I could go on....