80s New Wave Music Database: Artists, Songs & Videos

Every song by every major artist in the genre...with a few exceptions. To make it sporty for you I have left out at least a dozen minor stars in this genre knowingly only because i don't know that much about them. They didn't have major radio hits or if they did they only had one hit. The criteria I set while compiling it is that you need at least two singles to make it on the masterlist.

Regarding the UK: You Brits know a whole lot more about this genre than any American could because we just didn't have as many outlets in which to hear it. You have several big stars there that we barely know if at all.

If you readers know any songs I've missed by all means submit it in the comment box below and I'll get right on it.

I've also included plenty of bands for you to grill me on because they really weren't New Wave groups even if they sounded like them at times. (i.e. Honeymoon Suite, The Outfield, Dandy Warhols)

Based solely on quantity of New Wave hits.

1. DEPECHE MODE (16 hits)

2. R.E.M (15 hits)

3. INXS

4. THE CARS

5. THE CURE

6. U2

7. TALKING HEADS

8. THE B-52'S

9. THE SMITHS

10. THE PRETENDERS

11. THE POLICE

12. THE CLASH

13. DAVID BOWIE

14. BLONDIE

15. ELVIS COSTELLO

16. EURYTHMICS

17. STING

18. SQUEEZE

19. BILLY IDOL

20. HUMAN LEAGUE

21. NEW ORDER

22. HOWARD JONES

23. PETER GABRIEL

24. PET SHOP BOYS

25. O.M.D.

26. THE ALARM

27. 10,000 MANIACS

28. THE FIXX

29. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

30. VIOLENT FEMMES

A

ABC (7)

The Look of Love

Poison Arrow

Be Near Me

When Smokey Sings

That Was Then But This Is Now

How To Be A Millionaire

Vanity Kills

a-ha (4) 

Take On Me

The Sun Always Shines On T.V.

Cry Wolf

The Living Daylights

THE ALARM (8) 

The Stand

Sixty-Eight Guns

Strength

Spirit of ‘76

Rescue Me

Rain in the Summertime

Sold Me Down The River

The Road

ALPHAVILLE (2) 

Big In Japan

Forever Young

ANIMOTION (3) 

Obsession

I Engineer

Room To Move

ADAM ANT (7) 

Goody Two Shoes

Desperate But Not Serious

Antmusic

Strip

Ant Rap

Puss'n Boots

Room At The Top

APB  (3)

Shoot You Down

Talk To Me

Rainy Day

B

BANANARAMA (5) 

Cruel Summer

Venus

I Heard a Rumour

Robert DeNiro's Waiting

Love In The First Degree

THE BANGLES (5) 

Hero Takes a Fall

Manic Monday

If She Knew What She Wants

In Your Room

Hazy Shade of Winter

BAUHAUS (2) 

Hair of the Dog

Bela Legosi's Dead

BERLIN (6) 

No More Words

The Metro

Sex (I'm a...)

Like Flames

Masquerade

Take My Breath Away

THE B-52's (11) 

Rock Lobster

Private Idaho

Strobe Light

Planet Claire

Song For a New Generation

Party Out Of Bounds

Deadbeat Club

Love Shack

Roam

Channel Z

Good Stuff

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (7) 

Limbo The Law

The Bottom Line

C'mon Every Beatbox

V. Thirteen

E=mc2

Rush

The Globe

BLONDIE (10) 

Heart of Glass

Dreaming

The Tide Is High

Sunday Girl

Hanging On The Telephone

Rapture

One Way or Another

Call Me

Atomic

Rip Her To Shreds

THE BOOMTOWN RATS (3) 

I Don't Like Mondays

Up All Night

She's So Modern

DAVID BOWIE (11) 

Suffragette City

DJ

Jean Genie

Fame ‘90

Golden Years

Ashes To Ashes

Fashion

Let's Dance

China Girl

Modern Love

Blue Jean

BOW WOW WOW (4) 

C30, C60, C90, Go

Aphrodisiac

I Want Candy

Louis Quatorze

EDIE BRICKELL & THE NEW BOHEMIANS (6) 

What I Am

Circle

Oak Cliff Bra

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Good Times

Stranger Things

THE BUZZCOCKS (3)What Do I Get? 

Ever Fallen In Love?

Boredom

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN (3) 

Pictures of Mtchstick Men

Eye of Fatima

Take The Skinheads Bowling

THE CARS (14) 

Just What I Needed

My Best Friend's Girl

Good Times Roll

You're All I've Got Tonight

Moving In Stereo

Let's Go

Dangerous Type

Shake It Up

Since You're Gone

You Might Think

Magic

Hello Again

Drive

Tonight She Comes

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (2) 

Red Right Hand

The Mercy Seat

THE CLASH (11) 

I Fought The Law

London Calling

Train In Vain

Bankrobber

The Magnificent Seven

This Is Radio Clash

Lost In The Supermarket

Rudie Can't Fail

Police On My Back

Rock The Casbah

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

BRUCE COCKBURN (2) 

Wondering Where The Lions Are

If I Had a Rocket Launcher

COCTEAU TWINS (3) 

Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops

Carolyn's Fingers

Sugar Hiccup

CONCRETE BLONDE (5) 

Joey

Still In Hollywood

Caroline

Everybody Knows

It'll Chew You Up and Spit You Out

JULIAN COPE (2) 

World Shut Your Mouth

Trampoline

ELVIS COSTELLO (10) 

Alison

Watching The Detectives

Everyday I Write The Book

Pump It Up

Radio Radio

Accidents Will Happen

What's So Funny ‘Bout (Peace, Love & Understanding)?

Veronica

45

Tear Off Your Own Head (Doll Revolution)

THE CRAMPS (2) 

Goo Goo Muck

Psychotic Reaction

CRASH TEST DUMMIES (4) 

Superman's Song

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Afternoons and Coffeespoons

Keep A Lid On Things 

CROWDED HOUSE (5) 

Don't Dream It's Over

I Got You - SPLIT ENZ

Something So Strong

Better Be Home Soon

World Where You Live

THE CULT (5) 

She Sells Sanctuary

Love Removal Machine

Fire Woman

Edie (Ciao Baby)

Brother Wolf and Sister Moon

THE CURE (13) 

Boys Don't Cry

A Forest

The Love Cats

In Between Days

Close To Me

Why Can't I Be You?

Six Different Ways

Just Like Heaven

Close To Me ‘90

Lovesong

Never Enough

Fascination Street

Friday I'm In Love

CULTURE CLUB (7) 

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?

Time (Clock of the Heart)

I'll Tumble 4 Ya

Church of the Poison Mind

Karma Chameleon

Miss Me Blind

The Crying Game - (Boy George)

THE DANDY WARHOLS (4)

Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth

Everyday Should Be a Holiday

Boys Better

Bohemian Like You

THE DEAD KENNEDYS (2) 

Holiday in Cambodia

California Uber Alles

DEAD MILKMEN (4) 

Bitchin' Camaro

Stuart

The Thing That Only Eats Hippies

Punk Rock Girl

DEAD OR ALIVE (4) 

You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

Brand New Lover

Something In My House

In Too Deep

DEPECHE MODE (16) 

Just Can't Get Enough

Master and Servant

Blasphemous Rumours

Shake The Disease

Fly On The Windscreen

People Are People

Strangelove

Never Let Me Down Again

Black Celebration

A Question of Lust

Personal Jesus

Enjoy The Silence

Policy of Truth

World In My Eyes

I Feel You

Behind The Wheel / Route 66

DEVO (3) 

Through Being Cool

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Whip It

DIRE STRAITS (5) 

Sultans of Swing

Twisting By The Pool

Money For Nothing

Walk of Life

So Far Away

THOMAS DOLBY (2) 

She Blinded Me With Science

Hyperactive!

DURAN DURAN (6) 

Planet Earth

Girls on Film

Hungry Like The Wolf

Save A Prayer

Ordinary World

Election Day (Arcadia)

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (5) 

The Cutter

The Killing Moon

People Are Strange

Lips Like Sugar

Bring On The Dancing Horses

THE ENGLISH BEAT (6) 

Mirror In The Bathroom

Ranking Full Stop

Whine and Grine/Stand Down Margaret

Save It For Later

Tears of a Clown

I Confess

ERASURE (5) 

Oh L'amour

It Doesn't Have To Be

Sometimes

A Little Respect

Chains of Love

EURYTHMICS (10) 

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

When Tomorrow Comes

Here Comes The Rain Again

Would I Lie To You?

Right By Your Side

It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

Sexcrime (1984)

Who's That Girl?

Missionary Man

FALCO (3) 

Rock Me Amadeus

Vienna Calling

Der Kommisar - After The Fire

THE FARM (2) 

Groovy Train

All Together Now

FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS (5) 

Johnny Come Home

Blue

Suspicious Minds

She Drives Me Crazy

Good Thing

THE FIXX (8) 

One Thing Leads To Another

Stand or Fall

Saved By Zero

Red Skies

Deeper and Deeper

Less Cities, More Moving People

Are We Ourselves?

Secret Separation

FLESH FOR LULU (3) 

I Go Crazy

Postcards From Paradise

Good For You

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD (2) 

Relax

Two Tribes

PETER GABRIEL (8) 

Solsbury Hill

Shock The Monkey

In Your Eyes

I Don't Remember

Sledgehammer

Big Time

Digging In The Dirt

Biko

GANG OF FOUR (3) 

At Home He's a Tourist

I Love a Man in Uniform

To Hell With Poverty

J. GEILS BAND / PETER WOLF (5) 

Love Stinks

Freeze Frame

Centerfold

Lights Out

Come As You Are

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL (3) 

The Motion of Love

Desire (Come and Get It)

Jealous

GENERAL PUBLIC (2) 

Tenderness

I'll Take You There

THE GO-GO's (4) 

Our Lips Are Sealed

We Got The Beat

Vacation

Head Over Heels

GO WEST (5) 

We Close Our Eyes

Call Me

Don't Look Down - The Sequel

King of Wishful thinking

Faithful

HAIRCUT 100 (2) 

Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)

Love Plus One

HAPPY MONDAYS (3) 

Step On

Kinky Afro

24 Hour Party People

PAUL HARDCASTLE (2) 

Rain Forest

19

ROBYN HITCHCOCK (2) 

Balloon Man

Madonna of the Wasps

HONEYMOON SUITE (3) 

New Girl Now

Feel It Again

What Does It Take?

HOOTERS (3) 

And We Danced

Day By Day

All You Zombies

THE HUMAN LEAGUE (9) 

Don't You Want Me

Mirror Man

The Lebanon

Love Action (I Believe In Love)

(Keep Feeling) Fascination

These Are the Things That Dreams Are Made Of

Together In Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey

Human

Heart Like a Wheel

BILLY IDOL (9) 

Dancing With Myself

White Wedding

Mony Mony

Flesh For Fantasy

To Be A Lover

Cradle of Love

Hot In The City

Eyes Without A Face

Catch My Fall

INFORMATION SOCIETY (4) 

What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)

Running

Think

Walking Away

INXS (15) 

The One Thing

Don't Change

Original Sin

What You Need

Listen Like Theives

Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)

This Time

Good Times (from "The Lost Boys")

Need You Tonight / Mediate

New Sensation

Devil Inside

Mystify

Never Tear Us Apart

Suicide Blonde

Disappear

JOE JACKSON (6) 

Is She Really Going Out With Him?

Sunday Papers

One More Time

Steppin' Out

Breaking Us In Two

You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)

THE JAM (4) 

The Modern World

Town Called Malice

Going Underground

That's Enteratinment

JANE'S ADDICTION (6) 

Jane Says

Ted, Just Admit It

Mountain Song

Classic Girl

Been Caught Stealing

Stop!

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN (5) 

Just Like Honey

Head On

Blues From a Gun

Rollercoaster

Sometimes Always

JESUS JONES (3) 

Right Here, Right Now

Real Real Real

International Bright Young Thing

HOWARD JONES (8) 

New Song (Don't Crack Up)

What Is Love?

Things Can Only Get Better

Life In One Day

Like To Get to Know You Well

No One Is To Blame

You Know I Love You...Don't You?

Everlasting Love

JOY DIVISION (2) 

Love Will Tear Us Apart Again

Transmission

KATRINA AND THE WAVES (2) 

Walking On Sunshine

Do You Want Crying?

THE KNACK (2) 

My Sharona

Good Girls Don't

THE LEMONHEADS (4) 

Mrs. Robinson

Into Your Arms

It's a Shame About Ray

Paid To Smile

LEVEL 42 (2) 

Something About You

Lessons In Love

THE LIGHTNING SEEDS (2) 

Pure

All I Want

LOVE & ROCKETS (5) 

Ball of Confusion

Kundalini Express

Mirror People

No New Tale To Tell

So Alive

MEN AT WORK (5) 

Who Can It Be Now?

Overkill

Down Under

It's a Mistake

Be Good Johnny

MEN WITHOUT HATS (2) 

Safety Dance

Pop Goes The World

NATALIE MERCHANT (4) 

Carnival

Wonder

Jealousy

Kind & Generous

MIDNIGHT OIL (3) 

Beds Are Burning

The Dead Heart

Blue Sky Mine

MINISTRY (3) 

Everyday Is Halloween

Stigmata

Jesus Built My Hotrod

MISSING PERSONS (4) 

Words

Destination Unknown

Mental Hopscotch

Walking in L.A.

MORRISSEY (3) 

Piccadilly Palare

Interesting Drug

Everyday Is Like Sunday

THE MOTELS (2) 

Only The Lonely

Suddenly, Last Summer

MOVING PICTURES (2) 

What About Me?

Never (from ‘Footloose')

PETER MURPHY (3) 

Cuts You Up

Indigo Eyes

I've Got a Miniature Secret Camera

NAKED EYES (2) 

Always Something There To Remind Me

Promises, Promises

NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN (3) 

Happy

Grey Cell Green

NEW ORDER (8) 

Blue Monday

Temptation

The Perfect Kiss

Bizarre Love Triangle

Shell Shock

Round And Round

True Faith

Regret

NINE INCH NAILS (5) 

Head Like A Hole

Down In It

Terrible Lie

The Only Time

Hurt

SINEAD O' CONNOR (4) 

Mandinka

I Want Your (Hands on Me)

Nothing Compares 2 U

Troy

OINGO BOINGO (5) 

Only a Lad

Stay

Weird Science

Dead Man's Party

Little Girls

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK / -O.M.D.- (8) 

Electricity

Enola Gay

Tesla Girls

So In Love

Secret

If You Leave

(Forever) Live and Die

Dreaming

THE ORIGIN (3) 

Growing Old

Set Sails Free

Autonomous

THE OUTFIELD (4) 

Your Love

Say It Isn't So

All The Love in The World

Since You've Been Gone

PET SHOP BOYS (8) 

West End Girls

Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

Suburbia

Loves Comes Quickly

It's a Sin

What Have I Done To Deserve This?

Always On My Mind

Domino Dancing

THE PIXIES (7) 

Here Comes Your Man

Where Is My Mind?

Wave of Mutilation

Debaser

Gigantic

Velouria

Monkey Gone to Heaven

THE POGUES (2) 

Fairytale of New York

A Pair of Brown Eyes

THE POLICE (11) 

Roxanne

Can't Stand Losing You

Message In a Bottle

So Lonely

Next To You

Hole In My Life

It's Alright For You

Don't Stand So Close To Me

Spirits In The Material World

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

THE PRETENDERS (11) 

Brass In Pocket

Stop Your Sobbing

Kid

The Wait

My City Was Gone (Ohio)

Message of Love

Back On The Chain Gang

Middle Of The Road

Don't Get Me Wrong

PRIMAL SCREAM (3) 

Loaded

Movin' On Up

Rocks

PSEUDO ECHO (2) 

Living in a Dream

Funkytown

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS (5) 

Love My Way

Pretty In Pink

Heartbreak Beat

The Ghost In You

All That Money Wants

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. -PiL- / JOHNNY ROTTEN (7) 

Public Image

World Destruction (with AFRIKA BAMBAATAA)

This Is Not a Love Song

Rise

Seattle

Happy?

Don't Ask Me

QUARTERFLASH (2) 

Harden My Heart

Take Me to Heart

THE RAMONES (4) 

I Wanna Be Sedated

Sheena Is a Punk Rocker

Howling At The Moon (Sha La La)

Rock-n-Roll High School

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (4) 

True Men Don't Kill Coyotes

Knock Me Down

Give It Away

Show Me Your Soul

R.E.M. (15) 

Radio Free Europe

So. Central Rain

Fall On Me

Can't Get There From Here

Rockville

The One I Love

It's The End of the World as We Know It (and I feel fine)

Superman

Finest Worksong

Stand

Losing My Religion

Drive

What's The Frequency Kenneth?

Man On The Moon

Bang and Blame

THE REPLACEMENTS (7) 

I Will Dare

Alex Chilton

I'll Be You

Merry-Go-Round

Can't Hardly Wait

Bastards of Young

Dyslexic Heart

THE ROMANTICS (3) 

Talking In Your Sleep

What I Like About You

One In a Million

ROMEO VOID (2) 

A Girl in Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)

Never Say Never

ROXY MUSIC / BRYAN FERRY (5) 

Love Is The Drug

More Than This

Avalon

Over You

Dance Away

SCANDAL (2) 

Goodbye To You

The Warrior

CHARLIE SEXTON (4) 

Beat's So Lonely

Don't Look Back

Living In A Dream - Arc Angels

Everyone Will Crawl

SIMPLE MINDS (5) 

Don't You (Forget About Me)

Sanctify Yourself

All The Things She Said

Alive & Kicking 

See The Lights

SIMPLY RED (4) 

Holding Back The Years

Money$ Too Tight (To Mention)

The Right Thing

Sunrise

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES (7) 

The Passenger

Dear Prudence

Cities In Dust

Christine

The Killing Jar

Peek-a-Boo

Kiss Them for Me

THE SISTERS OF MERCY (4) 

Under The Gun

Vision Thing

More

This Corrosion

SMASHING PUMPKINS (4) 

Today

Disarm

1979

Tonight Tonight

THE SMITHEREENS (4) 

Behind a Wall of Sleep

Strangers When We Meet

Only a Memory

A Girl Like You

THE SMITHS (11) 

How Soon Is Now?

William It Was Really Nothing

Sheila Take a Bow

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

Bigmouth Strikes Again

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

Shoplifters of the World Unite

Panic

Girlfriend In a Coma

SOFT CELL (2) 

Tainted Love

Sex Dwarf

SONIC YOUTH (4) 

Tunic (Song for Karen)

Kool Thing

Teen Age Riot

100%

SOUP DRAGONS (2) 

I'm Free

Divine Thing

SPANDAU BALLET (3) 

Gold

True

Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

SQUEEZE (9) 

Take Me I'm Yours

Goodbye Girl

Cool For Cats

Up For Junction

Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)

Tempted

Black Coffee In Bed

Annie Get Your Gun

Hourglass

STING (10) 

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

Fortress Around Your Heart

Love Is The seventh Wave

Englishman In New York

We'll Be Together

Russians

Be Still My Beating Heart

All This Time

Fields of Gold

If I Ever Lose My Faith

THE STONE ROSES (3) 

I Wanna Be Adored

She Bangs The Drums

Fool's Gold

STRAY CATS (3) 

Rock This Town

Stray Cat Strut

(She's) Sexy & 17

THE SUGARCUBES (2) 

Birthday

Motorcrash

MATTHEW SWEET (3) 

I've Been Waiting

Girlfriend

Sick Of Myself

TALKING HEADS (11) 

Psycho Killer

Take Me To The River

Life During Wartime

Once In A Lifetime

This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)

Burning Down The House

Road To Nowhere

And She Was

Stay Up Late

Wild Wild Life

Genius of Love - (Tom Tom Club)

TALK TALK (3) 

Talk Talk 

It's My Life

Life's What You Make It

TEARS FOR FEARS (7) 

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Shout

Head Over Heels

Sowing The Seeds of Love

Woman In Chains

Mad World

Break It Down Again

10,000 MANIACS (8) 

Like The Weather

Hey Jack Kerouac

What's The Matter Here?

Trouble Me

These Are Days

Few and Far Between

Candy Everybody Wants

Because The Night (Live)

THE THE (3) 

Uncertain Smile

This Is The Day

Dogs of Lust

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (8) 

Don't Let's Start

Ana Ng

Put Your Inside The Puppet Head

Birdhouse In Your Soul

Instanbul (Not Constantinoble)

Particle Man

The Statue Got Me High

Yeh Yeh

THOMPSON TWINS (7) 

Lies

If You Were Here (from 16 Candles)

Hold Me Now

Doctor! Doctor!

Lay Your Hands On Me

King For a Day

Sugar Daddy

‘TIL TUESDAY / AIMEE MANN (4) 

Voices Carry

I Should've Known

Wise Up

Save Me

U2 (12) 

New Year's Day

I Will Follow

Bad

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Desire

The Fly

Mysterious Ways

Numb

Lemon

Angel of Harlem

Bullet The Blue Sky

The Sweetest Thing

SUZANNE VEGA (5) 

Luka

Tom's Diner

Left of Center

Blood Makes Noise

99.9 F*

VIOLENT FEMMES (7) 

Blister in the Sun

Add It Up

Gone Daddy Gone

Kiss Off

Gimme The Car

Girl Trouble

American Music

VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE (5) 

The Beat of Love

Monsters and Angels

I Think I Love You

Scary Kisses

So Hard

THE WAITRESSES (2) 

I Know What Boys Like

Christmas Wrapping

WANG CHUNG (4) 

Dance Hall Days

Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Let's Go

To Live & Die in L.A.

WORLD PARTY (2) 

Ship of Fools (Save Me From Tomorrow)

Put The Message In The Box

X (3) 

Burning House of Love

Los Angeles

Jonny Hit and Run Pauline

XTC (4) 

Senses Working Overtime

Dear God

The Mayor of Simpleton

The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

YAZ (3) 

Don't Go

Situation

Only You

PAUL YOUNG (2) 

Everytime You Go Away

I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down

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