✅ Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein - Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:22 pm
From 2014. Each chapter is about/an interview with a famous new wave act, and are headlined by mentioning their best track. There are also smaller lists with mixtape suggestions, but like the protest songs book, the headlined songs should get the most attention. They are:
- Adam and the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier
- Gary Numan: Cars
- Duran Duran: Girls on Film
- New Order: Blue Monday
- ABC: Poison Arrow
- Devo: Whip It
- Echo and the Bunnymen: The Killing Moon
- Spandau Ballet: True
- The Human League: Being Boiled
- Heaven 17: Temptation
- Dexys Midnight Runners: Come On Eileen
- Bow Wow Wow: I Want Candy
- The Waitresses: I Know What Boys Like
- The Normal: Warm Leatherette
- Kajagoogoo: Too Shy
- Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me with Science
- The Psychedelic Furs: Love My Way
- Depeche Mode: New Life
- Yaz: Only You
- Kim Wilde: Kids in America
- Howard Jones: New Song
- Berlin: The Metro
- A Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (So Far Away)
- Modern English: I Melt with You
- Soft Cell: Tainted Love
- a-ha: Take on Me
- Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart
- The Smiths: How Soon is Now?
- Tears for Fears: Mad World
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: If You Leave
- Ultravox: Vienna
- INXS: Original Sin
- Thompson Twins: Hold Me Now
- Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
- Animotion: Obsession
- Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
- Adam and the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier
- Gary Numan: Cars
- Duran Duran: Girls on Film
- New Order: Blue Monday
- ABC: Poison Arrow
- Devo: Whip It
- Echo and the Bunnymen: The Killing Moon
- Spandau Ballet: True
- The Human League: Being Boiled
- Heaven 17: Temptation
- Dexys Midnight Runners: Come On Eileen
- Bow Wow Wow: I Want Candy
- The Waitresses: I Know What Boys Like
- The Normal: Warm Leatherette
- Kajagoogoo: Too Shy
- Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me with Science
- The Psychedelic Furs: Love My Way
- Depeche Mode: New Life
- Yaz: Only You
- Kim Wilde: Kids in America
- Howard Jones: New Song
- Berlin: The Metro
- A Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (So Far Away)
- Modern English: I Melt with You
- Soft Cell: Tainted Love
- a-ha: Take on Me
- Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart
- The Smiths: How Soon is Now?
- Tears for Fears: Mad World
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: If You Leave
- Ultravox: Vienna
- INXS: Original Sin
- Thompson Twins: Hold Me Now
- Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
- Animotion: Obsession
- Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?