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The last five volumes were issued on 20 June 1995, and featured songs covering 1983 to 1985. Additional themed volumes—New Wave Dance Hits, [2] New Wave Women, [3] New Wave Halloween, [4] and New Wave Christmas [5] —came out in subsequent years. Rhino Records discontinued the series, due to rights issues and with no plans to re-release them.
The album contains hit new wave songs of the 1980s. It reached No. 106 on the Billboard 200 and No. 16 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. [2] [3] A Deluxe Edition was also released in a digital-only format, which contains an extra 22 tracks on top of the initial 18, bringing the total number of songs to 40. [4]
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.
In the US, new wave continued into the mid-1980s but declined with the popularity of the New Romantic, new pop, and new music genres. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Some new wave acts, particularly R.E.M. , maintained new wave's indie label orientation through most of the 1980s, rejecting potentially more lucrative careers from signing to a major label. [ 85 ]
A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1979. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds, hit the peak of their chart success in the early 1980s.
The track has been included in various "greatest songs" listings; [a] KOOL-FM named it the third-best new wave song of the 1980s, [21] while Time Out ranked it the 10th greatest track of 1980s cinema. [22]
Classic Pop magazine called it the 99th best album of the 1980s, [8] Paste magazine the 45th-best new wave album of all-time. [3] A September 2010 performance at the Ladbroke Grove's Supperclub in Notting Hill, London marked the first time that the group performed the album in its entirety.
Altered Images is a Scottish new wave/post-punk band who found success in the early 1980s. Fronted by singer Clare Grogan, the group branched into mainstream pop music, having six UK top-40 hit singles and three top-30 albums from 1981 to 1983. [1]