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Not necessarily your favorite new wave album.

Not the necessarily the best new wave album.

What is that one great new wave album where almost every song on it is great, and they seem to be fashioned as if from a single piece or theme or style so that they go just perfectly together. You know that that album's songs really couldn't or shouldn't belong on any other album. What would be your one, single choice? I have my ideas but am interested if some of the same get mentioned here.

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

The Belfegore lp.

Obviously something like "Never Mind the Bullocks" or "The Ramones".

A Flock of Seagulls - A Flock of Seagulls
The Cars - The Cars
The Cars - Candy-O
The Cars - Panorama
Blanket of Secrecy - Walls Have Ears
The Colourfield - Virgins And Philistines
Cook Da Books - Some Soul Kitchen
Crowded House - Crowded House
Depeche Mode - Violator
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
Frazier Chorus - Sue
Howard Jones - Human's Lib
James - Laid
John Ruth - I am a Model
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Naked Eyes - Naked Eyes
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Crush
R.E.M. - Murmer
R.E.M. - Reckoning
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
Ric Ocasek - Beatitude
Ruby - Salt Peter
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
U2 - War
Wang Chung - Points on the Curve
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Non-New Wave
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
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The Church - Heyday
VNV Nation - Empires
The Dukes Of Stratosphere - Psonic Psunspot (I'm serious)

Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm
Ultravox - Rage In Eden

Chameleons - Script of The Bridge

The Cars-The Cars

Duran Duran

The 1st Album

Definitely a few I would have mentioned as well ("few" being the operative word...PANO!). Cars, Chameleons, The Jesus...all up there.

But I'm gonna propose Roxy Music's Avalon. That is one tight piece of music.

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Agreed. It would be hard to top that one for seamlessness.

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Not quite new wave, more like late 80's college rock, but the Connells's "Boylan Heights" is such a seamlesslly terrific listen from start to finish that it's hard to think of it even having individual songs. Egg-roger is another fan of this album. He'll back me up.

Single choice - Lexicon of Love - ABC

The songs, production, everything make a cohesive whole.

If we are talking seemless based on a cohesive theme:

Tears for Fears: The Hurting
ABC: The Lexicon of Love
A Flock of Seagulls: The Story of a Young Heart
Heaven 17: The Luxury Gap

XTC [i]Skylarking[/i]
REM [i]Reckoning[/i]
Tears For Fears [i]The Hurting[/i]
The Cars [i]The Cars[/i]