Great New Wave Albums From Late 80's To Early 90's

[Sean]

We always think of the early to mid 80's when we think about New Wave but there were so many great albums that were released in the late 80's and early 90's. Here are some of my favorites:

Celebrate The Nun - Continuous
Anything Box - Peace
Camouflage - Bodegia Bohemia
Cicero - Future Boy
Xymox - Twist Of Shadows
Moskwa TV - Javelin
Seven Red Seven - Shelter
Hubert Kah - Sound Of My Heart
Cetu Javu - Where Is Where
Boytronic - Love For Sale
Cause & Effect - Self-Titled
Information Society - Self-Titled
De/Vision - World Without End
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
When In Rome - When In Rome
Robotiko Rejekto - Cyberspace

There's so many. These are just the ones off the top of my head. Please add more.

[newwavepop]

man i realy wish i could help you out here but honestly i have never heard an album in any style that i have liked since like 85 other than 87's joshua tree and im not even a u2 fan really.

it makes me really sad that i have yet to be wowed by anything new in 20 years.

[crystal]

Elegant Machinery - Shattered Grounds / Degraded Faces
Blind Passengers - The Glamour Of Darkness
S.P.O.C.K - Five Year Mission
Wolfsheim - No Happy View
(all early 90es stuff that sounds very much new wave)

[WolverineSyr]

I was very into Curve and the Catherine Wheel in the early 90s. I think the string of 3 eps that Curve put out were incredible along with their Doppleganger lp.
Any and all Catherine Wheel was amazing. I love that huge wall of guitar sound.

[British]

Isn't the subject line an oxymoron?

I'm still waiting on the list of best gangsta rap albums from the late 1960s to early 1970s.

[suttonrecords]

Too many to count! Here are some:

"Bringing Home the Ashes" - the Wild Swans
"Recurrence" - the Railway Children
"Temple of Low Men" - Crowded House
"Disintegration" - the Cure
"The Grey Album" - Echo & the Bunnymen
"Peepshow" - Siouxsie & the Banshees
"The Sun and the Moon" - the Sun and the Moon
"Love" - Aztec Camera
"Globe of Frogs" - Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
"The House of Love" (1988) - the House of Love
"The House of Love" (1990) - the House of Love
"Idlewild" - Everything But the Girl
"Long Live the New Flesh" - Flesh for Lulu
"Music for the Masses" - Depeche Mode
"Green Thoughts" - the Smithereens
"Viva Hate" - Morrissey
"Welcome to the Beautiful South" - the Beautiful South
"Sell Me a God" - Eat
"The Golden Age" - the Legendary Pink Dots
"Starfish" - the Church
"Document" - R.E.M.
"The Ocean Blue" - the Ocean Blue
"Darklands" - the Jesus & Mary Chain
"Eye of the Hurricane" - the Alarm
"Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway" - the Woodentops
"Mainstream" - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
"Technique" - New Order
"Life's Too Good" - the Sugarcubes
"Waiting for the Redbird" - Easterhouse
"Blue Bell Knoll" - the Cocteau Twins
"Surfer Rosa" - the Pixies
"Dolittle" - the Pixies

And it goes on & on! Great New Wave radio in Manila during that time and far less cheesy and commercial music.

[quote]Originally posted by Sean
[br]We always think of the early to mid 80's when we think about New Wave but there were so many great albums that were released in the late 80's and early 90's. Here are some of my favorites:

Celebrate The Nun - Continuous
Anything Box - Peace
Camouflage - Bodegia Bohemia
Cicero - Future Boy
Xymox - Twist Of Shadows
Moskwa TV - Javelin
Seven Red Seven - Shelter
Hubert Kah - Sound Of My Heart
Cetu Javu - Where Is Where
Boytronic - Love For Sale
Cause & Effect - Self-Titled
Information Society - Self-Titled
De/Vision - World Without End
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
When In Rome - When In Rome
Robotiko Rejekto - Cyberspace

There's so many. These are just the ones off the top of my head. Please add more.
[/quote]

Michael Sutton
CEO/Sutton Records
http://www.suttonrecords.com

[birdmadgirl]

The list above is full of great stuff. I'd add "Wish" by The Cure to it. It's not a popular opinion, but I think it's better than "Disintegration."

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[TragicMagic]

I'm with British...

New wave wasn't so new by the late 80's.... it started turning into old crap [;)]

TM

[geoffolehane]

Although not totally New Wave but among my favorites albums from that time frame were (but not limted to) the following:

808 State - Utd State 90
Frazier Chorus - Sue
Kon Kan - Move to Move
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Enigma - MCMXCaD
Electronic - Electronic
Icehouse - Man of Colours
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night
The The - Mind Bomb
LaTour - LaTour
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Michael Penn - March

[Mathman]

New Wave as such was gone, but these are certainly influenced by new wave

Lush - Gala
Sam Phillips - Cruel Inventions
Erasure - Chorus
Nick Heyward - From Monday to Sunday
Gavin Friday - Adam 'n' Eve
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive (great album- really stretches the boundary of new wave, though)

[Crimsor]

Marc Almond - The Stars We Are
Alphaville - Breathtaking Blue
Depeche Mode - Violator
The Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and the Cooked
XTC - Oranges and Lemons; Nonesuch
Elvis Costello - Spike
Morrissey - Kill Uncle; Your Arsenal
Kon Kan - Move to Move
David Byrne - Rei Momo
Tom Tom Club - Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
Sugarcubes - [i]All of them[/i]
The Pixies - Doolittle; Bossanova
Fishbone - Truth and Soul
Blur - Leisure
Wire - A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck
The Church - Starfish; Gold Afternoon Fix
Images in Vogue - The Spell
Echo and the Bunnymen - Reverberation
Kate Bush - The Sensual World; The Red Shoes
Erasure - The Innocents
Seven Red Seven - Shelter