50 awesome NEW WAVE songs that try to sound like GIRL GROUP songs

4. Julie Brown - "Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun"
5. Blue Angel (feat Cyndi Lauper) -- "Maybe He'll Know" (probably qualifies more than "She Bop," right?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPhZhgO_ZM

6. New York Dolls - Jet Boy

7. Just Like Honey - Jesus & Mary Chain
(if an indie song from 1985 can be called new wave)

8. Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It For the Boy
(if an r&b song from 1984 can be called new wave)

9. Twisted Sister - Leader of the Pack
(if a glam metal song from 1985 can be called new wave)

10. Cher -- The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)
(if a Mermaids song from 1990 can be called new wave)

11. Blondie - "Suzy and Jeffrey"

12. Ramones - "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"

I guess depending on how elastic the definition of "New Wave" is here

13. The B-52s -- "52 Girls"

New York Dolls - Give Him A Great Big Kiss

Mwah!

14. Holly and the Italians -- "Tell That Girl To Shut Up"
15. Transvision Vamp -- "Tell That Girl To Shut Up"

The Revillos "The Rock-a-Boom"
The Revillos "Bobby Come Back to Me"

Oh man, The Go-Go's "We Got the Beat!"

Whoops, 16, 17, 18 x-post.

10. Cher -- The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)
(if a Mermaids song from 1990 can be called new wave)

Hahaha, I had definitely pondered this one!

If we're gonna go with Deniece Williams, I'm sure some Pointer Sisters songs count too!

11. Pointer Sisters - "He's So Shy"
12. Pointer Sisters - "Fire"

er, 16 and 17, that is.

21. go-go's "vacation"

22. lisa lisa and cult jam - head to toe

(haven't decided which flirts song to nominate yet)

(what about "walking on sunshine"? okay, maybe not.)

23. The Shop Assistants: I Don't Want To Be Friends With You

24. Sign Of The Times - The Belle Stars

got to be some pretenders songs that fit this, yeah?

25. Cruel Summer - Bananarama
26. Robert De Niro's Waiting - Bananarama
27. Trick Of The Night - Bananarama

Bananarama owns this thread, really.

I'm sure Dave Edmunds has a few of these in his bag too.

28. "When I Write The Book" - Rockpile

29. Elvis Costello - "Baby It's You"

Blondie own this thread.

Did anybody say "Rip Her To Shreds" yet?

Dreaming

"Because The Night" has that early sixties feel, somewhere between the Drifters and The Ronettes.

The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
The Bangles - Going Down to Liverpool

Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Marshall Crenshaw - Mary Ann

uh,,, soft cell "tainted love". does northern not count for girl group?

somewhere, this thread lost its way :(

i blame chuck for most thread genre labeling trainwrecks

99. Elvis Costello - "No Dancing"

somewhere, this thread lost its way :(

Yes, in the first post wherein Bananarama and Tracy Ullman were described as New Wave

I think I stayed pretty on track

Joan Armatrading - "Is It Tomorrow Yet?" or maybe "I Wanna Hold You"
Bow Wow Wow - "Louis Quatorze" and several others
Lindsey Buckingham - "Holiday Road"
The Cosmopolitans - "Wild Moose Party"
Elvis Costello - "Girls Talk"
Culture Club - "Church of the Poisoned Mind"
Dire Straits - "Twisting by the Pool"
The Jam - "A Town Called Malice"
Joan Jett - "Bad Reputation," "I'm Gonna Run Away," "A Hundred Feet Away"
Nick Lowe - "Dose of You," "Half a Boy and Half a Man," "Love Like a Glove"
Pulsallama - "The Devil Lives in My Husband's Body"
The Ramones - Probably too many to list
The Rezillos - "Top of the Pops"
Rockpile - "Heart"
The Waitresses - "I Know What Boys Like," "Wise Up," "Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful" and more
X - "The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss," "Come Back to Me"

In an alternate universe, how about Laurie Anderson's "Mister Heartbreak"?

Here's a few that don't particularly sound girl groupy, but with the right arrangement...:
The Bongos - "Barbarella"
The Cure - "Boys Don't Cry"
Devo - "Beautiful World"
Difford & Tilbrook - "Hope Fell Down"
The Human League - "(Keep Feeling) Fascination"
Joe Jackson - "Pretty Girls"
The Pretenders - "Talk of the Town," "Don't Get Me Wrong"
Squeeze - "Someone Else's Heart," "Is That Love"
XTC - "Senses Working Overtime"

Blondie own this thread.

"Slow Motion"! Maybe my favorite fake girl group song.

I really should be asleep right now. Instead I wanna stay up all night listening to 45s while wearing curlers and bunny slippers.

nice list. i could totally see the pretenders "kid" getting the girl group treatment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYhqjjUuhfI

Jane Aire & The Belvederes - "No More Cherry Icing"

Josie Cotton - "You Could Be The One"
Josie Cotton - "Johnny Are You Queer"

The A side of the Gun Club Death Party e.p.
House on Highland Ave, The Lie and The Light Of The World.
Think there's a definite girl-group influence on that e.p.
& Jeffrey Lee Pierce's earlier group the Red Lights was supposed to be heavily influenced by the genre.

don't know "new wave" they were but is 1982 so hey
The Maisonettes - Heartache Avenue

somewhere, this thread lost its way :(

Yes, in the first post wherein Bananarama and Tracy Ullman were described as New Wave

― Tom D., Thursday, 28 August 2008 12:41 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

New Wave (US) vs New Wave (UK)?

Or, the first dubstep war

or like that Rhino New Wave comp that has Tracey Ullmann on it

which in some way doesn't just support what I just posted?

agreeing w u

Nikki & The Corvettes - Summertime Fun