Mucchio Classic Rock #2 - New Wave top 20 albums

Joy Division: new wave of isolation

Second rock history lesson, courtesy of italian magazine Il Mucchio. Some months ago, we dived into a swamp of lurid, filthy, stinky and swindlin' 1977 punk. Today, it's time to ride the New Wave. 

On the magazine, at the end of the 90s, Eddy Cilia wrote:

"Twenty years later, giving a definition of New Wave is still a hard task. We start (...) telling what it wasn't: not a genre, but a group of subgenres born under the punk influence. (...) Punk was a matter of guitar? New Wave answered with electronics. Punk came from the streets? New Wave from art schools. Anyway, the latter was not a reaction to the first, but an aftermath: both punk and new wave were reactions against progressive, songwriters and disco music. (...) Which was the best peak for New Wave? From 1978 to 1981".

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The Playlist

(17 albums out of 20, 85%)

10 Pivotal Albums

Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (Fiction, 1979)

Devo - Q: Are We Not Me? A: We Are Devo! (Warner Bros, 1978)

Joy Division - Closer (Factory, 1980)

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (Blank, 1978)

Public Image Ltd. - The Metal Box (Virgin, 1978)

Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream (Polydor, 1978)

Suicide - Suicide (Red Star, 1977)

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire, 1978)

Television - Marquee Moon (Elektra, 1977)

Ultravox! - Systems of Romance (Island, 1978)

10 Albums More

Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out (Beggars Banquet, 1982)

B-52's - B-52's (Warner Bros, 1979)

Clock DVA - Thirst (Fetish, 1982)

Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here (Korova, 1981)

Gang of Four - Entertainment (Emi, 1979)

Killing Joke - Killing Joke (EG, 1980)

Pop Group - Y (Radar, 1979)

Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West (IRS, 1981)

Wire - 154 (Harvest, 1979)

XTC - Drums and Wires (Virgin, 1979)

Listen to it on Spotify:

Mammoth (full albums, 189 tracks, about 12 hours): HTTP Link, URI. (SR0226)

Lite (3 songs each album, 51 tracks, about 3 hours): HTTP Link, URI. (SR0227)

Mucchio Classic Rock series:

1. Punk '77

2. New Wave