Artist	Song
Modern English	I Melt With You
from After the Snow (1998)
Nena	99 Luftballons
from 99 Luftballons (1984)
Soft Cell	Tainted Love
from The Very Best of Soft Cell (2002)
Dexy's Midnight Runners	Come on Eileen
from Too-Rye-Ay (2002)
Big Country	In a Big Country (Radio Edit)
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Big Country (2001)
Thomas Dolby	She Blinded Me With Science
from The Golden Age of Wireless (1983)
Taco	Puttin' On the Ritz
from Puttin' On the Ritz - EP (2005)
The Buggles	Video Killed the Radio Star
from The Age of Plastic (1990)
After the Fire	Der Kommissar
from Radio Hits of the '80s (2006)
Nu Shooz	I Can't Wait
from Hit Singles 1980-1988 (1988)
Gary Numan	Cars
from The Pleasure Principle (1998)
The Waitresses	I Know What Boys Like
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Waitresses (2003)
Scritti Politti	Perfect Way
from Cupid & Psyche 85 (2005)
The Church	Under the Milky Way
from Under the Milky Way - The Best of The Church (1999)
Bronski Beat	Smalltown Boy
from The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat and the Communards (2001)
Boys Don't Cry	I Wanna Be a Cowboy
from Boys Don't Cry (2006)
The Icicle Works	Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) [Single Version]
from Dance Vault Mixes: Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) - EP (2006)
Creme & Godley	Cry
from The Very Best of 10cc (1997)
Musical Youth	Pass the Dutchie
from Dancehall 101, Vol. 3 (2002)
The Blow Monkeys	Digging Your Scene
from Atomic Lullabies: Very Best of The Blow Monkeys (1999)

Comment:

Like a musical version of the Garbage Pail Kids, new wave’s one-hit wonders devoured their entire 15 minutes of fame in less than four . . . before disappearing in a flash of Day-Glo brilliance. If any song were custom-made for pogoing, it’s the Vapors’ herky-jerky “Turning Japanese,” a bento box stuffed with Asian-accented guitars and spiky rhythms that caroms along with all the spastic energy the lyrics might suggest. Combining Pat Benatar’s dangerous, leather-jacketed heat with Colonel Klink’s sonic-aphrodisiac lilt, German pop star Nena offers an icy, synth-slathered vision of cold war [i]apocalypso[/i], “99 Luftballons” (later re-recorded in English as “99 Red Balloons”). And the Buggles’ futuristic bubblegum prophecy “Video Killed the Radio Star” packs a message no artist, whether axe-toting hair farmer or skinny-tied pop singer, dared ignore. Wanna dig deeper? A single mouse click will unlock the sexy strut of the Waitresses’ “I Know What Boys Like,” Taco’s reimagining of the half-century-old “Puttin’ On the Ritz,” and more.

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