The Echos play the new wave songs you either forgot you loved or are just now discovering. What group you fall into depends on whether you know what “VCR” stands for. Although it lasted nary a decade, New Wave influenced music and fashion for years after. From guitar-driven music by The Go-Gos to synth-heavy bands like Depeche Mode and The Human League, New Wave encompassed a wide variety of sounds and looks. Don’t see your favorite song here? Contact us and let us know.
Song List
99 Red Balloons Nena
1999 Prince
Blue Monday New Order
Call Me Blondie
Cars Gary Numan
Chains of Love Erasure
Devil Inside INXS
Don’t Change INXS
Don’t You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds
Don't You Want Me The Human League
Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode
Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung
(Keep Feeling) Fascination The Human League
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Cyndi Lauper
Hazy Shade of Winter The Bangles
Head Over Heels The Go-Gos
Head Over Heels/Broken Tears for Fears
Hungry Like the Wolf Duran Duran
I Melt With You Modern English
I Ran (So Far Away) A Flock of Seagulls
I Touch Myself Divinyls
It’s My Life Talk Talk
Just Like Heaven The Cure
Kids in America Kim Wilde
Let’s Go The Cars
Lips Like Sugar Echo & the Bunnymen
Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs
Lovesong The Cure
Material Girl Madonna
Moving in Stereo The Cars
One Way or Another Blondie
Promises Promises Naked Eyes
Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood
She Bop Cyndi Lauper
Space Age Love Song A Flock of Seagulls
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics
Tainted Love Soft Cell
Take On Me A-Ha
The Metro Berlin
Time After Time Cyndi Lauper
Vacation The Go-Gos
Voices Carry 'Til Tuesday
We Got the Beat The Go-Go's
What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy) Information Society
Would I Lie To You The Eurythmics
1983
Influenced by Donna Summer, Kraftwerk, and Clint Eastwood westerns, New Order’s Blue Monday is one of the most influential synth-pop songs of all time. The band initially wrote the song to be played as an encore which would play by itself while the band left the stage.