if we're talking New Wave i agree on Adam and Bow Wow Wow with their ridiculous tribal cacophony. Adam Ant may have been a bit ridiculous (working his way through pirate, highwayman, kinght in shining armour) but he was the embodiment of pop icon.
It's all about the Associates' album 'Sulk' for me though... Billy Mackenzie's voice, seemingly an improvisational free element working without the confines of the music, the lyrics - 'Tore my hair out from the roots/Planted them in someone's garden' - eww
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