Three Tune Tuesday Tunes & Talk 🎙️🎸 Tunes From 1978! New Wave Beginnings!
Three Tune Tuesday Tunes & Talk 🎙️🎸
Tunes From 1978! New Wave Beginnings!
On this Three Tune Tuesday! For a theme I’m picking all my tunes from the year 1978! Focusing on the so called New Wave scene in rock & roll at the time! Covering my fav 1978 tunes from The Police, Devo & The Cars! Also bringing ya two bonus tunes from same year too! (Elvis Costello & Gen X aka early Billy Idol) let’s discuss in the vlog below!
Three Tune Tuesday Vlog 8/19/25 🎙️🎸
Songs from 1978 New Wave Rock!
- 1978 Tunes (New Wave)
- First Pick (The Police)
- Second Pick (Devo)
- Third Pick (The Cars)
- New Wave Late 70’s Talk
Part 2 ⬇️ (recording cut off so I did a part 2 to discuss the Bonus Tunes!
- Bonus Pick (Elvis Costello)
- Bonus Tune (Generation X aka Billy Idol)
Let’s Go!
Band - The Police
Song - So Lonely
Album - Outlandos D'Amour (1978)
Band - Devo
Song - Mongoloid
Album - Are We Not Men (1978)
Band - The Cars
Song - Just What I Needed
Album - The Cars (1978)
That’s my three main picks! But this week I got two bonus tunes for ya from the same year (1978) Enjoy! 🎸
First bonus tune up is Pump It Up by Elvis Costello!
Band - Elvis Costello
Song - Punp It Up
Album - This Years Model (1978)
Second bonus tune is a very young Billy Idol on his first release ever! 1978! He was the frontman for the band Generation X! A punk style band before his solo career!
Band - Generation X (Early Billy Idol)
Song - Ready Steady Go
Album - Generation X (1978)
If it was Nineties Friday I’d of used this version here! ⬇️
It’s a cover of the original above that was on the Empire Records soundtrack. Preformed by a little known band called The Mieces!
