Electric Chairs eddie & sheena [video=youtube;qM_FB-GFjbI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM_FB-GFjbI[/video]
The best. Spawned some great imitators too - The Queers, Screeching Weasel/The Riverdales, Teenage Bottlerocket/The Lillingtons, Huntingtons, The Hextalls, Johnie 3, The Donnas, Spazzys and others. Hey ho, let's go.
[video=youtube;SSn0L9zNWGk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSn0L9zNWGk[/video] The late Jim Carroll. Poet, singer, writer, ex male prostitute, one time junkie and pal of Patti Smith.
[video=youtube;sf2qYa8c-cA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf2qYa8c-cA[/video] Whilst perhaps not categorized as a New wave act they certainly had their roots in it.
[video=youtube;MGpYSO23eFw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGpYSO23eFw[/video] Old Neil the genre whore even got in on it in 79's Live Rust. He said that he got the title Rust never sleeps from Devo.