Urgh! A Music War (1981)

Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1982 featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980. Among the artists featured in the movie are Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Magazine, The Go-Go's, Toyah Willcox, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, X, XTC, Devo, The Cramps, Oingo Boingo, Dead Kennedys, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, Wall of Voodoo, Pere Ubu, Steel Pulse, Surf Punks, 999, UB40, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Police. These were many of the most popular groups on the New Wave scene; in keeping with the spirit of the scene, the film also features several less famous acts, and one completely obscure group, Invisible Sex, in what appears to be their only public performance.

The movie Urgh! A Music War, released in 1981, features 36 songs from artists like Klaus Nomi, The Go-Gos, Dead Kennedys and Devo. What is your favorite song from Urgh! A Music War?

Songs from Urgh! A Music War

Total Eclipse

Klaus Nomi

We Got the Beat

The Go-Gos

Bleed For Me

Dead Kennedys

Uncontrollable Urge

Devo

So Lonely

The Police

Roxanne

The Police

Driven to Tears

The Police

Homicide

999

Bad Reputation

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Back in Flesh

Wall of Voodoo

Danced

Toyah Willcox

Health Fanatic

John Cooper Clarke

Enola Gay

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

I'm On Fire

Chelsea

Ain't This the Life

Oingo Boingo

The Puppet

Echo & The Bunnymen

Foolish I Know

Jools Holland

Respectable Street

XTC

Where's Captain Kirk?

Athletico Spizz 80

Ku Klux Klan

Steel Pulse

Down in the Park

Gary Numan

Model Worker

Magazine

My Beach

Surf Punks

Offshore Banking Business

The Members

Come Again

Au Pairs

Tear It Up

The Cramps

Valium

Invisible Sex

Birdies

Pere Ubu

Nothing Means Nothing Anymore

Alley Cats

Cheryl's Going Home

John Otway

He'd Send In the Army

Gang of Four

Shadow Line

The Fleshtones

Beyond and Back

X.

Sign of the Cross

Skafish

Two Little Boys

Splodgeness Abounds

Madame Medusa

UB40