In the case of new wave, many of the individually most archetypical songs are circa 1982 synth pop, but a top ten of 10 1982 synth pop songs doesn't really describe new wave well, nor would a top 100 of only synth pop and new romantic MTV hits from the early 80s. The larger the sample, the more variety you would allow, but in a big sample you would still have a lot of 40-something white women. If you wanted an archetypical set of 10 average Americans, would you want ten 40-something white women who were all five-foot-four? Even if we called it an archetypical sample, you'd still want some variety. I wanted the top 3 to be the set of 3 songs that would be the most archetypical collection of 3 songs, and I wanted the top 10 to be the set of 10 songs that would be the most archetypical collection of 10 songs. I realized that I didn't want my top 3 to be the 3 songs that were individually the top contenders for most archetypical new wave song. As I started ranking the top of the list, I realized the flaw with the head-to-head comparison ranking method I've used with most of my previous lists. As I've mentioned in some previous posts, I've been working a list of the most archetypical new wave songs of all time.
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