Punk positioned itself as a natural enemy to progressive rock wankers, but both punk and prog are messy genres, that get wild and wooly to different extremes. New wave, on the other hand, isn’t messy; new wave is clean as a spit-shined Corvette. The 80s really begin here, with pristine keyboard-driven productions like “Beat The Clock” and “Whip It.” The quintessential new wave song might be “Just What I Needed,” a machine so perfectly built that a stray idiosyncratic detail (like the sudden rhythmic shift in verse two) thrills more than the wankiest ten minute guitar solo.