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re: Post good New Wave tracks in here
Posted on 4/3/18 at 6:00 pm to DyeHardDylan
Posted on 4/3/18 at 6:00 pm to DyeHardDylan
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Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
Can't mention Aimee Mann without a Jules Shear reference.
Til Tuesday - J is for Jules
Jules and the Polar Bears - Following Every Finger
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Posted on 4/3/18 at 11:11 pm to MountainTiger
I could do an entire thread just on Split Enz
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:10 am to Pioneer BS 175
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Added The The - Dogs of Lust to original post.
Actually Slow Emotion Replay but nevertheless, great song.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 8:21 am to Pioneer BS 175
Whisper to a Scream-Icicle Works
Posted on 4/4/18 at 9:10 am to MountainTiger
Posted on 4/4/18 at 11:44 am to MountainTiger
Posted on 4/4/18 at 1:07 pm to MountainTiger
I'm really not participating because I really don't know what New Wave means.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 2:05 pm to AlxTgr
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I'm really not participating because I really don't know what New Wave means.
Apparently I don't either.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 2:13 pm to AlxTgr
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I'm really not participating because I really don't know what New Wave means.
I think the definition has drifted over the years. It started out sort of as the 80's version of alternative rock. It was more accessible, less punky punk. Then it seemed to expand to include the mid-80's synth pop stuff like Tears for Fears and A Flock of Seagulls. Like most genres, the edges are blurry and not well-defined. There are some artists who everyone will agree was New Wave: Costello, Pretenders, Squeeze. Then there are some borderline cases and I think Til Tuesday falls into that category.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 2:54 pm to MountainTiger
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Then there are some borderline cases and I think Til Tuesday falls into that category.
True because I've never thought of "Coming Up Close" as having any new wavey qualities at all. Sometimes the distinction came down to something as stupid as hair styles or using "quirky" keyboard patches.
There were a lot of straight up anglo pop bands from that era that are figured to be "new wave". Maybe because somebody in the band wore a skinny tie at a gig once.
The genre boundaries for "grunge" had the same problems, particularly in the couple of years before it tanked.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 3:02 pm to RockAndRollDetective
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The genre boundaries for "grunge" had the same problems, particularly in the couple of years before it tanked.
All genres do and that's why I don't particularly like pigeonholing bands into this genre or that one. I mean where do you put a band like Bela Fleck & the Flecktones? Some of it is jazz, some is bluegrass, some pop, some classical and some who the hell knows.
Joe Jackson is another tough one to nail down. His first couple of albums were unquestionably New Wave. Then he began to branch out into other styles.
This post was edited on 4/4/18 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 4/4/18 at 3:08 pm to MountainTiger
New Wave was gone by '82 or so wasn't it? Many "New Wave" artists had hits, but then College Rock had arisen. Am I right?
Posted on 4/4/18 at 3:24 pm to sertorius
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New Wave was gone by '82 or so wasn't it? Many "New Wave" artists had hits, but then College Rock had arisen. Am I right?
Thereabouts. I'd say more like '83-4 but this is why I said that the definition has shifted. If you look at the Wikipedia list of new wave bands, you see bands like The Cure and Eurythmics. Under the stricter definition of new wave I wouldn't consider those bands new wave at all.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 3:35 pm to sertorius
quote:See, this is why I stay confused about it. First Wave plays a lot of college rock.
New Wave was gone by '82 or so wasn't it? Many "New Wave" artists had hits, but then College Rock had arisen. Am I right?
Posted on 4/4/18 at 5:45 pm to AlxTgr
quote:I'm really not participating because I really do know what New Wave means. And at least half this thread doesn't qualify
I'm really not participating because I really don't know what New Wave means.
quote:"New Wave" in this context was coined around 1976 as a marketing term, as it was realized even then that something called "punk rock" was going to be a hard sell in the US.
I think the definition has drifted over the years. It started out sort of as the 80's version of alternative rock.
quote:By the time the synths and hair and MTV entered the picture "New Wave" was dead
Then it seemed to expand to include the mid-80's synth pop stuff like Tears for Fears and A Flock of Seagulls.
quote:As a great man once said, see above
New Wave was gone by '82 or so wasn't it?
Posted on 4/4/18 at 6:12 pm to Kafka
I figured I give it a day before checking in and seeing how many posts it took to devolve into a "name your favorite 80s song" thread.. 
This post was edited on 4/4/18 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 4/4/18 at 6:31 pm to TFTC
quote:it was pretty much that from the beginning
I figured I give it a day before checking in and seeing how many posts it took to devolve into a "name your favorite 80s song" thread
Posted on 4/4/18 at 9:43 pm to MountainTiger
People overanalyze this crap too much.
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