Howard the Duck

those are more synth-pop or Anglo-disco than New Wave

New Wave is more like 60s pop with synths and jarring guitars - The Cars, Blondie, Sparks etc

and New Wave intersects with punk

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RMR

Yea, you're probably right (although "anglo-disco" is a new term for me). Some of my picks for the rest of the week might be considered more new wave, but some are 100% synth-pop. I'm going to change the title of the thread slightly to reflect synth pop.

Certainly not my favorite genres of music, but thought I would broaden my horizons a bit this week.

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Unknown Soldier

Now you should know better, Sparks were not new-wave!

New-wave was more or less anything that came out in the 1977-1980 time period that wasn`t traditional rock such as hard rock, soft rock, AOR, prog-rock etc and it wasn`t pop either and it was related to punk in a lot of ways, but was far more melodic than either punk or post-punk (its big creative rival at the time) and some bands had electronic influences and others more diverse influences. New-wave didn`t really have a distinct sound like punk etc they just had more of a feel about them, if you grew up in that era you may know what I`m getting at. The US acts were more zany and diverse whilst the UK acts seemed more focused.

Typical New-Wave bands of the era:
Blondie, Jam, Cars, Talking Heads, Squeeze, XTC, Devo, Television, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, B-52s, the Motels and the Knack, and established artists like The Tubes and Alice Cooper who adopted a more new wave sound. Also there were borderline artists like the Stranglers who had more of a punk image but imo were much more new-wave. Also a lot of art-rock artists were often put in as new-wave or new-wave artists were called art-rock.