New Wave (house, punk, album, The Police, members)

**Janszoon** · 04-16-2009, 11:32 AM

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Not really as I kind of lean more towards the poppier new wave bands, but I'll check them out. What album should I start with?

With Pylon? I don't really know. Like I said I had never gotten around to giving them a listen. This thread just inspired me to go download their album Chomp! though, which is supposed to be one of their better ones. I'm listening to it right now and it seems pretty good. They don't really sound like anyone else I can think of, that's always refreshing. The woman's voice is about halfway between Debbie Harry and Siouxsie Sioux. Musically they're kind of hard to describe, a bit like ESG I guess but more of a full sound somehow.

IWP · 04-16-2009, 02:23 PM

I think I'll go for Dare and then see what Reproduction sounds like.

JukeBoxHero · 04-16-2009, 03:44 PM

If you want New Wave so far to the pop side that it's more like Pop leaning towards New Wave, you could try Cyndi Lauper.

Then on the opposite of the extreme hard to even call it new wave spectrum, you have someone like the Talking Heads.

Screen13 · 06-25-2010, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by IWP

I think I'll go for Dare and then see what Reproduction sounds like.

If you're familiar with the classic "Being Boiled" that was pretty much a stand-alone track before it wound up on a Greatest Hits for it's album debut, and like it, you may find their early work a very good listen. They always had a good way of grabbing your ear in the early years.

The Dare follow-up Hysteria only has a few good tracks, usually found on any comprehensive Greatest Hits collection.

IWP · 04-16-2009, 07:00 PM

I'm already into Cyndi Lauper and even 80s Madonna. Both I kinda consider guilty pleasures though.

jackhammer · 04-17-2009, 02:47 PM

Pop section surely?

**Janszoon** · 04-17-2009, 02:53 PM

Now that Cindi Lauper and Madonna have been mentioned, absolutely. I'll move it...

Rainard Jalen · 04-18-2009, 05:54 AM

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Honestly, I could've posted this thread in either the punk or electronica forums since it draws elements from both genres, but enough about that.

Anyone here a fan of new wave music? This genre just keeps growing on me. The first bands I got into were Duran Duran and Animotion, but I'm really starting to get into a **** load of other bands as well, especially The Cars who in my opinion are one of the best in the genre. Other bands I like are A Flock of Seagulls, a-Ha, Depeche Mode, Devo, Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics, and Kajagoogoo. Sure, this music is pretty much the pop-punk of the 80s, but damn is it good. I like it mainly, because of the nice groove and cheesy but fun synths, and because it's rock music that you can dance to.

no, the best place to put it is definitely the pop section. yes, it is influenced by punk, post-punk, electronica and so forth but at its heart most of it is good old-fashioned pop music with the focus on melody, and not on trying to be clever or excessively arty.

it really irritates me actually just how much music is put in the punk section that really does NOT belong there. sure, punk was really influential and is the basic thought behind the main body of alternative music that emerged from the early 80s up to the present day; that does NOT qualify all that music as punk.

**Janszoon** · 04-18-2009, 09:20 AM

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it really irritates me actually just how much music is put in the punk section that really does NOT belong there. sure, punk was really influential and is the basic thought behind the main body of alternative music that emerged from the early 80s up to the present day; that does NOT qualify all that music as punk.

This thread was in the rock & metal forum not the punk forum.

JukeBoxHero · 04-18-2009, 09:50 AM

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it really irritates me actually just how much music is put in the punk section that really does NOT belong there. sure, punk was really influential and is the basic thought behind the main body of alternative music that emerged from the early 80s up to the present day; that does NOT qualify all that music as punk.

It there like a lot of music in there that would really be like pop-punk or something?

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