New Wave (depeche mode, electronic, dance, metal, punk)

dankrsta · 06-24-2010, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

Oh, I also love a lot of the music from the 80s, dankstra. I remember Gary Numan's "Cars" (1979), which you posted earlier, though I didn't realize until today that is officially considered New Wave.

Duran Duran! Hee hee! Frankie Goes to Hollywood! They were very popular when I was in high school. I remember listening to them at parties with friends. And I remember when I was in Berlin in 1987 I went to a Duran Duran show. Somewhere around then I saw Frankie Goes to Hollywood, too. I don't think of them as New Wave but as pop.

I don't think of them as New Wave either, but the influence was still felt in the early 80's even in these commercial pop bands. If this thread was in punk forum we would be seeing very different artists mentioned. And I never thought of New Wave as a specific genre, but a phenomenon in the second half of the 70's. As the term states, it's a wave of some new aesthetics and music compared to that often bombastic 70's rock, led by punk as a more genre oriented music.

Still, there's a very broad term, post-punk, which encompasses many styles from that time and beyond and which relates to the music that takes the punk aesthetics and attitude, but expands on it and takes it to more adventurous, sometimes even experimental directions. I've seen that that's what sometimes referred to as New Wave.

People usually have this need to use genres as some kind of little shelves where they can neatly arrange music, but that's not what it's like in the world of art. That's why there's a lot of confusion about this New Wave period. A lot of new things were happening at the same time like in a kind of creative explosion. That's why I (personally) like to refer to it as a New Wave time 'cause then it's less likely to make a mistake. As I understood the term was expanding as the time went by. I don't know, sometimes time helps to see things more clearly, especially when we deal with this kind of creative periods that were over shortly after they started, but managed to live further through a very strong influence.

The reason I posted Gary Numan's "Cars" here is because it's from New Wave time. It's a synth-pop or electro-pop, but with a very obvious punk or post-punk aesthetics. The other reason is that only a bit later I realized there was already a synth-pop thread in this forum

, so I posted some more bands there.

Uh, this post was longer then I thought it would be

EDIT: But what a hell.

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Duran Duran was a guilty pleasure: I hated the fact that they were so mainstream and popular and I hated the blatant sexuality of "Hungry like a wolf." I didn't want to succumb! But I really liked that "Rio" song and some others. And I thought the singers were cute. Gaa! I remember an Italian friend and I both bought the big, glossy show program...for the pictures.

I had a major crush on John Taylor when I was a little girl.

He was adorable with that yellow lock of hair

(Is that what you call it?)