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12-07-2015, 03:27 PM | #61 (permalink) | |
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12-07-2015, 04:05 PM | #62 (permalink) |
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I get that, but given the context and your stand on the argument you were having with Akyho, it seemed you basically were saying "I listen to alot of of music so i know what is what even if other ppl don't get it" and given that all your references to new wave artist have been mainstream ones that any casual listener knows im inclined to think you actually don't know much about new wave much less what is or isn't new wave..
You can prove me wrong though, post some new wave songs, let's see what you got.
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12-07-2015, 05:48 PM | #63 (permalink) | |
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First New Wave song I ever heard was Talking Heads- Once in A Lifetime. I remember seeing the video for the first time in 1987. Something about David Byrne's spastic dancing use drove me crazy lol. Saying Talking Heads is my favorite New Wave band is a understatement. here's some of my favorite songs by them. Psycho Killer- Talking Heads: 77 Stay Up Late- Little Creatures Take Me Up The River- More Songs About Buildings & Food Once in A Life Time- Remain in Light Burning Down The House- Speaking in Tongues Stay Hungry- More Songs About Buildings & Food Lady Don't Mind- Little Creatures Other New Waves songs I like. The Police- Roxanne, Don't Stand So Close To Me Devo- Whip It, It's a Beautiful World, Fresh The B52's- Rock Lobster The Icicle Works- Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) Blondie- Heart Of Glass, rapture Men At Work- Down Under, Who Can it Be Now The Human League- Human, Don't you want me Men without Hats- Safety Dance Power Station- Some Like It Hot Tubeway Army/Gary Numan- Are Friends Electric?, Cars I don't really listen to Duran Duran, Culture Club, The Bangles, Bananarama. I'm sure there are others, I'd have to look at my music again later. |
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12-07-2015, 06:38 PM | #64 (permalink) |
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I do not particularly dispute your claims of new wave on the other songs as they are new wave in some fashion...
However I feel the most opposed to putting The Police with those two tracks as new wave and those two examples are Reggae Rock since The Police are actually a super weirdly successfully group who did Reggae rock, YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH REGGAE ROCK! LET ALONE FROM WHITE GUYS! There are some of The Police songs that can be called New wave (Largely due to how vague New wave is to define.) but Roxanne and Don't Stand So close to Me, are not those. Can they be called a New wave band? sorta kinda? Easier to say "They had a New wave period." like with alot of bands of the period. However the thing that actually gives me a crisis of new wave....what?...YES I have coined the term "crisis of new wave" which makes me question. What IS New Wave? Is THIS New Wave? Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne is a Big Leggy (someone posted them in the post a worse song than the one before thread....and I have fascinated by them since.....oh and the crisis of New wave thing....and I kind of like them....and hate them.) Officially they are labelled New Wave....its official cos Wikipedia told me..... However in my mind I go "Are they New Wave?...they sort of are?...yet not...sort of sounds a little new wavy.....but not." Haysi Fantayzee is my Schroedinger's cat.... Toyah sings it best. As well as being pretty uber New wave in doing so. Which youtube then just tells me to play Hazel O'Connor and makes my New Wave Fizz box explode in pleasure. KNOW WHAT!? TOMORROW I WATCH THE NEW WAVE MOVIE BROKEN GLASS! It must be New Wave cos Vernon Kay off the telly said it on this show thing he did with Hazel performing. New Wave overdose! WOOOOO! Last edited by Akyho; 12-07-2015 at 06:50 PM. |
12-07-2015, 06:53 PM | #66 (permalink) |
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Is this an elitist opinion or is reggae the music genre equivalent of the champagne/sparkling wine thing?
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12-07-2015, 07:19 PM | #67 (permalink) |
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Men at Work do use a reggae beat in the song "It's a Mistake." yet they do dilute with it with a synth reggae beat, which is a pretty New Wave thing to do. The police JUST do a reggae beat.
Men at works- Catch a Star is bare bones track which is largely the reggae beat. However the vast majority of their songs are not at all reggae in any fashion with those two being well...flat out reggae one with an synth twist and one that is just reggae. The Police, Message in a Bottle, Roxanne, Dont Stand So close to me, Can't Stand Losing you, The Beds Too Big with You and the most reggae track is Walking on the Moon Sting is mother fing Skanking away in all of the music videos as-well. I could go on, while the Police did not always do Reggae.....they did ALOT of flat out 100% reggae tracks. None of this "Stole the sound" when you "steal the sound." you take it and call it something else and say its yours, which is often the argument with Elvis Presley. I am still strongly calling The Police Reggae Rock or at least had a strong long Reggae Rock period as the only way to define those songs is Ska...that aint Ska despite Ska being a cousin of Reggae with the same base beat and more so 2 tone Ska which is mainly UK Whites and other races mixing to make it. Oh also I can flat out tell you wrong. |
12-07-2015, 07:25 PM | #69 (permalink) |
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Oh also I can flat out tell you wrong.
A white guy from Kent England. I loath to post none New Wave/Post punk in this thread. and pssstt..... Tide is High by Blondie is a Reggaa track and also a cover. Pssst.... Rapture was a hip hop rap song. I loath to post none New Wave/Post punk in this thread. So to balance it out.... New New Wave The Attery Squash will play me out. Last edited by Akyho; 12-07-2015 at 07:35 PM. |
12-07-2015, 07:31 PM | #70 (permalink) |
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I suppose it depends on what context that phenomena is referenced in. Let's start with yo: what the hell are you talking about?
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