New Wave music

Thanks. I'm not sure I have heard it. Are either Suburban Dream or Black Stations, White Stations on it?

 

what year is this?

 

1983, I think? There is very little info on them. They went through multiple lineups and only recorded a single LP

 

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may as well connect these as

Poll: Who did New Wave better in the 80s: USA or UK? | Steve Hoffman Music Forums

 

This is incredible…This is a group I want to explore more.

 

I didn’t know them then, but they were incredible…really like this song.

 

The cars are a new wave band I really wished I’d seen. I saw the police in 81, Elvis Costello in 81 and the talking heads in 82 and 83. Some here might argue whether or not they were new wave but to me they were and were from my magazine reading then. Of course I was in my early twenties then and working working so might have been too old to really know, lol.

 

I absolutely loved the squeeze and had several of their albums.

 

Whenever I'm felling a little nostalgic for the 80's I spin Shabooh Shoobah, among others.



jeff

 

As an American in my early twenties buying records by new artists and watching MTV, I’m was probably guilty of thinking that, lol. I even dressed new wave much as I could get away with with a strict dress code at work, an accounting office for state government.

 

Truly a great new way song and band. Always loved the video too.

 

That was me then…loved it all, bought many albums then and saw as many bands of that era as I could. My boyfriend from then went two a few new wave concerts with me at my insistence and slept through them, lol. He was a big prog and rock fan and absolutely despised new wave.

 

I sold most of mine back eventually but had to hav them then and listened to them a lot.

 

I was the only one my age, in my early twenties out and college and working, I knew who embraced new wave though hubby when I first met him in 82 loved the talking heads.

 

You were wise to dump him....

 

Graham Parker & The Rumour.

 

He dumped me but yeah, no way would we have worked out long term…

 

Or as the Gen-X'ers called it: "alternative".

When the label isn't so much about the music itself, but the need for market differentiation between what was status quo and what it new...somebody's always gonna slap a label onto it.

This is why we had a couple of decades of records in the record store section labeled "New Age", which was somehow large-tent enough to accommodate Philip Glass, Andreas Vollenweider and every Windham Hill record in existence. It was only later, when they started making radio stations using that label, that it became the "all-saxophone format", which gradually morphed into "Smooth Jazz"...

In my history, this had been going on since the term "soft rock" was coined.

 

The Spoons with Sandy Horne on bass, sigh....

 

How about The Payolas?

Rough Trade (they kind of straddle many lines...punk/cabaret/new wave)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_fVnE3xHY

Maybe even the Cult (Love album)