Which New Wave Band Was the New Waviest?

Started by Admiral Yi, July 31, 2009, 08:37:50 PM

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Why do I have to repeat the question here?

Blondie
6 (20%)
B-52s
3 (10%)
Devo
9 (30%)
The Cars
1 (3.3%)
The Police
4 (13.3%)
Declan McManus
1 (3.3%)
Joe Jackson
0 (0%)
The Go-Gos
0 (0%)
Write In
6 (20%)

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Ed Anger

#45
August 02, 2009, 08:46:53 PM
Awesome chick hair there.
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Grey Fox

#46
August 02, 2009, 09:53:27 PM
Does Genesis count?
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garbon

#47
August 02, 2009, 10:03:08 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 02, 2009, 09:53:27 PM
Does Genesis count?

If we were in the same room, I'd flick you on the forehead.
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#48
August 02, 2009, 10:07:35 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 02, 2009, 10:03:08 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 02, 2009, 09:53:27 PM
Does Genesis count?

If we were in the same room, I'd flick you on the forehead.
Now that's gay.  :lol:
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Grey Fox

#49
August 02, 2009, 10:09:15 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 02, 2009, 10:03:08 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 02, 2009, 09:53:27 PM
Does Genesis count?

If we were in the same room, I'd flick you on the forehead.

:lol:
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garbon

#50
August 02, 2009, 10:13:46 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 02, 2009, 10:07:35 PM
Now that's gay.  :lol:

My father isn't particularly gay.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

dps

#51
August 03, 2009, 01:10:25 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 02, 2009, 10:13:46 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 02, 2009, 10:07:35 PM
Now that's gay.  :lol:

My father isn't particularly gay.

Grey Fox is your father?    :huh:










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garbon

#52
August 03, 2009, 01:17:07 PM
Stranger things have happened. :o
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

BVN

#53
August 04, 2009, 02:49:54 AM
If I think about New Wave, the first thing that pops up in my mind is: Sisters of Mercy.

Other favorites of mine: Joy Division, The Cure, Depeche Mode
More local: TC Matic, Anne Clark, Front 242

Pedrito

#54
August 04, 2009, 04:13:46 AM
XTC  :contract:

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Josquius

#55
August 04, 2009, 05:47:59 AM Last Edit: August 04, 2009, 05:56:01 AM by Tyr
Quote from: dps on August 01, 2009, 07:56:42 PM
Quote from: Tyr on August 01, 2009, 03:09:46 PM
Duran Duran, Spandeu Ballet and all that sort of thing defines New Wave.

Bullshit.  New Wave was pretty much over with by the time those groups came along.

I have no idea if Yi's asking which act was the best, or who best exlemplified New Wave, or simply who our personal favorites were, but if it's the second, I'd vote Devo.
They were formed before New Wave even arose.

QuoteThen your junior high was a couple of years behind the curve.  New Wave had already peaked by the fall of '80.
No it hadn't.
It was only just beginning around 1980.
New Wave is the 80s, peak I'd guess around 82/83; Rio is THE New Wave song.
Blue Monday could also sort of be seen to be a peak but as I mentioned New Order lacked the tacky, yuppie style that New Wave was about.
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Caliga

#56
August 04, 2009, 06:53:07 AM
Yeah, New Wave's peak was like 1982 or so.
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PDH

#57
August 04, 2009, 07:53:07 AM
Wow, New Wave is the 1980s?  What in the fuck was I listening to in in the later 70s?  Shit, I hate revisionist history.
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Caliga

#58
August 04, 2009, 07:55:53 AM
Quote from: PDH on August 04, 2009, 07:53:07 AM
Wow, New Wave is the 1980s?  What in the fuck was I listening to in in the later 70s?  Shit, I hate revisionist history.
Just cause it peaked in the 80s doesn't mean it didn't exist in the 70s.  :huh:
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Ed Anger

#59
August 04, 2009, 07:56:08 AM
Quote from: PDH on August 04, 2009, 07:53:07 AM
Wow, New Wave is the 1980s?  What in the fuck was I listening to in in the later 70s?  Shit, I hate revisionist history.

It is damn kids these days.
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