Poll
Question:
Why do I have to repeat the question here?
Option 1: Blondie
votes: 6
Option 2: B-52s
votes: 3
Option 3: Devo
votes: 9
Option 4: The Cars
votes: 1
Option 5: The Police
votes: 4
Option 6: Declan McManus
votes: 1
Option 7: Joe Jackson
votes: 0
Option 8: The Go-Gos
votes: 0
Option 9: Write In
votes: 6
Couldn't I repeat it here instead?
Declan McManus? :yeahright:
I had to google it. Surely the name he is more commonly known as would have been more appropriate.
I like pretty much every one of those bands, but which was "new waviest"?
I went with DEVO.
Duran Duran and Depeche Mode were the two most popular groups among the people who liked New Wave music in my high school; I was not a part of that group. Motley Crue FTW!! :punk:
Of the choices given I would have to agree with BB and say Devo, but my write in goes for Duran Duran, they really started the New Wave movement in my limited circle.
EDIT: Poll sucks. Blondie, Joe Jackson?
Silly poll. Where's Adam Ant, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF), Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Tears for Fears etc.
Quote from: Syt on July 31, 2009, 11:53:25 PM
Silly poll. Where's Adam Ant, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF), Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Tears for Fears etc.
Those were new wave?
Duran Duran was top 20 pop stuff when I was in high school, same with Frankie and Tears for Fears. When I think of new wave I think of the late 70s very early 80s stuff.
and I saw sbr's edit: Joe Jackson was new wave... :huh:
when I think of new wave, I think of bands like the Cure and possibly Devo although Devo was so out there it is hard to characterize.
Holy crap. Yi. The go gos were not new wave.
Wouldn't The Cure be dark wave? :unsure:
from wiki:
Quote"Music that followed the anarchic garage band ethos of the Sex Pistols was distinguished as "punk", while music that tended toward experimentation, lyrical complexity, or more polished production, was categorized as "New Wave". This came to include musicians who had come to prominence in the British pub rock scene of the mid-1970s, such as Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr Feelgood; acts associated with the New York club CBGBs, such as Television, Patti Smith, Mink DeVille and Blondie; and singer-songwriters who were noted for their barbed lyrical wit, such as Elvis Costello, Tom Robinson and Joe Jackson. Furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed New Wave. A 1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name (New Wave) features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads and The Runaways. David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy was also a major influence in the style.[citation needed]
Later still, "New Wave" came to imply a less noisy, often synthesizer-based, pop sound. The term post-punk was coined to describe the darker, less pop-influenced groups, such as Gang of Four, Joy Division, Devo, and Siouxsie & the Banshees.Although distinct, punk, New Wave, and post-punk all shared common ground: an energetic reaction to the supposedly overproduced, uninspired popular music of the 1970s. The term fell out of favour in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s because its usage had become too general."
WHERE IS FLOCK OF SEAGULLS :mad:
Quote from: Caliga on August 01, 2009, 05:51:17 AM
WHERE IS FLOCK OF SEAGULLS :mad:
They ran, they ran so far away. :(
Just to get away? :huh:
Joy Division? Cabaret Voltaire? Gang of Four? The Specials?
This poll sucks, Yi.
ibid.
Your polls fail as epically as your movie threads and taste in chicks.
What the hell's going on out there in Iowa?
Whip it and whip it good!
Wait, did Cal and Yi work together with Mongers to make a poll this bad?
Quote from: PDH on August 01, 2009, 08:18:21 AM
Wait, did Cal and Yi work together with Mongers to make a poll this bad?
All it needs is a bit of kenny incoherence to make it the perfect poll.
The Modern Lovers, of course :cool:
Quote from: PDH on August 01, 2009, 08:18:21 AM
Wait, did Cal and Yi work together with Mongers to make a poll this bad?
WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT ANGERING ME :mad:
Quote from: Caliga on August 01, 2009, 09:41:49 AM
Quote from: PDH on August 01, 2009, 08:18:21 AM
Wait, did Cal and Yi work together with Mongers to make a poll this bad?
WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT ANGERING ME :mad:
I don't remember, and anyway your mouth was full of BaG when you were talking so it all sounded like mush...
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 01, 2009, 06:42:28 AM
Joy Division? Cabaret Voltaire? Gang of Four? The Specials?
Didn't Joy Division/New Order
invent the damn thing?
Quote from: Queequeg on August 01, 2009, 11:10:21 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 01, 2009, 06:42:28 AM
Joy Division? Cabaret Voltaire? Gang of Four? The Specials?
Didn't Joy Division/New Order invent the damn thing?
No, and they weren't from Persia.
Quote from: PDH on August 01, 2009, 01:34:42 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on August 01, 2009, 11:10:21 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 01, 2009, 06:42:28 AM
Joy Division? Cabaret Voltaire? Gang of Four? The Specials?
Didn't Joy Division/New Order invent the damn thing?
No, and they weren't from Persia.
System Of A Down are Armenian, though. But they are not wave.
Devo has the most street cred.
Duran Duran, Spandeu Ballet and all that sort of thing defines New Wave. There's one far worse band I can just picture in my head but their name is escaping me right now...The video for their most famous song has them on speed boats looking all horribly eighties....
QuoteDidn't Joy Division/New Order invent the damn thing?
Maybe they laid some of the foundations in bringing synthesizers to more mainstream notice.
Joy Division certainly wasn't New Wave, it was one of the founation bands of goth, it was post-punk through and through, the opposite of New Wave.
New Order....iffy. But they lacked all the horrible tackyness of New Wave even if they did have the sound.
:punk:
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on August 01, 2009, 02:44:47 PM
Devo has the most street cred.
Being one of the ones who founded the movement before 1976 does help the cred...
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on August 01, 2009, 02:44:47 PM
Devo has the most street cred.
Was Devo really "New Wave" though, I always put them more in the punk category.
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.
All this classical Flintstone music sucks.
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.
:huh: Duran Duran was the peak of New Wavism in my Junior High School.
Human League! :w00t:
Quote from: Queequeg on August 01, 2009, 11:10:21 AM
Didn't Joy Division/New Order invent the damn thing?
The Modern Lovers had broken up two years before Joy Division was even formed. :cool:
;)
Even the Talking Heads were formed a couple years before Joy Division.
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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.
:huh: Duran Duran was the peak of New Wavism in my Junior High School.
Then your junior high was a couple of years behind the curve. New Wave had already peaked by the fall of '80.
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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.
:huh: Duran Duran was the peak of New Wavism in my Junior High School.
Then your junior high was a couple of years behind the curve. New Wave had already peaked by the fall of '80.
I was a baby. Am I a new wave baby? ^_^
Quote from: Tyr on August 01, 2009, 03:09:46 PM
Duran Duran, Spandeu Ballet and all that sort of thing defines New Wave. There's one far worse band I can just picture in my head but their name is escaping me right now...The video for their most famous song has them on speed boats looking all horribly eighties....
QuoteDidn't Joy Division/New Order invent the damn thing?
Maybe they laid some of the foundations in bringing synthesizers to more mainstream notice.
Joy Division certainly wasn't New Wave, it was one of the founation bands of goth, it was post-punk through and through, the opposite of New Wave.
New Order....iffy. But they lacked all the horrible tackyness of New Wave even if they did have the sound.
from wiki:
QuoteThe term New Wave itself is a source of much confusion. It was introduced in 1976 in Great Britain by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren as an alternative label for what was also being called "punk." The term referenced the avant-garde French New Wave film movement of the 1960s. The label was soon picked up by British punk fanzines such as Sniffin' Glue and then the professional music press. For a period of time in 1976 and 1977 the two terms were interchangeable. By the end of 1977, "New Wave" had replaced "Punk" as the definition for new underground music in the United Kingdom.
In the United States, Sire Records needed a term by which it could market its newly signed bands, who had frequently played the club CBGB. Because radio consultants in the U.S. had advised their clients that punk rock was a fad (and because many stations that had embraced disco had been hurt by the backlash), they settled on the term "New Wave". Like those film makers, its new artists, such as The Ramones and Talking Heads, were anti-corporate and experimental. At first most American writers exclusively used the term "New Wave" to describe British Punk acts. Starting in December 1976 The New York Rocker, which was suspicious of the term "Punk" became the first American journal to enthusiastically use the term starting with British acts, and later appropriating it to acts associated with the CBGB scene.
Soon, listeners began to differentiate some of these musicians from "true punks". The music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, in writing about the Boomtown Rats, has indicated that the term New Wave became an industry catch-all for musicians affiliated with Punk, but in some way different from it.
Music that followed the anarchic garage band ethos of the Sex Pistols was distinguished as "punk", while music that tended toward experimentation, lyrical complexity, or more polished production, was categorized as "New Wave". This came to include musicians who had come to prominence in the British pub rock scene of the mid-1970s, such as Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr Feelgood; acts associated with the New York club CBGBs, such as Television, Patti Smith, Mink DeVille and Blondie; and singer-songwriters who were noted for their barbed lyrical wit, such as Elvis Costello, Tom Robinson and Joe Jackson. Furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed New Wave. A 1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name (New Wave) features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads and The Runaways. David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy was also a major influence in the style.
Later still, "New Wave" came to imply a less noisy, often synthesizer-based, pop sound. The term post-punk was coined to describe the darker, less pop-influenced groups, such as Gang of Four, Joy Division, Devo, and Siouxsie & the Banshees. Although distinct, punk, New Wave, and post-punk all shared common ground: an energetic reaction to the supposedly overproduced, uninspired popular music of the 1970s.
The term fell out of favour in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s because its usage had become too general.
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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.
:huh: Duran Duran was the peak of New Wavism in my Junior High School.
Then your junior high was a couple of years behind the curve. New Wave had already peaked by the fall of '80.
That is entirely possible, and I would be very happy for that to be true; I was a rocker (Motley Crue baby :punk:) and didn't like the Wavers much, except for the one chick I had a crush on since second grade. :blush:
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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.
:huh: Duran Duran was the peak of New Wavism in my Junior High School.
Then your junior high was a couple of years behind the curve. New Wave had already peaked by the fall of '80.
That is entirely possible, and I would be very happy for that to be true; I was a rocker (Motley Crue baby :punk:) and didn't like the Wavers much, except for the one chick I had a crush on since second grade. :blush:
Did you try waving at her?
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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.
:huh: Duran Duran was the peak of New Wavism in my Junior High School.
Then your junior high was a couple of years behind the curve. New Wave had already peaked by the fall of '80.
That is entirely possible, and I would be very happy for that to be true; I was a rocker (Motley Crue baby :punk:) and didn't like the Wavers much, except for the one chick I had a crush on since second grade. :blush:
Did you try waving at her?
:lol:
I danced with her at one of the 8th grade dances but our choices in music was just too big of a barrier at that age. (https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi195.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fz133%2Fsbr32%2Fsmilies%2Fviolin.gif&hash=804649946bb6a9abb9ca381cde25e538d94fb212)
The Wiki quote reads like a student paper...probably was...
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_uB-0D-gV8mY%2FRp2IzhT0--I%2FAAAAAAAAC18%2FFZDbnXj2S7k%2Fs400%2FB52s_partymix.jpeg&hash=7c8fc23afb4afb290a09f59cbda96e31eb981a43)
Awesome chick hair there.
Does Genesis count?
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.
Stranger things have happened. :o
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
XTC :contract:
L.
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.
Yeah, New Wave's peak was like 1982 or so.
Wow, New Wave is the 1980s? What in the fuck was I listening to in in the later 70s? Shit, I hate revisionist history.
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:
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.
My vote goes to the Talking Heads ...
Fuck, Blondie just started playing in my head. WHO STARTED THIS THREAD?
They will pay dearly.
Quote from: Malthus on August 04, 2009, 07:56:36 AM
My vote goes to the Talking Heads ...
I never thought of Talking Heads as New Wave, but I guess maybe they'd qualify. Once In A Lifetime :wub:
Depeche Mode
Quote from: Tyr on August 04, 2009, 05:47:59 AM
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.
Thank you.
Fucking kids
I love how you act like you are so old.
Strangely enough, I heard "Once In A Lifetime" at a Dollar General on the Muzak yesterday. :huh:
Quote from: garbon on August 05, 2009, 12:05:28 AM
I love how you act like you are so old.
I can remember the 60s, punk.
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 05:17:49 AM
Strangely enough, I heard "Once In A Lifetime" at a Dollar General on the Muzak yesterday. :huh:
Singularly appropriate for muzak. :D
Nah, same as it ever was.
Quote from: citizen k on August 01, 2009, 01:19:40 AM
from wiki:
More evidence that Wiki is only as strong as its weakest contributor.
Quote from: sbr on August 01, 2009, 08:22:53 PM
:huh: Duran Duran was the peak of New Wavism in my Junior High School.
Your junior high was 5-10 years behind then.
Preach on, Brother Crazy!