Best New Wave Band
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Soft Cell and A Flock of Seagulls are prime examples of the genre - Good call, steelcult!
@Supervike - REM is definitely from the time period and another great band, but their style isn\'t what I would call \"New Wave\". I would probably lump them into the same category as The Smiths, Sisters of Mercy, and other \"guitary\" bands of that time period that weren\'t exactly mainstream and weren\'t \"hard\" enough to label as metal or grunge. I think by default they were labelled as \"alternative\", whatever that means.
@Supervike - REM is definitely from the time period and another great band, but their style isn\'t what I would call \"New Wave\". I would probably lump them into the same category as The Smiths, Sisters of Mercy, and other \"guitary\" bands of that time period that weren\'t exactly mainstream and weren\'t \"hard\" enough to label as metal or grunge. I think by default they were labelled as \"alternative\", whatever that means.
Has anyone suggested Missing Persons yet. I always thought of them as New Wave.
I hated New Wave at the time, not the least of reasons being that they were crowding my favorite bands off the radio. Kinda like Supervike though, I do like a lot of them now. In fact, I got out Devo after placig my vote and its playing now.
(But Moterhead is up next in the lineup.)
I hated New Wave at the time, not the least of reasons being that they were crowding my favorite bands off the radio. Kinda like Supervike though, I do like a lot of them now. In fact, I got out Devo after placig my vote and its playing now.
(But Moterhead is up next in the lineup.)
Highbulp Billy
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I never really got the hang of labelling music so terms like \"new wave\" went totally over my head (don\'t even mention the garage/house debate). However, from the list I\'d like to give the Pet Shop Boys a thumbs up (but not in the way that Neil Tenant would like 
) I feel their music has always been different to the norm and their videos also helped to push the boundaries of normality. Also, didn\'t they record a song with Dusty Springfield? ... instant legendhood.
) I feel their music has always been different to the norm and their videos also helped to push the boundaries of normality. Also, didn\'t they record a song with Dusty Springfield? ... instant legendhood.Has to be Depeche Mode for me. They may have some disappointing stuff under their belt, but Violator more than makes up for it on its own by being one of the most perfect albums ever. It still sounds groundbreaking these days.
Their last album, Playing the Angel, was fantastic too. The first half in particular is amazing and Dave Gahan has never sounded better.
Their last album, Playing the Angel, was fantastic too. The first half in particular is amazing and Dave Gahan has never sounded better.
Next one: Blancmange. Dunno if they were one-hit wonders or not, but they otherwise typify the genre, if it can indeed be typified.
Sisters Of Mercy... hmmm, and someone mentioned Bauhaus... those, along with The Mission, were the iconic Gothic bands of their time. This is before gothic went all vampiric and dark and shite. Listening to Andrew Eldritch singing \"Marion\", I still have to wonder how much sandpaper that man ate.
Goth have always been dark, arty and a bit theatrical, even before there was a named genre to put everything in. But, in the early days there were a very distinct tongue-in-cheek element to it that got lost somewhere along the way. Nowadays the term goth has been hijacked by symphonic metal bands that definitely don\'t have any humouristic levels in their music. But there still are people around who stick to the old ways!
Even though such bands get lost in the flood of vampiric, sado-masochistic, pretentious poseuer bands that dominate the scene.:cussing:
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Oooooh, they\'ve got a name, have they? Sorry, I was running away a bit too fast to catch it. But you\'ve quantified the situation quite perfectly. It used to be fun to be a goth, dark and melancholy it might\'ve been. Then the obsessions with death, vampires and sadomasochism set in. A bit like The Addam\'s Family hijacked by Dracula and the Marquis de Sade.
Do yourself a favour, and look out for a band called Gossamer. Old school stuff, and they\'ve done some production with Wayne Hussey too.
generulpoleaxe
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the music mainstream never managed to grab me when i was young.
pop can kiss my arse.
in the eighties i was listening to the likes of the scorpions, warlock,iron maiden and metalica.
i have a more varied pallette nowadays, but rock stills flows in my veins.
some of the new wave bands were at least doing their own thing, most were just people jumping on the band wagon.
a bit like emos realy, at least goths have some talent for poetry.
pop can kiss my arse.
in the eighties i was listening to the likes of the scorpions, warlock,iron maiden and metalica.
i have a more varied pallette nowadays, but rock stills flows in my veins.
some of the new wave bands were at least doing their own thing, most were just people jumping on the band wagon.
a bit like emos realy, at least goths have some talent for poetry.
It\'s not so much vampires, death, S/M and that sort of stuff in itself that bothers me. It\'s the lack of humour and distance to it that I can\'t stand. People who take themselves so god damn seriously! (And how can you, even, if you\'re rambling on about vampires? ???)
Already have! Years ago...Originally posted by Modderrhu
Do yourself a favour, and look out for a band called Gossamer. Old school stuff, and they\'ve done some production with Wayne Hussey too.
And they are good indeed! Too bad they never really broke through... 
