just put a load of new wave on the ipod…….top 10 is..
1. alison. elvis costello
2. in the city. the jam
3. do anything you wanna do. eddie and the hotrods
4. i dont want to go to chelsea. elvis costello
5. back of my hand. the jags
6. my sharona. the knack
7. seventeen. the regents.
8. wnt you to want me. cheap trick.
9. roxette. dr feelgood
10. when your young. the jam
just wanted to share that.
i love new wave, loads better than that punk shyte… 8)
ah new wave that was old people doing R&B stuff but dressing young and being on the front cover of NME
here are a quick five
and Elvis Costello’s Alison has to be one of the biggest hitters ever
Alison Elvis Costello
Sex & Drugs…. Ian Dury
Hangin on t’ telephone Blondie
Town Called MAlice The Jam
Breaking Glass Nick Lowe
Agree with the above (both) never realy got the punk thing- me too young/ bands were crap, but love Jam/ Feelgood/ Dury and the tracks mentioned above. Are they proper tunes/bands compared to the ‘fashion ‘ of most of the punk bands?
Am 41 by the way swo was around in ’76, both sisters punnks, bro’ was full on glam kid come heavy metaller!
Nope, which is why it’s so banal, to me anything post Stanley Road is very samey. He’s still a **** legend though, I just don’t listen to anything after about ’95
there’s a guy from the buzzcocks who is a complete dick and used to harrass my mate with slimey 2 int he morning phone calls ‘come with me to paris slobber slobber’
my fave new waves are
hiroshima mon amour: resnais
a bout de souffle: goddard
So not really the Buzzcocks or Undertones then,their early stuff was about as punk as you can get.Cheap gear & recording etc -Spiral Scratch & Teenage Kicks etc……
It was the same then, no one could put their finger on it either,bands who had been punk suddenly became New Wave….It was a bit like the All Mountain,Extreme XC & the like phrases…
They both changed as they went along but originally they were punk…..
Who started the new wave label,McLaren why,who knows but probably just to make more money knowing him……
As I wrote above it was all just marketing b0ll0x…….
The Buzzcocks were a punk band in the very beginning as were the Jam and other bands etc etc, because right at the very beginning that was all there was, Punk. It then got sub-divided into Hardcore Punk, Punk, New wave. Bands got catogorised or (like the Jam) rejected Punk for something else. New Wave to me was a more pop orientated Punky style sound.
T.V.O.D – The Normal
Switch – Siouxsie & the Banshees
Satelite – The Sex Pistols
You Drive Me Ape – The Dickies
Placebo Effect – Siouxsie & the Banshees
Action, Time and Vision – ATV
Bodies – The Sex Pistols
Babylon’s Burning – The Ruts
Walk On By – The Stranglers
Armeggideon Time – The Clash