[Closed] New Wave Top 10........................

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

Anything by the Buzzcocks, plus Life Begins at the Hop & Making Plans for Nigel by XTC. ahhh and of course Teenage Kicks - Undertones 🙂

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!

I was brought up with the Constant sound of Weller in my house, shame his latest stuff is so banal.

paulosaxo- do you want to hear the same stuff repeated/rehashed? as weller has changed the tunes have changed, still my no1

Nope, which is why it's so banal, to me anything post Stanley Road is very samey. He's still a ****ing legend though, I just don't listen to anything after about '95

paulosoxo
wash your mouth out with soap young man...... 😉

Promises - 'cocks
Germfree Adolescents - 'spex
Windup - Feelgood
Typical Girls - Slits

spring to mind

I thought I was the only bloke alive still listened to Dr Feelgood..

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R&B doesn't get better than that Ton

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

Great, I was going to see them when I was about 13, kind of my hometown band..

Whatever happend to R&B meaning this sort of music, seems to mean a very different thing these days.

Mind you I wouldnt have called it New Wave either!!!

got a cover of em doing this somewhere at home....

So explain "new wave" to me......

mmm, dunno it would take a lot of digging just to find my albums, bought Down by the Jetty last week just so I had some on iTunes.

Thanks for the flashback...

the daddy of r n b.....

and new wave is a bit like a mix of rock n roll, r n b and a dash of punk... 8)

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...

In other words marketing b0ll0x by pencil necks......

the buzzcocks and the undertones are or were not punk......

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.......

One of my favourites

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 [u]to me[/u] was a more pop orientated Punky style sound.

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.........because right at the very beginning

Punk pre-dates the Buzzcocks etc.
For my money the Stooges were pretty much the start of it followed by the CBGB bands

Au Pairs, The Slits, Gang of Four.

Of the British Punk scene! 🙄

The knack ..New Wave?? No ,just shite. Dr. Feelgood washed-up pub rock chancers. Punk Shite? The Clash nuff said,more of a band tha the Jam ever were.

Young Dave riley
calm down young fellow..... 😆

my mate used to b*m pete shelley from t'buzzcocks. lived with him for a while. tis true.

😯

Couldnt have happend to a nicer lad eh sadex 😉
Even more sick because he had already changed his christian name to shelly !

Reckles eric- I,d go the hole wide world

Ton,you're right...and I have calmed down now 😀 How about Another Girl,Another Planet by The Only Ones...a pop masterpiece.

it was his surname meowd 😉

changed his name to pete shelley in honour 🙂

Pete Shelley gay,who have thought eh.... 😉

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

Yep that confirms it,still can't stand the sight(or sound )of him.....

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this is good...

I saw them on that tour(JuJu).

John McGeogh - 1955 - 2004. R.I.P

still one of the best