I'm sorry, but I like the 'new wave' genre.

[Deja Q]

:P

[CarpeDiebold]

1. ommmmmmmmmm

[grace0418]

2. No need to apologize to me!

I am a child of the 80s and I looooooooove 80s "alternative" and new wave.

[no name no slogan]

5. back when "alternative" didn't mean "2nd-rate crap-metal"

I blame Nirvana, Pearl Jam and (to a lesser extent) Jane's Addiction.

[grace0418]

6. Exactly!

I was laughing to myself the other day because I was in the record store buying the latest albums by Duran Duran and Depeche Mode. Still in the 80s!

[no name no slogan]

12. You like what you like

I play in a band-- mostly originals, but a good number of covers. According to my calculations, the most "recent" cover tune we play is from 1990, from a band (Kitchens of Distinction) that broke up in 1995.

Other bands we cover include the Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen, Love & Rockets, Bauhaus and New Order. We've been together for twelve years now, and it's funny to see that we've lasted long enough for our sound to be "revived". :D

[eyepaddle]

17. Hey, why don't you fire me a PM the next time you guys play

out at one of our fine Twin Cities establishments? As long as you don't play a set of Replacements covers....

[grace0418]

20. OH MY GOD. I would love to see your band!

I love all the bands you listed! Good times!

[Arugula Latte]

24. Oooh. Me likee those bands.

:thumbsup:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. Hopefully, you harbor no ill will toward the Red Hot Chili Peppers

;)

[no name no slogan]

8. oh NO WAY

I've always liked them, even back in the early 80s when nobody had heard of them yet! In fact, the drummer in my band was hugely influenced by them, and by Fishbone (remember them?). :D

Now I'm getting all nostalgic *sigh*

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Oh sure

Party At Ground Zero is still a dance floor favorite...and I always liked Love and Bullshit :D

[grace0418]

21. But what happened to them in the last 5-10 years though?

I loved them up to and including Bloodsugarsexmagic, but starting with that Under the Bridge song they got all power-ballad-y.

[XemaSab]

3. You should be sorry.

:grr:

[Deja Q]

4. Oh, so you want a fight??!

How about the make-up kiss at the end? :*

:popcorn:

[SeattleGirl]

9. There is a lot of the 80's stuff I still like.

Some of it I didn't care for, but I can say that about any genre of music I like.

[StaggerLee]

10. hahaha Missing Persons!

I was obsessed with that video when I was a teenager. Words...


I liked the veejays back then, they seemed down to earth.

[khashka]

13. Me too....

A few months before I married my exwife she had a poster on her wall of "new wave bands". I started laughing hysterically.


You know who was on it? Blondie (punk, then pop), The Sex Pistols (oh yeah right!), and, get this! The Rolling Stones!!!!!!

She had bought it in a music store and thought it was funny.


Khash.

[Laelth]

14. Apology accepted, Captain Needa.

-Laelth

[Deja Q]

23. Well, if you want to kill me, death by snoo-snoo is more effective...

:rofl:

[Laelth]

25. I am feeling so un-cool.

I had to look up snoo-snoo in the Urban Dictionary. :blush:

Indeed, that would be more fun. :D

-Laelth

[tuvor]

15. Never apologize. Especially for liking New Wave.

What a broad range of styles for a corporate term that tried to cubbyhole anyone who tried something different.

What a great time for music, if you cared enough to look for it. (In MY day, we didn't have the Internets, dammit!)

[grace0418]

22. That is so true. People talk about 80s music sucking but those people must

have only been listening to Top 40 radio. Which did, for the most part, suck hard. But there were so many amazing bands out there if you dug around a little (yes, SANS Google, thank you very much). I was 16 in 1986, so the height of my teen music fanaticism was smack in the middle of a lot of great music coming mostly from England. Although my favorite band of all time, Crowded House, was Kiwi/Aussie.

[bbernardini]

16. Any band containing four Zappa alumni can not suck. It's impossible.

Bands with only one, however...I'm thinking Whitesnake with Steve Vai.

Oddly enough, before the reunion, Duran Duran had a Zappa alumni and a half. Warren Cuccurulo, of course, and Joe Travers on drums. Joe played drums for Dweezil and Ahmet's Z, and he took over the role of "Vaultmeister" for the Zappa Family Trust after Mike Keneally left the organization.

[driver8]

18. Oh, I love me some New Wave!!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. Why would you be sorry? Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson in their prime?

Lots of great music from that era.

[driver8]

28. Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson -- two of my favorites!!

I went to see Joe Jackson at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles about 8 years ago. He was promoting his "Heaven and Hell" album. A friend of mine joked that I probably wouldn't be hearing "Is She Really Going Out With Him."

The El Rey Theatre holds about 900 to 1,000 people so it is very intimate. Joe Jackson comes out and seems to be in a great mood. He sits down at an electric piano and tells us, "I am going to start with my first album and work my way through my catalog, playing a few songs from each." He then started with "Is She Really Going Out with Him?".

One of the best shows I have ever seen.

[sendero]

26. Like any genre..

.... there were some excellent and pathetic recordings made. Overall I like new-wave too, if only because it was a time when people were looking for something other than the same old same ole.

Some of my favorites would be the early Gary Numan stuff, Wall of Voodoo's "Call of the West" (an absolute classic), the Stranglers' practically unknown "Meninblack" is probably my favorite new wave album of all time... with their "The Raven" a close second.

Those nutty synth lines and crazy syncopations were novel, and many of them stand up pretty well!!!

[Fleshdancer]

27. How long until it becomes Old Wave?

:shrug:

[elshiva]

29. Do NOT Apologize for having your own taste.