ah, nice. About Polyrock, I happen to own their vinyl LP "changing hearts".
early OMD are nice too.
agree that "new wave" can be a too generic way to call a genre of music... to me, new wave could anything from post punk to mid 80s rock.
But it's true that there is a lot of pop which was called new wave.
Actually, the most proper new wave might be the most weird/experimental one from 1978 to 1981, before the business side took over and artists were still quite free to record and release whatever they wished to... then, in early 80s, new wave might have been a certain kind of sound and style, not necessarily experimental... also, new wave might be all that synth-pop stuff (more or less experimental), certain mixes of rock and reggae/ska (i.e. The Police, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Clive Langer and The Boxes, etc...) or also the darkwave or the 80s goth rock (before goth turned out to a lot of distorted guitars which makes it more like some kind of dark heavy metal).
another band I grew with, together with The Sisters of Mercy, is Christian Death... but my preference goes to their works from the 80s... with their 1994 album they switched to a sort of mix of heavy metal, heavy industrial and the later version of goth... but their older works are totally different and also quite different from album to album.
So, here, I happen to consider new wave a large container with lots of different music styles inside.
PS: this evening i've put on my turntable a nice album which is definitely new wave... "Kilimangiaro" by The Teardrop Explodes, from 1980... if you never listened to it, you might wish to check it out.
early OMD are nice too.
agree that "new wave" can be a too generic way to call a genre of music... to me, new wave could anything from post punk to mid 80s rock.
But it's true that there is a lot of pop which was called new wave.
Actually, the most proper new wave might be the most weird/experimental one from 1978 to 1981, before the business side took over and artists were still quite free to record and release whatever they wished to... then, in early 80s, new wave might have been a certain kind of sound and style, not necessarily experimental... also, new wave might be all that synth-pop stuff (more or less experimental), certain mixes of rock and reggae/ska (i.e. The Police, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Clive Langer and The Boxes, etc...) or also the darkwave or the 80s goth rock (before goth turned out to a lot of distorted guitars which makes it more like some kind of dark heavy metal).
another band I grew with, together with The Sisters of Mercy, is Christian Death... but my preference goes to their works from the 80s... with their 1994 album they switched to a sort of mix of heavy metal, heavy industrial and the later version of goth... but their older works are totally different and also quite different from album to album.
So, here, I happen to consider new wave a large container with lots of different music styles inside.
PS: this evening i've put on my turntable a nice album which is definitely new wave... "Kilimangiaro" by The Teardrop Explodes, from 1980... if you never listened to it, you might wish to check it out.
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