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Printableminneapolisgenius said: Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out" is New Wave?
I have several New Wave compilations that contain songs like "Captain Of Her Heart","Jeapardy" and "867-5309/Jenny"....songs that have absolutely nothing to do with New Wave  it's hilarious | |
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DavidEye said: minneapolisgenius said: Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out" is New Wave?
I have several New Wave compilations that contain songs like "Captain Of Her Heart","Jeapardy" and "867-5309/Jenny"....songs that have absolutely nothing to do with New Wave it's hilarious"Captain Of Her Heart"... I totally forgot about that song. I used to love it. 
But yeah, a lot of the songs on this list are just regular 80's hits to me. I guess the whole of 80's music was New Wave then.  [Edited 7/12/06 10:46am] "I saw a woman with major Hammer pants on the subway a few weeks ago and totally thought of you." - sextonseven | |
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'New Wave' has become such a generic term that now applies to most any pop music from the 80's. So many of my friends from high school get hung up on that. It's just music... | |
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minneapolisgenius said: DavidEye said: I have several New Wave compilations that contain songs like "Captain Of Her Heart","Jeapardy" and "867-5309/Jenny"....songs that have absolutely nothing to do with New Wave it's hilarious"Captain Of Her Heart"... I totally forgot about that song. I used to love it.
But yeah, a lot of the songs on this list are just regular 80's hits to me. I guess the whole of 80's music was New Wave then.
A few months ago,I devoted a thread to "Captain of Her Heart"  one of my favorite 80s songs. | |
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violator said: 'New Wave' has become such a generic term that now applies to most any pop music from the 80's.
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DavidEye said: minneapolisgenius said: "Captain Of Her Heart"... I totally forgot about that song. I used to love it.
But yeah, a lot of the songs on this list are just regular 80's hits to me. I guess the whole of 80's music was New Wave then.
A few months ago,I devoted a thread to "Captain of Her Heart" one of my favorite 80s songs.I remember that now. That was only a few months ago?  It feels like a year and a half ago to me. "I saw a woman with major Hammer pants on the subway a few weeks ago and totally thought of you." - sextonseven | |
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728huey said: VinnyM27 said:
That ain't New Wave! This list is better than the others.... And Tony is right....No Human League? That was one of the first big New Wave hits, right? While I like the songs on the list that were released after 1986, it's safe to say that New Wave faded into the mainstream by 1986. Part of what made New wave what it was synth pop and other electronic and post-punk melodies which were new for its time. It peaked by 1984 and became fully mainstream by 1986. As for Tears For Fears, they may have been New wave when the first debuted in 1982, but when they released Songs In The Big Chair in 1985, their music relied as much on classic hard rock guitar licks as synthesizers. (See "Shout.") And it can be debated whether INXS was ever New Wave, since they came out of the same Aussie bar scene as AC/DC.  ----- I gotta go with "Tainted Love - Soft Cell (1981) " as the #1 New Wave song | |
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