Compulsory Listening: Which NEW WAVE albums?

[Cylob]

New Wave/Synth Pop:

DMX Krew - We Are DMX
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf800/f820/f82066avu17.jpg

And of course:
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[Mr_007]

Oh good music team!
really is new wave!

[Cylob]

Are you feeling alright Mr_007!

[Triton4]

Compulsory Listening:

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicStar-Guitar/5714/frankie-g-h.jpg

[Cylob]

Definitely Triton4. What strikes me about the 80's is bands such as Frankie were hyped to the teeth, but the credit was deserved. With today's charts, the hype is just that.

Also good from '84:
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[Twilightseer]

"Some Great Reward" : the time when DM was good :) Now, it's just low quality stuff.

I would recommend the New Order albums from " Power, Corruption & Lies" (even if Sumner sings horribly on some tracks" to "Technique" included.

[Cylob]

Originally posted by Twilightseer
I would recommend the New Order albums from " Power, Corruption & Lies" (even if Sumner sings horribly on some tracks" to "Technique" included.

That takes in Lowlife & Brotherhood.:up: What about Movement then, it's an amazing album. Very tight percussion, bass & guitar, a splattering of analog here and there. Surreal, almost chilling in places. It can't be dismissed as Joy Division with Bernard on vocals.

[Twilightseer]

I thought you wanted new wave records focusing mostly on synths, that's why :)
Movement is excellent, more guitar-driven but the atmospheres are very dark. Fave song on it is "The Him". Terrifying :eek:

[Cylob]

The Him is pretty bleak. My favourite tracks - Dreams Never End & ICB. I love the guitars on the former & the analog on the latter. Some early new-wave material has a dark element, the Human League/Dare for instance. I suppose it depends on what you class as new-wave - I like to think of it as early 80's synth-pop both dark & light.

[Cylob]

Originally posted by Cylob
I suppose it depends on what you class as new-wave - I like to think of it as early 80's synth-pop both dark & light.

Are you allowed to quote yourself?!??!

I forgot to mention new-wave has re-emerged (new acts like Ladytron, DMX Krew springing up all over the place). Some of the bands are indistinguishable from their 80's counterparts. It's good stuff indeed.:D

[ShyShy]

what no mention of Erasure? c'mon, they were a great ripoff band :D and i can't believe i forgot the Pet Shop Boys. and sorry for not actually listing albums, i'm in the process of rebuilding my music collection.:)

[Cylob]

What happened to your music collection (nothing serious I hope)! Erasure weren't at the top of my list, I always preferred Yazoo:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c827/c827939ly73.jpg

Andy Bell's positively frightening. A friend of mine saw them in Plymouth 2 months ago - I told him not to stand directly in front of Andy at all costs.

[Twilightseer]

There is a song on the Yazoo album called Winter Kills, it's so desperate and dark I wasn't even sure Yazoo was playing it :eek:

PSB absolutely rock, esp the early stuff. Release was an average album but the new Disco 3 collection takes them back to what they do best, it's awesome :)

[Cylob]

Originally posted by Twilightseer
There is a song on the Yazoo album called Winter Kills, it's so desperate and dark I wasn't even sure Yazoo was playing it :eek:

That's what I mean about new wave being dark & light (often on the same album).

Originally posted by Twilightseer
PSB absolutely rock, esp the early stuff. Release was an average album but the new Disco 3 collection takes them back to what they do best, it's awesome :)

PSB/Disco 3 rocks! Apparently their best work in 15 years. If anyone hasn't got it yet you're missing a treat!

[ShyShy]

Originally posted by Cylob
What happened to your music collection (nothing serious I hope)!

fucking ex roomates back in Texas stole them while i was on a trip, bitches didn't even know 1/4 of the bands i had cd's for, they just stole them to sell at a used place. so, i'm back to square one on trying to buildup the collection again. which is why i'm sooooo thankful for this area.

[Cylob]

That must've been a killer blow. I don't have to worry, you'd need a forklift to remove my CD collection. Of course it's also booby-trapped.

Ah well ShyShy, there's always p2p (your friend)!

[DJ Egg]

Hmm . . . my interpretation of "New Wave" differs slightly.
To me, it was always the post-punk era c.1978-82-ish
Synth pop probably arrived on the scene towards the end of the new-wave era.

Anyway, here's some of my faves . . . in no particular order:

Magazine - Secondhand Daylight | The Correct Use of Soap
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures | Closer | Substance
Killing Joke - Killing Joke | What's This For
Gang of Four - Entertainment
The Cure - 17 Seconds
The Slits - Cut
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Throbbing Gristle - D.O.A. - The Third And Final Report | 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Clock DVA - Thirst
Psychic TV - Force The Hand of Chance | Dreams Less Sweet
The Clash - London Calling | Sandinista
Siouxsie - Join Hands | The Scream | Juju
PiL - PiL | Metal Box
Bauhaus - In The Flatfield
Pyschedelic Furs - PF | Talk Talk Talk | Forever Now
Simple Minds (Steve Hillage productions, 79-81) - Life in a Day | Real to Real Cacophany | Empires and Dance | Sons & Fascination
Dead Can Dance - Aion | Toward The Within | Within The Realms of A Dying Sun | The Serpent's Egg | (though I preferred their later stuff even more, eg. Spiritchaser, Into the Labyrinth, A Passage in Time)
Japan - Still Life
Coil - Snow | Love's Secret Domain | Horse Rotorvator | Scatology | . . .
Durutti Column - LC | Dry | Lips That Would Kiss | Circuses & Bread | Return of The DC | The Guitar and Other Machines
Cocteau Twins - Garlands | Head Over Heels | Pink Opaque | Treasure
Cabaret Voltaire - Chapter One | Dance Decayed | Mix Up
The Fall - WitchTrials | Dragnet | Totale's Turns | Grotesque
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
The Cravats - The Cravats in Toyland
Wire - Chairs Missing | 154
The Pop Group - Y | We Are Time | For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? | We Are All Prostitutes
Comsat Angels - Land

to name but a few . . . (well, ^those^ are the ones I can name off the top of my head, I've forgotten more than I can remember, hehe)

oh, and yes! definitely! New Order - Movement


Though a lot of the best stuff at the time were 7" singles/EP's only.
Aah, those were the days . . . lol :D

[Cylob]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Hmm . . . my interpretation of "New Wave" differs slightly.
To me, it was always the post-punk era c.1978-82-ish
Synth pop probably arrived on the scene towards the end of the new-wave era.

I consider the New Romantics to be very much part of New Wave, taking it from 78' right through to about '87. The nail in the coffin was house music and Stock Aitken & Waterman's 'formula pop'. The first time I heard Rick Astley I knew it was bad news.

That list was off the top of your head DJ Egg????? I'd hate to estimate the size of your 'record collection'. Some very dark stuff there. Reminds me I must restore my Killing Joke collection soon, the LP's were lost in a house move. Damn, 8.00am!!! Off to work (like a good slave).

[DJ Egg]

Yeah, those were the days . . . when everything was properly genre-cised.
Every artist/tune fitted into a category/style, and each style had it's own followers (musically, culturally, and fashion-wise).
Gangs of teds, mods, rockers, punks, stiffs, new romantics, rude boys, skinheads, the lot, everywhere. Hey, those were violent times.
I kinda felt sorry for the hippies, infact, I even became one (from punk 1976-81, to hippy 1981-4, to whatever I am today, lol)

Electronic music never really fitted into any of those styles.
The nearest you'd get was Gary Numan fans dressed in boiler suits...

I suppose the synth-orientated music evolved and split off into different factions.
From Stockhausen to the early 70's electronic stuff (Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Eno, Can, White Noise, etc). This branched off into: avant garde; electronic new wave (progressive/experimental or mainstream); new romantic; synth pop; electro-disco/house; techno/trance; ambient; industrial; to what we have today, etc etc.

btw, I had a little help from my Winamp library with that list.
My memory's not quite as good as it used to be, hehe.

As for my music collection (vinyl, cd, cassette, mp3) . . .
well, you'll probably need 2 or 3 heavy duty forklift trucks to move mine. ;) :D

[Twilightseer]

I wish I could buy as much records as DJEgg :eek: :D

I see that DJEgg listed Propaganda, what an awesome album "A Secret Wish" is :) Fantastic production and sound design. And speaking of ZTT records, Art Of Noise is an incredible band. I bought their latest Studio release (2000) called The Seduction Of Claude Debussy, it's of the most fascinating electronic records I've ever heard. Moments In Love and Close To The Edit are classics :)

[Cylob]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Electronic music never really fitted into any of those styles.
The nearest you'd get was Gary Numan fans dressed in boiler suits...


hehehe! A bit of a risk walking down a late 70's street in a such attire - what if you bumped into a bunch of skinheads?????

I find the development of electronic music interesting, it seems to be the German contingent who really brought it about. I'm only just getting into early krautrock (Can & Neu! in particular). I find Can heavy going, Neu! are more accessible (thanks to Stereolab). I've always liked Kraftwerk - didn't they coin the first electronic dance sound?

My own music collection's now entirely MP3 based, a marvel of modern technology (until a HD blows that is). It has a habit of growing exponentially. But if people will make good music......

Thanks for your insight into electronica/new wave DJ Egg, jolly decent of you to share your expertise. Your band-list (78-82) is rather nostalgic actually, bands with attitude and purpose. It's all a bit different these days - there's still a wealth of good music, but what about the attitude???

[Cylob]

Originally posted by Twilightseer
And speaking of ZTT records, Art Of Noise is an incredible band. I bought their latest Studio release (2000) called The Seduction Of Claude Debussy, it's of the most fascinating electronic records I've ever heard. Moments In Love and Close To The Edit are classics :)

They're still going??????? That is a surprise!!! Close to the Edit must be a New Wave classic. :) ... And Peter Gunn.