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CanzetYote wrote:I think Cutting Crew is more AOR than New Wave.
WoodlandParkPunk wrote:I believe and I could be wrong but one of the guys in the Cutting Crew was in a very early Iron Maiden lineup
Angstytimelord wrote:I think it's more the era they first became famous in than anything else that labels them "new wave." People called 'til tuesday "new wave" back in the 80s, too, but they were a pop group, plain and simple. Same for a-ha. And Crowded House is another band that I think was a Top 40 pop group (which is not a bad thing! I love pop music!) who were labeled "new wave" just because Neil Finn was once in Split Enz.
But in the end, no matter what label people choose to put on a band, it all comes back to pop music, doesn't it? I mean, what were the Beatles but a pop band? There are too many people who think the words "pop music" are some kind of phrase from the deep dark depths of hell. There's a reason that pop music has been around for so long. It's carefree. It's fun. People enjoy it. And being labeled as a "pop band" is NOT some horrible insult. After all, "pop" is the shortened version of "popular." And I'm sure that no band wants to toil in obscurity. Being popular (but not selling out!) is always the goal.
Sorry. I kind of tend to get on a bit of a soapbox about that.
MissingPersons wrote:How about bands like Camouflage and When In Rome who came after the Synth-Pop fad was gone? Weren't they Synth-Pop?
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