telekon3 wrote:Usually I found New Wave music to be the music of upbeat intelligent positive individuals.
Upbeat? Well, let me take a bit of an exception to it if I may - as New Wave music seems to me maybe the most DOWNbeat of all modern popular music ever, be it melodic content, lyrics or general vibe. It's either escapist message (i.e. "don't wanna be here no more") or disappointed sarcastic commentary (i.e. "there must be more to hate than this"). Even seemingly upbeat stuff usually has some disconcerting/discomforting undertone to it. So intelligent is obviously yes, but upbeat and positive - hell no!
OK, had my rant, thank you for reading
Please do go on about "Autumnal Park" - I enjoy this album so much that it often eclipses work of my favourite bands as a preffered choice of listening. Such a quintessential New Wave/Synth Pop/New Romantic album, not a weak song and THE sound of the 1980s if I had to name one example! A work of genuis and no wonder Pseudo Echo didn't even came close to matching it.