Died In Your Arms, New Wave??? How come?
It's an AOR Power Ballad. Then with the same logic, I'll See You In My Dreams by Giant or Love Bites by Def Leppard are "New Wave".
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MissingPersons wrote:Died In Your Arms, New Wave??? How come?
It's an AOR Power Ballad. Then with the same logic, I'll See You In My Dreams by Giant or Love Bites by Def Leppard are "New Wave".
MissingPersons wrote:Again I don't see any New Wave traces in their songs. New Wave has some kind of quirkiness that Cutting Crew never had.
AOR/Soft Rock/Adult Contemporary is what you would call them. They were "New Wave" either because their singer was in a New Wave band before, or because of his Vocal Style. He doesn't sound like Steve Perry, Jimi Jamison or other AOR vocalists.
MissingPersons wrote:Oh by the way I'm listening to Mr. Mister now...
MissingPersons wrote:Guess you don't like them?
They're great imo. Apart from Broken Wings and Kyrie, their album Welcome To The Real World had songs like, Uniform Of Youth, Don't Slow Down, Into My Own Hands...and of course Is It Love which was a Top 10 hit, but it was overshadowed by their two big hits.
bpdp3 wrote:Maybe I'm jaded, but at this point I don't really have much faith in anyone who replies by surrogate to tell us to check out their Jackson Browne, Van Morison-inspired new album on amazon.
bpdp3 wrote:Fair enough....like the man in orthopedic shoes once said, "I stand corrected". As you might imagine, a message board based on new wave sees a lot of one-time marketing blurbs.
I'd be interested to know how your friend felt about how they were packaged vs his own image of the band back then.... did he feel like the record company etc was trying to force an 'image' on them at the time. My interpretation of them based on video and how the records sounded might've been totally different than the band's own...and I think that's a worthy avenue to discuss. Certainly most artists strive to avoid pigeon-holing,yet all are subject to it.
We've had a lot of good conversations on this board over the years about this hard-to-define period of the mid 80s (that introduced many people to bands like Cutting Crew). Regardless, good to hear he was able to transcend that and continue his musical pursuits today.
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