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bpdp3 wrote:Agree that nailing down an initial song is downright daunting. And can’t argue that the bands mentioned were influential; but I don’t consider any of them “New wave”. To me, as a term and movement you’d see commonly in music mags, etc I’d say that it started in 79.
But then the march ‘77 issue of Trouser Press has an article on English new wave, and cites pistols, clash, vibrators, Eddie and the hot rods, damned, etc. I don’t think of them as ‘new wave’, but I guess that term must’ve been concurrent with ‘punk’?? So who knows....
I think most will agree that new wave has a fairly tight temporal component. Tighter than rap or heavy metal. I usually think of new wave as 79-81 or 82. The bands that broke on mtv like haircut 100 and flock of seagulls? I don’t recall them being called “new wave” when they arrived. Already new wave was a passe’ term. But I won’t argue the fact with you if you insist that new wave stretched into the mid 80s.
Someone on this site once said the LAST hit song for new wave was ‘the promise’ by when in Rome. Maybe?!? But first song? I can’t pinpoint it. Rock Lobster? My Sharona? M’s ‘pop music’? There’s no clear ground zero.... of this I’m certain.
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