Bursting onto the Scene!

[tatermaven]

Hi!

I have gotten bored with my usual messageboard of choice, where I've amassed a shameful number of posts (which shows how unwisely I squander my free time). At 34, I'm one of the older posters there, but I'm guessing that I'll be among the younger posters here, and I thought that would be nice for a change. So after a period of consideration, I've decided to roost here. Bully for me, eh?

Anyway, a little bit about me and what I'm doing here: As seems to be par for the course with me, I've gotten into New Wave retroactively, because I've always been too late for the trend. By the time I had any serious musical leanings, New Wave was just about on its way out. As an elementary schooler in the late 70s and early 80s, most of what I remember of New Wave the first time around was whatever was played on Top 40 radio...Blondie, Devo, The Cars, Stray Cats, Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran, Culture Club, etc. But I was too young at the time to really experience it as a musical movement or to recognize its significance.

I made a few lamentable musical choices as a young music fan (I was a pre-adolescent metalhead), but my tastes tended to be all over the map--heavy metal one month, rap the next, then reggae, then "progressive," then hardcore, then industrial, and so on.

I started to be intrigued by punk rock in about '84 or so, when I became friends with a classmate of mine who would always talk about the movie <I>Repo Man</I> and bands like the Circle Jerks. Around the same time I started seeing SST ads for Black Flag records in my copies of <I>Circus</I> and <I>Hit Parader</I>. It seemed pretty scary and forbidden at the time.

I guess my first real introduction to more diverse and obscure world of New Wave was in '85 or so, when I found a copy of the <I>Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records</I> at the local library. Around the same time, I found another (photograph-heavy) book that might have been called simply <I>The New Music</I> or something like that. Those two books really opened my mind, and although I never did swear an oath of fealty to any one musical genre, from then on I actively started to seek out more colorful music with a non-discriminatory glee (I was as much into XTC and The Art of Noise as I was The Cramps and Suicidal Tendencies).

When I picked up my first copies of MAXIMUMROCKNROLL and Flipside at the neighborhood record shop, I had a brand new musical reawakening. I was very much into punk and hardcore by the time I was old enough to actively participate in the music scene (joining bands, going to shows, writing zines). I'm glad that I got a couple of good years in before Nirvana broke big and changed everything.

Don't get me wrong, I loved a lot of 90s music, but by the end of the decade things had gotten increasingly stale. Contemporary music seemed to have lost much of its joy. After spending countless hundreds of dollars on CDs by bland, rote, and derivative bands, I realized that I was much more interested in the origins of modern rock than in its third-generation offshoots. Since the late 90s or so, I've been rediscovering loads of bands that were the innovators, that somehow I hadn't paid more than a passing amount of attention to the first time around: Wire, Gang of Four, The Birthday Party, Kraftwerk...on and on.

In any case, whenever I listen to late 70s/ early 80s music, this curious wave of nostalgia washes over me. "Curious" because I was never really a part of it, more like a young observer. But the music itself is just...fun. Fun in a way that is both dated and amazingly fresh. Fun and daring in a way that most contemporary bands just can't seem to capture or recapture.

I guess I've always felt that I was born about 7-10 years too late and that I really missed out on the heyday of something remarkable (even though I was "around" at the time, just not quite old enough to really "get" it). But now that I can actually buy albums by the dozen, which I didn't have the wherewithal to do as a whippersnapper, I can at least enjoy New Wave vicariously.

Anyway, sorry for the rant.

To summarize: Hi!

[ben_at_work]

Hey Tater! Welcome. I loved Repo Man and wore out the vhs and the cassette soundtrack.HAHAHAHAHA "UFO" United Fruitcake Outlet!!!! HAHAHAHA

[tatermaven]

HUZZAH! My very first reply here!

Yeah, <I>Repo Man</I> is intense. There's been talk of a sequel for years, but I don't know if that's a good idea. It was a product of its time.

"I don't want no commies in my car. And no Christians, either!"

[toe_jam_on_toast]

repo man? intense?

"A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations"

i've heard whispering before about a sequel to it though, which better not happen because there's no bands around today that could provide as fantastic a soundtrack as was made then...that soundtrack should have been given an acting credit cos it helps make the film!!

when i was younger i used to ask my mum to buy the cheap own range supermarket tins because they had white labels just like in the film!! i always wanted a tin that just said 'food' on it!

"Find one in every car. You'll see"





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[ben_at_work]

[quote][i]Originally posted by tatermaven[/i]
<br>HUZZAH! My very first reply here!

Yeah, <I>Repo Man</I> is intense.
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"A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations. The life of a repo man is always intense. " HAHAHAHA
Theyd butcher a sequel. By they... I mean society!!!

[DayGloJo]

Welcome, tatermaven!
And you are right, you do have a lot of time on your hands. Looking forward to reading your future posts.


NWO: way more fun than data modelling.

[WolverineSyr]

Welcome aboard Tatermaven! There are lots & lots of Repo Men fans here, as well as many virtual taters!

[Bitter Almonds]

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Welcome a-board[}:)]

[phillyidol]

Welcome tater! ( now everybody, lets not scare this one away)[;)]

[Otters Walk Among Us]

your story is similar to mine, tater. I'm 34 as well, didn't know a lot the first time around. I can say that I knew a popular Elvis Costello tune or two when I was 11, but it really wasn't any different to me than any popular tune by Styx or Journey. It wasn't until I started to explore on my own that I learned to separate the good stuff from the crap. I, too, sometimes think I was born about 7-10 years too late, but I can't be too mad at my parents. My mom was only 18 when I was born so they did get me out as soon as they could.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote]Originally posted by tatermaven
[br]Fun in a way that is both dated and amazingly fresh.
[/quote]
OMG, that's me! Man, I've been looking for a new sig and the new guy may have just stumbled upon it!!

[Otters Walk Among Us]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[quote]Originally posted by tatermaven
[br]Fun in a way that is both dated and amazingly fresh.
[/quote]
OMG, that's me! Man, I've been looking for a new sig and the new guy may have just stumbled upon it!!
[/quote]

That would actually work pretty well for otter pop radio as well.

[manekineko]

Welcome, tatermaven! Good to have you here. You're not alone in discovering the New Wave music that you missed the first time around. Many of us around here have said the same thing at one time or another, including me. That's one of the best things about this place--getting turned on to artists and songs that somehow escaped my radar twenty years ago, by like-minded friends whose impeccable taste I trust.

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[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by manekineko[/i]
<br>That's one of the best things about this place--getting turned on
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That's our Manekineko! [}:)][;)]

[UniversalRadio]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by manekineko[/i]
<br>That's one of the best things about this place--getting turned on
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That's our Manekineko! [}:)][;)]
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This from a moderator? OMG we are in trouble.[:D]

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