New Wave Outpost Forum

I'm doing some cd-r comps for driving, out of my lp's (sorry, I don't use mp3). One of them is a first volume of American New Wave. Just for curiosity, do you consider all them new wave??? In the difficult cases, what about the indivudual song recorded? I'm doing the second one, with much more unknown peoples, such as The Nerves or Josie Cotton... Oops, I know A Flock of Seagulls were from Liverpool, but it was in the USA where they hitted and grew as a band... The list:

1. BARRACUDA Summer girls
2. THE RUBINOOS I think we’re alone now
3. BLONDIE Denis
4. GO-GO’S We’ve got the beat
5. B-52’S Planet Claire
6. DWIGHT TWILLEY Little bit of love
7. BERLIN No more words
8. TALKING HEADS Pulled up
9. WALL OF VOODOO Elvis bought Dora a Cadillac
10. THE ROMANTICS What I like about you
11. THE KNACK The hard way
12. TOMMY TUTONE Angel says no
13. THE MOTELS Suddenly last summer
14. THE CARS You might think
15. THE BANGLES Manic Monday
16. TELEVISION See no evil
17. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS A one story town
18. THE JIM CARROL BAND I want the angel
19. A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS I ran
20. THE BEAT Rock’n’roll girl
21. DEVO Come back Jonee
22. WARREN ZEVON Werewolves of London
23. VIOLENT FEMMES Prove my love
24. X Breathless

Nice compilation of artists. Essentially, it is new wave even if there are a few artists I do not consider new wave-Warren Zevon, Tom Petty. However, they complement the new wave bands fairly well. This is a good set of bands. I hope you list your sec

This is just MY personal opinion, but I wouldn't classify these as New Wave:

Dwight Twilley
Tommy Tutone
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Warren Zevon

Again- just my opinion. If YOU like them, by all means include them in your CD-R. You have to plea

This is just a thought (by all means do what you want), but why not save AFOS for an English CD, and try some SSQ or Missing Persons.

Thanks for the answers. The doubts were essentially what you mainly mention, Zevon and Petty, but the two songs flow really well in the comp. I am surprised noone mentioned Jim Carroll as non-nw. As for Missing persons, of course they go in the second vol

Echo, you say "I've really got to learn how to make vinyl to CD transfers..."

Ok, go for the easy way, as I did. Buy a cd recorder (not really expensive, mine is a good one and costed around 350 $) , put it in your sound system and just connect it to t

Well to really do it nicely, you need a computer. [:)]

Actually, it can be done very nicely even without a computer, providing you are using mint LP's and have cleaned them well, and have a good stylus and system. I have converted about 400 80s LP's so far, all without a computer, and man, they sound pretty f

SSQ only released one LP in 1983 (simple synth-pop). A song from it was feature on the last NNT (I knew the song, but I got wrong anyways [:I]). I like "Screaming In My Pillow" [:p]. The lead singer (Stacey Q) went on to be a one-hit-wonder with the song

SSQ also contributed 2 songs to the soundtrack of the 1985 movie "Return Of The Living Dead".
"Tonight (We'll Make Love Until We Die) & the instrumental piece called "Trash's Theme".

The soundtrack also featured 45 Grave, The Flesheaters, Roky Erickso