New Wave Outpost Forum

I know I have, but I do not care what other people think of my tastes. I have heard plenty of derogatory comments made of new wave.
A few:
It is fag music.
That it is not "real" music.
It is not worthy any serious consideration.
etc, etc.

To me, these remarks just go to show you when people are afraid of new things, they will attack them.

I think how much new wave has enriched my life but I do not feel sorry for the "sheeple" that do not get it.[;)]

I love the criticism I have heard from Metalheads (circa 1984) about New Wave and then hear them go on about originality of bands like Ratt and Poison. [;)]

Some people "get it" when it comes to New Wave and others don't. That's OK. I don't "get" Count

I hate it when people say something is not "real" music. Music could be a dog farting if you really liked the sound of it. There is no such thing as "real" music. Music is completely individual to the person. I have a friend who has a CD of a guy screamin

Wall of Bingo,
I have to disagree a little. Music should possess a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm. If it doesn't, well then it's just noise. A dog farting is noise. Sampling a dog farting and playing back in a rythmic matter, well now that's mu

Well-back in the day-the rednecks who listened to country or 'Zep and the ubiquotous Journey/Reo/Styx nexus of the 80s gave me some hassle. But, my hometown was also a college town, so there were always a few wierdos around, even if they were largely dope

In high school more than anywhere.
New Wave was considered a "fad" by the majority of the Led Zepplin/Grateful Dead/The Doors loving crowd.
We were the freaks who did not bend to their will & declare Neil Young a god.
I'm still very proud of that.[^]

In junior high and high school, there weren't many people into new wave and punk, so I got hassled a lot about it. Surprisingly, at my school, the metal kids hung out with the wave and punk and gothic kids. The rest of the school was very Top 40 and tre

In Arkansas where I grew up, 99% of the people liked either glam metal or Hank Williams + southern rock crap like Skynard and 38 Special. I managed to convert a few, but I remember one time in particular going into the football locker room before practice

Yeah, me too. I feel bad hearing about this stuff and that it happened to others too.

In high school mostly. People threw rocks at me for listening to new wave and punk (and dressing that way) and annoyed me to no end. One loser chick took a picture o

The ones I have to laugh at are the guys at work that say they love 80's music yet when I mention any bands (even bands I think they would have heard of--Wall Of Voodoo the example) they are clueless and tell me they like real rock--not pop. Their view of

Strangely it was also the Hair Metal fans who were the most vicious at attacking my taste in music. I guess deep down inside even they knew that Hair Metal was embarassing and the only way they could feel secure about liking it was by knocking everything

Back in the day, I was the one in my crowd of friends who went whole hog for new wave. When we went to buy records, I was the one who got laughed at for buying "Give 'Em Enough Rope" by the Clash or "Outlandos d'Lamour" by the Police. One of my friends

all good anecdotes, if not entirely the most pleasant memories !

my town, while i was in high school, was pretty okay in tolerating different musical tastes. one of the guys from Nirvana (Crist Novoselic) went to my school, and he was just as confused

Ridiculed for liking New Wave?

Only all of high school.

Everybody in my school liked classic rock or hair metal. That was it. New Wave was "fag music" to them.

Oh, and Swamp Thing, you said, "Music should possess a degree of melody, harmony, or

[quote]Originally posted by savethewave
Arguing over what is and isn't music is like arguing about which is a better color, red or b