New Wave Outpost Forum

Here's how this happened. Around about '97 or '98 I decided that I really wanted to collect the new wave music I remembered from my youth. I'd always kept a soft spot for it, but had pushed it into the background as part of my past.

Anyway, I started collecting CDs and really enjoyed hearing lots of stuff that I hadn't heard in years. Then I discovered Napster and got to hear a lot of more obscure stuff.

Now, thanks largely to this site, I listen to a lot of great new wave that I missed back in the day, mixed in with familiar favorites and newer stuff. I'm enjoying this and don't see myself getting tired of new wave anytime soon.

I must have collected pretty much everything I heard back in the day, because those, "Oh yeah! I remember that great song!" moments are now few and far between.

Now a lot of my old favorites remind me of the new wave revival part of my life - the late 90's - more than the time when I first heard them.

Is anyone else finding their musical nostalgia getting muddled?

Absolutely--in two levels.

First, in 1988, after four years of college at a ginormous public institution, I started grad school in a separate, much smaller program at the same university. It was like going back to high school, right down the the lockers and the cliques, so for some reason that made me start assembling on cassette all the NW music I had on LP. For that reason, sometimes I'll listen to an album that came out in 1982 but I'll think "1989." How crazy is it that at 22 I was nostalgic for what I had at 18? Pathetic!

Then, in 2004 I wanted to make some CDs to commemorate our 20-year HS reunion, got an iPod, found this site, and learned 10x more about NW than I'd ever known back in the day. When I hear GoF "Entertainment" or Armoury Show, for example, I think "2004" and not "1980" or "1984."

Nostalgia is a funny thing [:D]