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Postby empyrean » Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:10 am

British New Wave bands or American New Wave bands?

The Brits of course while the US can only produce REM as the best in NW genre. [:D]

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Postby Judas101 » Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:51 am

[quote]Originally posted by empyrean
[br]British New Wave bands or American New Wave bands?

The Brits of course while the US can only produce REM as the best in NW genre. [:D]

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I Think the Germans had some great New Wave bands too..


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Postby zill » Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:59 am

Are there any new wave bands with equal parts of Brits and Yanks?
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Postby Bitter Almonds » Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:42 am

[quote]Originally posted by empyrean
[br]British New Wave bands or American New Wave bands?

The Brits of course while the US can only produce REM as the best in NW genre. [:D]

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Postby Ollie Stench » Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:35 am

Its a subjective question with 1,000,003 subjective answers.
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Postby wherewereuin82 » Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:35 am

[quote]Originally posted by empyrean
[br]British New Wave bands or American New Wave bands?


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Canadian New Wave Bands
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Postby SomebodySomewhere » Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:51 am

Flipino New Wave bands.
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Postby Frau_Blucher » Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:04 am

REM = Not New Wave
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Postby djcraig » Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:28 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>REM = Not New Wave
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Blasphemy and outright poppycock!

You should have your NW Outpost license revoked for spouting such nonsense.




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Postby My Aural Stimulator » Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:03 pm

Where does gentle wave fit in?
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Postby empyrean » Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:01 pm

[quote][i]Originally posted by SomebodySomewhere[/i]
<br>Flipino New Wave bands.
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Well, everybody already knew this. So aside from Filipino New Wave bands?

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Postby eight6 » Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:13 pm

British: but only because georgie includes his caterwauling as New Wave, putting a severe drag on the U.S. level of quality.

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Postby hisoka866 » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:43 pm

[8)]

brit new wave-american new wave-canadian new wave-german new wave-filipino new wave..

one thing leads to another..
are we ourselves?
[;)]
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Postby TheMunDial » Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:58 pm

New Wave was a British phenomenon that spilled over to the States with blotchy results, pure and simple.

Yep, oversimplifying rocks.

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Postby Bitter Almonds » Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:20 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by TheMunDial[/i]
<br>New Wave was a British phenomenon that spilled over to the States with blotchy results, pure and simple.

Yep, oversimplifying rocks.

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<p align="justify">New Wave was an American invention that the British polished up a bit[}:)]
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