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New Wave / Punk forebears...

#401
whatizitman said:
hells yeah. Maybe kind of post post-punk, but definitely forebearers of so much alt country. I love Son Volt, too. I never could get Wilco, though. I've tried many times, and just can't get through an album.
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An album?!? Wow hats off; even with Nels Cline (one of my absolute favourite guitarists) I can barely make it through a single Wilco song! I think THEY seem great, but I just can't take their music - and I've tried.
 
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Anyone else besides me like the Surf Punks? This first record was great. The crazy day glo cover caught my eye back in 82 at The Record Factory. I had no idea what they sounded like but bought it anyway. I've been listening to it regularly ever since. The grungy, picked p-bass tone really stands out on this LP. I dig the production and goofy songs.

Anyone else like this?

 
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blindrabbit said:
I hope it doesn't either, SO much good music in here. So so much.
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And strangely relevant to me, as well.

I grew up in the 80s but New Wave wasn't really my thing at the time; I was a Rush head and listened to a lot of metal and prog.

But that post punk and new wave sound was all around me, part of the background noise, movie soundtracks and so on. This thread has me taking a serious look at that music with a fresh ear and really digging it.

Meanwhile the band I'm in is all guys too young to remember the 80s, but who are cooking up sounds that are very informed by the post punk sound. They aren't burdened by the memories of being in high school and being assigned to this clique or that based on what music you were into and all of that BS; to them it's all just retro-cool music and it sounds way better than what they're being fed on radio and so on, so that's what they dig right now.

Not to mention all the French new wave stuff that, thanks to the internet, I am finally being introduced to. Even Soviet and communist Polish bands out there on the youtubes.
 
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Muddslide said:
Love to hear if anyone has similar memories or tastes from that time and add to this list, but for me these were really big influences in my early days of playing. (In no particular order.)

DAVE ALLEN (Gang of Four and Shriekback)
DAVID J (Bauhaus)
STEVEN SEVERIN (Siouxsie & The Banshees)
TRACY PEW (Birthday Party. This guy was a monster!)
CLINT CONLEY (from the criminally underrated Mission of Burma)
JOHN ARCHER (Hunters & Collectors--their "Jaws of Life" album is an all time favorite)
LES PATTINSON (Echo & The Bunnymen)
WILL HEGGIE (from the very early days of Cocteau Twins)
PETER HOOK (Joy Division and New Order)

Anyone got people to add?
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Most bassist in the list above were an influence to me in the eighties, I especially remember seeing Peter Hook and Tracy Pew from those days.
Others that I like to mention are Jah Wobble, Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Graham Lewis (Wire), Craig Adams (the Sisters of Mercy), Simon Gallup (the Cure), Harry Crosby (Swans), Luc Ex (The Ex), Dean Dennis & Steven James Turner (Clock DVA), Martin "Youth" Glover & Paul Raven (Killing Joke), Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), Michael Bradley (Undertones) and Mick Karn.

Spectrum said:
Not to mention all the French new wave stuff that, thanks to the internet, I am finally being introduced to. Even Soviet and communist Polish bands out there on the youtubes.
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German "New Wave" was popular among my friends in those days.
 
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