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    Posted: June 29 2013 at 11:37
Recomend me some obscure new wave bands, with ton of keys and weird time signatures like a blend of Spandau Ballet, Level 42, and Twelfth Night. I love 80 sounds and '80 digital synth, so let's start. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2013 at 14:12
Hmm, tough one. Bill Nelson did some vaguely proggy new wave stuff after he left Be Bop Deluxe. Other than that, you might have to go the post-punk route and look at bands like Pere Ubu or the Red Krayola.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2013 at 14:17
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2013 at 14:47
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2013 at 14:51
I don't listen to much New Wave but I like Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark. Perhaps you would too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2013 at 19:45
Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

I don't listen to much New Wave but I like Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark. Perhaps you would too.

OMD's first two (O.M.D. & Organisation) I'd especially recommend. Messages, Stanlow, Statues, Enola Gay, Julia's Song are definitely prog-leaning.

Ultravox's "Quartet" too, if you haven't already checked them out.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2013 at 22:09
Obscure...? Maybe you can find something obscure in this list   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Wave_bands_and_artists
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2013 at 23:16
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2013 at 23:29
^ XTC definitely! Just don't try to suggest that they're prog, or even prog related. That's blasphemy.   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2013 at 06:54
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2013 at 06:57
Not that obscure, but Propaganda.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2013 at 11:44
Yes guys you're right, but are u sure all these are prog? Some bands u suggest me have a punk feeling...with no much keys and synth, the other are full new wave...too simple the rythm.I want hear a complex moog solo in neoprog vein, but with the catchy feeling of new wave


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2013 at 23:22
The band's not obscure but the album is.  Before Split Enz became MTV new wave darlings they released a great prog record in '76 called "Mental Notes".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2013 at 01:43
Originally posted by Aragon Aragon wrote:

Yes guys you're right, but are u sure all these are prog? Some bands u suggest me have a punk feeling...with no much keys and synth, the other are full new wave...too simple the rythm.I want hear a complex moog solo in neoprog vein, but with the catchy feeling of new wave

probably doesn't exist tbh

Propaganda are worth checking out. Their album was produced by Trevor Horn and features contributions from Stewart Copeland , Ian Mosely (think I have the right Marillion drummer without checking) and Steve Howe. The track Dream Within A Dream is the most proggiest although admittedly a lot of their music owes more to German Industrial sounds than prog (with a hint of Tangerine Dream).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2013 at 03:23
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2013 at 14:16
Perhaps the last couple of Police albums? They were heading in a slightly prog direction and utilising the tech at their disposal extremely well. I absolutely love Synchronicity Part One.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2013 at 08:26
I've mentioned this somewhere else but I think early-80's 'Utopia' (lead by Todd Rundgren) displays some proggy tendencies amongst the whole New Wave approach (I recall on some live recording Todd announcing "we was New Wave when there was no wave...".  All the guys are great musicians but keyboardist Roger Powell shines especially.  Something about the (generally dismissed) 'Oblivion' album fascinates me.  I admire how amongst a live set they can perform something rivetting and complex as 'The Seven Rays' and then play 'Can we Still be Friends'. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2013 at 08:49
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2013 at 12:14
I agree with the early OMD stuff. Very Kraftwerkian. 
Simple Minds, New Gold Dream and earlier.
Of course XTC and Talking Heads
Blondie Parallel Lines? Maybe, at least Fripp is there.
Japan
Ultravox
There are some New Wave artists that aren't prog but proggers tend to like, like
The Cure
Gary Numan (early)

I guess all I'm doing is listing some of the stuff that helped me transition into the 80's when Prog lost its appeal. Ralph records was great, with bands like Tuxedomoon and Yello.

Some obscurities to try and find are Ceramic Hello and Experiments With Ice. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2013 at 06:05
Blancmange, Tears For Fears, Kajagoogoo (featuring Nick Beggs) and the aforementioned Propaganda. All these definitely had a prog element.
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