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Poll Question: Who make best music'
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I went with Joe Jackson, although I think of his first two as straight ahead punk than 80's new wave, they both came out in '79 I believe. I was a bit of a punker back then.
 
PS - Shouldn't Rush be on this list? (See Power Windows, Hold Your Fire) Tongue Wink
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I don't really like any of these bands, but if forced to vote I will raise my hand for Ultravox. The music all these bands made was strangely cold and emotionless (which of course was fashionable at the time it was made; showing no emotions was definitely en vogue). Typical and very descriptive of that aera is the song "Eiszeit" ("Ice Age") by German band Ideal, which contains the lines:
"Alle Worte tausendmal gesagt,
alle Fragen tausendmal gefragt,
alle Gefühle tausendmal gefühlt,
tiefgefroren, tiefgekühlt"
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"All words already said a thousand times,
all questions already asked a thousand times,
all feelings already felt a thousand times,
deep frozen, low temperature cooled".


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2007 at 14:58
^^Tha Jam....Squeeze....cold and emotionless??? Definitely NOT!!! Even U2  not, methinks.
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U2 is anything but cold and emotionless. I say if you call The Joshua Tree that, it's you who's cold and emotionless.
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I dislike U2 for other reasons. Maybe they are not cold and emotionless, but they are uninspired, in my opinion.


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        where's XTC?
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Hmmmm.... The following bands, in my opinion, do not belong under the heading of "new wave": The Police, U2, Men at Work.  The Police and U2 are far more "world music" and Men at Work were a straight forward pop-rock band.  I chose The Cars because in my neck of the woods, they were the 1st new wave band to get regular airplay on the radio, establishing new wave as a sound to take notice of.
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Talking Heads are absolutely my favorite new wave band, though the two albums I listen to the most are from the late '70s, not the '80s.  I enjoy many of the bands on this list, even Duran Duran in moderation when I'm in the right mood.  New wave is kind of my other genre.

I've never seen Huey Lewis and the News classified as new wave, but it's a label that has been put on a lot of music from the 1977-1985 period, so I won't object as it's something everyone defines differently (hmm, never heard of a genre like that before).
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Points: 2696 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2007 at 10:57
I like (liked at the time) quite a few from that list.........Cool 
I tihnk it is VERY difficult to say who is the best but maybe my favourites are/were Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Ultravox, U2, The Eurythmics.
 
I still listen to at least two of these bands fairly regularly..............
 
but as to who is best........I don't know!
 
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simple minds
[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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Devo times a gazillion!
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Police and Talking Heads, the Cure was ok as well.



  
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OMD and the Cure are my two favourite groups of then, and also at a close third is the Police
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I went with Tears for Fears simply because as a youngster,  I liked most of their songs, especially The Working Hour.

Other good ones which aren't mentioned are The Wild Swans,  Joy Division,  The Chameleons UK,  The Adventures,  The Church, and The Bolshoi, among some others.


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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2007 at 09:13
My friends laugh at me when I say it, but I don't care: I always loved the two Buggles albums Thumbs%20Up
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Points: 997 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2007 at 10:02
I went with the Simple Minds, allthough I like a lot of bands from this list.
Some nice ones which are not in the list: Fisher Z, Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division
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Points: 2614 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2007 at 03:43
This is hardly a list of New Wave groups from 80s.

Devo...U2...Talk Talk...and many others on that list are NOT new wave.
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Points: 3491 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2007 at 11:03

Where is the best band of the 80's.. The Smiths ?!

 
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Points: 3252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:21
Originally posted by Zargus Zargus wrote:

Where is the best band of the 80's.. The Smiths ?!

 

I dont like the voice of Morrisey but perhaps in other poll....
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I like The Fixx.
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