Reply With QuoteI think it was the 1st B-52's album, maybe 1980?
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The first New Wave music I bought was only ten years ago or so when I purchased the following cd.
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Better late than never.....
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I think it was the 1st B-52's album, maybe 1980?
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One of VISAGE discs - Fade to grey ? etc....
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For me, I think it was the first B-52's LP in 1979 [my brother told me to get it...it was weird...but I liked it, especially the first side]
The B-52's
later, The Flying Lizards cover of "Money" ...that's what I want...."
afterthought: now I'm wondering if this is accurate since I did have the first Elvis Costello LP "My Aim Is True" & BLONDIE!!! [how could I forget???]...so I guess it depends on the definition of "New Wave"...
Later on...in the early Eighties, I would think The Human League's first LP was the one that launched my record-buying in that genre...WE LOVED THAT SOUND..went to see them in SF at The Warfield on Market St....not really much of a show..BUT WE LOVED THAT SOUND!!!!
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"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
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Our fellow member Stephen Freeman did a Hot Tracks remix of the song "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors.
"I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so..."
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I remember that shifting of media focus from disco to the friendlier sound of punk called "new wave". I didn't warm to it very quickly...still craving for things to return back to this music that had captured my excited attention. I still hadn't stepped inside a genuine disco club at that time (shy, closeted smalltown boy just reaching the drinking age) so this change left me confused and saddened...why was this happening?
I did like Blondie's Heart of Glass....that was hot disco to these ears but it was their next hit One Way or Another that left me suspicious of things to come. I finally succumbed to this new music in '81 when I bought Pete Shelley's Homosapian but the first full-fledged album I bought was Haircut One Hundred's excelllent Pelican West...I couldn't get enough of their hit Love Plus One.
Dancin' helps relieve the pain, soothes your mind, makes you happy again
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Well, How do you define New Wave.....If you are referring to bands like the Police, Elvis costello, Lene lovich, Gary Numan, then Yes all of them .....so The Police LP's were probably the first...But the Visage records were a particular favourite of the New New Wave for me....
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The Vapors New Clear Days LP, back when "Turning Japanese" was a big hit... if you consider that New Wave.
It was actually the first LP I bought. And I should've just gone with the single. :/
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The disco era was officially over when this "new wave" album came out. The little face dots are totally rad. LOL!!
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Flying Lizards - LP
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I think it was "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by Elton Motello and the B-52's very first LP (the same yellow covered one Marky mentioned above).
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Straight Lines by New Musik
"Because there's music in the air."
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Me too,it was the B-52'S first album in the summer of 1979,but my first new wave single was either POP MUSIK by M,or REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL PT.3 by IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS.
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When new wave arrived in Brazil it was like an invasion. Everything was "new wave". Even Kate Bush with her gloomy uncommercial masterpiece THE DREAMING in 1983 was labelled new wave. This placed her alongside post-punk groups like SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES and COCTEAU TWINS.
But I make a distinction, leaving the NEW WAVE label to POP-ROCK or ROCK bands like POLICE, IAN DURY, ELVIS COSTELLO, MADNESS, TALKING HEADS, PRETENDERS, SIMPLE MINDS, STRAY CATS, GO-GO's, B-52's, BLONDIE, THE SPECIALS, THE BEAT, etc..
As I don't like rock, the only albums I had then were GHOST IN THE MACHINE and SYNCRONICITY by THE POLICE.
On the other hand, there was TECHNO-POP or SYNTH-POP which was an offshot from new wave, with groups like SOFT CELL, THOMAS DOLBY, OMD, HUMAN LEAGUE, A FLOCK OF SEAGULS, DEPECHE MODE, YAZOO, VISAGE, EURYTHMICS, THOMPSON TWINS, TALK TALK, ULTRAVOX...
To my taste, this groups were much more interesting because they were musically more daring with their blend of new wave rock + electronics + disco.
I think techno-pop helped the rise of euro-disco. Almost every techno-pop group had 3 or 4 electronic-disco songs per album. When disco drew back to the underground in 1981/1982, it was the electronic-disco songs from the synth-pop groups which were on the airwaves.
SOFT CELL, THOMAS DOLBY, DEPECHE MODE, THE BUGGLES, YAZOO, HUMAN LEAGUE paved the way to PET SHOP BOYS, NEW ORDER, DEAD OR ALIVE, SANDRA, RICK ASTLEY, STOCK-AITKEN-WATERMAN.
Some examples of electronic synth-pop disco songs:
1981 DONT YOU WANT ME - HUMAN LEAGUE
1981 MEMORABILIA - SOFT CELL
1981 SEX DWARF - SOFT CELL
1981 THE WHOLE "SPEAK AND SPELL" ALBUM - BY DEPECHE MODE
1982 ONE OF OUR SUBMARINES - THOMAS DOLBY
1982 TORCH - SOFT CELL
1982 SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE - THOMAS DOLBY
1982 NIGHT TRAIN - VISAGE
1983 SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS - EURYTHMICS
1983 DON'T GO - YAZOO
1983 BLUE MONDAY - NEW ORDER (euro-disco?)
1983 BUILD ME A BRIDGE - ADELE BERTEI & THOMAS DOLBY
1983 GET OUT OF MY MIX - THOMAS DOLBY
1984 SEX CRIME - EURYTHMICS
1984 RELAX - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
1985 FIELD WORK - RYUISHI SAKAMOTO & THOMAS DOLBY
It was said that SOFT CELL's second album (NON-STOP ECSTATIC DANCING) is the first REMIX album ever released, predating HUMAN LEAGUE's REMIX album LOVE AND DANCING... both from 1982.
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Actually, these two songs are from 1983, and weren't on the original versions of The Golden Age Of Wireless, which was revised when the single became a huge hit.Originally Written by Paulo
Between the different North American vs European releases, and the subsequent revisions of them, there are at least 5 different versions of this LP! I like the original UK best, even though I love "Leipzig", "Urges" and the rock version of "Radio Silence", which were only on the first North American version.
Duran Duran's Rio is another album from the same period that has 4 different revisions. However, the tracklisting remained constant throughout, it was just the mixes of the songs on side one (plus a minor edit to "Save A Prayer") that changed.
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In retrospect, I think my first was actually this:
Blondie
LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for correcting. The 12" of SCIENCE and SUBMARINES was released in january 1983 (on Blinded By Science Mini-LP).
I didn't know you liked Thomas Dolby or synth-pop. Have you got 1980's BRUSSELS FROM LOVE? It is on CD now with a good sound quality. It has the demo-tape of Thomas Dolby's AIRWAVES (re-recorded in 1982 to THE GOLDEN AGE OF WIRELESS)...
BRUSSELS has other songs by Brian Eno (interview), A Certain Ratio, John Foxx (Ultravox), Harold Budd, Durutti Column. Quite experimental sound.
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I only really got into Dolby a few months ago, although I bought the UK 12" of "Science" back when it came out. It's a shame that he's only known for that (and maybe "Hyperactive") because it pigeon-holed him into writing novelty songs, but he's really a *brilliant* songwriter. "Screen Kiss" is incredible; as good as anything Joni Mitchell ever wrote. "Airwaves" and "Weightless" are pure excellence.
I spent a lot of time collecting all the different versions of The Golden Age of Wireless (and Duran Duran's Rio) and compiling them into one. :)
Nope, but I plan on getting it. I only found out about this recently. Supposedly Dolby's The Golden Age of Wireless and The Flat Earth albums are getting deluxe reissues in a few months.
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I have a version of "She Blinded Me With Science" mixed by some guy named Bobby Viteritti.
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Thomas Dolby wrote a really catchy song in the late 80s for Prefab Sprout called 'The King Of Rock & Roll'.
...ya gotta beat the street......
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Glad you like SCREEN KISS. THE FLAT EARTH is considered by the Dolby community his best album.
I bought it on its release in 1984, not because of his previous hit (Science), but because a brazilian review made a connection between him, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush.... : The 3 were keyboard wizards. The 3 were exceptional composers and arrangers. The 3 made sophisticated clever music. The 3 were in the same league.
The review ended saying the album was the best thing realeased by an 80's artist (up to that moment).
I regard THE FLAT EARTH as good as Kate Bush's THE DREAMING or PETER GABRIEL's IV... all 3 from 1982/1983. I think it is very emotional... DISSIDENTS, MULU THE RAIN FOREST, I SCARE MYSELF, SCREEN KISS and FLAT EARTH.
But for me his best song is on ALIENS ATE MY BUICK : BUDAPEST BY BLIMP. Such a melancholic tune... until a funk rythm bursts in the middle of the song.
My favourite album is ASTRONAUTS AND HERETICS. I LOVE YOU GOODBYE, NEON SISTERS, BEAUTY OF A DREAM and I LIVE IN A SUITCASE are my favourite tracks.
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I SCARE MYSELF is a particularly nice song.
For anyone to have a listening session on a nice sound system it definitely adds up to the listening pleasure.
I like the "cleanliness" and the care he puts in all of his musical productions.
He's one of these artist who doesn't collect all the praise he should be having.
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LOVE "I SCARE MYSELF"....but remember Dolby didn't write this one; it is a cover, originally done by an offbeat Seventies band called Dan Hick & His Hot Licks--[Hicks is the composer]....sort of a mashup between SF hippies and retro swing....with a oddball sense of humor mixed in...Dan was a stone-faced lead singer with 2 retro backup chicks who kinda emanated a Maria Muldaur vibe...always liked them...they did a lot of TV.
My other fave track was titled "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away"....great title and tune!
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
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I think I never bought any unless «Heart of Glass» is considered new wave. To my surprise, I never heard the songs listed in this thread and it's the first time I see most of their names :icon_lol:.
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I was SO MAD that It had monopolized the dance floor
from 1981...on..that I did'nt warm up to it quickly and tried to rebel.. of course artists like Blondie I loved already because they were already there before .. so I would say Blondie
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