Apparently I like New Wave! Or New Romantics!
I hate the term prog, though. It sounds unfinished aloud, and in print I always read it as prong
Harmony: Somebody remembered to pick me up the sweetest unicorn. Guess someone was feeling guilty for standing me up in tenth grade. Brad: What? Had to get her something. She sired me. Peaches: Sire-whipped.
'Beneath You'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 27, 2013 4:06:50 am PDT #5587 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
DavidS - Mar 27, 2013 5:51:56 am PDT #5588 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and Adam Ant disavows the label
Tough shit! Musicians don't get to decide what buckets we put them in! That's my job.
Also, Siouxsie? Goth! Bauhaus? Goth! Sisters of Mercy? Guess what? UBER GOTH! Tough shit you goth-denying doofus. Your name is fucking Andrew Eldritch, (real name in 4th form: Andy Taylor) so quit whining about how your music is misunderstood and miscategorized. And then you park goth icon, Patricia Morrison, next to you with the biggest hair in Christendom and you're going to say you're not Goth?
Anyway, Adam Ant practically defines New Romanticism with his piratey/highwayman get-ups. What's more Romantic than puffy pirate shirts?
Frankenbuddha - Mar 27, 2013 6:34:41 am PDT #5589 of 6436
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The American wing of New Wave was generally the poppier/dancier end of the CBGBs bands (specifically Talking Heads and Blondie, but not just). Then there were folks like Patti Smith and Television who weren't really Punk or only occasinally Punk sound-wise, but not really New Wave either.
There were bands doing similar things popping up around the country at that time as well (The Cars out of Boston, for instance).
P.M. Marc - Mar 27, 2013 7:36:47 am PDT #5590 of 6436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
real name in 4th form: Andy Taylor
He should clearly join Duran Duran.
sumi - Mar 27, 2013 7:50:18 am PDT #5591 of 6436
Art Crawl!!!
Ha!
Tom Scola - Mar 27, 2013 8:36:09 am PDT #5592 of 6436
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Jon B. - Mar 27, 2013 10:49:43 am PDT #5593 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Then there were folks like Patti Smith and Television who weren't really Punk or only occasinally Punk sound-wise
Maybe looking through today's narrow-vision punk glasses they weren't, but at the time? Definitely Punk!
DavidS - Mar 27, 2013 11:06:39 am PDT #5594 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Maybe looking through today's narrow-vision punk glasses they weren't, but at the time? Definitely Punk!
As Verlaine himself said, "In the beginning of Punk every band was it's own strange little idea."
The idea that punk could be something homogenous or defined by The Ramones would've seemed ridiculous.
tommyrot - Mar 27, 2013 11:12:56 am PDT #5595 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Someone once told me he considered Punk to consist of the Sex Pistols and other British bands involved in the UK punk scene in '76 and '77. And that was it.
DavidS - Mar 27, 2013 11:19:23 am PDT #5596 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Someone once told me he considered Punk to consist of the Sex Pistols and other British bands involved in the UK punk scene in '76 and '77. And that was it.
They're stupid and wrong. Any definition of Punk that doesn't include The Ramones is worthless. Any definition that would exclude Richard Hell and the Voidoids is worthless.