Is NewWaveChick1 really a New Wave Chick?

I mean...could we REALLY see her bopping at CBGBs?

Inquiring minds want to know...

:shrug:

Talking Heads, Blondie, The Ramones...they were all New Wave or proto-punk...

New Wave. I guess I don't know what type of music/attitude is considered New Wave.

I have a big collection of New Wave, and I used to hang out in dance clubs that specialized in New Wave. I even have a picture to prove it! :D I'll have to dig it out and post it---probably this weekend. It was in 1982 when I was 19 and headed to the Adam Ant concert!

So do you still do your do in a new wave style?

Still wear catsuits like Souxie?

...and I still have it somewhere. I haven't done the New Wave dress thing in a while. However, the New Wave music plays constantly at my house (and in my car, and on my computer...). :)

I've got Talking Heads "Remain in Light" turning on my sys...

playing in my computer CD drive. :) Love it! And "Remain in Light" is superb...

MP3 files of: 88 Lines about 44 Women by the Nails, Are You Ready For The Sex Girls? by The Gleaming Spires, a whole bunch of Josie Cotten songs (Johnny, Are You Queer? is my favorite by her!), Blitzkrieg Bop and Cretin Hop by the Ramones, and Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

CDs were: Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants, Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful by the Waitresses, and Armed Forces by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. :)

My sister tells me of a concert she saw. There he was, doing his thing and doing it really well. But at some point he turned his back to the audience and there it was: evidence of impending pilgarlichood (is that a word?)

It happens to the best of men. And some women, too.

Never noticed that, though.... :) Maybe it was prior to his impending pilgarlichood...:P

were really punk. Although the line can sometimes be hard to draw.

Adam Ant and Gary Numan seem to fit the New Wave def., though. All my women friends wore black suit jackets in college ( a la Patti Smith), and I suppose that was more "new wave" than punk from a purely fashion sense. But it's hard to tell from this distance. ;)

Interchangeable terms.

I listened to what I liked, which was primarily New Wave but also included The Ramones, The Sex Pistol, Plasmatics, Dead Kennedys, and a whole host of other bands that would be considered punk. Hey, I just loved (and still do!) alternative music then. :hi:

:)

As time progressed the distinction because more obvious, but in the beginning, TigerEye is right about most people viewing "new wave" as a marketing concept. (Claude Bessy's little monologue from The Decline of Western Civilization is a good example of that.)

Meh, it's all good stuff though.

a lot of folks see "new wave" as a marketing term, trying for the kinder gentler sound and the less frightened audience, or that's how it seemed at the time. There are too many discussions and debates on this topic for me to list. I can only speak to my experience at the time as someone who lived in the punk clubs and bars here and in NY and some other places in the late 70s.


Endland's Dreaming by Jon Savage gives one perspective - that's one I have, but here's the Bomp site with a ton of Brit punk books. Our Band Could be Your Life is another gives a more "on the road" US perspective. Reading that was like a chronicle of my youth in some respects... :)

http://www.bomp.com/bompsite/BompbooksPunkUK.html

if it was the "Fuck Dance, Let's Art" you were into New Wave
And if either pin was stuck in your ear you were a punk.

They're all alternative, whether they're punk and/or New Wave. :) But AlternativeChick1981 would not have been as fun as my user name! :P

Great song. I have They Might Be Giants version too...

:hi:

RL

:hi: Glad you like it too...

Jesus. I thought 1981 was your birth year. :blush:

:blush: You flatter me, sir... :P But yes, I was a sophomore in college in 1982... 1981 was the year I really got into New Wave and was the year I started college. :) *sigh* I'm 43 now, going on 21...

but just thought I'd say hi and have a good weekend.

Have a great one! ;)