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Subject: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: James on 12/15/10 at 8:16 am
At what point in the 80s did New Wave rock peak and when did it start to decline or morph into other types of musical genres?
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: Shiv on 12/16/10 at 10:02 am
Early 80s, like 1980-81ish. It fell out of favor by the mid 80s.
I consider New Wave to be a late 70s-early 80s thing. Thats when you had The Police, Blondie, The Cars
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: RG1995 on 12/16/10 at 5:41 pm
I'd say around 1982-1983.
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: whistledog on 12/16/10 at 8:07 pm
All answers given by those not alive in the era ::)
I was there, I saw it. New Wave was still well alive in the late 80's, it just got overshadowed by the increasing popularity of rap (Kool Moe Dee, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince), dance pop (Rick Astley, Paula Abdul) and mainstream hair metal (Poison, GnR)
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: 80sfan on 12/16/10 at 11:06 pm
When New Wave was no longer new. :-X
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: JamieMcBain on 12/17/10 at 10:45 am
1982-1983, was pretty much when it peaked.
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: Emman on 12/18/10 at 12:00 pm
Which New Wave style are you referring to, post-punk, new romantic, synthpop? Synthpop seems to have lasted throughout the entire decade.
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: Foo Bar on 12/18/10 at 7:01 pm
Which New Wave style are you referring to, post-punk, new romantic, synthpop? Synthpop seems to have lasted throughout the entire decade.
Heh. 20 years from now, someone will ask about some form of electronica, and will be asked whether they meant house, techno, happy-hardcore, drum-and-base, trip-hop...
(I'm not laughing too hard. 10 years ago, we went through the same thing with "industrial". And would that be concrete, industrial, EBM, coldwave, darkwave... :)
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/18/10 at 8:23 pm
All answers given by those not alive in the era ::)
Where were you in '82?
???
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: whistledog on 12/19/10 at 10:29 am
Where were you in '82?
???
At Discus, buying the new album by Sheriff :D
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: James on 12/19/10 at 10:30 am
Which New Wave style are you referring to, post-punk, new romantic, synthpop? Synthpop seems to have lasted throughout the entire decade.
I guess I'm referring to the New Romantic and the Synth pop stuff and maybe even Post punk.
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: Entouch on 12/19/10 at 10:32 pm
To me it peaked by 1985.The year 1986 it morphed into synth-pop. :\'(
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/20/10 at 10:09 am
To me it peaked by 1985.The year 1986 it morphed into synth-pop. :\'(
But a lot of my favorite New Wave was synth pop
Depeche Mode: Photographic (1981) was definitely New Wave
Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence (1989) was just synth pop.
Both great songs, but the New Wave zeitgeist had passed on by 1989. Depeche Mode's real mistake was trying to come back as a Grunge band in 1993. Please, anything but that! I would have been happy if they went blues or jazz, just not Grunge!
8-P
Subject: Re: When did New Wave peak?
Written By: yelimsexa on 12/20/10 at 3:22 pm
Chartwise, in April 1984 40 of the top 100 songs were by British acts, the most at any point since the original British Invasion. It's very legitimate, as it's just before Wham! broke through that fall (who really were pop and not new wave or even synth-pop), and pre-Stockman/Aiken/Waterman, with their first chart hit in 1985.