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In the early 1980s, particularly in the United States, notable new wave acts embraced a crossover of pop and rock music with African and African-American styles. Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow, both acts with ties to former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, used Burundi -style drumming. [48]
- List of New Wave Artists
The following is a list of artists and bands associated with...
- "Corporate" Rock
Arena rock (also known as AOR, melodic rock, pomp rock,...
- Ska Revival
Two-tone or 2 tone, also known as ska-rock [citation needed]...
- New Romantic
Boy George performing at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in 2001....
- List of New Wave Artists
As the mid-1980s approached, the line separating new wave from the corporate mainstream blurred, especially for bands such as the Pretenders (fronted by former rock journalist Chrissie Hynde ), the Police, and U2, who became hugely popular.
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Gary Numan's 1980 album The Pleasure Principle marked the arrival of British new wave on the North American pop charts. Numan's synthesized dance music set down a template that would come to characterize one broad subgenre within new wave.
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Talking Heads' second album More Songs About Buildings and Food, released in 1978, expanded the band's sonic palette. The record included a hit single, a cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River", which gained the quartet commercial exposure. In March 1979, the band members played the song on nationwide U.S. music show American Bandstand.In the da...
On April 22 and May 6, 1979, a sound engineering crew in a Record Plantvan parked outside Frantz's and Weymouth's apartment building and ran cables through their loft window. On these two days, Talking Heads recorded the basic tracks with Eno. Weymouth later stated that Byrne's sense of rhythm is "insane but fantastic" and that he was key to the ba...
Fear of Music is largely built on an eclectic mix of disco rhythms, cinematic soundscapes, and conventional rock music elements.[citation needed] Byrne credits the inspiration for the album, especially "Life During Wartime", to life on Avenue A in the East Village. Instead of incorporating characters in society, as he did on More Songs About Buildi...
The LP sleeve was designed by Harrison. It is completely black and embossed with a pattern that resembles the appearance and texture of tread plate metal flooring, reflecting the album's urban subject matter. The rest of the artwork was crafted by Byrne and includes heat-sensitive photography created by Jimmy Garcia with the help of Doctor Philip S...
After completing Fear of Music, Talking Heads embarked on their first Pacificregion tour in June 1979 and played concerts in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii. The album was released worldwide on August 3. A U.S. tour to showcase the new material was completed during August 1979. At the time, Byrne told Rolling Stone, "We're in a funny posi...
Critical
The album was well received by reviewers. Jon Pareles, writing in Rolling Stone, was impressed with its "unswerving rhythms" and Byrne's lyrical evocations; he concluded, "Fear of Music is often deliberately, brilliantly disorienting. Like its black, corrugated packaging (which resembles a manhole cover), the album is foreboding, inescapably urban and obsessed with texture." John Rockwell of The New York Times suggested that the record was not a conventional rock release, while Stephanie Plee...
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Fear of Music was certified Gold by Recording Industry Association of Americaon September 17, 1985, after more than 500,000 copies were sold in the U.S.
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Fear of Music was named as the best album of 1979 by NME, Melody Maker, and the Los Angeles Times. The New York Times included it on its unnumbered shortlist of the 10 best records issued that year. Sounds placed the album at number two on its "Best of 1979" staff list, behind the Specials' eponymous release. It placed fourth in the 1979 Pazz & Jop critics' poll run by The Village Voice, which aggregates the votes of hundreds of prominent reviewers. In 1985, NME placed Fear of Music at number...
The original LP issue credited all songs to David Byrne, except "I Zimbra". After complaints from other band members, the credits were changed to the above on later CD issues.A limited edition UK LP included a live version of "Psycho Killer" and "New Feeling" from Talking Heads: 77on a bonus 7-inch record.Bowman, David (2001). This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-380-97846-6.Charone, Barbara (October 1979). "More Songs About Typing and Vacuuming". Creem. pp. 27–33.Fear of Music lyrics at RhapsodyFear of Music at Discogs(list of releases)May 9, 2019 · The first new wave song to chart in the US was “Cars” by Gary Numan in 1980. It popularized synthesizer dance music and also created the sub-genre of synth pop. As a result of its success, new wave began to be used to classify countless acts in the early 1980’s, sprung on by the success of MTV and popular films.
May 13, 2019 · New Wave: an overused and under-defined umbrella term most of us know, but less of us can aptly apply. With the entertainment industry embracing left-leaning narratives in form of ballroom hit-drama POSE or Netflix’s wrestling warrior women in Glow, it seems the 1980s are truly still alive and kicking in 2019, but there’s a reason this bygone era of neon coloured leg-warmers and shoulder ...
