Music - New Wave

themagus in #music • 3 years ago

New Wave music to my mind was the bridge from Punk Rock to electronic music in the early to mid 1980's.

New wave music is a broad subgenre of rock 'n' roll that combines elements of punk rock, mainstream pop music, art rock, synth pop, funk, and reggae. New wave bands largely emerged during the punk and post-punk eras of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but their influence prevailed throughout many decades of pop rock.
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Sort of bears out what I believed.

Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease

Ashley Crash
1 year ago
I’ll never forget the first time I saw Depeche Mode in concert in 2009 in Salt Lake City. I was pretty close the stage but once Dave walked out on the stage everyone stood up, and I was too short to see the stage, but I was standing there crying because I could hear my all time favorite band getting ready to perform and the energy was just so electric. A sweet bouncer saw me standing there crying in excitement and came and grabbed me and pulled me up to the very front VIP section because he could tell how excited I was, the only other person in the VIP section was this really executive type of guy, he was jamming out and dancing in his suit and tie. It was one of the greatest memories of my life! I’m still so grateful for that bouncer doing that for me 🖤

Human League - Human

bleep77
1 year ago
There are certain 80’s songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.

To be honest I am not a big fan of New Wave ... but I do find themusic to listenable... especially as background music. They do not challenge in any way.

Duran Duran - View To a Kill

Duran Duran embraced the use of synthesizers and funk rhythms which really worked. I found them very boring initially as all our music stations were on AM (Amplitude Modulation) as opposed to FM (Frequency Modulation). The quality of AM radio was not that good and a lot of the instrumentation was lost. I think it was around 1982 we first got FM Music radio in South Africa .... and I heard this song and I was like "Holy Cow, there is a hell of a lot going on here!!!" ..I really enjoyed Duran Duran after that.

Tears for Fears - Mad World

WarriorAuranae
8 months ago
Gary Jules: this song is giving me depression
Tears for Fears: this song makes me want to dance with my depression

Hope you enjoyed the mix today .... I feel the urge to do some Jazz sounds so that may well be our chill Sunday sound. Thanks for stopping by and as always I truly value your support !!

Namaste

#verifyyourbrain #newwave

3 years ago in #music by themagus

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edje 3 years ago

You wrote: "but I do find themusic to listenable... especially as background music"
My response: 😱😂 😱😂 😱😂

I did (do) enjoy the shares: All music I listened to when they stormed the hit parades. Some of the bands you shared were my lead into less mainstream and more instrumental music styles and genres. Mostly on the electronic side of things, but due to my developed love for some electronic styles and genres, the floodgates opened themselves to classical music and other non-mainstream styles that are less electronic by nature.

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themagus 3 years ago

I believe that it may be because you were in your early to mid-teens at the time... as I was when 70's Rock was around. A time when we are striving to establish ourselves as 'individuals' though looking back it was probably wanting to fit in. Perhaps it is that which gives us a proclivity to a certain music style / genre whatever.
Thoughts?

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edje 3 years ago

It was indeed my teens years when this New Wave was popular. But I never felt I needed to make my music selections based on fitting in. I wasnt fitting in anyways :) I think when still going by the hit charts mostly was when my music taste wasn't developed. But I do remember, in these teen years, I already started to listen to the lesser know radio channels airing none-mainstream music. For instance, I liked a specific program where the radio DJ aired extended (electronic) remixes of more know bands; Am talking about 15 to 30 minutes remixes from a 3 to 5 minute original. When I turned 18, I was given a quality HIFI set by my parents, and it was the year I moved to Rotterdam where I lived just a few 100 meters away from a just-opened Vinyl and CD rental shop. The first on planet earth; Well the first in NL for sure :) This was back in 1988. It was this combo that opened my mind more and more towards music. In the nightlife, from the mid to late 80s, already experimenting with trip-hop, mellow, house, hardcore (the pre-gabber) and those kinda electronic music. Nothing I found really special or something. Bearable mostly. I discovered Techno early 90s and I was sold for that electronic genre. At that time, Techno was super underground, almost nobody knew about it, and when they knew, they didn't like it. I was almost 100% on my own. My friends and other peeps around me didn't understand me at all. So I started to make new friends in that underground scene of which a few are now my inner circle and closest friends. All peeps with an open mind towards music, open to many genres and styles. So in fact, my story is one that is far from traditional, I would say, the music hardly anybody knew and liked, shaped my world in what it is today, including friends, incl my perspective on life and all that. Interestingly, yesterday I saw the THEWEEKEND thing by galenkp and thought: Why don't I write a post telling about my life-changing event? Eventually, I didn't find the time to do so, but the event I wanted to write about was the event I discovered Techno. I think I wrote part of this in posts over the last 5 years. But I don't think I ever wrote about it as my life-changing event, why that was and what all came out of that. Writing this comment to you gives me again a strong feeling I shall write that down. Maybe just for myself, and when I do so, I may put it into a HIVE post as well. Who knows, I like to write this story and probably will do so someday sooner or later :)

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mipiano 3 years ago

Mad World indeed has so different vibe in those two versions. Absolutely agree with this:

Gary Jules: this song is giving me depression
Tears for Fears: this song makes me want to dance with my depression

Of course, there is time when we have to allow ourselves a bit of "just depression" :) But not for a long time :))

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themagus 3 years ago

Yup, does not happen to me often ... but I have learnt to accept it and just ride it knowing that I am fortunate and blessed in so many ways .... and if it continues unnecessarily long .... LOUD MOTORHEAD usually shakes me out of it {grin}

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mipiano 3 years ago

Hahaha, loud Motorhead 😂

What about some wild Beethoven for those purposes? :)))))

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themagus 3 years ago

Beethoven's Choral symphony could work I imagine ..... but out of the Classics I think 'O Venturo' from Carmina Burana , Carl Orff would work best for me.

Or how about this one ..... I just love this played loud..I used to play this loud (amongst all the rock ) to my children when we were driving in the car...

La donna e mobie ---- the woman is fickle...

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mipiano 3 years ago

I am sure you mean O Fortuna by Carl Orff. This one is pretty famous, yes. Had to learn it, but the entire Carmina Burana, in Latin!! in school, we had a subject, choir, and one of the projects we made as a music school was learning this and performing. School orchestra and choir, with a brand new, young teacher that came. She had great expectations :)) Hours of rehearsals, and all, we ended up crazy, and she with us I suppose, but it was one of the super great events, so much excitement on the evening of the performance. I wish my son could have such an experience now. Maybe, if we would live in a bigger city, but we are situated in a smaller town. They did some projects joining several music conservatories a few years ago and it was cool, but he was still smaller, so less demanding pieces were played.

La donne e mobile... I am asking myself why you were playing this just to your children in the car? Maybe you will stay without dinner if you play it to your good lady? :D {just a joke ;) }

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themagus 3 years ago

{blush} definitely meant O Fortuna ... my bad. Wow, what an experience to do Carmina Burana while still at school. I think that must have been a very brave young teacher !!!

Was there no recording of the concert that you could show your son? That would be so cool.

Guiseppe Verdi got a lot of airtime in our house ... as well as Beethovens 9th

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mipiano 3 years ago

No recording that I own, maybe the school had it or the theatre we performed it, but probably just for internal use.

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themagus 3 years ago

What a pity.... I have an old Sony Camcorder and I filmed all my daughters concerts and plays. The quality is actually rather poor but is good memories

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