Johny's New Wave Reviews
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am totally into the eighties, TOTALLY! It's almost sad because even my musical tastes have remained in the eighties. Sure, I like some new bands out there like Jet, The Futureheads, Southland, The Thrills as well as new stuff from older artists like U2, Depeche Mode and Billy Idol. So, keeping in the theme of being musically out of touch I have now begun to review my album stash from my absolute favorite Genre, New Wave.
It is agreed by most music experts that New Wave started somewhere around the middle of the Punk era near 1978 and ended around 1986. New Wave began as a classification of bands that didn't really fit in the punk mold or necessarily into the rock mold either. Bands like Adam & The Ants, Talking Heads, The Cars as well as The Fixx, Men Without Hats, Real Life and The Red Rockers were embraced by MTV and given heavy rotation. There were many styles that fell under the New Wave banner including Ska (Madness, English Beat, The Specials,) New Romantics (Ultravox, Roxy Music), Synthpop (Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Yaz), as well as Rockabilly and Goth. Powered by the Video age these bands were able to bring to life visually their sounds that previously had only been done by bands like The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Monkees, The Beach Boys and Devo. It was during this time in the late seventies and early eighties that I found New Wave and I've been with it ever since.
I hope you totally enjoy my reviews in a really tubular kind of way... totally!
