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The last five volumes were issued on 20 June 1995, and featured songs covering 1983 to 1985. Additional themed volumes—New Wave Dance Hits, [2] New Wave Women, [3] New Wave Halloween, [4] and New Wave Christmas [5] —came out in subsequent years. Rhino Records discontinued the series, due to rights issues and with no plans to re-release them.
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop -oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of punk culture ". [4] It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock. [29][30] Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella ...
List of new wave artists. The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward. Acts associated with these revivals are found in the list ...
Berlin, c. 1983. L–R: David Diamond, Rob Brill, Terri Nunn, John Crawford, Matt Reid, and Ric Olsen. Berlin is an American new wave / synth-pop band formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained commercial success in the 1980s with singles including "The Metro", "Sex (I'm a ...)", "No More Words" and the chart-topping "Take My Breath Away ...
Talking Heads were an American rock band that began performing under that name in 1975 in New York City. [ 2 ] The band was composed of David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed groups of the '80s," Talking Heads helped ...
Website. Official website. The Motels are an American new wave band from Berkeley, California, that is best known for the singles " Only the Lonely " and " Suddenly Last Summer ", each of which peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, in 1982 and 1983, respectively.
1979–1982: Formation and debut album. [edit] The band A Flock of Seagulls was formed in Liverpool, England, in 1979 by Mike Score, Frank Maudsley and Ali Score. Mike was a hairdresser when he bought a second-hand Korg MS-10 synthesizer and invited his friends to form the band. Frank played bass and Ali drums, even without prior experience.
Devo [a] is an American new wave band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973. Their classic line-up consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", the song that gave the band mainstream popularity.