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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 ...
The series contained 15 volumes. The first five were released on 21 June 1994, and concentrated mostly on music issued between 1977 and 1981, with a few tracks from 1982. (Despite the "New Wave Hits of the '80s" subtitle, Volume 1 actually contains no tracks from the 1980s; tracks from 1980 and later begin appearing midway through Volume 2.)
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 ...
The Big Supreme. Bill Nelson's Red Noise. Bim (band) Blancmange (band) Blanket of Secrecy. The Blitz Brothers. The Blockheads. The Blow Monkeys. The Blue Aeroplanes.
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.
Paul King Mick Roberts Anthony "Tony" Wall Jim "Jackal" Lantsbery John Hewitt Adrian Lillywhite Colin Heanes. King were an English new wave band which formed in 1984. The band achieved chart success in 1985, and are best known for their hit single " Love & Pride ", which reached number 2 in the UK. The band had two Top 20 albums (both certified ...
List of new wave of British heavy metal bands. The mid-late 1970s–early 1980s period in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock and heavy metal bands from all over the UK, which ...
t. e. This article includes an overview of the famous events and trends in popular music in the 1980s. The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, [1] genres such as post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco, and dance-pop became more popular.