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New Wave Part 2: Notes and Further Listening

This week we established connections between New Wave in the US and the UK and where things branched off Stateside. The early years were very intertwined with Punk on both sides of the pond and the US definitely kept more of the Rock Sensibilities more than the UK. Though the more Synthpop based bands were doing equally unique things.


Suggested Albums



Talking Heads

More Songs About Buildings and Food

(Note: This one is also related to the Polaroid Episode)



Remain In Light




The Pretenders: Learning To Crawl




Devo: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!



Oingo Boingo: Dead Mans Party




The B-52's.


Loverboy: Get Lucky



The Cars: Heartbeat City




BONUS:

Images In Vogue: Call It Love



Sources:


New Order

Books:Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again: PostpunkPg 275,276

Johnson, Mark. An Ideal For Living: An History Of Joy Division.London: Bobcat Books, 1984. Pg. 103.

New York Dolls and Malcolm McLaren:

Larkin, Colin, ed. (1995). Encyclopedia of Popular Music. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 4 (2nd ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 3022. ISBN978-1-56159-176-3.

Brian Eno:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-08-27/music/steadfast-in-style/

Andy Patridge's claim about Talking Heads: https://twitter.com/xtcfans/status/446048949418614784

Once In A Lifetime: "The Making Of... Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads". Uncut.

CBGB:

Crotty & Lane, "Interview with Hilly", The Mad Monks Guide to NYC, 1999, p 190.

http://cbgb.com/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Debunking-CBGB-Myths-An-Interview

Joynson, Vernon (2001). Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk. Wolverhampton: Borderline Publications. p. 11. ISBN1-899855-13-0.

The Cars:

Carter Alan. Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN. ISBN978-1-55553-729-6. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2013, p. 109.

Palmer, Robert. "Pop: Cars Merge Styles" The New York TimesAugust 9, 1978: C17

Til Tuesday:

Wall of Voodoo:

https://www.allmusic.com/album/wall-of-voodoo-mw0000870861

The Go-go's/Belinda Carlisle

Bag, Alice. Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story. Feral House. pp. 185–6. ISBN978-1-936-23913-9.

B-52s:

Gendron, Bernard (2002). Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde. University of Chicago. p. 289.

Sexton, Mats (2002). The B-52s Universe: The Essential Guide to the World's Greatest Party Band. Minneapolis: Plan-B Books. ISBN978-0-9652745-9-3.





Ohio:

Hynde, Chrissie (2015). Reckless. Ebury Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN9781785031441.

Minneapolis Sound: Campbell, Michael (2008). Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On. Cengage Learning, 2008. p. 300. ISBN0495505307.

Images in Vogue:

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/images-in-vogue-mn0000910004

Dave Rave Ogilve Discography

On songs with # in the title

Still the #1 Chart














Song Credits:

MILLENNIALS by Analog By Nature (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/57150

Madrugada-Matrixx & Dappa's Brazilian DiscoHouse Remix by MatrixAndDappa (c) copyright 2007 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/MatrixAndDappa/10837 Ft: Tamy Odea

I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque

Voyage Back

Voyage Back by C.Portable (c) copyright 2006 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/portable/4152


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