I love new wave so much I can’t comprehend why anyone else wouldn’t. New Wave haters: give me your best argument to why it sucks.

New Wave is a useless term. Those albums don't sound alike.

>Boy Bands :(
>Boy Bands, Weird :O

>>127131400
I would argue that by definition boy bands can’t really be weird because their whole purpose is to appeal to a demographic that would be turned off if they were behaving too weirdly. The only new wave groups that could really be categorized as boy bands were Duran Duran and Wham! Neither of which were that weird by 80s standards.

>>127131349
Yep, it's more like a movement than a genre

>>127131326 (OP)
In what universe is Disintegration New Wave!?

>>127135870
In this one

>>127135973
It isn't, and remain in light sucks

It was good from 1976 through 1980, after that its almost exclusively shit.

The Cure are not New Wave. Neither are The Jam, The Clash or Madness.

>>127137093
nor was devo or duran duran.

>>127137360
Is anyone new wave in your view then?

>>127137093
>this
>not New Wave
Come on now.
https://youtu.be/G0jtRK2x8bE?si=oAt-zIVO9xhBQdNr

>>127131326 (OP)
What's the Stairway to Heaven of New Wave?

>>127139439
Either Roxanne by The Police or Just What I Needed by The Cars. It would be Shake Some Action by The Flamin’ Groovies if anyone had actually listened to it.

>>127139439
“Once in a Lifetime”. Maybe “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”

>>127137093
rock the casbah was new wave. cut the crap was their attempt at putting out a new wave album

>>127131326 (OP)
I don't care much for new wave because it's like post-punk's happier cousin, and I like post-punk when it's sad. Also, I wouldn't call Disintegration new wave. Head on the Door and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, absolutely. Disintegration's a conscious throwback to the stylings of Seventeen Seconds and Faith, which is part of why it's way better than the albums I just mentioned.

>>127137093
The Clash is definitely New Wave (except for their debut)

>>127131326 (OP)
The Clash, Madness, and The Jam are NOT "New Wave".

>>127139916
Uh.... NO!

>>127139439
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG9CXd00QHQ&list=RDSG9CXd00QHQ&start_radio=1

https://youtu.be/bQOaaRlUk4A

>>127137093
The Gift was new wave, the Style Council was new wave

>>127131326 (OP)

>>127139439
https://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU?si=DpcqJ0sEEqCJrwL9

>>127139439
Don’t You (Forget About Me). I like mid 80s new wave more than late 70s/early 80s new wave. I’m a contrarian

New Wave is what is found in the >Wave crates in musty old record shops up to the mid 90s. In that respect, the intro collage is correct.
New Wave had skinny ties in the beginning.
New Wave is anti 70s bloat, but had become rather bloated itself by the mid 80s.
Only makes sense to talk of New Wave up to '84.
New Wave was the pub rock/power pop after the punk assault of 76/77 that could be safely marketed to the mass market, without the punk attitude that is OR which displayed an artsy pose OR the stuff that had synths.

>>127139439
Cars -moving in stereo