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What's the Best New Wave Song?


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Anything from The Fixx would do, but I'm partial to this one from 1984:

 

P.S: This band is CRIMINALLY under-rated. They were / are amazing and have a very unique sound.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP8Pe8tp2TQ

 

I love them.

 

In fact, driving out of town for business yesterday, I listened to their greatest hits. Good stuff!

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I know exactly where that location in the til Tuesday video is. The apartment is located on Concord Square in South End in Boston. I used to live two blocks from it. The restaurant is Davio's when it was located on Newbury Street (it's relocated since then). And the "Carnegie Hall" footage was shot in the Strand Theatre in Dorchester.

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Boy this stuff takes me back to a time when I was a much younger man. Sigh. BTW, just my opinion but I don't see The Cars as New Wave. Straight rock to me.

:yes: Me too.

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Boy this stuff takes me back to a time when I was a much younger man. Sigh. BTW, just my opinion but I don't see The Cars as New Wave. Straight rock to me.

 

http://www.rollingst...record-20110216

 

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Citing Rolling Stone as the definitive source on a Rush forum? :huh:

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I love The Fixx. They are my favourite of the "80s" bands. I still listen to Reach The Beach to this day. I *love* the guitar work, the bass lines and Cy's vocals.

 

Here's two of my favourites from them:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dee1mNRVENk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iArTm9yyYbY

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I enjoy the Fixx, and especially Red Skies, but the repetitiveness of the playing of the commercial below ruined Saved by Zero for me.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj7Zi1pY7Ew

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Boy this stuff takes me back to a time when I was a much younger man. Sigh. BTW, just my opinion but I don't see The Cars as New Wave. Straight rock to me.

:yes: Me too.

I can see that, but a few would def qualify as new wave.

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I love The Fixx. They are my favourite of the "80s" bands. I still listen to Reach The Beach to this day. I *love* the guitar work, the bass lines and Cy's vocals.

 

Here's two of my favourites from them:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dee1mNRVENk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iArTm9yyYbY

 

I'm almost positive they, along with A Flock of Seagulls, opened for The Police on the Synchronicity tour. I saw that show at what was then Sullivan Stadium in Foxborough. Good show.

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When new wave music came about, it wasn't as "synthy" as its later counterparts. I can see the Cars as New wave, the B52s, Nick Lowe, Television, Blondie. New wave came out of punk rock, which had no synths, it was just punk made more commercial.
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I love The Fixx. They are my favourite of the "80s" bands. I still listen to Reach The Beach to this day. I *love* the guitar work, the bass lines and Cy's vocals.

 

Here's two of my favourites from them:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dee1mNRVENk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iArTm9yyYbY

 

I'm almost positive they, along with A Flock of Seagulls, opened for The Police on the Synchronicity tour. I saw that show at what was then Sullivan Stadium in Foxborough. Good show.

 

I saw that same tour in LA.

 

But the lineup was The Thompson Twins, The Fixx, Berlin, and The Police. What a day that was!

 

A couple of years ago, my wife and I saw The Alarm, The Fixx, and The English Beat together.

 

It was 80's awesomeness.

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