Best "New Wave" Artist

[Sergeant Rock]

Sorry. New Wave.

Yes, I think so too. New Music doesn't seem quite right because much of the "new wave" was actually old music, not new. Bands like the Stray Cats and the Cramps were influenced by 50s rockers; the punks traced their style back to 60s garage bands, Iggy Pop and the NY Dolls; the Ska bands were indebted to 60s Jamaican pop; Blondie to early 60s Girl Groups, etc.

Sarge

[Haffner]

Grew up about 90 minutes from Montreal....Rush were rock gods in my neighborhood.

I love the Zeppelin-y 1 st album! "Signals" too.

[Haffner]

Dead Kennedys

[gomro]

I thought about them, but I don't know if they really qualify as New Wave. What's your favorite album?

Fave YMO album? times infinity multiplies. I like BGM quite a bit too, with the weird detuned synths.

[Kullervo]

Fave YMO album? times infinity multiplies. I like BGM quite a bit too, with the weird detuned synths.

BGM and Naughty Boys here. Ever notice how similar Japan sounds to YMO on Tin Drum? Some of Bill Nelson's solo stuff also sounds very YMO-ish.

[gomro]

BGM and Naughty Boys here. Ever notice how similar Japan sounds to YMO on Tin Drum? Some of Bill Nelson's solo stuff also sounds very YMO-ish.

Forgot all about Bill Nelson, or didn't consider him New Wave. I've got a shelf of nothing but Nelson discs, some of them his ambient work (The Summer of God's Piano, etc) and then rockier things like the Red Noise album and Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam. Didn't really think he was any too YMOid, though...maybe a bit Devoesque, I'll give you...

[Kullervo]

Forgot all about Bill Nelson, or didn't consider him New Wave. I've got a shelf of nothing but Nelson discs, some of them his ambient work (The Summer of God's Piano, etc) and then rockier things like the Red Noise album and Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam. Didn't really think he was any too YMOid, though...maybe a bit Devoesque, I'll give you...

Listen to Chimera and get back to me.

[rubio]

Dead Kennedys

One of my favourite punk/hardcore bands. It was hilarious when Jello Biafro run for mayor in San Fransisco in 1979. And this autumn it will be "Holiday in Cambodia" for me .

[Haffner]

And this autumn it will be "Holiday in Cambodia" for me .

Yikes! Give me Jello before any of the bozos running now!

"Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables" is, for me, a total classic of aggression. Cynical to a maniacal degree, to this day it makes it hard for me to listen to anything heavy metal after spinning it.

[Sergeant Rock]

[Dead Kennedys] One of my favourite punk/hardcore bands.

Mine too, and hearing them in Stuttgart was my first live experience with hardcore punk. It was pretty funny. I went with Mrs. Rock and one my soldiers (a punk from Seattle who'd been forced into the army because of a minor skirmish with the law). We were overheard speaking English by a German punkette as we came through the entrance. She looked me dead in the eye and said with a snarl, "Fuck you, Ami." I thought, yes, the perfect attitude for a punk concert    I was still a bit naive. I knew the music of course but had no concert experience. I was sauntering through the crowd about 20 feet from the stage when the first song began. My god...it was like being at ground zero when the bomb exploded. I was instantly bloodied and bruised. I crawled out shell-shocked. My first experience with the mosh pit  But I got back on that horse and was soon slamming with the best. That was the first of many hardcore shows we went to that year....a very good year 

Sarge

[Haffner]

Mine too, and hearing them in Stuttgart was my first live experience with hardcore punk. It was pretty funny. I went with Mrs. Rock and one my soldiers (a punk from Seattle who'd been forced into the army because of a minor skirmish with the law). We were overheard speaking English by a German punkette as we came through the entrance. She looked me dead in the eye and said with a snarl, "Fuck you, Ami." I thought, yes, the perfect attitude for a punk concert    I was still a bit naive. I knew the music of course but had no concert experience. I was sauntering through the crowd about 20 feet from the stage when the first song began. My god...it was like being at ground zero when the bomb exploded. I was instantly bloodied and bruised. I crawled out shocked. My first experience with the mosh pit  But I got back on that horse and was soon slamming with the best. That was the first of many hardcore shows we went to that year....a very good year 

Sarge

Sarge, you have some of the coolest stories ever. No kidding.

[rubio]

Yikes! Give me Jello before any of the bozos running now!

From Wikipedia:

His platform included unconventional points such as forcing businessmen to wear clown suits within city limits, erecting statues of Dan White all over town and allowing the parks department to sell eggs and tomatoes with which people could pelt them, and a citywide ban on cars (although the latter point was not considered abnormal by many voters at the time, as the city was suffering from serious pollution problems).Biafra has expressed irritation that these parts of his platform attained such notoriety, preferring instead to be remembered for serious proposals such as legalizing squatting in vacant, tax-delinquent buildings and requiring police officers to keep their jobs by running for election voted on by the people of the neighborhoods they patrol.

" For those of them who have seen my candidacy as a publicity stunt or a joke, they should keep in mind that it is no more of a joke, and no less of a joke, than anyone else they care to name.

Jello has mostly acted as a spoken word artist the last decades. In fact, he was here in Oslo opening a big music festival on Thursday.

[Marc]

Joy Division.

[NikF]

My vote was Squeeze, just for the hell of it.

If you've never done so, take any opportunity to catch one of Glenn Tilbrook's solo acoustic gigs, preferably in a pub or small venue. He frequently takes all types of requests, and suggesting he play Brahms is usually met by a Squeeze song that most are familiar with.
Also, as a bonus I'd describe him as a rarity in the current day, in that he's a real wit.

[Abuelo Igor]

I cannot vote because my favourite, Joe Jackson, was not included among the options. In fact, I did a quick browse in the thread and he wasn't even mentioned by anyone, not even that so-called encyclopedia quoted above. Underappreciated, or what?

P.S.: Actually, it would be a tie between Joe Jackson and XTC, who in my opinion would qualify as well and whose output might have stood the test of time better than that of some of the acts mentioned.

[Marc]

I cannot vote because my favourite, Joe Jackson, was not included among the options. In fact, I did a quick browse in the thread and he wasn't even mentioned by anyone, not even that so-called encyclopedia quoted above. Underappreciated, or what?

P.S.: Actually, it would be a tie between Joe Jackson and XTC, who in my opinion would qualify as well and whose output might have stood the test of time better than that of some of the acts mentioned.

So you can vote for the 'none of the above'.

[Karl Henning]

So you can vote for the 'none of the above'.

[Marc]

I cannot vote because my favourite, Joe Jackson, was not included among the options. In fact, I did a quick browse in the thread and he wasn't even mentioned by anyone, not even that so-called encyclopedia quoted above. Underappreciated, or what?

P.S.: Actually, it would be a tie between Joe Jackson and XTC, who in my opinion would qualify as well and whose output might have stood the test of time better than that of some of the acts mentioned.

I.c. Joe Jackson: maybe he wasn't considered part of the 'new wave' wave though. Even though the term 'new wave' is already as broad as any term can be, Jackson's talent reached beyond that. Another example would be Paul Weller. The Jam, The Style Council... almost too much to choose from.
But they were both certainly very popular with many 'new wavers'.

[Mirror Image]

The Police without a doubt in my mind, although I think the tag 'New Wave' doesn't really have much relevance nor does really describe the bands/musicians that make up period in rock music. I do like the Talking Heads a lot as well.

[Daverz]

I.c. Joe Jackson: maybe he wasn't considered part of the 'new wave' wave though. Even though the term 'new wave' is already as broad as any term can be, Jackson's talent reached beyond that. Another example would be Paul Weller. The Jam, The Style Council... almost too much to choose from.
But they were both certainly very popular with many 'new wavers'.

Jackson's first 2 albums certainly were New Wave.  Great records.  He got very eclectic after that, and I lost track (really enjoyed Jumpin' Jive, though).