an@hou2h.UUCP (A.NGUYEN) (04/17/84)
-- > .. What the **** does New Wave musik have to do with punk, or new > music, or cerebral functioning, for that matter? Re: what does new wave have to do with punk / new music? Here's your own quote: > At one time, New Wave had, in fact, many experimental minds who > made unusual sounds and words that were easily revolutionary enough > to give cohesion to the alliance `punk/new wave'. Re: what does new wave have to do with cerebral functioning? Perhaps not much more than what hard core has to do with cerebral functioning, but the point is it's silly to lump the Dead Kennedys together with Depeche Mode under one generic label, whatever the label might be. Don't get me wrong. I like them both, but they ARE very different! > Now that NW has become a routine matter of chic-glitter-money-TV .. You've been listening to too much Culture Club again Mikey! (-: > .. The anarchic intensity of its sound, the perceptiveness of its > lyrics, and the deeper humanitarian nature of its spirit. Funny that seems to describe early Bob Dylan perfectly. The more things change, the more .. Aw shut the F*CK up! (-: > - Unlike the 60's left-wing radicalism, the new anti-establishment > punk spirit is equally abusive of all forms of conformism -- > communism, capitalism, even punk-ism (re. Crass `punk is dead'). Gee I sure hope so. I'd hate to be whipping the same horse, now dead, that my aging Hippie friends were whipping 20 years ago! (-: > There is a huge variety of fascinating new music out there, mostly > unclassifiable, and almost always by people who do not consider > themselves to be `New Wave'. I've never heard anybody said, "Yeah man, this stuff that we're playing, I mean, it's like -- New Wave, y'know?" > Whether these classical/jazz/experimental-rock/folk nonconformists > believe it or not, they are in alliance with the punks, particularly > because they share the same `marketing strategy' -- word-of-mouth, > independent labels, inexpensive do-it-yourself production techniques, > and so on. Yeah, right! It's 1985, and here's Philip Glass, the Roches, and Black Flag going on tour together. Oh haven't you heard, it's the "Get Stiff or Be Stiff Tour '85." > -michael `thrash for peace' ellis Boy have I got a Peace Corps job for you! You see the natives of Burma could use some help with their rice harvest this year .. (-: Au `Heavy on the Sarcasm' Nguyen `This is getting ridiculous -- where's that jazz station on the dial?'