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The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward.
The following is a list of groups and artists associated with the Second British Invasion music phenomenon, that occurred during the early and mid-1980s and was associated with MTV, including new wave music.
New wave; post-punk; Sire; Warner Bros. Live album and soundtrack album to the concert film of the same name. Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s: #68 [6] UNCUT: The 500 Greatest Albums of The 1980s: #192 [10] Slant's 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: #61 [62] Popkultur.de's 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: #88 [169] October 2, 1984 () Let It Be
"88 Lines About 44 Women" is a song by the new wave band the Nails. Initially recorded for their 1981 EP Hotel for Women , the song was re-recorded and released on the 1984 debut album Mood Swing . Along with the track "Let It All Hang Out", "88 Lines About 44 Women" peaked at number 46 on the US dance chart in March 1985.
[39] Chuck Eddy, who wrote for The Village Voice in the 1980s, said in a 2011 interview that by the time of British new pop acts' popularity on MTV, "New Wave had already been over by then. New wave was not synth music; it wasn't even this sort of funny-haircut music. It was the guy in the Boomtown Rats wearing pajamas."
Over-the-top Makeup. The more makeup you wore, the more 80s cool you were! From bold eyeshadows, contoured blush, and frosty-pink lips, we wore it all at the same time in the 80s.
In the early 1980s, new wave gradually lost its associations with punk in popular perception among some Americans. Writing in 1989, music critic Bill Flanagan said; "Bit by bit the last traces of Punk were drained from New Wave, as New Wave went from meaning Talking Heads to meaning the Cars to Squeeze to Duran Duran to, finally, Wham!". [45]
The following list of glam metal bands and artists includes bands and artists that have been described as glam metal or its interchangeable terms, hair metal, [1] [2] hair band, [3] pop metal [1] and lite metal [1] by professional journalists at some stage in their career.