I guess you're a bit slow then? I was obviously talking about the Editors. You know, the band that put out an eighties album this year.
you said "80s new wave".
"80s new wave" = talking heads, the cars, the b-52s, yaz, flock of seagulls, and a bunch of other things that this last editors album doesn't sound like.
Man, trying to nail new wave down to a specific couple of bands or even a specific sound is never going to succeed - it's partly why I chose the term in the first place (to avoid random bullshittery regarding genre classifications). A couple of apropos quotes from the ever-reliable Wikipedia...
"Later still, "New Wave" came to imply a less noisy, often synthesizer-based, pop sound."
"The term fell out of favour in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s because its usage had become too general."
It's really not a classification you want to get into a semantic argument about, frankly, which is why I'm not going to! I'm not going to post on this subject again, to let everyone keep posting the far more interesting album lists, but I don't appreciate the combative approach you've taken. My response did make sense, and trying to pretend it doesn't just because I disagree with your opinion on music is...well, I'll avoid summing it up in one word to not continue being combative.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled 2009 album posts
