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John Foxx is brilliant.

Soft cell is my favourite band for over forty years and still am just love there music

A musical genius

Soft Cell is my most favorite 80s band, no one was as unique and had such great lyrics and energy.

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I remember them well being successful in Sweden. Because you're young, was one of their classic tracks.

It was an age or a decade of IMAGE and SOUND unified to create a world of its own. Somehow I still literally live there - at least in my own imagination, which makes it truly hard to live, even to breathe easily, in the world of today which is definitely dominated by ugliness and tastelessness ! Thank you for creating this video !

British ELECTRIC Foundation. (Not Electronic).

Ska... are you serious... otherwise great take on New wave.

Blitz

Wish he'd return to the Mode

Such a stunning album *+* It all worked and all flowed beautifully. Fade To Grey, Blocks On Blocks, Moon Over Moscow, Visa-age, Visage, Mind Of A Toy. Visage, Tar xoxoxo Just fabulous. But "The Anvil" is just as good!

And why did they never quite achieve major success?

visage is face in french 😍

Absolute legend of a bass player. Just listen to "swing" its just insane how good that bass line is. Everything he did was legendry plain and simple.

Dare war eine Offenbarung, eine kompett neue Welt. OK, elektronische Musik gab es auch schon davor, aber nie wieder so perfekt. HL waren auch dank der sehr huebschen Damen immer etwas ganz besonderes. Super schoen, dass sie auch heute noch Konzerte geben. Auch der Rest der Band BEF oder Heaven 17 war mega. Penthouse and Pavement das zweite geniale Album dieser Zeit. Auch H17 spielen noch life. Perfect!

D.MODE is Alan Wilder !

Without Alan they are DEMO MODE

My grey Tesla is named “Fade” - one of my favourite songs. But if I were to Nail my colours to the mast it would have to be Tubeway Army and Gary Numan

I really like these music documentaries but find the narrator distracting , as I can’t work out if it AI or heavily edited script delivery. The tone and accent is lovely and engaging, it’s just the odd emphasis on key words and inflections at the wrong place .

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No reference to kraftwerk influence on OMD.

German New Wave (Neue Deutsche Welle) ruclips.net/video/jsXPzxCqEqY/видео.html

French New Wave cover of Serge Gainsbourg ruclips.net/video/wUHVTBzbL9g/видео.html

Lene Lovich somehow represents New Wave to me: ruclips.net/video/KnIJOO__jVo/видео.html

This song deserves some recognition considering it was all over bridging Disco and New Wave, even sounds like today's NeoDisco: ruclips.net/video/vXOgQN1a7bE/видео.html

Concise, clear, and amazing photos

Very good but no mention of THOMAS DOLBY the the ABC yello and the best most influential band group act The ART OF NOISE I saw a quick glimpse of my favourite BLONDIE paulie😂

It was a very interesting time - I was there! What was great about it was how no one wanted to copy what had happened before. There was no rule book. A lot of bands started of barely being able to play or sing properly (of course they got better!). But the point was that it was art, even in a way concept art - perhaps most clearly shown by Devo, as you alude, but they all had a concept or reason to exist. Like little tribes. Most of the images you show here are of the "Blitz" crowd, who were quite different to the ska bands, or Adam and the Ants fans. All formidable, strange and wonderful in their own way! It was also a great era for women - no longer just a nice attractive or sexy add-on not to be taken too seriously. Sadly, I dont the record industry knew what to do with these amazing female artists long term, but worth looking into to see how much better things could have been. (see Poly Styrene, Hazel O'Connor, Toyah, and many more).. Also, take a leaf out of their book - use your own voice not just AI - it's unique and special. Just like all these good people!

Underrated

Yes, Gary Numan , Visage to name a few. I still love it to this day.

Loved all those bands when growing up, Fade to Grey is such an awesome track

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One has to realize the TERM PostPunk didn't exist in the 1980's, it's a relatively new term to separate the Punk movement into two separate categories/eras. But actually there was no distinct separation between punk music created in the mid/late 70's and punk music created after 1979. Did New Wave come from Punk, not really as the similarities between the two didn't show up until certain punk bands started crossing over with pop hits.

Few people know Alan Wilder did most of the production work with MFTM , David was more of an engineer . HIS INVOLVEMENT GOT BIGGER WITH TIME

Excellent synopsis of a sublime era of music. My friends and me are so happy we were in our twenties in the eighties. It really was an incredible time.......

Used to love them and still do , i saw Classix Nouveaux at Hala Olivia in Gdańsk on 16 Mar 1984 Poland, i was 18 then young and strong 🙂

I'd say it's a good overview ❤ Well done! Don't know why this channel doesn't have 100k subs.

I am soooooo glad I spent my Teenage Years in the'80's, Great Music / Great Films.........

A proper title should be "New Wave: The Sound That Defined The Future Generation". This sound of the era is the sound of today and might still be the sound of tomorrow. For me, New Wave is timeless.

I absolutely love Visage. I have every single thing they ever released on vinyl, tape, CD...literally everything. When they returned with Hearts & Knives, sounding as if they'd picked up exactly where they left off, I lost my damn mind.

New Wave is notoriously hard to pin down, because the term essentially encompassed everything from punk, post-punk, rockabilly, some prog-rock, goth rock/deathrock, synthpop, electro-funk, early indie rock, ska/reggae, some of the more eccentric folk music, italodisco....Prettymuch all "alternative" music that wasn't straightforward rock a la the Rolling Stones or Van Halen, or metal.

I love this genre from the 80s

I noticed a lot of New Romantic pictures.

yep my miss spent youth.I still listen to and play most of this music.The politics was terrible but the music was everything.

I (born in 1963 and considering myself a lover of new wave) generally agree with this video as being the origin of new wave, but I'm sure others will think differently. But for me this was just the beginning, I consider bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Sound, Simple Minds, U2 etc. as also defining the genre as we all did at the time!

A lot of bubble gum pop back then. Per gaps the best amongst these groups was the very early Simple Minds albums