no wave appreciation thread.

[afterstasis]

are there any fans of no wave here?
i mostly stick to the original new york scene bands, but there are definitely some other gems out there such as bride of no no, the flying luttenbachers, made in mexico, etc.

i'll probably try putting up some vids and additional info like i did with the krautrock thread. i'm kinda awful at starting new threads, by the way.

[Gowienczyk]

What about Pylon?

[afterstasis]

What about Pylon?

i love pylon... i've always just thought of them as post-punk band, but they definitely sound like they had a sturdy no wave influence in a lot of their songs.

definitely a good band to bring into the discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9OuD6xagLE

[Gowienczyk]

i love pylon... i've always just thought of them as post-punk band, but they definitely sound like they had a sturdy no wave influence in a lot of their songs.

definitely a good band to bring into the discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9OuD6xagLE

What is the contrast of differences between No Wave and New Wave, at any rate?

Also, Talking Heads could easily fall into this thread's subject matter aswell.

[afterstasis]

here's some youtube vids to dig on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW6AjT1fXB4
thurston moore and byron coley on "no wave", a book documenting the early no wave scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmn-P4qbIwo
bush tetras - too many creeps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGs68W3s_s
teenage jesus & the jerks - i woke up dreaming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPb18CzG2gg
james chance & the contortions - i can't stand myself (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRy7tob6PNo
glenn branca - don't let me stop you

[afterstasis]

What is the contrast of differences between No Wave and New Wave, at any rate?

Also, Talking Heads could easily fall into this thread's subject matter aswell.

no wave is typically based pretty strongly on atonality as well as a focus on texture over melody.
i personally wouldn't consider talking heads no wave, though they share some similarities in their genre-blending and rhythmic repetition.

[Gowienczyk]

no wave is typically based pretty strongly on atonality as well as a focus on texture over melody.
i personally wouldn't consider talking heads no wave, though they share some similarities in their genre-blending and rhythmic repetition.

Hm...I see.

[Soror_YZBL]

What is the contrast of differences between No Wave and New Wave, at any rate?

I was going to be a smartass and say "Coke vs Heroin", or just "Fashion", but there's something deeper. New-Wave, no matter how weird it got, was always pretty poppy (Devo is a prime example of poppy New Wave weirdness). No-wave was sort of a backlash to that. I'm hard pressed to ever get a sonic youth song from before Bad Moon Rising stuck in my head, or Swans from before the Burning World, and you can completely forget about any contortions or foetus stuff ever getting lost in your head (although I'd been known to play that thirwell/lydia lunch cover of dont fear the reaper when I dj'd).

[afterstasis]

I'm hard pressed to ever get a sonic youth song from before Bad Moon Rising stuck in my head, or Swans from before the Burning World, and you can completely forget about any contortions or foetus stuff ever getting lost in your head (although I'd been known to play that thirwell/lydia lunch cover of dont fear the reaper when I dj'd).

actually, i get this stuff stuck in my head on a pretty regular basis...
i think "contort yourself", "lovin' in the red", "you can't be funky", "too many creeps", and several others are quite catchy.

[Keebler]

What is the contrast of differences between No Wave and New Wave, at any rate?

Also, Talking Heads could easily fall into this thread's subject matter aswell.

Fixed.....