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So another big part of my story is that I see my musical inheritance from it being given to me from my brother.

And it was all new wave and Britpop and British alternative music.

Because that's what he was playing.

Yes.

And it was funny.

He had the same, I mean, exact influences.

You know, because I loved New Wave and I loved synth pop and things like that, but I also loved Frank Sinatra.

And here's this guy that like takes crooning lessons and he loves that stuff and he loves Rat Pack and that Vegas thing, but he also loves New Order and The Smiths and he makes short films and he's been in bands.

Stacey's mom is a full-throated, whole-assed, sincerely loving tribute to the Cars.

The great Boston blockbuster, gawky-looking but incomprehensibly cool new wave band, the Cars.

This is abundantly clear.

even if you're not watching the Stacey's Mom video where the preteen boys are dressed up in jaunty Mega 80 suits like members of the Cars.

You know, it became a novelty song only because it was so different also than what was going on in music at the time, I think.

Right.

You know, and because like New Wave was not really that cool.

at the time.

In 1983, Nick Hayward released North of a Miracle.

This followed his exit from the New Wave group, Haircut 100.

He decided to go with a more jazz-tinged pop solo debut.

He was produced by Beatles engineer Jeff Emmerich.

Album hit number 10 on the UK Albums Chart, it had hits like Whistle Down the Wind and Take That Situation.

In 1985, Oingo Boingo released one of the biggest Halloween albums of all time, Dead Man's Party.

This was their idea of getting to be more accessible with new wave and pop music.

Peaked at number 95 on the Billboard albums chart.

Art Rock? Yes.

Some New Wave, Synth Pop.

and

Synth

Pop? Are we talking like in the vein of Depeche Mode or are we talking like Art Rock more like Sonic Youth?

Art Rock more like Sonic Youth, I would say.

Like they kind of evolved out of New Wave and into a more Art Rock direction.

popular bands

to come out of that punk New Wave and geez they were good live you saw them live did you in the 70s a couple of

times live and Paul Weller

was quite a performer I'm sure he still is

We're going to do a slightly different... yeah we'll have a chat

about it

okay we'll do that well we'll finish with a short and sharp song released in February 1976 but this song launched the career of a thousand new wave bands I would say and it's the seminal band from New York City the Ramones with Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg Bop And on that, we shall bid you all farewell and see you next week.

Goodbye.

Mm-hmm.

The days of New Wave were hot in 82.

Oh, yeah.

A lot of

Right.

Then it becomes, you know, New Wave and Madonna and this, that and the other.

So I I kind of played it like that for a little while, Brian.

But, you know, it was a mixed range of ages, first of all.

I have had many since I was but a child.

Star Trek, Star Wars, DC, Marvel, Doctor Who, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Walt Newton Universe, Takasatsu, Saturday Morning Cartoon, Studio Ghibli, 80's New Wave, K-Pop, and so much more.

These are the things that keep me sane in this world and I invite those that I am fond of who share some of these pleasures to discuss them with me.

For I am the Savage Chuck, and this is the Boxing Glove Arrow Podcast!

She had started working with Barney Bubbles, who was the designer of all the stiff records, logos and labels and record covers and slogans.

And if you go and look at like the Elvis Costello records or the Ian Dury records, the ones with wallpaper on them and the Riding on a Crest of a New Wave, stiff things.

You can see the designs are really brilliant.

And if you look at the front of Armed Forces, it's a painting that Barney Bubbles did.