 -
6 years 4 months ago
- Posts: 6051
- Globally Banned
|
Apparently "New Wave" was a term coined by record companies because at the time "punk" had a terrible connotation.
At that time, the two were really one in the same, but then they kind of split. The harder, faster, heavier music kept the name "punk", and the lighter side of the same movement branched off into the "new wave" label.
The way I look at it is that they both followed the kind of stripped-down reworking of rock-and-roll, but new wave is much less aggressive and more electronic based.
I guess these labels are kind of hard to define, but its easy to hear a song and go "oh, that's a new wave song". Kind of like how its hard to describe the color red, but you know it when you see it.
|
