We aren’t talking about stadium rock. We aren’t talking about hairspray and power ballads. We are talking about .
New Wave taught us that it was okay to be strange. It was okay to be smart. It was okay to dance badly if you did it with conviction. NEW WAVE 80s
Posted by: The Synth Wrangler Mood: Choppy, melancholic, but make it danceable. We aren’t talking about stadium rock
So go ahead. Dig out that old Cure cassette. Put on your Ray-Bans indoors. And turn up the treble. New Wave taught us that it was okay to be strange
If you grew up in the 80s, you remember the moment the guitar solo died. Or rather, it got chopped up, fed through a chorus pedal, and buried under a sequencer.
Modern pop is safe. Modern rock is safe. But put on "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division. That song is 45 years old, and it still sounds like it’s peeking through the blinds, suspicious of the outside world.
