Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROCK'S NEW WAVE is a broad and diverse movement, encompassing all sorts of bizarre and seemingly apocalyptic visions. Listeners, in fact are often tempted to make comparisons to the Fall of Rome--in the time honored introductory Social Studies fashion--when confronted with the sight of a man being paid to molest a party doll while wearing Alligator Baggies, and other assorted fun and games...
...Wave isn't just a bunch of no-talents doing worn out Iggy Pop imitations, nor is it just the infamous Sex Pistols, the new prophets of the Gross. It is also a group like the Talking Heads...
...starters, the Talking Heads do not look like the average New Wave band. Not only are they not punks, they actually look more like slightly decayed preppies. They have short hair, dress neatly in button-down shirts and peer calmly from the back of their album, looking for all the world like young stock brokers on holiday. They let it be known that they are adults, not raving juvenile delinquents like their comrades...
Guitarist-keyboard player Jerry Harrison joins with Byrne to handle the guitar work, which is spare and economical to suit the New Wave fashion. Nobody stretches out for a solo on this record; the effect is to provide a tight ensemble sound to back the eccentric Byrne's lyrics. The music is danceable and listenable without being hard on the ears, but it isn't all that exciting. It reminds the listener of the blander moments of the new Steely Dan record, but with much sparer instrumentation...
...adequately furnish a home with aquatic appliances. In recent months advertisements for a $1200 bathtub have been catching the eye of readers of national magazines. California--birthplace of car customizing, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Jerry Brown--now offers what may prove to be the new wave of America's vassergeist: California Hot Tubbing...