Talk:Neo-Wave

This article sounds as if neo-wave is directly opposed to nu-metal, which i don't think is an accurate portrayl of either genre. Xunflash 23:52, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This article sounds more like something out of a magazine than an encyclopedia. -Branddobbe 01:43, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

This article doesn't make ANY sense to me.

I mean, I don't understand how you can cite The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, and Modest Mouse as belonging to a similar style as Blink 182 and Gwen Steffani.

I mean, let's not even go into the Gorillaz being a part of this.

Who comes up with this crap?

If there's a point to this article at all it's that there's a resurgence of interest in 80's culture within several different musical genres in the past year or three.

This is sub-NME bullshit.

This whole article sounds like an opinion. I've never heard of so-called "neo-wave" anyways. It also contradicts itself in several places, and the author doesn't seem to know much of anything about any of the bands (s)he talks about. The fashion section is also total crap. Static3d 20:37, 24 September 2005 (UTC) Yeah... after looking at the "List of Neo-Wave Bands", I'm a little baffled how anyone could classify The White Stripes, Gorillaz, and Queens of The Stone Age all in the same genre. There is nothing even remotely similar in the sound and style of these bands, (and probably more in the list.) Static3d 20:48, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I can't say I've ever heard this specific term before. However, the idea of bands like Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Bravery, et al. being '80's throwbacks, heavily indebted to the New Wave movement is definitely quite current, and that's the concept I would understand to be referred to by a term like Neo- (or Newer) Wave. So my proposal is to weed out the other movements from this article, and either flesh out this article with info about the "New Wave Revivalist" strand, or else merge and redirect to New Wave music. RMoloney 00:38, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a good article. I've never heard of the alleged genre Neo-wave, and would certainly not include these bands together as sharing musical influences. There is a clear influence from late 70's/early 80's groups like Gang of Four and Wire on the music of Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Battle, Maximo Park and The Futureheads. But whether this constitutes a movement in it's own right is debatable. As noted, far better to delete this and continue the topic within New Wave Music - 'New Wave of British New Wave' anyone?--Mr snide 13:51, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Googling turns up nothing coherent except an Xbox competitor. Sheesh. Wikipedia:No original research applies here. --Dhartung | Talk 16:08, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What the heck is Neo-Wave? I stumbled across this article when I noticed that Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Gorillaz, and The White Stripes are suddenly part of the same genre now. It's original research.. we should change the band articles back, it's making us look silly. Rhobite 18:19, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

definately. no original research, et all. about real catagories, franz ferdinand and hot hot heat and a few others definately belong to a sub-genre that the sub-genre killers and the bravery and a few others belong to, but the genre those subgenres belong to would probably be indie, which is clearly addressed in the article about indie (music). even if the term indepentant is inaccurate, indie isn't synonymous to independant to everybody. i'd like to also note that modest mouse is a type of indie, but closer to, wow, uh, polyphonic spree if i had to say off the top of my head. it seems wrong, but instinctual to me, so whatever. really, this article is just an expansion of the subcatagories of indie, but under a fancy same that means nothing.