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I luv A-ha, Flock Of Seagulls, Human League and Bananarama (mostly bc of radio, less bc of MTV and least of all, due to movies). A lot of great 80s songs blew up on radio b4 being used in movies.

I was your age, 1982-1984. When I think of '80s music,' the iconic Brit- & Euro artists r the first that leap to mind. - Boomer-generation American

Numerous aspiring 'punk' artists settled for being 'pop' superstars 😂. Blondie, B-52s, A-ha, Human League, Fears For Tears, The Go-Gos, et al.

Fun fact: Devo's hats are based off of a concept called orgone energy. It's a pseudoscience that has been around for a long time. It's similar to those necklaces that baseball had used in the early 2000s. But basically, it's supposed to help you against bad energy that you build up over time and makes you live longer. Something like that. They thought it was funny and they made their hats after it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone

Coming from a Small Town In CNY, I went to SUNY New Paltz in 1978, Got so exposed to The New Wave Big Time!

New Wave groups were once adolescent punks who eventually embraced fashion and cocaine.😂

Excellent! Lived the 80s, love the 80s.

If this was answered elsewhere, please forgive me, but why were all the California bands like X, Black Flag, TSOL, Adolescents, Circle Jerks, etc., left out of this historical arc?

Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure, OMD, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Book of Love, ABC, Anything Box, Camouflage are my favorites

Paul weller started in the same era as punk and still doing it

Good video and review call Bob it is a great cover but the album in itself is really a masterpiece and herb Alpert is such a great producer performer and arranger. I watched your video a few times and it’s too bad you couldn’t do this whole thing in one take. It got really distracting seeing your lava lamp would keep jumping to different positions in the flow. If you need to have that background perhaps you should just do green screen and then you can have a consistent flow with your background?

I would groups like theThompson Twins,Goth groups like The Cure. A great video though.

You completely overlooked the underground of new wave/romantic which wasn't about taking over the charts the darker stuff was far better.

Good video! Thank you! If you haven't done so, maybe you can do a history of Ska, Mod, and Skinhead music.

What a time it was! We were in highschool from 1980-1984 and we fived an hour to Santa Cruz and an hour to San Francisco where we saw some of our faves, Berlin, Echo and the Bunnymen The Eurythmics and Depeche Mode. We were Modds....I suppose it stood for moderately punk! That little tiny moment in ti me could never be repeated;. right before they changed to drinking age to 21, No seatbelt laws, no GPS and no way our parents could track us. All of us ended up graduating from college and establishing families.....but those memories, 40 years ago this year, will remain alive and well in our memories.

Devo were way ahead of their time

One very important band that you missed out is Blue Cheer. One of the originators of the distorted rock and punk sound

your music appreciation is limited but that's not your fault,your young and you didn't grow up with them as I have.The Beatles changed everything,music,society impact was huge and fashion.

Excellent video. I also had the good fortune to see Elvis Costello and The Police (on my birthday) as one of my first concerts. I really appreciate the deep thought and research that went to this video.

You've misused the pejorative term "boy band". They were not artificially manufactured by a record co. They had the talent to make a strong go of it without outside writers. Even if helped out in recording/arranging at the beginning, this was done as to songs for which they'd created the basic framework and they grew incredibly fast. The fact that girls loved them doesn't make them a boy band. They can have that going on and have independently driven, true talent at the same time. Calling the early Beatles a "boy band" just seems a distortion.

I kept waiting for a mention of Ultravox but was disappointed. I played shows with a lot of punk and New Wave bands in the 70's and 80's and presented many bands for their first U.S. shows (The Police, Ultravox, etc.). Ultravox and Wire were two of the most influential bands of their time.

"Proto-punk" is a name mostly used to market an obscure band that played raw rock before the Sex Pistols popularized the idea of punk. Proto-punk is a word you stick to an obscure band that was playing garage rock or metal or hippie hard rock, so you can retro actively promote it as "influential." Like The MC5. No one in the UK punk seems to have heard of the MC5 before 1978, when the Damned, the least important UK band, did a cover, but since they were loud and raw, the MC5 were retroactively called proto-punk, and hugely influential. Today, you can do a youtube video and pick any loud, raw band and call it proto-punk and influential. See: Death.

When I surveyed 80's historians (my mum) LOL!

This styled like our generation is hilarious.

DEVO = De-Evolution. DEVO was right in view of current history, By the way, that's NOT a Flower Pot, it's an ENERGY DOME.

The Cure. Talking heads. The Smiths.

Police is sort of a hybrid too, Stewart Copeland being American.

Well done

Great video and content!

vivian westwood created punk - its a jew trick

Depeche mode is a great example of chameleon band - music changes on the market and so bands music changes too.

Excellent Summary of my fave music from the Soundtrack of my Life!!

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Yeah they really was your are an idiot sorry Mr hype do you write or even play music WOW clueless 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Add Men Without Hats to your American list - that modular synth bank is awesome and opened a 10 year old's eyes to music from across the pond (Safety Dance particularly). Vince Clark (Depeche Mode and Yazoo) also needs to be credited from the UK side. He was F*cking awesome. Love the video no criticism intended :)

You did a very accurate job of describing this. Like you were there. Thumbs up.

The original punk was Rockabilly. Raucous, up tempo, simple musically and made by 'non musicians', anti establishment. small independent labels etc. Punk was essentially amplified rockabilly. You'll note that the 1970s Rockabilly revival was on the same time line as the emergence of punk.

Depending on how you define new wave, I'd answer the question of my favorite artist differently. I will mention a not so oft mentioned band though: Split Enz

My introduction to New Wave was when my older brother played Turning Japanese by the Vapors for me on his Walkman.

Where does a band like R.E.M. fit in this? I figured they'd also be New Wave much like their fellow Atlantans (?) the B-52's.

it's worth looking at the Wings' last album, Back to the Egg too.

"Cruel summer" was also on an episode of Knight Rider

When i clicked on it I thought I'd watch just the first ten minutes but 50 minutes whizzed by before I knew it 😅

Why the fvck are you styled like How We Grew Up in all your videos ?

A well made, comprehensive breakdown of a slice of music history by a small but clearly talented analyst?? Sign me up! Have a like and sub.

Thanks a lot. 80s are my favorīte times so I can watch video essays on that time for days.

Reeeeally nice and professional presentation, thank you much!