Sunday, July 7, 2024

VA - New Wave Hell: Double Digit Inflation Pop V.2

This was a quickee, slapped together cd-r compilation offered by a certain power-pop centric label and distro in the mid '00s to incentivize potential customers.  New Wave Hell... isn't one of those legendary or totemic Rosetta stones passed along en masse between music fans, rather a casually prepared yet highly consistent mix-tape highlighting a bevy of obscure, yet still integral artists from the late '70s and early Reagan-era involving the likes of under-the-radar exports The Yachts, Scars, The Nits, Reels and Nick Gilder.  The Reputations "I Believe You" is an especially worthy and arcane revelation, as are solid tracks from a couple of entities I've enlightened to you over the years, specifically Maurice & The Clichés and the Heaters.  New Wave Hell... is classy stuff, and surprisingly gratifying, and if you're anything like me you can't help but wonder what songs made the cut for Volume 1...

01. Nick Gilder - Amanda Greer
02. The Nits - A Touch of Henry Moore
03. Maurice & The Cliches - It's All Talk
04. Scars - David
05. Robert Ellis Orrall - Baby Go
06. The Reels - Baby's in the Know
07. Yachts - Yachting Type
08. The Reputations - I Believe You
09. The Heaters - Talk is Cheap
10. The Killermeters - Twisted Wheel
11. Modest Proposal - Live Today

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4 comments:

  1. BeyesJuly 8, 2024 at 7:15 AM

    Modest Proposal were a Washington, DC-based mod revival band of the mid-1980s (but after The Jam had already called it quits in the UK). Of note, lead singer Neil Augenstein has been a long-time radio news reporter on DC's WTOP.

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  2. jgmoneyJuly 8, 2024 at 5:44 PM

    Yes, where is volume 1? Thank you

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  3. Jim H.July 9, 2024 at 2:48 PM

    dang, thats swell stuff thanks!

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  4. Bruce BrodeenSeptember 23, 2024 at 11:15 AM

    "This was a quickee, slapped together cd-r compilation offered by a certain power-pop centric label and distro in the mid '00s to incentivize potential customers. New Wave Hell... isn't one of those legendary or totemic Rosetta stones passed along en masse between music fans, rather a casually prepared yet highly consistent mix-tape highlighting a bevy of obscure, yet still integral artists from the late '70s and early Reagan-era"....

    "OMG, you nailed it!!", said the guy who put these dozens of collections together over 20 years ago!

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