"NEW WAVE"

New Wave Music was like a thinking mans punk with its similar rawness and philosophical approach to punk yet also containing artful inclusions of synthesizers and other experimental music elements that offered a more enriched plethora of sounds, styles and outlooks based on the core philisophy of punk. In later years this movement was renamed post-punk by many music commentators and music history revisionists. It's peak years in its oringal form was from 1977 to 1980, but it morphed into encompassing a more pop oriented version (along with its opure form) up until approxiametely 1986.

As a sub-music movement, New Wave morphed as it entered the early 1980's to include pop infused offerings of it's former self, this further blurring the lines of what New Wave represented. The weight of time has since shown that the volume of music releases for pop-infused new wave (propelled along by the marketing machines of commerical record labels at the time) of the early 80's verses the original artful and philisophically purer versions of New Wave originators from the late 70's that the pop-infused version has distorted its place in history which in turn has favoured the use of the term post-punk to describe more serious and credible offerings of that time. In addition to this, bands such as The Stranglers (one of the core original new wave acts) shifted their original new wave values of their earlier albums to being more pop product oriented later in their career, thus also confirming the transition of New Wave to a more commercial music form as time marched on.

See also Punk and Post Punk.

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