songs i liked from before my sense of what was cool and uncool was established


quirkstep from theatrical prog-glam-artrock troupe  who quickly restyled themselves New Wave




Ken Lockie, former associate of K. Levene





Old Waver adapts swiftly to the New Wave




sounds very like early Simple Minds, that does - and they were Bebop Deluxe fans, am I right? Or was that in fact Stuart Adamson / The Skids?


Why the French accent?




Both these tunes got a lot of Peel play








this next one made the charts




unfortunate placement of J. Saville's voice there at the front of a song about someone who's "not yet a woman"

never noticed that "17" is a bit like an unfeminist Delta 5


J. Burchill wrote a brutal take-down of M & Muffins LP saying how small the topics and targets of the New Wave were c.f. punk  - but I like that thing of writing about buildings, food, roads (XTC) .... mundane stuff... anything but love and loneliness....