"Brave New Waves" (Canadian radio show on cbc) did several hours of Def Jux in about 2004. Great stuff.

The lyrical delivery over the androgynous new wave beat reminded me of the Dr. Zaius musical from The Simpsons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGf0FuVtsLI

Back in High School I listened to music like this all of the time - Foreigner, Foghat, Boston, REO, etc. - once I got to college I got turned on to some New Wave music by a dorm mate, and I haven't been too keen on the former since.

There's a lot of music from the 80's that is sui generous to the era - Yazzoo, for instance - yet has a kind of timelessness to it.

Thanks for the memories.

It's a critique of stereotypes berticus, and your reaction to those ideas makes me think Maher nailed it. I tend to agree that there is an over valuation of so called feminine concepts in America. I don't think Maher is being sexist, he is after all not advocating that women stay at home and raise the babies, which was the original stereotype that feminism raged against. I would be interested in hearing his thoughts on so called new wave feminism, or the new found belief that being feminism is acting like a ho... for instance I bet Paris sees herself as a feminist because she has boy toys.

I inherited part of my grandfather's record collection when I was a punk/New wave/No Wave student in 1980, and the Chopin mazurkas somehow hit me very hard, very fast.

Wikipedia:

"Heroes" (the quotation marks are part of the title, for reasons of irony)[1] is an album by David Bowie, released in 1977. Serving as the second installment of Bowie and Eno's "Berlin Trilogy" (the other two being Low and Lodger) "Heroes" is similar in sound to Low but more robust and visceral. Of the three albums, it was the most befitting of the appellation "Berlin", being the only one wholly recorded and mixed there. The mood of the record reflected the zeitgeist of the Cold War, symbolised by the divided city.

The title track remains one of Bowie's best known, a classic story of two lovers who meet at the Berlin Wall. The album is considered one of Bowie's best by critics, notably for the contributions of guitarist Robert Fripp (for which he flew in from the U.S. to record in one day).[2] It was marketed by RCA with the catch phrase, "There’s Old Wave. There’s New Wave. And there's David Bowie…"[3] The album made #3 in the UK and stayed in the charts for 26 weeks, but was less successful in the U.S. where it peaked at #35.

With "Heroes", Bowie again paid tribute to his Krautrock influences: the title is a nod to the track "Hero" on the album NEU! '75 by the German band Neu! while "V-2 Schneider" is inspired by and named for Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider; earlier in 1977, Kraftwerk had name-checked Bowie on the title track of Trans-Europe Express. The cover photo was inspired by Erich Heckel's Roquairol, as was that of The Idiot, one of Bowie's collaborations with Iggy Pop that was released the same year.[4]

Though "Heroes" included its share of dark and atmospheric instrumentals such as "Sense of Doubt" and "Neuköln", as well as the sprawling confessional "Blackout", after the melancholy and inward-looking Low it was regarded as a highly passionate and positive artistic statement.[5][6] This was evident not simply through "Heroes" the song but in the rocking opener "Beauty and the Beast" (released as the second single in January 1978), the raucous "Joe the Lion" and the light-hearted closer "The Secret Life of Arabia".

A number of the album's tracks were played live at Bowie's concerts the following year, captured on record as Stage (1978). Philip Glass adapted a classical suite, "Heroes" Symphony, based on this album, a companion to his earlier Low Symphony. The title track has been covered by numerous artists, whilst "The Secret Life of Arabia" was sung by Billy Mackenzie in 1982 on the British Electric Foundation LP Music of Quality and Distinction."

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".

Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and theorists that gave birth to the New Wave.

Known for stylistic implementations that challenged, at their focus, the conventions of Hollywood cinema, he became universally recognized as the most audacious and most radical of the New Wave filmmakers. He adopted a position in filmmaking that was unambiguously political. His work reflected a fervent knowledge of film history, a comprehensive understanding of existential and Marxist philosophy, and a scholarly disposition that placed him as the lone filmmaker among the public intellectuals of the Rive Gauche.

- Wikipedia

In this clip a team of professional mercenaries pursue a target through a mazed residential complex.

Time and Tide (AKA Seunlau ngaklau) is a 2000 Hong Kong action film directed by Tsui Hark that won the 2000 Venice Film Festival Future Film Festival Digital Award. It's one of my favorite new wave Hong Kong action movies.

* Full disclosure - I uploaded this clip and Pyrex posted it, because honestly only about 3 people and a dog know about this movie in the West.

This is the famous dancing sequence from Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part, released in 1964 and known as 'Band Of Outsiders' to the west. The film is serves as a prime example of French new wave cinema, this particular sequence impressed Quentin Tarantino so much that he payed homage via similar scene in Pulp Fiction, and named his production company 'A Band Apart', Jean-Luc Godard himself said that he would have preferred if Quentin Tarantino simply paid him. I love Anna Karina and the scene's composition, cinematography, direction and the actors simply yet oddly hypnotic movements. The seemingly incidental expositionary dialogue and overall sound composition adds to the scene tremendously.

Arthur nervously watches his feet but thinks of Odile's mouth and her romantic kisses

Odile wonders if the boys notice her breasts moving as she dances

Franz thinks of everything and nothing... uncertain if reality is becoming dream, or dream reality...

Yeah Gorgonheap that's fine to say and do in our time, but you must remember why the founding fathers stipulated the seperation between Church and state. Pilgrims fled religious persecution in the East Midlands of England to form the American Colonies. The founding fathers knew that the union of Church and State would mean divison among a diverse population, and leading to internal strife, or similar persecution faced by Pilgrims. Already now we see that emerging, issues where lines are being drawn between pro-life or pro-choice, left or right, democrat or republican.

Furthermore the serperation of church and state and the respect towards all religions that the American consitituion shows is a beneficial effect. Allowing millions of people to immgrate to the US and start anew, and being able to practice whatever faith they may hold. Religion and state power rarely work well together there are countless examples to attest to that. Furthermore with the dilution of population, fallout in church attendence and the emergence of new wave relgions, I dobut it's 92%.

Am sure that if the religion was not your own, or say Jewish or something other your support would not be the same.

That's Olivia Newton-John singing all the parts for the 40's band, and the new wave band The Tubes ("She's a Beauty") as the 80's band.
Read a funny quote the other day from Michael Beck, the male lead: "THE WARRIORS opened a lot of doors for me, which XANADU then closed."

Best New Wave song evah!