For many listeners, New Wave music was only from the ’80s.
Understandable. But incorrect.
For, in the advent of the decade that followed, the commercial spotlight began to turn its focus on other genres. In fact, by the start of the 1990s, Metal, Alternative Rock, and Grunge were in full swing in the mainstream. That left New Wave out in the fringes but still thriving.
Naturally, a great number of music enthusiasts were ready to embrace whatever new was rocking and brewing. I was one of them. And that’s okay.
However, my difference was, I never turned my back on New Wave. While banging my head to the likes of Guns N’ Roses, Rage against the Machine, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Jane’s Addiction, my waving hands remained in synchronicity with my favorite genre–both the classics and the new releases.
This set consists of albums, all released in the early ’90s, that prove that New Wave did not die. It just lurked quietly but confidently in the shade and shadows of the new darlings of the media and the masses in that era; or, branched out into subgenres the primary commonality is the melodic sensibilities.
* A House – I Want Too Much (1990)
* a-ha – East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1990)
* The Beloved – Happiness (1990)
* Depeche Mode – Violator (1990)
* The Dream Academy – A Different Kind of Weather (1990)
* Erasure – Chorus (1991)
* U2 – Achtung Baby (1991)
* World Party – Goodbye Jumbo (1990)
