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My new lockdown project has been researching and ranking all the women of nu wave — subsequently expanded into Women of the Nu Wave/Post Punk/Power Pop Era Centered Around 1978-1983. Maybe '84.

Such projects tend to spin out of control, and this one has, swelling from an original list of 25 that is now up to 219, 46 of whom are listed but not yet rated. I realize I forgot one, and then adding her triggers four more additions.

Current #100 is Susan Ann Sulley of The Human League.

Those two Human League chicks should have bailed on the dudes and
started their own band. It would have been huge! Huge, I tell ya...

(no patience for the genre, just sayin')

I hears ya', but there's a reason she's at #100. There's wimmins responsible for indubitably great cultural contributions further up.

This is funny!

I'm always amazed when peeps here suddenly revive a long dormant thread and dive right back into it.

That much is true.

I love Human League! This later cut -- Heart Like a Wheel -- is fantastic!

Check out this award show appearance -- with Joanne Catherall lip synching and dancing apparently with her arm in a sling!

That's like, really hard to get through... so I didn't...

Yeah, the best nu wave clips are from European television and introduced in Dutch or Swedish.

Also, the best thing I can offer Kase about the Humid League is Phil Oakley's unabashed praise of the Ramones in "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of."

Also, a wonderful side effect of my research is that it has allowed me to unearth what may be the greatest nu wave artifact of all time.



If that doesn't get me the MacArthur Genius Grant I've been applying for, then you know the whole game is rigged.

I lasted a minute, no way I could do 22 minutes more of that.

kcmets wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:31 pm I lasted a minute, no way I could do 22 minutes more of that.

Yeah, any further viewing and listening should probably only be done in labs with highly modified headsets.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:56 pm

kcmets wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:31 pm I lasted a minute, no way I could do 22 minutes more of that.

Yeah, any further viewing and listening should probably only be done in labs with highly modified headsets.

OMG, there is a lot to unpack in there. Starting with the rhythm section. The bass player with different color pants. The hunched over drummer. That's some glorious nu wave going on there.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 2:06 pm My new lockdown project has been researching and ranking all the women of nu wave —

I'd help you out, but viewing that last video I realize I'm going to need a little help figuring out which of those are women.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:03 pm Yeah, the best nu wave clips are from European television and introduced in Dutch or Swedish.

Also, the best thing I can offer Kase about the Humid League is Phil Oakley's unabashed praise of the Ramones in "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of."

Also, a wonderful side effect of my research is that it has allowed me to unearth what may be the greatest nu wave artifact of all time.



If that doesn't get me the MacArthur Genius Grant I've been applying for, then you know the whole game is rigged.

Chreee--isst this is some shit here

There's some good stuff here. I don;t think I knew "Lebanon"

Did a bunny hole dive on Human League not long ago. Actually if I remember correctly the two girls were friends that the lead guy saw dancing together in a teenage club and politely asked both their parents if they could join his band

Well, sadly, Susan Ann Sulley has had her day.

But our new #100 is another Susan — actress Susan Berman, seen here in the nu wavingest trailer for the post-punkingest Susan (sense a pattern here?) Seidelman film, Smithereens.

kcmets wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:31 pm I lasted a minute, no way I could do 22 minutes more of that.

At around the 30 second mark, I had to bail. Definitely not my thing.

Well, the idea was, sort of, that it wasn't really anybody's thing, but the times were weird, and folks weren't sure what they should be on the lookout for, and somehow, somebody pointed a camera at them anyway.

I have a problem with drums. I can fake a consistent beat for a minute or so on the hi-hat and snare, but once I try to incorporate my feet on the pedals, every thing goes to shit. It's a strange day that I look at a drummer in an actual band and think, "I can do as good as that," but Human Sexual Response's drummer kind of had me thinking that And the costumes seem to be a missing link between some Sid 'n' Marty Kroft production (The Bugaloos?) and The Wiggles.

HSR actually did release a defensible record or two in their short heyday, but that certainly isn't captured there in that madness. I think they twice won WLIR's Screamer of the Week contest. I think that clip belongs in a museum, but I didn't actually expect anybody to go out and buy their records.

Currently at #100 is yet another Susan — Susan Schmidt of Akron, Ohio's own Chi-Pig. I won't offer any links.

"We don't need your fascist groove thing" if nothing else was a top-10 title for a single.

Reason #6 why mescaline was a big thing back then...

My deep dive has left me shocked by the heretofore-unknown-to-me reality of how huge this music was in the Balkans, flying the flag high in Serbia and the like well before the fall of the Iron Curtain. I've stumbled over a dozen such bands.

Another fine nu wave artifact unearthed. Come for the operatically weird nu wave vixen. Stay for the banter with Don Rickles on Merv Griffin's couch.

None of the bizarro Nu Wave stuff you're digging up for whatever reason
defines the Nu Wave era to me. The first 30 seconds of that video is utter
garbage, impossible to keep it rolling... garbage.

Nina is number 47, so she certainly not definitive of anything but her odd self, but use the slider, man. There's good stuff when she gets to the couch (around 1:50). You can imagine yourself in Don's place.