"New Pop": What went wrong?

re: Morley above. He didn't make a general aesthetic distinction between Dollar and ABC, Adam Ant and the Raincoats — that was the point. They were both there, in the same chart, vibing one another up: arguing ewith one another. If Scritt Politti sold records abt Derrida and the Nolan Sisters had responded with records about Helene ("Siouxsie") Cixous, then kewl. But kewl if not: subversion was not part of the concept. Being free to allow yourself the idea that topping the charts was FUN, esp. if you did it while not essentially altering what you were ALREADY doing. Morley is caught, forever and always, between Bolan his first true love, and Joy Div is second.

Jose F in charts = fab. Charts nothing but Josef K = poor.

This thread is being revived because I wanted to start a thread about what a beautiful record "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" is, and I was sure somebody else must have already had this excellent idea.

Also, homophobia played an important part in new pop's demise...

My own list.

Most of those artists don't code as "new pop" to me. New wave, synthpop, even new romantic: yes. I'm particularly laughing my tits off at The Jam being described as "new pop" ...

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I do like most of the songs on the list, but no way would I put all of those artists in the same pigeonhole, and in many cases not in that particular pigeonhole.

'The Gift' is the Jam's New Pop album, hence trumpets and so forth

I disagree, it's just a Jam album with horns on it. If the whole LP sounded like 'The Planner's Dream Goes Wrong' or parts of early Style Council, I'd agree... but it doesn't and I don't!