late 70s new wave classic rock

He's the best ... for about six or seven songs in a row, at least. But that's better than most! "Lonely is the Night" is the best '80s Led Zep song they never got around to recording. "My Kind of Lover" sounds like a lost classic Phil Collins collaboration.

I used to fucking love this song when I was like 12.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5efImBREpE

The Police seem to fit in here. Also I guess like Blondie and Talking Heads. They have songs that were played on classic rock radio.

About time Billy Squier got some love. Don't Say No is all-time.

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Escalator Of Life" by Robert Hazard and the Heroes, and that definitely for the bill here.

For a power pop band, the Shoes were very contemporary sounding, not retro.

Whatabout some of those mid-period Robert Palmer records?

Or maybe just the one with “Johnny & Mary” and the Gary Numan cover

Not sure this fits the remit precisely but wanted to post it anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8LnqUfzh-E

Donnie Iris, definitely. Search "Love Is Like A Rock". Loved to roller skate to that one.

More straight-up garage rock than new wave, but I had this record when I was a kid and played it to death. You'll love it, though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkjvKBPQjo

Donnie Iris, definitely. Search "Love Is Like A Rock". Loved to roller skate to that one.

More straight-up garage rock than new wave, but I had this record when I was a kid and played it to death. You'll love it, though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkjvKBPQjo

Okay, it's an 80's track but COME. ON.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3CmO-lCtos

That was my 7-year old me jam. That one and J. Geils's "Flamethrower."

https://youtu.be/W0sNmPPdQ88

Talking Heads and the Police def not what I had in mind per the original post. Blondie = eh sorta but not always

I know that’ Pat Travers one is 80s, but sounds like he still wants to be in the 70s.

Pete Townshend sort of fits in here doesn’t he?

https://youtu.be/4FZbcoWrUsw

Switchin to Glide = definitely

vegemite girl is gonna be very upset with this billy squier praise

(he rules)

That Pat Travers track was really good until the vocals came in.

It was certainly a weird fit on the Valley Girl soundtrack. Came to mind as something caught between eras.

this Blondie knockoff is pretty great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vlqPSsO9fg

^^^ love that, thanks!

https://youtu.be/kskwZW9iQNM

The Allies were also responsible for "Emma Peel", in my Top 10 tracks of the '80s. Great local band.

Oops. Contemporaries with the same name, but not the same band.

Reviving because I am slowly working my way through this phase of classic rock and am compiling a playlist. So any fresh suggestions would be appreciated!

Started my day with this album...and check out this video. So punque! Why did French TV have all the fun?

https://youtu.be/O62larcuPeg

https://imageevent.com/halpen/1977montypunk

‘Driver’s Seat’ by Sniff n’ the Tears, little too polished for punk, bit too edgy for classic rock. No surprise PTA used it on Boogie Nights when things started going south.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpo_BO5vFII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzOrbhiaw_s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B0hmevx1R8

1980, but Alice Cooper - "Clones (We're All)" is classic

‘Driver’s Seat’ by Sniff n’ the Tears, little too polished for punk, bit too edgy for classic rock. No surprise PTA used it on Boogie Nights when things started going south.

Dug out the Pretty Things 1980 reunion LP (and cheapie bin perennial) Cross Talk. Quite Costello-y, Post-Pub Rock. Phil May even affects a tongue in cheek Sting accent at one point.

1980: X-Teens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqnonXMqstw

Now spinning Phil Lynott's Solo In Soho, a good bit of which fits in here.

Carolyne Mas? His first three albums were in an album haul given to me. Surprised that I still remembered "Stillsane," which only made it to #71 in the States, but turns out it was Top 10 in Toronto (the follow-up, "Quote Goodbye Quote" was a hit here too). I suspect she has completely vanished from playlists by now. She's 65 and keeps a homepage.

https://carolynemas.com/

"Her first three albums..."

Okay, Shaun Cassidy has zero rock cred...but I had no idea about his bit w Todd Rundgren.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgT98lU7aws

...really caught on to the new wave "paranoid man" theme going around at the time.

Is he trying to sound like Iggy Pop?

(ctrl+f "the only ones" zero results)

hrmph.

yeah I like that Shaun album it’s cool!!

think utopia plays on it?

My friend does a '80s Rock video TwitchStream every Saturday night. Tonight my socks were knocked off by Heart's 1980 B-52's move "Break" (see what they did there?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygM6rQebOoM

Not sure if the promo vid is up. It's a cheapie performance clip on a white set with Nancy rocking some tight tartan trousers.

I think this thread is mainly looking for power pop bands that embraced synths. Only thing I can really suggest is the band 20/20 and their self titled debut album.

There was another thread strictly about Classic Rock bands and their New Wave moves, but this thread's been revived more often.

There were a couple of really good examples of what this thread was really about in that TwitchStream; I'll DM my friend to see what they were, as I didn't take good enough notes.

This is waaay too late, but HOLY FUCK at this Devo/B-52's move by...Styx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2xB4CJj5U

More early Oingo Boingo than B-52s IMO. Terrible either way.

I forget that Oingo covered a lot of the same junk culture territory the B's did.

Of course the song is terrible, but of all the dinosaur bands to go out the New Wave window, was not expecting STYX to commit so fully (was one of their final singles before the first breakup, a studio bait track on a double live set).

of all the dinosaur bands to go out the New Wave window, was not expecting STYX to commit so fully

It's kind of amazing the other four guys didn't just back Dennis DeYoung into a corner and beat his ass whenever he brought one of these stupid faux-Broadway ideas in.

“Music Time” is my all-time favorite “sorry bout the last album!” single