Love this late 70s/80s era...great mix of guitar power pop , melodic sensibilities, post punk attitude, and quirky synths....Sue Saad,.Gary Myrick, the Cretones, the Producers,.etc....any others?
This era was alot of fun...with even established artists churning out psuedo new wave lps to go with the times...Billy Joel "Glass Houses", J Geils "Love stinks", even Alice Cooper "Flush the Fashion" haha
"Glass Houses" had some great songs along with the overplayed stuff. For musicians like me who had been playing rock since the 60s the whole "new wave" thing was a nice jolt out of the 70s doldrums and disco thing...as Linda Ronstadt said it was sort of "whitey's last stand".
The Motels were hard to categorize. Their music ranged from post punk to adult contemporary. Another plus was Martha Davis, she was both eye and ear candy! Even with some chart success they are mostly forgotten.
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