# Recommend any modern New Wave bands?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 3, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-any-modern-new-wave-bands/192750 "2003-08-03T19:03:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-any-modern-new-wave-bands/192750/21 "2003-08-06T02:02:04Z")

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the singer from Death Cab for Cutie spawned The Postal Service, a group which I really, really like.

As for Miss Kitten & The Hacker and Adult, I don’t really like either of these groups (I just mentioned that I’d heard them). They’re a little too techno/electroclash for my tastes. I’m really not into the electroclash type stuff.

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**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-any-modern-new-wave-bands/192750/22 "2003-08-06T02:15:10Z")

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As I said in another thread, the band HOT HOT HEAT has a GREAT modern new-wave single called “Bandages”, and although I hated the rest of the album, you might like it. Bandages sounds just like “Boys Don’t Cry”-era Cure, but a little more raw.  
The greatest New Wave band EVER…[The Fleshtones](http://www.fleshtones.org) are still around and have an awesome new record out called “Do You Swing?”. You can hear samples at their website.

Jon

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**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-any-modern-new-wave-bands/192750/23 "2003-08-06T03:51:42Z")

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Well you can’t talk about electo-clash without mentioning Peaches. And Chicks on Speed are good, too.

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> _originally posted by interface2x_  
> I just can’t get into any of that Electroclash. From the stuff that I’ve heard, it’s a severe case of style over substance, but YMMV.

Well, it partly is. But that’s the fun of it. They just vamp it up and set the place on fire. I mean, I like to listen to Radioheads and U2s and Wilcos and other Bands With Substance. But sometimes I just like to party.

Electro-clash is kind of like a really hot, really vapid blonde. You don’t want to spend the rest of your life with her, but one night? Bring it on!

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**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-any-modern-new-wave-bands/192750/24 "2003-08-06T04:13:03Z")

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Woo hoo! Other Gary Numan fans!  
That is all.

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