New Age? what the crackerjack is that?

[TaranT]

I'm sure someone will throw a link to Ishkur's Guide to Electronica soon.

If you insist http://www.digitallyimported.com/edmguide/.

Ishkur has an entry for New Age under the Downtempo tab.

Maybe someone someday will write an honest history of the New Age music phenomenon that occurred during the Eighties. From what I've heard, there were hundreds of New Age groups and individuals at one point, and almost none of it was "therapeutic" meditation or whatever it's been reduced to.

A good portion of New Age was all acoustic - piano, flutes, etc. So, even putting it in electronica is not really correct. It only seems that way because the few groups left are making electronic music (e.g. Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, O'Hearn, etc.).

[DDramone]

Bah! get post and pre mixed up. im no english major. anyways...

considering the banshee's were billy idols only punk cred's, i always thought of them as a punk band. the replacements too.

[ithaqua]

Listening to the samples from Trigger10d and Beautiful Assassins, it sounds like Industrial Dance, just more like a third type, but IMO not really enough to say "post-" (or were you joking around when you said that? ).

A little bit. There are many who consider the first wave of 'industrial' bands (TG, Einsturzende Neubauten, Cabaret Voltaire) the only true industrial music, and everything after, including Skinny Puppy, as post-industrial.

I see 'post'-industrial as more of a progression of industrial artists moving on to newer projects, such as cEvin Key's work in "The Tear Garden", Chris Vrenna's "tweaker" albums, or the Front 242 side project "Male Or Female". It's more post because industrial music's heyday is long past and they're doing it more for fun again.

[Qyot27]

considering the banshee's were billy idols only punk cred's, i always thought of them as a punk band. the replacements too.

Billy Idol and Siouxsie Sioux were both part of a group of teenaged punk rockers who followed the Sex Pistols around, but he was never in Siouxsie and the Banshees. As far as I can remember, Sid Vicious was originally in the Banshees, but then was recruited into the Pistols. After the punk revolution in Britain died out though, Siouxsie and the Banshees turned into and remained a Goth rock band, and had all their Top 40 hits during that time (mostly on the British Top 40, but there were one or two that got into the US charts). Even Siouxsie Sioux's side project The Creatures, which started up in the early 80s, is essentially Goth rock with a little bit of an experimental edge.

Billy Idol was in Generation X, who recorded 'Dancing With Myself' originally, and then when he broke out on his own, he rerecorded the song and it became a hit. Yeah, the Replacements were pretty much a punk band in the vein of Hüsker Dü on their first record, but from Hootenany on, they were too experimental and not really hard enough to be considered anything but general alt. rock, IMO.

[DDramone]

ok, that clears it all up for me. lol.