Tuesday 22 April 2014

Battle of New Wave Bands - Finalists (Round 5)

The final championship match-up has been confirmed!  The voting was equally split until the very end!!

The two Final Bands standing are:

The Cure (58%)                                   vs.                           The Clash (58%)




The Cure Studio albums
 (courtesy Wikipedia)




The Clash Studio albums
 (courtesy Wikipedia)


Simply select the ONE band that is best representative of the New Wave genre and ethos.


Deadline:    Friday April 25th 5pm EST.

Thanks for your ongoing participation throughout the Battle of the Bands!

Make this Final Vote Count.  I suspect a Winner will not be evident until the final submission!



12 comments:

  1. EASY! The Clash!

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  2. Santino Bellisario22 April 2014 at 00:33

    This is really so hard. Both bands continue to exert an influence on the music scene today. I hear the Cure referenced all the time in the music of 90's bands like Smashing Pumpkins and The KIllers to more recently the trance movement with Chemical Brothers.

    The Clash are equally iconic a band but for very different reasons. If the Cure helped to usher in the Emo movement in music with all its angst, the Clash put the edge in politically inspired lyrics. Songs like "Police and Thieves" and "London Calling" brought social issues into the mainstream. The band even helped to make the word "punk" an adjective, meaning everything that is rebellious. Everyone from Billy Bragg to U2 to the Arctic Monkeys acknowledge their debt to the boys from working class London.

    I'm flipping a coin on this one: Heads...put me down for the Clash John.

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  3. Lawrence & Joann22 April 2014 at 00:37

    Two votes for The Cure.

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  4. The cure- 100%

    Dee

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  5. The cure.
    Sheelagh

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  6. Clash all the way!

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  7. The Cure
    Bartie

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