#634 New Wave & Alison Moyet

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jim and Greg talk to Lori Majewski about her book "Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and the Songs That Defined the 1980s", co-written with Jonathan Bernstein. In it, the authors reveal why New Wave caught on so strongly with pop fans and the media, especially post-punk in the U.K. Plus, an interview with Alison Moyet, an English singer-songwriter that came up in the New Wave scene, and is still making waves musically.

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0:00.0	So now, ladies and gentlemen, it is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis and I'm Greg
0:25.8	Cott. This week we take a refresher course on New Wave Music with Lori
0:29.5	Madjuski co-author of Mad World and oral history of New Wave Artists and the songs that define the 1980s.
0:36.0	You know what Vince Clark did to program the music for Early Depeche Mode,
0:40.0	there were no sounds, presets in those keyboards back in the day.
0:45.0	This was truly forward-thinking stuff.
0:48.1	And we're joined by singer Allison Moye, who got her start in Synthpop group, Yasazz but has since had a really rich and
0:54.8	rewarding solo career. That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.
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1:14.2	beer you drink. You're listening to sound opinions and later on we're going to interview
1:18.0	Allison Moy A who was in that great new wave band, Yazz, with Vince Clark, went on to form Erasure.
1:25.8	But Moyet herself had an incredible career as a solo artist after that.
1:29.6	Incredible voice, Greg.
1:31.0	That's later in the show.
1:32.4	But first, we thought a new wave
1:34.3	primer was in order.
1:37.6	The name is Rio and she dances on the sand
1:46.6	just like that river twisting
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