DK practically invented American Hard Core Punk with In God We Trust, Inc. Fortunately, it was a momentary diversion for them and they got back to doing listenable music again. So we'll label them as the exception to prove the rule.machinesworking wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:07 amI don't think Dead Kennedys sounded anything like Oi? Or Fear, The Germs, Nuns etc. etc.
The Cars were New Wave, I don't think WoV or Devo were. I think Devo defy genres, they are very much their own thing.I would not consider Wall of Voodoo Post Punk actually, or Devo. Essentially not all Art rock bands with nods to punk are Post Punk. Plus I would say flatly that the addition of synthesizers as a permanent instrument is the most obvious difference, it's why in the US anyway they were considered new wave bands.
He is a very cool dude, too. I've spoken with him a few times.Wall of Voodoo with Stan Ridgeway singing is just fantastic, so many great songs.
Blondie and Talking Heads I'd definitely classify as New Wave.Plus Devo, Talking Heads, Blondie etc. all were there at the beginning, hard to be post, but the whole thing was different than the Ramones and the Clash etc.
Yeah, I used to think that but then there's the Beatles, whose music is completely rooted in Blues, yet I like them.I could tell you, it's the blues rock underpinnings, it's why Oi bothers you, why AC/DC sound American to you, and Dire Straights are terrible, never liked that band.
Their installer uninstalled kHs One for absolutely no f**king reason at all, they make it impossible to find the download to reinstall it and they don't have any obvious way on their website to contact them to sort it out (no Support section). So after I spent more than an hour working through that, I discover that it now plays the default preset in all the songs where I use it, which will mean a night or two lost to recreating those f**king patches, several of which were really hard work to create in the first place (replacing some 32 bit plugins when we moved to 64 bit).Now I'm curious as to what they did that pissed you off like that?
They got back to me overnight and have promised to do better. They are going to take my suggestion that the download be accessible from users' accounts and they came up with some lame excuse as to why they are (temporarily) without a support section. What they did not do was pledge to stop their installer from nuking kHs One, which basically means I will never run their installer again. I've told them that, now we'll see how they respond.