Forgotten early New Wave...

I was in a cover band in Hawaii when the Motels were in town for a concert (early 80s)...we were playing 6 nights a week in a giant hipster dance club so we were tight, and Martha came in and sang with us...we already did a few of their songs and it was really cool (and spooky) to hear the actual voice from a song coming through the monitors...we even did a song that the Motels touring band DIDN'T do and she nailed it. Nice person that Martha.

Saw the Motels on campus while attending college in Wisconsin, '82 or '83, I believe. They made a lasting impression on me. Had an excellent time.

Since I was in Boston during that period, definitely:

O Positive
Tribe
Scruffy the Cat

Club scene in Beantown was amazing.

David

The Shoes are really great,have all their recordings.They always to me sounded like The Cars.

i'm not sure the shoes are new wave--they're largely synth-free power poppers (who needs labels?)--but they really were great. surprisingly, they have a brand new record, ignition, which sounds almost as good as their classic 70s stuff. in the same underrecognized realm, check out the records, off broadway and bram tchiakovsky.