Talk:List of New Romantics

Article Scope

To solve the continuing problem of vandalism and edit warring to this list I've widened the scope to include all New Romantics. Archivey (talk) 21:52, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I can agree with that, but I don't think it will solve the problem of incorrect artists being added to it.79.66.36.72 (talk) 22:41, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Echo?

I really don't think that Echo belongs on this list. Their sound and attitude was never New Romantic, they came out of a different school, the Liverpool Neo-Psychedelia movement. I won't remove them myself, but I'd appreciate it if someone who's more wiki-professional would do it for me. Credentials: I'm a New Wave / Post Punk DJ. 128.138.64.29 (talk) 23:51, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

You're totally right and I've removed it. Once again, some idiot is just putting every band who had a hit in the early 80s onto the list. 80.47.18.251 (talk) 21:46, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

The Associates

could they be included?

also, this could work better as a category.

-86.151.233.194 (talk) 18:40, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Ridiculous rubbish as usual

This list is usually compiled or added to by people who have absolutely no comprehension of what New Romantics were. They continually confuse them with Synthpop bands of the early 1980s when they are not the same thing. This so-called article should be deleted. 88.104.18.248 (talk) 22:17, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

I have to agree that this list confuses New Romantic with synthpop. Roughly half this list need to be removed elsewhere. I suggest it is limited to those that have reliable sources for New Romantic in their articles.--SabreBD (talk) 21:47, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Worthy effort but definitely should be improved

Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember this genre and I can assure you it was definitely a short-lived but valid genre of music. It may have been broadly put under the synthpop umbrella but had its own niche and most of the acts listed as New Romantic deserve to be here (they're vapid and vacuous enough to belong). That's probably the point really - you're looking for bands that were part of that vain, escapist attitude that was kicking back against the remnants of punk (or post-punk), ska etc. Many of the synthpop bands at that time could be regarded as post-punk and not necessarily anti-punk, while the New Romantics were a brazen attempt to either address social consciousness through irony, or - in most cases - not at all. I think that's why a very short list of notable bands joined the genre. Most of the bands at that time were probably appalled by these acts and certainly didn't want to follow suit. It's a weird genre that seemed to quickly gain notoriety with just a few bands, and only continue because of the commercial success of that short list of acts. Australian band Real Life definitely should be in there (they had a Billboard Top 50 hit in 1983 if I remember correctly). There will be more bands, but I guarantee most of them will be one hit wonders. If you want to beef up the list of acts, I'd definitely do some research into single chart successes at the time in Europe and the U.S. Australia will definitely have a couple as well. Jeefunk (talk) 14:14, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

It was not a musical genre, it was a fashion movement. Bands who were labelled as "New Romantics" wore make-up and flamboyant clothing that was based on costumes from the European romantic period of the 19th century (which is where the movement got its name). While many of these bands made electronic "Synthpop" music, not all of them did (Boy George/Culture Club for example sounded nothing like Visage). The problem with this list is that is most of the acts on here are not verifiable and are put on here purely because of the (often incorrect) opinions of individual editors. 88.104.26.91 (talk) 11:27, 18 August 2012 (UTC)