Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 14-Apr-99 New Romantics? by
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> And I'm
> specifically wondering whether Japan (aka David Sylvian and friends)
> woulda counted as New Romantics, and if not what they did count on?
Last month's Mojo had a very nice retrospective of David Sylvain's work
where the author (Sylvie Simmonds) insinuates that though Japan was
heavily influential to Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, etc, the band sought
to distance themselves from the New Romantic movement (I guess like
Wilco and No Depression).
I think it would be fair to say that any British band moderately
influenced by Roxy Music in the early 80s could be lumped in with the
New Romantics, though none of those bands ever did much for me (unlike
Roxy).
Carl Z.
