What year did New Wave fade away?

I'm thinking around 1985. By 1991 it was definately dead. It started in 1977.

 

Maybe a little earlier than 85, maybe 83, 79-81 is it's high point IMO

 

1980 or 1981 were the climax years of new wave.

 

1980 or 1981 was the climax year of new wave.

 

New Wave really did fade away, however Grunge burned out, out of the blue and into the black.

 

Sometime around 83 or 84 it transformed into indie (or what was called alternative in those days.. when the term actually meant something).

 

83 or 84 is when Duran Duran took over, and they sucked, I don't like them.

 

I would say about '86

 

Grunge faded away in 1996.

 

New Wave faded from the US around...oohh..1986..Around 1988,it then crept back to one of it's places of origin,Europe.

However as previously mention, the more Alternative/Underground stuff like The Cure,New Order,Depeche Mode,etc...still kept going at it,and strayed away from the more mainstream eyes.

Grunge,along with the major early 90s indie movement officialy died around 1996,around the same time, the "New" or "Nu" music scene began to take shape.

 

Definitely '85-'86 at least thats what I always heard. Who else wants it to come back full-force like me . . .

 

New Wave never faded away. The pretenders and posers went on to hair metal, while some of us kept playing our New Wave tunes....

 

I don't know...seems like I was listening to versions of New Wave until 1988 or 1989...but that could just be me. The late '80s also had some punk activity, prior to Grunge. I wish New Wave would come back and wipe out EMO!

 

I remember a DJ playing Visage's 'Fade to Grey' in a club in Europe in 1993!!!!!!! That was pretty wild. For me it was until 1986-86, too. And then it came back with a vengeance in 2000. And yes, I really, really want it to come back full force.

 

Luckily we still have a lot of beautiful darkwave and ethereal, which is much better than new wave to begin with.

 

NEw waves good so is hair metal You cannot fuck with ratt!! you cant fuk with Jesus mary chain!!

 

Those two bands are really just rock and roll in my opinion anyway, (hope anyone feels this is thread-related)

 

1991 >>> Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit on top of charts
Enter Grundge
Exit Trashmetal & Exit Wave

 

It seems to be making a comeback, of sorts, though. Fairly pretentious, but the "synthpop" scene is the closest to new wave that music has had in, probably, two decades.

 

I'd say 1984. Pop music in general stopped being cool on July 13th 1985 (there have been exceptions since then, of course)