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Requested move 14 April 2016

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Re "The band is probably unknown to anyone under 40 now", I'm well over 40 and I've never heard of them either. Perhaps they weren't as well known in the US as the UK. wbm1058 (talk) 03:32, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]



New Order (band)New Order – Page was moved without discussion and contradicts previous 20102011 discussion – AngusWOOF (barksniff) 13:39, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@AngusWOOF and Amatulic: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 18:37, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Genres - need to be ordered as they are now.

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I'm getting fed up of reordering genres - as they are - the band are

This is beginning to test my patience - they are ordered as they are now and into the future.

JG

Malmsimp (talk) 12:16, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]


So where are the all the genres sourced? Do we copy the "Styles" from AllMusic verbatim? Martinevans123 (talk) 13:20, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Alternative Dance". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  2. ^ Breihan, Tom (15 June 2009). "New Order Swap Peter Hook for Blur's Alex James for New Band Bad Lieutenant". Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  3. ^ Cook, Jr., Philip C. (2009). Here We Go Again (again): The Eighties Nostalgia Movement in Contemporary Popular Culture. Proquest. p. 26. ISBN 1109192622.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Kelly, Karen; Evelyn McDonnell. Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth. NYU Press. p. 82. ISBN 0814747272.
  5. ^ Albertson, Jeff (3 July 2014). "'80s New Wave pioneers New Order to play Paramount – Concert preview". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  6. ^ Edwards, Gavin (5 August 2014). "Flashback: New Order Hang With the Hoff". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  7. ^ Rolling Stone
  8. ^ James, Martin (23 October 2011). "Music: Live: Electronica veterans move with the times". The Independent. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Picking four genres

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I see the most recent topic of discussion was about genres, but I'd like to raise the issue again with the goal of trimming the genre list down to four, as is preferred Wikipedia policy. My preferred four would be alternative dance, synth-pop, post-punk, and either one of dance-rock or electronic rock. 'New Wave' was not a term used to refer to New Order in England while they were active during the 80s, so it should be removed. 'New Wave', in an English context, referred to the late 70s era of artists like Elvis Costello, The Jam, XTC, Specials, etc. It was not a term used by British music journalists for most of the 80s, and certainly not for a mid 80s dance/synth-rock band like NO. Looking through the archives, I was able to find a user, Vauxhall1964, who echoed my frustrations nearly a decade and a half ago. I'm going to provide a few direct quotations from him, as he puts it better than I could:

The idea that Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Wham! or Culture Club/Boy George were New Wave is wrong. As this article states 'new wave' in the UK stopped being used around 1980, several years before these groups appeared. They were never called 'new wave' in Britain as this term was obsolete by then. In the US 'new wave' was/is used as a catch-all term for any 'modern' sounding pop/rock from the late 70s until the end of the 80s (especially if it came from Britain)but referring to British acts from the 80s as 'new wave' will make no sense to those acts themselves or British readers. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 01:06, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

The poster who said “New Wave” was in fact, and extremely narrow music genre, which at it’s earliest, began around 1979, and at the latest, pretty much fizzled top a close by 1986." is simply wrong. The term was used 1977-1980 in the UK (where the term was coined). It was not in use in to the mid 80s at all. In America 'new wave' was used well into the 80s to describe anything and everything from UK synth pop, Aussie rock like Men at Work and goth rock like Siouxsie & the Banshees. In other words the US definition is almost meaningless as it's usage was so wide and indiscriminate. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 01:23, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Absolutely no-one in Britain at the time or now would call the Thompson Twins, Haircut 100 or Flock of Seagulls 'new wave'. That term had ceased to be used in the UK by 1980. Haircut 100 were classed as 'New Pop', the Thompson Twins as 'pop' and the Seagulls as 'synthpop'Vauxhall1964 (talk) 04:20, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Anyhow, that's why new wave has got to go - New Order are only one of many such British acts incorrectly tagged as 'new wave', but it's a start. The four/five genres I proposed would work best, I think, as they are all fairly accurate stylistic descriptors and not anachronistic to the time and place in which the band were active (England during the 1980s). Furthermore, two bands who I have always thought had quite comparable evolutions in sound to New Order were Factory labelmates The Wake (UK band) and Section 25. Neither of them have 'new wave' listed (perhaps because as lesser known groups, their pages have been edited by better-informed editors), but both have post-punk, the former have synth-pop, and the latter alternative dance. As the bands most comparable to New Order, I think these 3 genres work quite well for NO as well, and for the fourth I again would propose either electronic rock or dance-rock. Hope we can have a discussion on this issue soon. Jinglyjangle (talk) 05:00, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed that the same user I quoted already, Vauxhall1964, actually commented on this very page, which I somehow missed while looking through other talk page archives. Once again, he's spot-on:

Am I right in assuming you're American and using 'new wave' in its American meaning? In the UK New Order are not referred to as 'New Wave' which in a UK context means basically a late 70s more commercial brand of punk. The Buzzcocks were New Wave but not New Order and certainly not in the mid 80s when they were using synths heavily. Check out the wikipedia page on New Wave for more on the UK/US usage of thid term. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 10:15, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Jinglyjangle (talk) 22:35, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The term electro rock appears nowhere in the article? The genres listed in the infobox are: Synth-pop, alternative dance, post-punk and dance-rock, with the note: "Heavily disputed for 10+ years in the Talk section - See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_Order_(band)#House_and_new_wave - respond there before altering genre list or altering this comment." How are the lead sentence and the infobox to be reconciled? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:48, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My preference would be to return both the lead sentence and the short description to just "rock", that being the broadest possible descriptor, and then get into more specifics later in the article. That said, of the four genres in the infobox, synth-pop is probably the least bad option if we're being more specific in the lead and short desc. CAVincent (talk) 03:01, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Rock band"

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@TheOnlyOne12: They are an electronic/dance/pop band, they dont have anything to do with rock. Your edit blatantly contradicts the infobox and text -- FMSky (talk) 21:23, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TheOnlyOne12: Thoughts? --FMSky (talk) 05:11, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@FMSky: Yes, I agree with you that they are a pop group, but their main influences are post-punk which is a genre of rock music, later combining electronic/dance/disco/new wave/pop into the band's alternative/rock sound. TheOnlyOne12 (talk) 06:45, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]