Obvious FG, but it's a bit annoying how it's become the term de rigeur for hipsters with an approximate definition of "anything I like from the late 70s and 80s". What's happened to New Wave is even worse, obviously; during the actual New Wave period of the 70s it literally was hipster music, but too many hipsters now think they need a more pretentious-sounding name for their favs (enter post-punk) instead of trying to reclaim New Wave for the weirdos, else people think they like Duran Duran (who were never even New Wave in the first place).
Probably my favourite genre. It may be a bit too broad of an umbrella, since basically anything from slightly mellowed punk to borderline-experimental rock gets the label at some point, but that variety is part of why I love it. Always funny to me though that Marquee Moon by Television can be billed as proto-punk, punk, and post-punk, sometimes all at once.
In the context of 1977, it was 100% a New Wave record.
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