by Travongotswag January 11, 2019
Get the Wave Check mug.No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The term No Wave was partly a satiric wordplay rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre, and also a declaration of the music's experimental nature: No Wave music belonged to no fixed style or genre.
In many ways, No Wave is not a clearly definable genre. There is, for example, no fixed harmony as in most rock music and blues music. There are some elements common to many No Wave performers, including abrasive atonal sounds, strong emphasis on repetitive rhythm, and more emphasis on mood and texture than on conventional melody. Lyrics often focused on nihilism and confrontation, or were puzzlingly abstract.
Performers classified as No Wave generally had little music style in common: Various groups drew on such disperate styles as funk, jazz, blues, heavy metal, aleatoric music and punk rock. Mars, Swans and The Static, experimented with extremely loud, droning music that was frequently characterized by repetitive drumbeats and explicitly nihilistic lyrics.
No Wave had an important impact on noise and industrial bands who formed after, like Big Black, Helmet, and Live Skull. Sonic Youth emerged from this scene by creating music-as-art that eventually reached mass audiences and critical acclaim.
In many ways, No Wave is not a clearly definable genre. There is, for example, no fixed harmony as in most rock music and blues music. There are some elements common to many No Wave performers, including abrasive atonal sounds, strong emphasis on repetitive rhythm, and more emphasis on mood and texture than on conventional melody. Lyrics often focused on nihilism and confrontation, or were puzzlingly abstract.
Performers classified as No Wave generally had little music style in common: Various groups drew on such disperate styles as funk, jazz, blues, heavy metal, aleatoric music and punk rock. Mars, Swans and The Static, experimented with extremely loud, droning music that was frequently characterized by repetitive drumbeats and explicitly nihilistic lyrics.
No Wave had an important impact on noise and industrial bands who formed after, like Big Black, Helmet, and Live Skull. Sonic Youth emerged from this scene by creating music-as-art that eventually reached mass audiences and critical acclaim.
The fact that Big Black and Sonic Youth came from this genre is alone enough reason to respect this long lost music form.
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The art of releasing pungent ass-gas in bed while under covers, and lifting the covers and letting them fall so the pungent odor is forced into the delicate nasal passages of your significant other.
by Jonny Hale December 9, 2008
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Get the Wahey mug.Waved - When your high and drunk and the same time. Feeling wavey; which describes the motion a wave gives. There's 2 sides effect either makes you feel really alive and level... orr.. really sick and you spin out. Its only for certain people usually long-term smokers and drinkers, the hardcore muvas! Ya dunkno'
I can hardly see man take that blunt!
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HAHA Shittt man your waved blud!
yeaa boi im sky high'
say hello to jah for me.
by ITSYOGIRLTJ November 10, 2013
Get the Waved mug.A special dance in which one will thrust pelvis from side to side in an attemply erotic fashion, while chanting,"Do the pelvis wave!" Sadly this dance may trigger the disease Malloritis within some people.
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