{"id":153,"date":"2019-12-20T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/?p=153"},"modified":"2024-03-23T04:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T04:29:19","slug":"quiet-life-at-40-new-wave-gets-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/music-videos\/quiet-life-at-40-new-wave-gets-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Life at 40, new wave gets serious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu.jpeg 703w, https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu-300x298.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu-250x249.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu-550x547.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu-181x180.jpeg 181w, https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu-302x300.jpeg 302w, https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/iu-503x500.jpeg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rocks burgeoning New Wave in the late 70s was a hodgpodge of quirky art rock, humorous post punk and novelty pop rock bands, but on  December 20, 1979, exactly 40 years ago today, a mostly forgettable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7d7DbXITzeE\">late-to-the-party uk glamrock band<\/a> faux-exotically named <strong>Japan<\/strong> took a new turn and unexpectedly released a groundbreaking album which invented a new genre.  Blending Roxy Music, Bowie\/Eno and Giorgio Moroder, they dropped a bombshell of style and sophistication and daresay, serious art onto the british future-pop scene, inadvertently launching the new romantic craze (which they never claimed to be a part of). New Wave finally got real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japan - Quiet Life\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhm-EqcPta0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Quiet Life<\/em> (1979)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japan Halloween\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IiZyy11oS9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Halloween<\/em> (1979)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japan - All Tomorrow&#039;s Parties (1983) 7&quot; Version\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-OIfKP7si0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong> &#8211; <em>All Tomorrow&#8217;s Parties<\/em> (1979)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocks burgeoning New Wave in the late 70s was a hodgpodge of quirky art rock, humorous post punk and novelty pop rock bands, but on December 20, 1979, exactly 40 years ago today, a mostly forgettable late-to-the-party uk glamrock band faux-exotically named Japan took a new turn and unexpectedly released a groundbreaking album which invented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/music-videos\/quiet-life-at-40-new-wave-gets-real\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quiet Life at 40, new wave gets serious&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,32,18,33],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-videos","tag-japan","tag-new-romantic","tag-new-wave","tag-synthpop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}