Talk:New Wave Will Never Die
They might be ABC[edit]
Apparently New Wave Will Never Die, the chorus makes it clear but the verses don't. Musically the New Wave band this song most resembles is the British group, ABC, who were (and probably still are) a fan of the melodramatic. And the song really might have worked if Martin Fry was singing it, they should have asked him, he'd have been up for it, but instead Flans again falls into the trap of singing a song in a key he'll never be able to replicate live. Crooning weakly on the verse he struggles to get to the high bits. Martin Fry would have nailed it because he would have sung it with the power and passion that it needs, singing it like you mean it, allows us to not to notice just how weak the lyrics are. God alone knows how this would have gone down in CBGBs around 1978, pretty badly I would think. If one listens to the They Might Be Giants eponymous debut, which is full of New Wave classics, this song wouldn't have made the cut. (Mr Tuck).
"Get Thee Down"[edit]
"Get thee down to a coffee shop/Write it down and don't ever stop" could very well be a reference to Hamlet, but I kind of wondered if it was a reference to Moses and the ten commandments. The King James version uses the phrase "get thee down" verbatim in Exodus 32:7, and that story is notably about writing stuff down.