>>Actually I am. My music collection is 70-80% 80s music and therefore there's "some" new wave in there. I prefer that to some of the insipid stuff we have nowadays on the radio (over there may be rap but down here is reggaeton). I remember the disco era fondly, perhaps because I was just a kid back then so the damage it made to my music taste wasn't so bad.
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>>>I'm certainly not a new wave fan, but I can't recall any sort of music that I thought was as bland, boring, and predictably monotonous as disco. I dislike rap intensly, but even rap has at least some originality from time to time, and whatever else it may be, it's hard to call it 'boring'.
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>>>>...and along came New Wave!
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>Most of my music collection is some form of jazz. I agree that there is a lot of very insipid music around these days. I grew up through the 60s, and while there was good music back then, there was also much bad music. People look back on it now with rose coloured glasses and think it was all wonderful. It wasn't. Interestingly enough, some of my favourite music is from well before my time. I love music from the 20s and 30s - especially the jazz from back then.

Okay, we were seperated at birth (albeit down the road you turned Left <g> )

Gershwin, Ellington, the big bands, the renegade outlaw small groups ( Beiderbecke, Bob Crosby and the Bobcats ) and the club groups in Chicago and New Orleans and Harlem and Kansas City ... and the Hot Club in Paris.

When I need a jump start in the morning I kick on the extended version of Sing Sing Sing where Krupa must have eaten half the benzedrine supply of New York and then get my mind right with the whole Kind of Blue album.

By that time I'm ready to sit down at the piano and think of how much I'd trade to be Bill Evans.

No fusion, no funk, no electricity needed - just chord changes that surprise you and make you smile and imply magic and running off lead sheets to hit that moment when you know you're not the train but the track.