Many of the artists were determined that their music should not be influenced by anything that came before & should sound totally new. This last thing is another of the keys to what No Wave is. Listen to No Wave today and it is still a shock to the system & often sounds like a music with no precedent. The Garage bands of the 60's had nailed the Punk sound way earlier & frankly mainly sound better to this day. At the time, Lydia Lunch (the queen of No Wave?) bemoaned how Punk was just sped up Chuck Berry riffs & it is true that if you listen to most (but not all!) punk today, it is just badly played, sped up three chord rock n' roll. The No Wave bands wanted to reject this poppier side but they also felt no affinity to Punk. At the tail end of the 70's the record industry was trying to rebrand punk & labeled the poppier bands that came in the aftermath of Punk as New Wave. The name came about as reaction to the term New Wave.
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