Alt Rock Revivals Part 5: New Wave
b'It is a fact of life that there are periods where everything old is new again\\u2026if you look at Broadway, for example, old productions are always being brought back\\u2026\\n\\nTake \\u201cWest Side Story,\\u201d for example\\u2026it first premiered in 1957 and was brought back in 1960, 1964, 1980, 2009, and 2020\\u2026that\\u2019s five revivals\\u2026the Gershwin musical \\u201cPorgy and Bess\\u201d has been brought back seventimes\\u2026\\n\\nMovies are always being rebooted\\u2026 \\u201cGhostbusters,\\u201d \\u201cPlanet of the Apes,\\u201d \\u201cKing Kong,\\u201d \\u201cRobocop,\\u201d \\u201cWilly Wonka,\\u201d \\u201cHalloween,\\u201d \\u201cSpider-Man\\u201d\\u2026\\u201cA Star is Born\\u201d first appeared in 1937 and was remade in 1954, 1976, and 2018\\u2026\\n\\nThen there are all the tv remakes\\u2026\\u201dMacGyver,\\u201d \\u201c90120,\\u201d \\u201cDynasty,\\u201d \\u201cLost in Space,\\u201d \\u201cRoseanne,\\u201d \\u201cTwin Peaks\\u201d\\u2026\\u201cStar Trek,\\u201d of course\\u2026\\n\\nAnd then there are musical reboots, scenes and sounds that are brought back by people who are sometimes generations removed from when this music first appeared\\u2026\\n\\nMaybe it starts with people who stumble on some old records\\u2026or maybe they independently discovered sounds and styles that they thought they were new\\u2026\\n\\nWhatever the cause or source, music is constantly being recycled and renewed\\u2026and that\\u2019s what we\\u2019re looking at with this series of shows\\u2026this is \\u201calt-rock revivals: part 5\\u201d\\u2026and the focus is New Wave\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'