Oh The '80's

[fascisthunter]

I know there was a lot of junk in that ten years, but man, there was a whole lot of underground music that eventually forced mainstream to reconsider. The music of that time changed my life, and today I still jam to it all.

[cyberswede]

1. Post some examples of your favorites!

Killing Joke

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[fascisthunter]

2. The Cure... The The, Cult, Chameleons UK, XTC, Sugar Cubes...

The Fixx, The Jam, Joy Division, The Pixies, Bauhaus, Television Radio, Talk Talk, Morrissey, Peter Murphy... I could go on...

[cyberswede]

3. Great stuff

Our university launched an alternative student-run radio station in the mid 80s & played all that stuff.

Also Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, the Meat Puppets, Black Flag, etc.

Seems like they played Suicidal Tendencies's "instiutionalized" every morning when my clock-radio alarm went off.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

[fascisthunter]

4. don't forget the Stooges, the Dolls

oh yeah....

[amyrose2712]

7. Yea, I missed so much of that being a young teen aged girl with an obsession with hair bands!

[ZombieHorde]

5. Coil, Swans, Nurse with Wound, Merzbow, Pig Face, Current 93,

Naked City, Material, Hanatarash, Ministry, and Anal Forklift.


OK, I made that last one up.

[fascisthunter]

6. haha!

Ministry was awesome.... like their old stuff and their newer stuff. Saw them play in Mass almost 20 years ago.

[limpyhobbler]

8. Hmmm I saw Ministry at Greatwoods in Mansfield, Mass in 1992

They were on that Lollapalooza tour, just about 20 years ago.

[limpyhobbler]

9. the 80s

For people who are really into music, growing up in the 80s, we literally* had to wade through seas of crap to find the good stuff.

These young whippersnappers today don't realize how good they have it with the internets and music being available with just a mouse click.

Everything back then was word of mouth. I was lucky to be where I could get a few good college radio stations north of Boston, and in the late 80s WFNX was decent. We had homemade fanzines, whole-in-the-wall record shops, and all ages shows for $5 on the weekends.

But it was all stuff that mainstream media just ignored or refused to play. We sometimes had to go through extraordinary lengths to find these alternative sources. And the community of people interested in the same stuff was pretty small, so there was a sort of camaraderie.

Eventually the underground kind of got popular and took over, or got bought out. But for a lot people who lived through that, it was a character building experience, and it did affect the way we see the world.

[sweetloukillbot]

11. The "120 Minutes" college radio stuff was glorious

I don't know that there two songs that captured my life in 1987 more than "How Soon Is Now?" and "Panic".
Yet whenever a radio station plays "80s music" that stuff is woefully ignored for big hair bullshit (both pop and metal).

[fascisthunter]

14. FNX.... indeed! It's where I live

I grew up with a brother who was already into punk, before my time. I was just 10 and he was already introducing me to stuff you never heard on the radio unless it was college radio. At first I repelled from the strange sounds... strange compared to mainstream music, less "refined". But man, I was bit by the bug, and ever since then, I have been going back in time in my head, revisiting opportunities to see great bands at the Channel, which I missed out on.

[wyldwolf]

10. In the 80s I had some real eclectic taste in music

Not a lot of 'underground' music, mainly because I lived in a small town with backwards-thinking radio stations and cable company. But I got exposed to a lot of post-Punk and New Wave on USA Network's Night Flight. I went to a predominantly African-American high school so I listened to a lot of early 80s Electric Funk and Hip Hop (which gave way to my fondness for the dance pop later in the decade.) I played in a hair metal band and loved most of that.

My mix tapes in the early 80s had Van Halen, Berlin, Afrika Bambaataa, the Knack, the Clash, and Madonna.

[fascisthunter]

13. your mix looks a lot like mine!

a great time for music... lots of crap, but buried within and underneath all the mainstream stuff was a lot of innovative and creative material. Listening to THE THE as I type.

[Swede]

12. Here is a cool link for lots of eighties tunes.

http://dj-funktual.hubpages.com/hub/The-250-Greatest-80s-New-Wave-Songs-of-All-Time

[Violet_Crumble]

15. The Smiths! They were the 80's for me...

I loved them from the first time I heard 'This Charming Man' and they're still my favourite band, even if Moz is a complete wanker...

[fascisthunter]

16. I was just listening to them

I prefer Morrissey over the Smiths, but I like both.

[frankie100]

17. Tom Browne - Funkin' for Jamaica

[frankie100]

18. Stephanie Mills - Home

[frankie100]

19. Anita Baker - Caught Up in the Rapture