Music Appreciation
Related: About this forumOh The '80's
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
(26,117 posts)Killing Joke
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)The Fixx, The Jam, Joy Division, The Pixies, Bauhaus, Television Radio, Talk Talk, Morrissey, Peter Murphy... I could go on...
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)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
(29,381 posts)oh yeah....
amyrose2712
(3,391 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Naked City, Material, Hanatarash, Ministry, and Anal Forklift.
OK, I made that last one up.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Ministry was awesome.... like their old stuff and their newer stuff. Saw them play in Mass almost 20 years ago.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)They were on that Lollapalooza tour, just about 20 years ago.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)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
(10,696 posts)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
(29,381 posts)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
(43,864 posts)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
(29,381 posts)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
(33,077 posts)Violet_Crumble
(35,954 posts)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
(29,381 posts)I prefer Morrissey over the Smiths, but I like both.