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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
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Post by cherry68 on Apr 26, 2019 17:19:40 GMT
I prefer the Italian version (same band) though
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 30, 2019 19:27:08 GMT
To a lot of people the first and greatest grunge song ever..........and from the 80s too.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 2, 2019 20:37:45 GMT
The Cars 3rd album was weirder, darker and and more offbeat than their 70s ones.........like most early 80s stuff it left people baffled. Today it sounds pretty interesting and proof that people are often wrong in music and movies........for album 4 they went back to giving the people exactly what they wanted. Sales went back up and hey they got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - so much for challenging your audience.
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Post by DeepArcher on May 2, 2019 20:54:37 GMT
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Post by cherry68 on May 4, 2019 20:40:39 GMT
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Post by DeepArcher on May 5, 2019 18:01:23 GMT
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Post by Deceit on May 6, 2019 20:09:08 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on May 29, 2019 20:06:49 GMT
80s classic - with lots of guitar and you can dance to it too........didn't always get that
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 5, 2019 19:50:03 GMT
70s band, with their best post-70s song.........
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 8, 2019 20:03:59 GMT
Noel Gallagher has a great quote that says something like when you first see a band they should look like a slight skewed version of reality - you should recognize them on some level but they should seem from a different planet too.
This band agrees - the singer was an interplanetary version of your science teacher who just discovered he can sing (and really loves show tunes), the two girls were straight from a B movie from Hell and the guitarist and drummer were too cool for all of it but the job pays well.
Their best song and the best subversive reason for their look - a lot of thought went into this.......and being disposable was the precise point.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 9, 2019 20:42:19 GMT
If the B-52s were mocking what a band could look like, XTC here mocks their potential audience and what they look like - all middle class respectability and hypocrisy - a song that name drops abortion (literally), class status, sexual mores, and religious double talk. One of the decades great singles and as contemptuous of who's listening as any of Ray Davies social critiques.
Not only that but the song is remarkably buoyant and bouncy - it's insanely catchy while it's ripping everyone.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 11, 2019 10:33:54 GMT
So if the way the band looks and if the band can question how their audience looks, the next step in the 80s was how authentic did you have to be anyway in your sound? This really scary song, an original by the Violent Femmes is some dark stuff about......well you'll see.
It is not authentic at all, it doesn't come from any American songwriting "reality" for this singer but it mixes the old Americana country-gospel template and sound that something really scary is happening America and still is. Sometimes the copy is better than a mere copy and even more effective than an original in a way because well he doesn't have to sing this, but in copying this style he goes into scarier stuff than someone who actually is "authentic".
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 22, 2019 19:31:11 GMT
One of the 80s best bands and one of their best cuts. Everyone generation relives 20 years earlier so the 80s were fascinated with 60s but the Blasters being cooler than that had no time for hippie nonsense and they knew 50s Rock was actually more subversive and dangerous than the 60s ever were.
This is their own take on it..........
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 23, 2019 23:44:51 GMT
Stiv Bators of The Dead Boys and Brian James original guitarist for the Damned formed the Lords Of The New Church in that exciting period - the early 80s - when they were genuine Rock and Royalty - a supergroup sort of. More a singles band than an album band - they basically mixed Punk, Light Metal, New Wave, Classic Rock and a gothy/Doors-y sensibility..........the only time you could really get away mixing all those styles.
This song with James in full guitar hero mode basically sounds what the Stones could have sounded like in '83 too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 24, 2019 21:47:00 GMT
This is a remarkable song - actually this might make my top 20 of the decade - popular anyway. The_Cake_of_Roth This is a fascinatingly constructed song musically and I know that's something you're into. Also, this video has more good ideas in it than most feature films
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 25, 2019 16:49:19 GMT
Like their fellow Bostonians - the Pixies, Dinosaur Jr. took a blueprint that they then perfected on their 2nd and 3rd releases - their really special ones imo. All their work is at least pretty good but they really peaked early because like the Pixies they were so conceptual in design - Dinosaur Jr. songs followed 2 patterns - they were either furious Punk freakouts or slow turgid emotionally wrenching gut checks.
This song - the great opener of album #2 - is the closest they got to melding the two sides of themselves - the song is almost in slow motion and listening to it you might as well be running in quicksand. The tempo is slow, layered with fuzzed out guitar and the noise gets louder and more uncomfortably dissonant and faster - it's an uptempo (for them) downer.
It was the 80s answer to pulling the blankets over your head and staying in bed......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 4, 2019 20:58:40 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 12, 2019 19:33:42 GMT
One of the late 80s bands - and there were a lot - who decided that since The Replacements were changing and Husker Du broke up they'd be the "new" Replacements/Husker Du - they weren't but they were a good band on this debut .........they came off though as closer to Soul Asylum who of course had been deciding they were the new Replacements/Husker Du way before The Buck Pets came along.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 3, 2019 23:21:03 GMT
The only one of the last 5 Husker Du albums not to crack our 80s poll - Warehouse: Songs and Stories is still a damned fine one, and one of their catchiest songs.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 11, 2019 22:09:57 GMT
Some songs are great and suck simultaneously. REM cut this song in '85 when they started to slip to maybe the 3rd best US band - it's sweet, but it's wussy dumb too - it is so constructed and affected it seems alien and fake, how they "believe" in humanity or some bullsh*t when hungrier and smarter bands would just write what they felt ...........and maybe kick their teeth in.
The banjo at the start is maybe the best part - an Uncle Tupelo influencer.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 18, 2019 0:11:25 GMT
Some people will just never get my sense of humor. But I do......and that's....ok. Minor Threat executed this song in less than a minute and it says exactly what they intended it to - this was hardcore punk at its most precise - no extraneous notes, or words, or inflection.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 5, 2019 15:43:08 GMT
On the same album as the half-hearted "I Believe" - one of 3 quite good albums they cut in 85-87 after the great Reckoning REM slipped in a stunning song that explained why even as I began to like them less other people began to like them more.
This song sounds like a cover but it's an original and has a whole dazzling concept behind it lyrically and in performance. This song could be 150 years old.....
Only they could pull this off and it remains one of their best tracks:
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 14, 2019 22:36:49 GMT
Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers were such a great band that ex-Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook used them as the template for their 80s band The Professionals - a full 5+ years later.
This song could be sung by Walter Lure, Thunders on the guitar solo and Jerry Nolan on drums......except the danger has been completely removed - Thunders would describe this as bullsh it most likely .......it is insanely catchy though......but the formula can only be copied so much.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 11, 2019 14:50:50 GMT
British rock in the 80s didn't much care for the music the Jacobites actually liked themselves - the druggy 60s side of the Rolling Stones, the acoustic shambling aspect of the Faces and the spacey vibe of early 70s T. Rex. They were really good at what they did though - with those influences it's hard to mess it up isn't it - and this single was the closest they ever came to an actual hit.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 22, 2019 22:51:34 GMT
The 2nd best band of the 80s with one of their template songs - one they could have done for 50 more albums probably - pop hooks, great guitar solo that lifts the song to another level and some great lines "Your thoughts are dead.......and you still got some time to kill".
Bands would kill to have this formula.........to them it was automatic........
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