Who Likes 80's "Modern Rock"? (page 2)

Leolaia

Hair meddle bands are definitely a different genre than the one discussed here. In fact, I got into "modern rock" "college radio" "alternative" to get away from that kind of music. Here's a list by year of the top songs in "modern" rock as played by KROQ: http://www.earlhoward.com/kroq.htm

Leolaia

nvrgnbk....I discovered that song a month ago on Hype Machine. Their sound in the song is very much like early '90s Lush. I would also suggest checking out Charlotte Gainsbourg's "Songs That We Sing" and Sea Wolf's "You're a Wolf" for some recent songs I've been grooving to.

Open mind

I knew I shouldn't have started this thread in the middle of the night and then gone to bed. I missed out on all this great apostate musical intercourse!

As for the term "Modern Rock" that was kinda dumb of me. I'm pretty sure that was just a West Coast marketing term. I think "Alternative" better describes the genre I love. But you guys knew exactly what I was after anyway (except for the hair-metal bit).

Not a single band has been mentioned that I didn't like. (Well, except for a couple that Nvr threw out there that I'm not familiar with.)

OK, here's a few more I really like(d).

Ian McCullough (sp?) and/or Echo & the Bunnymen

The Wild Swans (very la-de-da, bubble gummy, but I still liked them)

Aztec Camera

10,000 Maniacs

And now that I'm a doomed-to-hell 'postate, I've been recently getting into Nine Inch Nails a little bit. "Head Like a Hole" should be the JWD national anthem. ;-)

Open Mind

Leolaia

Here are some "must-have" songs from the '80s along these lines:

10,000 Maniacs -- Trouble Me
Art of Noise -- Beat Box
Big Audio Dynamite -- E=MC 2
Big Country -- In a Big Country
Brian Ferry -- Kiss and Tell
Camper Van Beethoven -- Pictures of Matchstick Men
The Church -- Under the Milky Way
The Cult -- She Sells Sanctuary
Depeche Mode -- Never Let Me Down Again
Depeche Mode -- Route 66
Dramarama -- Anything Anything
Dream Academy -- Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Smiths cover, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Echo and the Bunnymen -- Lips Like Sugar
Edie Brickell -- What I Am
Eurythmics -- For the Love of Big Brother
Kate Bush -- Running Down that Hill
Lightning Seeds -- Pure and Simple
Love and Rockets -- No New Tale to Tell
Midnight Oil -- The Dead Heart
Morrissey -- Suedehead
New Order -- True Faith
Oingo Boingo -- Dead Man's Party
Pixies -- Monkey Gone to Heaven
Public Image Limited -- Don't Ask Me
R.E.M. -- The One I Love
Simple Minds -- Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel
Simple Minds -- Hunter and the Hunted
Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Melt!
Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Peekaboo
Smithereens -- A Girl Like You
Smithereens -- Blood and Roses
Smithereens -- Only a Memory
Social Distortion -- Ball and Chain
Teardrop Explodes -- Reward
The Alarm -- Rain in Summertime
The Cure -- Fascination Street
The Cure -- Lullaby
The Smiths -- How Soon Is Now
The Smiths -- This Charming Man
The Smiths -- What Difference Does It Make
They Might Be Giants -- Birdhouse in Your Soul
XTC -- Dear God

lonelysheep

Yes, I'm a fan of The Cure.

dilaceratus

What the--

4AD without mentioning the first American band they signed, Throwing Muses?

Open mind

Leolaia, Wow! What a great walk down memory lane.

I know you're a bit of a language buff. (Just teasing)

Have you researched and/or posted about the power of music and it's interaction with language?

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts along these lines?

Open Mind

Open mind

I realize my question was pretty open-ended. Here's just one example I can think of.

The power of "anthems". As cheesy as it is and as totally out of the Borg (mentally) as I am, when I hear "Walking in Integrity" it stirs something in me. (And, no, it's not nausea. Although, from a stricly intellectual standpoint, it should make me sick.)

Having heard and sincerely sung this song for much of my life, it's an "anthem" that will, for better or worse, always be a part of me.

Am I making any sense here?

Open Mind

monophonic

some great bands i saw in the 80's, especially late 80's when i finally turned 18 and rebelled. :)

The Cure, New Order, Echo & the Bunnymen, Peter Murphy, Love and Rockets, The Replacements, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Social Distortion, Gene Loves Jezebel, General Public, The Untouchables, Fishbone, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cult. I think that was all stuff played on the Quake even though some could be classified as goth or punk.

I kick myself for not seeing The Lords of the New Church before Stiv died.

I recently saw The Church. I blew them off as a one hit wonder, but they've been digging deep and continuing to record and tour and my respect is way up for them since researching an article and seeing their live show.

Vernon Williams

Rock and roll continued to exist after the seventies? No way, man.....

Old Timer,

V

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