1. kbz1960's Avatar
    Saw this somewhere else and thought it would be a good way to discover some new bands and music.

    Just add any band you like.

    03-23-18 06:11 PM
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    03-25-18 06:44 PM
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    Saw this somewhere else and thought it would be a good way to discover some new bands and music.

    Just add any band you like.

    Love that song. I saw them live at the amphitheater in Irvine California.
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    03-25-18 06:51 PM
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    That's different. Was hoping to hear some different stuff.
    03-25-18 07:09 PM
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    Great song from my early teens.....
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    Along with Pere Ubu, Wire is one of my favourite all time bands. I've been following them since 1977 (Ubu since the 1980's) and I may not get or even like some of the 'art-rock' they've come out with but one thing is for sure, they never stand still and are always progressing and changing.

    This is considered a classic video from the 1980's post-punk/adult-alt period with many 'alt celebrities' making brief cameo appearances. Care to try to name them all?
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    I like that
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    07-02-18 10:40 AM
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    Along with Pere Ubu, Wire is one of my favourite all time bands. I've been following them since 1977 (Ubu since the 1980's) and I may not get or even like some of the 'art-rock' they've come out with but one thing is for sure, they never stand still and are always progressing and changing.

    This is considered a classic video from the 1980's post-punk/adult-alt period with many 'alt celebrities' making brief cameo appearances. Care to try to name them all?
    I wouldn't even be able to start. But that's a good thing as I was wanting to hear stuff I haven't before. Or even stuff I have
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    07-02-18 10:42 AM
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    I like that
    Me too!
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    07-02-18 01:27 PM
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    I wouldn't even be able to start. But that's a good thing as I was wanting to hear stuff I haven't before. Or even stuff I have
    Yeah, I'm liking this thread very much, it's encouraging me to listen to stuff I normally would not even consider giving a chance
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    07-02-18 01:29 PM
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    Yeah, I'm liking this thread very much, it's encouraging me to listen to stuff I normally would not even consider giving a chance
    Exactly what I wanted.
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    07-03-18 11:30 AM
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    07-03-18 11:32 AM
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    The Skids are hardly known outside of the UK and even then they only had a cult following. However, there are two things that set them apart from other bands from that era; Guitarist Stuart Adamson and his cheekbones went on to form Big Country who then went on to have worldwide hits with songs such as Fields of Fire, and; U2 & Green Day covered this song of theirs at the Katrina Hurricane benefit concert. Surviving band member, lead singer and co-song writer Richard Jobson donated all proceeds that he legally could to the hurricane survivors' charity:

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    Kinda groovy for a bunch of white guys
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    07-03-18 08:46 PM
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    The Skids are hardly known outside of the UK and even then they only had a cult following. However, there are two things that set them apart from other bands from that era; Guitarist Stuart Adamson and his cheekbones went on to form Big Country who then went on to have worldwide hits with songs such as Fields of Fire, and; U2 & Green Day covered this song of theirs at the Katrina Hurricane benefit concert. Surviving band member, lead singer and co-song writer Richard Jobson donated all proceeds that he legally could to the hurricane survivors' charity:

    Pretty cool
    07-04-18 12:12 AM
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    It's a shame this thread hasn't moved on much in the last few weeks but I'm determined to keep it going with odd and perhaps interesting nuggets from the years that were most importent to me, and I hope there's some reciprocation too.

    I grew up on punk in the UK ('76-'77 if we're being completely honest); and post-punk ('77-onwards). Post punk is an era that singer/songwriters and bands discovered not only could they play their own instruments but they could write too and still subscribe to the punk ethic of "Eff it, I'm/we're doing it my/our way". It really was a glorious time before the excesses of the '80s kicked in and New Wave/New Romanticism came to be and frilly/pirate shirts, ****ty lyrics and over production were all the rage.

    There were few who could not only claim they were effing everyone's minds in the post punk era but were also new wave innovators; there was one such person in Nash the Slash whose one man band from hell theory helped him not only be an influence on (John Foxx era) Ultravox, Numan and OMD, et al, but also cemented him in the alternative side of the history of new music. Here's a favourite of mine: Swing Shift:

    Last edited by A Noise Annoys; 07-30-18 at 01:14 PM. Reason: Clarity
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    Just thought I'd post something that shows how quickly music changed in the late '70s in the UK. The first version is the more 'punk' version of 'Bombers' recorded in 1978 and the second version is the live version recorded in 1979 after the success of 'Are Friends Electric?' and the subsequent tour. The first version is by Tubeway Army which was fronted by Gary Numan who went solo and toured with the more electronic and far more successful live version:


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