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Yet Another 10 Underrated ’80s Bands You Need to Hear Now
L.A. Weekly ^ | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2017 | LIZ OHANESIAN

Posted on 02/22/2017 10:15:25 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: Celtic Conservative

Yep, you are right about the order.


201 posted on 02/23/2017 1:16:31 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Thanks.

We’re hoping things will turn around, now that the Dark Age is over.


202 posted on 02/23/2017 1:25:03 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Johnny Depp owes a debt of gratitude to any number of 80’s musicians.

https://youtu.be/8I8mWG6HlmU


203 posted on 02/23/2017 1:25:13 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: beaversmom

Me too.

The dogs are tap dancing.

Time to go stand out in the cold with them.

Night!


204 posted on 02/23/2017 1:26:00 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: beaversmom

That is one killer song. Couldn’t find it for years as I forgot the lyrics. When I did, I listened to it for a half hour straight. The violin player from “The Corrs” does a pretty good cover of it.

CC


205 posted on 02/23/2017 1:27:13 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: onona

The whole album is great.

Teen angst, doomed love sort of stuff.

And this, which is just hilarious...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7zGUczPPVI

:)


206 posted on 02/23/2017 1:27:47 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Guess what Depp is doing, now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owTid4pJbl4


207 posted on 02/23/2017 1:30:28 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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If they want “obscure” I’d say ditch the MTV popstars and go alternative.

- Beasts of Bourbon (Axeman’s Jazz album, from Australia, channeling bits of the Cramps and Jim Morrison and a pre-cursor to grunge (save me a place))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiWm8ajqcQE&list=PLBFCFFFD612D44321 (Beasts Of Bourbon - Axemans Jazz album)

- Treat Her Right (Mark Sandman’s main group, pre-Morphine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8f8HciNGwM (I Think She Likes Me)

- The Rats (Fred and Tody Cole, post-Lollipop Shoppe and The Weeds, pre-Dead Moon and Poisoned Arrows, for a performer from the 1960s, he continues to sound contemporary even as he continues in the 21st century)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcSbtFXxm4w (The Rats - Can’t stand back)

Also Bongwater (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbw7NJLWPw4 live tv performance of You Don’t Love Me Yet) and some of Kramer’s other bands (Ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDIk5AkNe7Q, maybe not so much Shockabilly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=739i3ASzgwk)

The Fleshtones began in 1976 but didn’t get an album out for years, but they are always underrated in any decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM1fFwYoNUA (La La La La Reprise (Live At Gibus Club, Paris, France /1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVdGDWtdc4E (Hexbreaker + Supervindicator (Live 80’s))

I’m sure there have to be some paisley underground bands worth mentioning (apart from the XTC side-project Dukes of the Stratosphere)

Heck, watch Urgh! A Music War and you’ll probably find more overlooked 80s bands worth investigating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54vlIsmV45w


208 posted on 02/23/2017 1:32:04 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Salamander

Can’t top Motorhead, sorry, lol.


209 posted on 02/23/2017 1:34:55 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Well, now, that is a given!

:D


210 posted on 02/23/2017 1:43:21 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: nickcarraway

I meant John, sorry.


211 posted on 02/23/2017 1:44:16 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Salamander

The comedians then hadn’t “studied” comedy by watching 200 hours of reruns.

Same with cartoons these days, they are “funny” because they are doing something they saw that was funny once. Or because it’s a hip reference and wait for it, now the audience gets it. Ha.

SNL needs to get off the air and let the local affiliates return to showing old movies.

The humor of National Lampoon (and SNL’s early days) was in part a revolt against the political correctness of the hippie liberals.


212 posted on 02/23/2017 1:48:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Salamander

Pretty sure I still have the US vinyl of that. Because the Night is *her* song, I don’t care if Springsteen wrote it, she owns it, musically.


213 posted on 02/23/2017 2:01:30 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: nickcarraway

The Drangos.


214 posted on 02/23/2017 2:24:50 AM PST by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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To: Salamander

Meanwhile, speaking of voices, on the other side of the world was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tITWIcNeTjw


215 posted on 02/23/2017 2:33:30 AM PST by Mechanicos
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To: nickcarraway
If you grew up in Los Angeles listening to ’80s KROQ...

Yep! The World Famous K-R-O-Q!

216 posted on 02/23/2017 2:36:26 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: nickcarraway
If you grew up in Los Angeles listening to ’80s KROQ...

Yep! The World Famous K-R-O-Q!

217 posted on 02/23/2017 2:36:27 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: lee martell
Do I get credit for knowing about Nena and her 99 Luftballoons?

Oy! Every once in awhile, I get that song into my head and just have to listen to it. I'm about to pull up youtube now. I wasn't even thinking about it until I read your post. Thanks a lot!!!

218 posted on 02/23/2017 2:41:42 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: nickcarraway

Bfl!


219 posted on 02/23/2017 2:47:48 AM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: nickcarraway

I like and listen to some of these groups to this day: Klymaxx, Bow Wow Wow and Book of Love. I paid again for their music when I switched over to Amazon Music from iTunes. Good stuff.


220 posted on 02/23/2017 2:51:17 AM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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