On 13/05/2013 6:44 AM, poisoned rose wrote:
> hislop<
takecar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The 80s. Time to go to alternative music.
>> There should be a fair bit of choice.
>> That term meant something then.
>>
>> Difficult to say much about 80s music on this newsgroup, but I did
>> prefer the early part to the late, but nothing is that simple.
>> A lot of what was good then ends up being associated with the music of
>> the questionable 90s.
>
> Somewhere around this morass, I recently listed some favorite acts from
> 1985-1990 that could appeal to Beatles fans. The list wouldn't be much
> longer if I added 1980-1984 names (the Bangles?), since many of them
> were around in the decade's second half too.
>
> There are other variables besides strict quality in play (freebies,
> scarceness, proliferation of indie labels...), but I have more '80s
> albums than '60s and '70s albums combined. And I definitely don't go
> along with the oft-seen Usenet kvetch that music "died" sometime between
> the initial MTV boom and the arrival of grunge.
The 60s were the golden age, nothing can beat it.
Grunge was a complete contrivance, I knew the term well before all this
stuff from Seattle got the label. I even saw Mudhoney live in 1988,
Sonic Youth in 1987. Grunge was a Melbourne thing before them, Nick
Cave type off shoots. Which is my point, this isn't top 40 music and
very 80s.
I have heaps of 80s albums, even 90s and post 2000 ones.
You might as well say ELO are for Beatles fans, I don't think the
comparison needs to be that obvious.
I think I was the author of that kvetch.
MTV means little to Australians, video clips were common on Australian
TV before the US.
There seemed to be a spirit of the 60s lurking in the 80s, but you had
to look for it, after 1990 the generation change had kicked in and
nothing was the same. Now I'm just a bitter critic, I wanted to produce
music but stopped because of ear problems.
Melbourne had a good local scene of 60s sounding groups in the 90s,
which had other potentials.