Saturday, January 31, 2009

80's randomega-post

I've recently developed a bit of a fling, so to say, for 80's new wave and early "post-punk". So of course, I am now going to try and force it upon others people just so I'll feel like less of a pariah. Oh and if anyone knows some other bands similar to the ones posted feel free to give me me a shout by responding to this article, id love to check out anything seeing as I am hardly well versed in this genre.

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Echo And The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
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So good. Of this batch of music this is easily one of my personal favorites. If someone told me this was released this year I probably would believe them. But anyway, can't recommend this enough. The only other bands I hear (i know there are more, just harder to think of) in this are random whippets of Joy Division, Swans, and a little Bauhaus.

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The Sound - From The Lion's Mouth
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Also a pretty cool band, and it too doesn't reek of makeup, lipstick and poofy hair like some others. Sounds alot like what would be called art-rock nowadays.


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Magazine - Real Life
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This is another gem I stumbled across on the web. Its a weird but very workable menagerie of Punk, New Wave, Prog Rock, and Ska(The Mr.bungle circus-like kind). The Punk Part is the weakest link in my book, but I've never really enjoyed punk too much anyway; plus the other genres fused in there more then make up for it. One second i'll be getting tired of a particular punky part and the next an epic prog-rock guitar solo will be erupting from the speakers or a Camel-ish synth line will pop out of nowhere and strangly enough, not seem out of place. Great stuff.

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Visage - The Anvil
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Utter Synthpop. Not bad, most of the time its the cool synth lines that save songs from mediocracy, And sometimes edges on mainstream pop. Still worth a look, especially if your used to the whole 80's synthpop thing.

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Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake
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This is a collection of early stuff by the sisters. Cool stuff, Kinda sounds like joy division 5 years after unknown pleasures if Ian Curtis was still around and they never made closer.


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Talk Talk - Its My Life
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Great Synthpop; their last poppy album infact. This album is worth it for a some tracks here and there, at some point i'll upload their later post-rock albums as well...check this out in the meantime

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