Saturday, June 04, 2011

Saturday Music Stop

@chapomatic - help me out.

I'll say it again.

We are seeing a revival of early/mid-80s "college radio/progressive" sound. My eldest keeps bringing it to my attention, and she is right.

BEHOLD THE '80s RULE THE 21st CENTURY!





Of course - none if it is as good as this.

43 comments:

  1. ewok40k01:51

    the last one is up tov my and probably Skippy's taste...

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  2. Clarkward06:55

    Ahh... I liked the '80's :)   It seems so long ago. 

    @Ewok - If you can name all the anime that were pictured, then we are definately on the same page.  I remember George Mason U hosting Japanathons, oddly enough back in the 80's :)

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  3. FDNF Squid07:30

    2 great 80's bands released legendary albums 20 yrs ago this summer....Metallica's Black album and GNR Use your Illusion 1 and 2...

    Nothing like some good tunes to help you mellow out in your pit after a long watch in CIC :)

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  4. andrewdb09:16

    Oh dear.  Does that mean we have to wear all black, keep a journal and pout?

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  5. Surfcaster09:55

    Uggg. Do I detect an even higher level of borrowing (theft) of old material?

    Call me when the next Rush, Van Halen, or Cure comes along...

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  6. Skippy-san10:13

    Nothing is better than hot anime chicks in Tokyo.

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  7. The Usual Suspect10:14

    I thought that music stopped in the late 70's early 80's...I guess I was right.

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  8. The Usual Suspect10:15

    <span>I thought that the good music stopped in the late 70's early 80's...I guess I was right</span>

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  9. UltimaRatioRegis11:09

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!  Angst uber alles!

    Dude, like, you SO don't know how, like, hard my life is.   It's like, totally WHATEVER, you know?

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  10. ewok40k11:16

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itSQuS66cgk&feature=feedf
    video girl killed the radio star, Skippy!

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  11. Kristen11:21

    If the 80's are ruling the 21st century, can we please have another Ronald Reagan?

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  12. Spade11:35

    There's some new stuff out that also sounds like 60's era (or around there. I wasn't alive then) motown and soul and I'm not complaining about that either.

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  13. Skippy-san11:35

    You do-he's just black this time around.

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  14. Skippy-san11:38

    I love that song. Much as I am a child of the 70's and love my Jethro Tull, Ted Nugent, Yes, Aerosmith, and Rush-I keep listening to "80's 0n 8" on the Satellite radio.

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  15. CDR Salamander11:58

    <p> 
    </p><p>Oh, and you can stop waxing your nether-regions as well... O:-)

    </p>

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  16. UltimaRatioRegis15:48

    His name is Herman Cain.

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  17. Spade16:15

    I need somebody to explain to me why Rush doesn't suck.

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  18. DeltaBravo17:30

    What is Skippy smoking?

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  19. UltimaRatioRegis18:06

    He's just confusing Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

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  20. Byron20:15

    YGTBSM, Skippy. I think you're carrying the party flag just a wee bit too far.

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  21. Byron20:17

    The resident dinosaur thought that pretty much anything after 73 (aka, Disco) was simply not worth listening to.

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  22. Warrant Diver22:25

    Has it been 20 yrs?? Oh my Lord, it has. I remember walking into my living room before going to work in late 1991 and seeing "Enter Sandman" on MTV. I stopped in my tracks and stared open mouthed at the TV for the entire video...I thought, and still think, that is amazing music.

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  23. Warrant Diver22:27

    Never could stand Rush..."Tom Sawyer"? Hated it.

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  24. Skippy-san23:12

    Thought I'd get a rise out of you folks. The point being is the real Reagan-vice the stylized image of him, is very different from what the current crop of loons in the GOP think he is and was.  The real Ronald Reagan would not have a place in the selfish vision that is today's GOP. You know that, that guy who worked and had drinks with Tip O'Neil.

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  25. Skippy-san23:15

    It's easy-three guys created a driving sound, they had interesting lyrics, and fhey addressed modern issues in a new sort of way. How can anyone not like "Fly by Night" or "Big Money"?

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  26. Skippy-san23:18

    Off topic alert-but I really think Phib should comment on concurrent fitness reports from TYCOMS. Still ready to defend Harvey?

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  27. The Usual Suspect00:26

    'cause Rush has the Golden Mic on the EIB Network.

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  28. UltimaRatioRegis00:46

    Lots of people had drinks with Tip O'Neill.  That's why they called him "Tip".

    Tell me about the real Ronald Reagan, Skippy.  I must not remember him.

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  29. James00:47

    No leaf clover. And the 80's ended when i was 6..........but i still remember them.

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  30. James00:51

    As long as they have nothing to do with that god forsaken anime Evangelon Im fine with that. I hate that damn anime. I never understood the tenaged angst..........even as a teenager....

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  31. James00:58

    So far from what i've seen he is my fav. runner right now. Just dont go to far left or right, find the right people and try and solve the problems.

    Its Amazing to hear a presidental candidate say "i dont know". Most president dont know everything but few politicans can admit it.

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  32. Skippy-san10:07

    Clearly you don't. So I provided a refresher course for you-there will be a test at the end.

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  33. AW1 Tim11:09

    Here's one of my facorite's from the 80's

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo

     Sisters of Merccy: Lucretia, my reflection.

      Anything by the Sisters, Sons of the Nephilim, Switchblade Symphony, Souxie & the Banshees, heck, most of the Goth genre.

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  34. MaryR15:11

    First song played on MTV - when it was actually Music Television. Or, according to my Mom, straight from the Devil himself

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  35. MaryR15:12

    I love Death Cab for Cutie. You should check out Elbow as well - Seldom Seen Kid album is awesome

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  36. LT B07:23

    MTV changed college radio, IMHO.  They started pumping out the alternative and made it more mainstream.  Then they so influenced music that record deals were based on the video possibilities.  Prince, for instance, got into a fight w/ MTV and they would play any of his stuff and he fell off in sales.  Plus he just got weirder. 

    The alternative seen was always out there, but it got pushed farther underground.  I was a college DJ in the 80's and remember a lot of the alternative stuff which really wasn't all that avant garde, just not all over the air waves.  REM for instance.  I have always enjoyed 88 lines about 44 women. :)

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  37. UltimaRatioRegis07:59

    LT B,

    Irony of ironies, I was at my 25th college reunion this weekend, and one of my classmates was a big driver in the rise of college radio.  He is now, of all things, a Navy Captain, and has commanded an SSBN.  But in the old pictures we saw from the early days (1982) made him look like Mister Counter Culture (with short hair).  He said essentially the same thing you just did, that the alternative music genre got its light of day on college turntables. 

    Show of hands, who wants to see Salamander's college pictures?

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  38. LT B08:52

    He's already hinted at his taste in women back then.  I can only imagine!  He WAS in ROTC then, so probably not too radical.

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  39. UltimaRatioRegis08:56

    No, he wasn't really, and he was (and remains) one of the smartest guys you will ever come across. 

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  40. LT B09:18

    I meant Phib. 

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  41. UltimaRatioRegis09:42

    Oh, then forget what I said about "smartest"!   :-P

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  42. ewok40k09:57

    not all - but from the top off my hat - Bubblegum Crisis (Priss and the Replicants FTW!), Tenchi Muyo, Kimagure Orange Road, Vision of Escaflowne, Hellsing,  Chobits, Sailor Moon, Slayers, Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, Battle angel alita, Revolutionary girl Utena,  FLCL, Excel Saga, Evangelion, Ai Yori aoshi, Fuushigi yugi, Saber Marionette J, FMP, Trigun, AMG, Love hina, Ranma, Urusei Yatsura... myself got into Anime when after 1989 flood of satellite dishes allowed some German channels to hit my soft spot.

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  43. UltimaRatioRegis11:26

    I do love so how willing you are to educate those of us with inferior intellects so that we may somehow be semi-productive members of your one-worlder communist utopia. 

    And I am so grateful to you for being the only one who actually experienced the events during my life, as apparently I had not paid any attention and was easily duped by the far-right leaning college professors, media, and Hollywood types who constantly parroted the conservative viewpoint.

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