Naff today...

[jake_fink]

I'll pitch in the following for now:
The Jam
The Buzzcocks
The Pogues
Tom Waits
The Birthday Party
The shiny pop of the Go Betweens
The Lounge Lizards

 

[Salv]

Heheheheh! That is why they are still around and Spandau Ballet are where? Who are they following now? lol
I have to admit that I liked their first Album with True on it. The well dressed similarity is where it ends though. Their style is totally different. I could just see Spandau Ballet singing Wild Boys---yeah right.

Regards,

J

Spandau Ballet broke up mainly due to the acting ambitions of the Kemp brothers. They were never going to get back together following the subsequent law suit by the other members of the band who tried to get some recognition - and cash - out of Gary Kemp.

Spandau Ballets first album was Journeys To Glory and didn't include True. It was all electro dance-pop, and included their first three singles To Cut A Long Story Short, The Freeze and Muscle Bound.

[QUOTE="Doc" Devereux]The Power Station album was a lot of fun, and as he got older he moved more toward a vintage style and let his life-long love of early blues music come to the fore. Being that little bit older than most of the eighties pop figures (he was born in 1949), he grew up listening to that sort of thing and wanted to introduce more people to it.[/QUOTE]

He'd always been in R&B bands since the early 60's starting when he was 15. He replaced Jess Roden in The Alan Bown Set in 1969, then joined a jazz-rock band called Dada where he met Elkie Brooks They formed a pretty good Brit R&B band called Vinegar Joe, and recorded some scorching soul/funk/R&B stuff in '72/'73. The only track of theirs that I can remember was a single called Black Smoke From The Calumet which was a fantastic slab of Brit soul. His early solo stuff was recorded with New Orleans funk legends The Meters, with help from Lowell George of Little Feat. Singles like Give Me An Inch and Every Kind Of People were excellent, but they came before his huge success with Addicted To Love and were very different from the later solo stuff.

 

[Visigoth]

Oversized Bombers

Me, I'm kind of hoping the oversized bomber jacket will become respectable again. I mean, it's a noxious style, in general, but I happen to have a particularly nice deerskin bomber that I bought while hitchhiking through Germany in the eighties. And, yeah, the shoulders come halfway down my biceps. It would be so nice to to be able to put it on, every once in a while, without courting silent contempt.

 

["Doc" Devereux]

I was the only teenager in the 1980's who listened to Frank Sinatra.[huh]

No you weren't.

He'd always been in R&B bands since the early 60's starting when he was 15. He replaced Jess Roden in The Alan Bown Set in 1969, then joined a jazz-rock band called Dada where he met Elkie Brooks They formed a pretty good Brit R&B band called Vinegar Joe, and recorded some scorching soul/funk/R&B stuff in '72/'73. The only track of theirs that I can remember was a single called Black Smoke From The Calumet which was a fantastic slab of Brit soul. His early solo stuff was recorded with New Orleans funk legends The Meters, with help from Lowell George of Little Feat. Singles like Give Me An Inch and Every Kind Of People were excellent, but they came before his huge success with Addicted To Love and were very different from the later solo stuff.

Now that's the bio I should have written. A very talented musician who could pretty much work with anybody, and who had a genuine love of what he was doing. Nicely done, Salv.

 

[nightandthecity]

[QUOTE="Doc" Devereux]The Power Station album was a lot of fun, and as he got older he moved more toward a vintage style and let his life-long love of early blues music come to the fore. Being that little bit older than most of the eighties pop figures (he was born in 1949), he grew up listening to that sort of thing and wanted to introduce more people to it.

.[/QUOTE]

A surprising number of early 80s pop/rock figures were in their thirties. Though having said that I can only think of Debbie Harry off hand.

I was born in 1949 myself and I was playing in post-punk bands at the time. I played occassionally with the Mekons and one of the regular members was then in his 40s.

Disclaimer: I'd like to make it clear that my main musical interests then as now ran to the 1930-55 era!

 

[Salv]

I was born in 1949 myself and I was playing in post-punk bands at the time. I played occassionally with the Mekons and one of the regular members was then in his 40s.

I have to say, I'm very impressed! I always wished I'd bought more Mekons records - the only one I have is Where Were You on Fast from 1978. When were you with them?

 

[Senator Jack]

Posted by NightandtheCity:
A surprising number of early 80s pop/rock figures were in their thirties. Though having said that I can only think of Debbie Harry off hand.

I recall Charlie Harper was something like 35 when he formed the U.K. Subs in 1976. Ian Dury was also in his mid-30s when he had his string of hits. Back then, up and coming rock bands were allowed to be older, while these days they're summarily dismissed. Funny how the music industry discriminates by age - they claim rock to still be a youth rebellion, despite its having been around for about 60 years now.

I didn't realize we had so many ex-punks in the lounge. Comes as quite a surprise. I'm still waiting for a Jam reunion, though it looks like that isn't going to happen, and it would be great if The Damned and The Sex Pistols would swing through the States again. Saw the Pistols on the first reunion tour in 96 but missed them in 2003 (They played Trump Casino? Who knew?) Madness haven't been able to get over here for the longest time, and I guess if they didn't tour with the CD, they're not going to be getting here any time soon. I did go the the X reunion here in NY last December, which turned out to be a lot better than I had expected.

I had seen posters for Devo 2.0 around the city and thought it was something new from the band. But I just went to the Disney site to see what this is about - bizarre! They're all teenagers playing Devo songs. (Will Disney allow them to record 'We Like Explosions'?) The one thing I do like about it is that the kids can't sing a note. I'm tired of hearing singers melismatic/ululating singers trying to prove they can sing.

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[Salv]

I didn't realize we had so many ex-punks in the lounge. Comes as quite a surprise. I'm still waiting for a Jam reunion, though it looks like that isn't going to happen, and it would be great if The Damned and The Sex Pistols would swing through the States again. Saw the Pistols on the first reunion tour in 96 but missed them in 2003 (They played Trump Casino? Who knew?)

...

Regards,

Senator Jack

I wasn't really a punk but I liked a lot of punk and post-punk music, and a lot of early UK punks came from the soul/funk scene that I was part of. I did manage to see the Pistols in 1977, in Plymouth in Devon, during their secret tour, and that was an incredible gig. I saw most of the major bands in '77/'78 - The Jam, The Clash and, my favourite band, Buzzcocks (I saw them a few times) - but missed The Damned. New Rose is still one of the best records to come out of that period, along with Buzzcocks Boredom and The Cortinas Fascist Dictator.

 

[Quigley Brown]

I wasn't really a punk but I liked a lot of punk and post-punk music, and a lot of early UK punks came from the soul/funk scene that I was part of. I did manage to see the Pistols in 1977, in Plymouth in Devon, during their secret tour, and that was an incredible gig. I saw most of the major bands in '77/'78 - The Jam, The Clash and, my favourite band, Buzzcocks (I saw them a few times) - but missed The Damned. New Rose is still one of the best records to come out of that period, along with Buzzcocks Boredom and The Cortinas Fascist Dictator.

These guys, too....

 

[BellyTank]

Billy Childish?

I was a big Buzzcocks fan too- saw them twice in Auckland, NZ.

The Jam will never get back together- I believe there are irreconcilable differences between Weller and Buckler.

So we are in the presence of a sometimes-was Mekon- very cool!

Spandau Ballet coming of as somehow inferior to Duran Duran seems ludicrous to me.

I'm a big fan of British Rock but three of my favourite bands of all-time are from the US; The Meat Puppets, Guided By Voices and Shudder to Think.

Wayne Kramer's gigs at The Garage, Islington in the mid '90s were very good and loud.

Music in the '80s was still more about music and musicians and less about Teen Idols, so the old Geezers still had a chance.


Wire, anyone..?

B
T

 

[jamespowers]

These guys, too....

Our House and Welcome to the House of Fun.

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Our House and Welcome to the House of Fun.

Not to mention Night Boat to Cairo and their version of One Step Beyond!

 

[nightandthecity]

I have to say, I'm very impressed! I always wished I'd bought more Mekons records - the only one I have is Where Were You on Fast from 1978. When were you with them?

... must have been around 1982-86. They had a girl played the fiddle, I forget her name, and I depped for her. The Leeds music scene was very close knit back then, there was a lot of depping between bands.

"Where Were You" is my fave! Great record.

 

[Salv]

... must have been around 1982-86. They had a girl played the fiddle, I forget her name, and I depped for her. The Leeds music scene was very close knit back then, there was a lot of depping between bands.

"Where Were You" is my fave! Great record.

Was it Susie Honeyman?

Having a fiddle player reminded me of The Raincoats - another great band. My 13-year old daughter is just getting into current 'punk' (Green Day etc.) and I keep playing records by female punk bands like The Raincoats, Kleenex and The Slits hoping she'll pick up on them. No luck so far...

And the Fast label released the first Gang Of Four EP with Damaged Goods, Armalite Rifle and Love like Anthrax.

 

[jamespowers]

Ok, I might as well get esoteric here as well. Name the song done by The Bugles. The video was the first played on MTV.
Bonus points for the one done by The Vapors as well.

Regards,

J

 

[jamespowers]

[QUOTE="Doc" Devereux]Not to mention Night Boat to Cairo and their version of One Step Beyond![/QUOTE]

Who could forget One Step Beyond? :cheers1:

Regards,

J

 

[BellyTank]

Ok, I might as well get esoteric here as well. Name the song done by The Bugles. The video was the first played on MTV.
Bonus points for the one done by The Vapors as well.

J

Do you mean the Buggles? I'm thinking Video Killed the Radio Star-
and the Vapours have me Turning Japanese (not literally and not what they meant either- not at this precise moment anyway)

Gotta go- the Vapours.

B
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T

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Proof positive that spelling is important.

 

[BellyTank]

Spelling is impotent.

Daughter is Tory.

Belly is Tank.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Right back at you, TellyBank.

Cheers,
Mork Chevrolet



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