RE: What's hot from the '80s?

From: Dr. Axel Barcelo Aspeitia -- Investigador (abarcelo@minerva.filosoficas.unam.mx)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 17:52:44 CET

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    I actually picked up the synth because of watching MECANO on TV. Nacho
    Cano looked way cooler playing those keyboards that any guitar-playing
    rock 'star' of those times. By the end of the decade and into the nineties
    they evolved into more italian sounding pop, but their first five albums
    are simply incredible. A few years ago, SONY released a cheap box set of
    their first three albums and I almost have it in a shrine.

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    On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, elson@westworld.com wrote:

    >
    > Oh man!
    >
    > I was all about the '80s. People knock it, but that was the time when I was really exposed to music. Generally early in the 80s I was into new wave/technopop - Duran Duran (it was cos of the "Planet Earth" video that I decided synthesizers were cool and wanted to learn how to play those things), Tears For Fears, New Order, Human League, Heaven 17, early Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Nik Kershaw, Art of Noise (ditto what John said about Trevor Horn)
    >
    > I was also into the early hip-hop of the day - virtually any breakdance anthem, Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Whodini, LLCoolJ,even cheesy but cool stuff like Newcleus (wikki wikki wikki!) I really hated the Beastie Boys when "License to Ill" came out, but after school in the 10th grade all these dudes would drive around campus with the cards with the boomin systems playing the whole Beastie Boys album that I grew to like it. My neighborhood friends and I always reminisce about those early breakdance flicks (as well as the seminal Los Angeles hip-hop station KDAY); I took pride in the fact that the "sidewalk sweeping" scene from "Breakin" was filmed on my street :)
    >
    > Later on, while more and more people my age were getting into this "alternative rock" nonsense, I somehow developed an interest in jazzy/soulful artists from the UK, namely people like Sade, Level 42, the Blow Monkeys, Swing Out Sister, early EBTG, Matt Bianco, The Style Council, et al. No wonder I stumbled upon this thing called Acid Jazz a few years later.
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    > Elson
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