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

From: Malcolm J. McAtee (malcolm@manlikemalcolm.net)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 19:58:44 CET

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    I am breaking it down to a top ten! Not the most widely rocked out records
    from the eighties but the ones that are still making it into the box...

    The Specials --- Ghost Town
    The Clash -- Magnificent Dance
    Talking Heads -- I zimbre
    Prince -- Erotic City
    Ryuichi Sakamoto -- Riot in Lagos
    The Mexican -- Jellybean Benitez
    Jah Wobble -- How much are they?
    Alexander Robotnick -- Problems d' amour
    Bad Boy Orchestra -- Hip Hop Salsa
    Man Parrish -- Hip Hop Be Bop
    A Certain Ratio -- Spirits Together

    Cmon lets see the lists people!

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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.
    >>
    >> Elson
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