I'm thinking two names:
elvis costello and joe jackson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm J. McAtee" <malcolm@manlikemalcolm.net>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: RE: What's hot from the '80s?
> 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...
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> 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
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> Cmon lets see the lists people!
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> -- Original Message --
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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:
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> >> 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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