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:
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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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