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

From: Eric Kitel (eric@ayalounge.com)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 21:23:14 CET

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    I'm thinking two names:
    elvis costello and joe jackson

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    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...
    >
    > 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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