I'm not, generally speaking, a fan of 80's music but...

Jack-Flash-Jr · 2011-05-31T15:01:00+00:00

... this looks pretty cool (and David Byrne is pretty cool): Al Green cover:

StephenG

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
StephenG wrote this is what made me want to pick up the guitar in the first place..
Yeah, me too... but wanting to pick it up just to move it aside, doesn't really count... ?

too sharp ? ? ? ?

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This is actually the song that first pops into my head when I think of the 80s.

And for some reason I sang a long to this. I was about ten. Yikes.

Squonk

X-rated Bob wrote I think the 80s was actually quite a good time for local poppish rockish music. Asylum Kids. Tribe after Tribe. The Cherry Faced Lurchers. The Voelvry movement. Tananas. The Genuines. Bright Blue. Jennifer Ferguson. Tighthead Fourie and the Loose Forwards... y'all can think of plenty of others. I thought there was quite a lively original music scene in the 80s, and a more varied one than we have now. And, for a while, it looked like a distinctly South African music might emerge from somewhere other than the township. People like James Phillips or the Genuines who sang about South African things with unashamedly South African accents.

+1

Was a good time for SA music, I remember seeing the Lurchers on one of those Yeoville Mardi Gras, James was playing one of those Hollow F hole Tele's.
Anyone else remember Yeoville in the 80's? Rocky street had some real good clubs. I saw some interesting musicians at Caricatures and many other places.
And there was Mama's, possibly the best Italian restuarant in the world!

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote Was a good time for SA music, I remember seeing the Lurchers on one of those Yeoville Mardi Gras, James was playing one of those Hollow F hole Tele's.
Anyone else remember Yeoville in the 80's?

I lived there for most of the 80s.

Rocky street had some real good clubs. I saw some interesting musicians at Caricatures and many other places.
And there was Mama's, possibly the best Italian restuarant in the world!

The only one I know of where the proprietor would come over to a table where somebody was a bit slow eating their food and encourage them with things like "you eatta all up or I slappa you face!" She certainly played up to the caricature and her pizzas were not only tasty they were unique. Nothing like them anywhere else.

Damn! I'm coming over all nostalgic.

Dingwall

Sorry none have you have convinced me so if I did have God like powers I would still cut 31/12/79 and paste it just before 01/01/90. And those of you with fond nostalgic memories of the 80s wouldn't know any different as your 80s nostalgia would simply be replaced by 90s nostalgia instead!

But Bob tell me about those Mamma's pizza's?! I used to have a budget in my salary for Mamma's pizza's! (thanks to Squonk for introduction). Other highlights in Yeoville included Big Mouth Burgers!!

singemonkey

Wow. What do you listen to that none of that made any impact? ???

Because practically no matter what style you like, there was something in the eighties that was critical to its existence. The pop on the radio was not as shit as is now - because then there were indie labels that got played. Since the mid nineties the corporates clamped down hard. It's just that then no one had heard stuff that bad since 1956. That's where the big reputation of the eighties came from.

What did you like in the nineties? Grunge? No Sonic Youth. No Pixies. No My Bloody Valentine. No grunge.

It's not just nostalgia mate. There were some freaking unbelievable bands in the eighties that continue to influence new bands every day, made up of kids who weren't even born in the eighties, that you'd happily expunge from the records.

guidothepimmp

loved the 80's...

Everything from Brian Adams - Def Leppard - Steel Panther - Ratt - Extreme - Chilli peppers - Pixies - Judas Priest - Mr. Big - Ugly Kid Joe, not to mention the thrash metallers (anthrax, metallica, slayer, megadeth)..
Then the off the cuff goodies;

Siouxie and the banshees, Bauhaus, The Mission, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim.. Really was an epic decade for music

Bob-Dubery

Dingwall wrote Sorry none have you have convinced me so if I did have God like powers I would still cut 31/12/79 and paste it just before 01/01/90. And those of you with fond nostalgic memories of the 80s wouldn't know any different as your 80s nostalgia would simply be replaced by 90s nostalgia instead!

But Bob tell me about those Mamma's pizza's?! I used to have a budget in my salary for Mamma's pizza's! (thanks to Squonk for introduction). Other highlights in Yeoville included Big Mouth Burgers!!

I was a vegetarian in those days, living on mung bean sprouts, tofu and pizza. I also recall a Chinese takeaway place that had a cheap "monk's dish" that came in handy if you ...er..... hadn't been regular.

There were so many bakeries in that area. The smell used to drive you crazy.

I moved back for a while in the 90s. Very different by then. More cosmopolitan I suppose (I remember a good Lebanese restaurant) but a bit more run down and not nearly as interesting. Lots of places to get pissed, but few with anything interesting musically going on. Lots of hard drugs being sold by very nasty looking people. The golden age was over.

singemonkey

Ooh. I could seriously go for Lebanese tonight.

Averatu

singemonkey wrote Wow. What do you listen to that none of that made any impact? ???

Because practically no matter what style you like, there was something in the eighties that was critical to its existence. The pop on the radio was not as shit as is now - because then there were indie labels that got played. Since the mid nineties the corporates clamped down hard. It's just that then no one had heard stuff that bad since 1956. That's where the big reputation of the eighties came from.

What did you like in the nineties? Grunge? No Sonic Youth. No Pixies. No My Bloody Valentine. No grunge.

It's not just nostalgia mate. There were some freaking unbelievable bands in the eighties that continue to influence new bands every day, made up of kids who weren't even born in the eighties, that you'd happily expunge from the records.

Most of the 'new' pop these days are a throwback to the 80's. From dance to the Killers, you'll find their 'influence' if not source in the 80's.
The 90's gave us the Spice Girls, boy bands, Grunge and Rave. Grunge was the worst thing to happen to guitar driven music, ever. Rock devolved several steps, any dweeb with a guitar was suddenly a hero.

Bob-Dubery

Averatu wrote Most of the 'new' pop these days are a throwback to the 80's. From dance to the Killers, you'll find their 'influence' if not source in the 80's.
The 90's gave us the Spice Girls, boy bands, Grunge and Rave. Grunge was the worst thing to happen to guitar driven music, ever. Rock devolved several steps, any dweeb with a guitar was suddenly a hero.

In terms of technique you may have a point, but there's more to music than that. Grunge reminded me of punk in that it was a reaction. Punk, musically, was a reaction to prog rock and general excesses in rock music - perceived or actual. Rock got silly, it wasn't anything to do with the average young person any more and it certainly didn't resonate much with the young people growing up in the UK first in era of the 3-day week and then under Margaret Thatcher's government. Grunge was a perhaps milder reaction to the hair metal scene. Both movements were attempts to bring rock back down to earth.

theantirockstar

Averatu wrote any dweeb with a guitar was suddenly a hero.

I think that was the point. Simplicity is sometimes under rated.

IceCreamMan

shaunf

seeing Alice cooper in October. Looking forward to it. Alice's heyday was a few years before my time but my uncle who is 4 or 5 years older than me is/was a big fan. Looking forward to it.

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