we listen so fast: forgotten/unkown/unloved 80s we are listening to.

just gonna post YT vids. too many broken links on here. sorry. my bad. plus, i am just swamped over here. hooooooboy. so many records. which is great, but, you know. work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9N6H9LMAug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtWHD-iSAw

If you post YT links without naming them they’ll be unidentifiable when they break. :-(

oh right that. okay i'll do that.

those two aren't so essential anyway! haha. more examples of "they gave a major label deal to who again?".

you don’t need to name YouTube’s this is a discussion board not a museum

i went to my old 80s skot thread and i couldn't believe there were still pictures there! i posted them 16 years ago! the web is wild.

me and my 80s ladies

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2129/1783586722_1cdd19b07a_b.jpg

my authentic 80s bedroom

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/1782734157_3afb5a27b3_b.jpg

i even know what those pictures are that you can't see. gene loves jezebel, madonna, die kreuzen poster, and a picture of david lynch with isabella rosellini.

best high school smoking lounge ever.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2341/1782730137_59c7d4105e_b.jpg

my best pal LV had the best bedroom. he genius.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/1782725383_45a00f8671_b.jpg

my failed attempt at college. it didn't take. i tried to fit in. all i learned was how to smoke. 1988 was my nadir.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2084/1784362672_0abd03e2dc_b.jpg

okay back to work. too many records to price!

that was a v. enjoyable diversion i feel

cheers! one more vid. i just found the record. from 1980. this is members of the hippie commune The Farm who made some cool jam band records in the 70s. a guy down the street here was in the band and i told him i had this. he doesn't have a copy. gotta put it somewhere where i'll find it again. he's great guy. he plays zydeco now. their new wave album is cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUDnXKwWpP4

lolll <3 scott

i was gonna sell my copy of uglyman's ugly lover lp that i've had for years but then i play it and its so cool...!! the man with the rockstone voice! i think it was his only LP? don't think its ever been on CD either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAtQmx8vv-A

that cover...novelty value sure but its such a solid record.

https://i.discogs.com/b-G-TDNY41jePfQzlU74lHiZBZ_b0qYLk4ZVs_WybyU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4OTc2/ODktMTI1MDkyNzQ2/Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJIzsBn_ynQ

Hawkes would not release another solo album for 25 years. His second solo album, though also instrumental, was very different in sound than this, his first: The Beatles Uke (2005) featured Hawkes playing instrumental versions of Beatles songs on the ukulele.

this greg hawkes is awesome

it's so good, I love it

"Voyage Into Space" is a secret DJ weapon of mine

I picked up the Greg Hawkes in a used bin in the late 80s, thought it was too cheesy and quickly exchanged it. I'm way more into this kinda stuff now than I was then though, it's sounding great to me today.

whoah. Surprised this doesn't come up more. Never even heard of it. Tagged in discogs as experimental, synth-pop, minimal, so obviously some people think about it in those contexts. I'll def pick it up.

dan it's right up your alley I think, a minor lost classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmCjf-OO2w8

that is a weird record, here’s what I had to say about it in 2016

http://www.discogs.com/Workdub-Workdub/release/3529191

this is supposedly from 1989, really weird kind of homebrewed sounding crap instrumental stuff.. could be corporate muzak but the sampling just sounds "off" sometimes. i'm not convinced it's NOT a joke (i.e. some recently made garageband thing).. it would've sounded weird in 1989, but it sounds weird in a different kind of way in 2016.

a few years ago Dark Entries reissued this really nice scottish new wave disco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ElF_MExm0

A few weeks ago I found a later single which I had to pick up because it's produced by Rico Conning of the Lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj82UW-7lxs

I recently discovered River City People who just sneak into this thread by virtue of their début single being released in 1989 although their two albums both came out in the 1990s. Lovely, chiming folk rock that should appeal to fans of 10,000 Maniacs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwGHp6e_f6s

i know that scratch acid were big birthday party fans but i forgot about inca babies. they must have totally fallen for them too. kinda the same thing really. (i am a teen scratch acid fan. was never much of a birthday party fan except for the stooges cover on the live split with lydia lunch. i used to play that song a lot because i didn't have the stooges record to listen to!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hwHSytI_Vo

all the ranting young men. so many ranters in the 80s. blame Mark E. i guess.

(related to ranters: i was totally loving this vic godard/subway sect comp i got recently and i hadn't heard that stuff in literally decades and now all i can think is that half of the diy brit tape music dudes must have picked up guitars after hearing those two 1978 singles. nobody's scared and ambition. they're so fucking great and they totally give you the feeling of: hey, i could do this! not exactly a VU revelation maybe but they must have been a revelation for some people!)

love that inca babies, never heard of them

i didn't realize subway sect predated stuff like television personalities by a few years

yeah second on both ums comments, that was neat

subway sect predate everybody except for the pistols, damned and clash. post-punk starts there!

and HUGE acknowledged influence on all things scottish post-punk.

Absolutely, which is why Alan Horne issued Vic Godard's End of the Surrey People LP on his revived Postcard label in 1993.

you can really hear the wool sweaters on that early subway sect stuff. Vic Godard is a really great pop star name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCuStj9Ld4

xp it is and somewhere out there in indieland is vic picard making bad in in in jokes that feel inevitable only to him

1983/1984. ohio U.S.A. art-rock/post-punk. cool EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUvi_rDOXts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htUNo0nG2aE

apparently some relation to these people?
Bands That Time Forgot: Wolverton Brothers

do i need to listen to The Band of Holy Joy? guess they were 80s and 90s. and maybe beyond. never heard them. they have a lot of stuff. i have their 1990 rough trade album here. and probably other stuff.

I recall them sounding like a Weimar Republic-era version of the Pogues, if that helps

uhhh...hmmmm...

This is the song I remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqFZ_YdfJzg

only the first tapes and EP are any good imho

I like those Junta songs. Lead guy went on to a band called Redmath, which is good gloomy dance rock but not as experimental and not as interesting to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-juN-E8V7k

Two words. Red Math. Mea culpa.