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[MUSIC] The 80's thread .... (links only please, no full video screens)

SandyFrank said:
Christine is amazing, one of my faves. Even the weird, shaky video is rad. I love that guitar assault juxtaposed against dreaminess. Bliss. :)
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very catchy isnt it. Its a shame they just seemed to fall off the face of the earth after releasing a few very good songs. I got to see them live in Aberystwyth University. They were as good as you'd expect. ;) All credit to them for playing at far flung places like Aberystwyth, not many bands do that. They usually stick to the cental cities. I guess it shows they were very hard working.
 
It must have been 1989 and Aberystwyth student unions hall was almost completely packed, about 90 % full. Id estimate from memory the hall hold around 500 people if thats what you meant by how big was the area. If you meant how big was the area of the tour then id guess it was very big indeed, by UK standards, as its so small compared to the USA, but they must have played in a load of small towns, not just the major cities.
 
Yeah i love intimate venues, theres so many in manchester, some gigs theres just like 50 people or something watching some awesome new band. One gig, The American Music Club, there was only about 15 people watching them. Despite the poor turn out they gave a top class performance and were totally stunning. I was young and arrogant enough to give the singer some lip when he was moaning about the equipment in the venue. I'd be far more respectfull now !!

American Music Club - Western Sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XLkm2OeApw

American Music Club - Last Harbor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-NMcmq1ZDc

This track was literally stunning played live, so powerfull.

They are a very highly acclaimed but little known band. Very melancholic, dont listen if you're depressed !!!

Just seen the album California was released in 88 so they can rightfully take their proper place in this thread.
 
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After seeing a few of my favourite acts in big, soul-less shit holes like Wembley Arena, Docklands Arena etc, I gave up on them. Sounds awful, can't see shit. Waste of time. Brixtons Academy is the largest places I'll visit for gigs, & it's a cracking venue.

Marmalade said:
good call

The House Of Love - Shine On (Lyrics)
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very nice!

Let me see if I can think of anything as credible...

The Waterboys - A Pagan Place - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfXGt2MtSs8

David Bowie - Loving The Alien - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOaqDEjxQAU

New Age Steppers - Nuclear Zulu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBQz-FiIiPw
some quirky, twisted, fucked up 80's dub for ya! <3
 
Just remembered this:

The La's - There She Goes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZXLLMbJdZ4

How fuckin brilliant was this. Their album was great. Nearly every track was up to this standard. It only reached number 30 on the albums charts, wtf is wrong with the British Public, and the way music is broadcast to them.
 
Si Ingwe said:
After seeing a few of my favourite acts in big, soul-less shit holes like Wembley Arena, Docklands Arena etc, I gave up on them. Sounds awful, can't see shit. Waste of time. Brixtons Academy is the largest places I'll visit for gigs, & it's a cracking venue.
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Yeah i saw the pogues in newcastle city hall, it was massive, you could barely see the band, and you had to stay in you seat. Seated concerts are fuckin awful, and im never going to one of the massive arenas. I dont see the point. If you cant get within ten feet of the band, then the venue is too big IMO, thats just the way i like it. Manchesters Academy 1 and even 2 are too big for my liking. The tiny club academy in the basement is fuckin excellent though, the acoustics and atosphere down there are amazing.
 
Good to see The Pogues get a mention! I associate them with summer days, happy drunkenness and dropping acid before I met the last harridan who sent my life sideways. good times. :)

Have we had any Valentines yet?

My Bloody Valentine - Sueisfine

It seems trite to day 'this changed my life', but it really did. I got into drugs pretty late on, and discovered this album in the late nineties when I was still (just about) a teenager. Things became much more blurry from that point onwards.
 
Yeah, California, without doubt. Tbh im only saying that cos its the only album of theirs i know well and like, the others may be just as good, if not better, for all i know. It was nice for me to listen to Western Sky again, id not heard it in years, it really deserves to be a famous song IMO, but sadly it isnt.

I also liked Everyday is like Sunday, it was a classic IMO too.
 
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I'm glad somebody else appreciates Isn't Anything as much as me. Loveless is great but I wore it out too. Yeah, I was equally obsessed. :D

I never really got into the other shoegaze bands quite as much, because MBV just seemed so much bigger. I remember going to the 2008 reunion gigs for both of the nights they were on in Manchester, and I was on MDMA the second night. Danced in front of the PA all the way through the Holocaust with no earlpugs... my hearing was fucked for a week afterwards but it was worth it. I actually went home and cried the second night because it was just such a cathartic experience. Yeah, I know. :D

Feed Me With Your Kiss is another of my favourites as it happens. ;)
 
When You Sleep live was the point where I just melted. I was in a group of about 20+ people but I don't remember seeing any of them until afterwards. They had video screens behind them and the visuals were just perfect. It was definitely a real occasion; it was a bad time in my life too, and those two nights were a huge release for me.

I get too sentimental about this stuff. Sorry!
 
My ex-girlfriend saw it as a dangerous, escapist, over-romanticised internal world, but then again she was wrong about plenty of things. And she was from Hull too.
 
SandyFrank said:
No need to apologize. It is, as you said, very cathartic music, often attached to people, places, times, and things in our lives. It's sneaky, too, b/c it's like a subconscious release. Like some subliminal shit. It all melds into one massive dreamscape and before you know it, something visceral and honest gets triggered and you don't even know why. I can't even imagine what it must be like live. I'm glad you got the release you needed, as well as seeing a legendary show twice. Just thinking about my old MBV days triggers something. That band has power, man. It just shows you're connected to something greater, bigger, and that's good.
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Just want to say, you have great writing skills.
 
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