The Misfits were the only band my first band could agree on covering. SO good.
Fuck. Theatre of Hate. <3. We used to play Legion religiously before going out on a weekend. I can still smell the hairspray :)
Gary Numan doesn't get anywhere near the respect he deserves for the music he made between The Pleasure Principle and his more industrial albums. I especially like "Berserker".
Shit. Now I gotta go buy some music. I think the last Numan disc I bought was Hybrid. And I bought it on disc. The Numan show was spectacular. Think it was the Exile tour. And he played something hot off Exile to open the show and scared the shit out of everyone who came to see him do "Cars." Then he did a rocking rendition of Cars to get it out of the way and the audience fuckin' loved him for it. Then he dropped right back into something heavy from Exile and all the yuppies who came to see "cars" stuck around for two encores. A month later I mixed Modern English. They refused to play "Stop the World" until the 2nd encore, by which point there were six people in the audience.
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. 1980: Split Enz - I Got you 1981: Gun Club - The Fire of Love 1982: Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio 1983: Violent Femmes - Add it Up 1984: This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren 1985: Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch - Death Valley 69 1986: Swans - Time Is Money (Bastard) 1987: Big Black - L. Dopa 1988: World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos 1989: Godflesh - Christbait Rising The years might be wildly inaccurate. Edit: The director's cut... 1985: Celtic Frost - Necromantical Screams 1986: Candlemass - Under The Oak 1987: Melvins- Eye Flys 1988: Slayer - South Of Heaven 1989: Saw Throat - Inde$troy Epilogue: No -one sums up the 80's better than these guys though... my tribute
True story. I think it was on our third or fourth date when "Take on Me" came on the radio. I turned to my wife and said "This is our song now. You don't get a say in this matter, this is just how things are going to be." She said "Fine by me." That's the only time the issue of "our song" has ever came up. I wonder if she still remembers.
Night Court! Jeez, I still remember meaningless stuff like the judge's favorite musician was Mel Torme. Sometimes I wonder why my parents let me watch crap like that. Nostalgia aside, it was a pointless show. And of course Transformers when it was cool. I had a bunch of the toys. As toys they were at least a little mentally stimulating to learn how to change them.
'80s sitcoms, in all of their variety, really stand out in my mind as being very distinct for some reason. Cheers, Perfect Strangers, The Cosby Show, Alf, Growing Pains, etc. I'm sure there were some real turds back then too, but I can really remember growing up watching reruns of '80s shows on a old 13" TV with faux wood panelling. You know the kind, the one with both VHF and UHF dials and the propensity to turn off randomly so you'd be forced to get off the couch, turn it off and then turn it back on again. Those were some weird, good times. (Like this bad boy right here) As for the Transformers, I loved that show and toyline in all its iterations when I was growing up. My dad hated G.I. Joe because of the implied violence. A bunch of robots shooting at each other though? Sure. Why not. My toys have been in storage for years. I'm looking at selling them sometime this year. I think I've held onto them long enough. It's time they find someone that will appreciate them a bit more than I do.
My mom was the same way about G.I. Joe. She didn't like guns. I'm not sure what happened to my toys. I think my parents sold them at a garage sale, and while that gives a brief pang of disappointment at selling my childhood, I don't really want to store them myself, so best they move on. We had a TV very much like that one. I think it finally got replaced in the late '80s when it got struck by lightning. We got cable TV before it died and had to route it through the VCR. I still remember getting the VCR, too. It lasted forever and had a mechanism that sounded satisfying, like a solid thump when slamming a car door. It was nothing like the cheap VCRs of the late '90s.
Yeah. Our TV was one of the old ones where it only had the screws on the back for antennas, so to make ours work we had to pipe the cable to the VCR and then connect the VCR to a VHF-Cable converter. We didn't have an antenna, so in order to watch TV, both the TV and VCR had to be running.
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Holy shit. I've seen Weird Al Live 18 times now over the last 30 or so years; wow I first saw him live in 1986, so yea 30 years now. I never miss his shows if he is within 100ish miles of me. NEVER. His live act is one of the most amazing acts of professional showmanship I've ever witnessed. Costume changes, stage re-arrangements, audience engagement all of it has been perfect. If he has a live show within 200 miles of you, GO. Grab a few nerd friends, make a day of it and GO.