The Listen: You had better believe it! These boys could play. Simply one of the best power pop albums of the 80s, this is a true and blue lost classic. If you dig early Beatles, The Posies, and The Figgs, you may just fall in love all over again.
The Verdict. Don’t you just love hidden gems? Sure it’s a little dusty, but give it a spit & shine and a chance, and this little record will make you dance!
YES YES YES. I just hit play on this record because of what you wrote. I absolutely love this kind of power pop. They remind me quite a bit of the dBs and The Freshies.
The Listen: You had better believe it! These boys could play. Simply one of the best power pop albums of the 80s, this is a true and blue lost classic. If you dig early Beatles, The Posies, and The Figgs, you may just fall in love all over again.
The Verdict. Don’t you just love hidden gems? Sure it’s a little dusty, but give it a spit & shine and a chance, and this little record will make you dance!
YES YES YES. I just hit play on this record because of what you wrote. I absolutely love this kind of power pop. They remind me quite a bit of the dBs and The Freshies.
Psyched you dug it, Mecca! One of my favorite recent discoveries!
I've never even heard of The Freshies, but that song is pretty much the biography of my 20s! What is it about girls who work at record stores?! lol Also pretty cool that that track was released in 1980.
Psyched you dug it, Mecca! One of my favorite recent discoveries!
I've never even heard of The Freshies, but that song is pretty much the biography of my 20s! What is it about girls who work at record stores?! lol Also pretty cool that that track was released in 1980.
The dBs rule!
edit: Have you The Freshies first LP?
It's pretty wild!!!
I love everything about Chris Sievey. He was a genius.
Then we played like 10 of our own songs and people didn’t know the difference. We all just looked at each other, and go, ‘[Forget] this, we’re gonna do our own songs. I think this is gonna work.’” - Ken Deans, drummer of The Heats
Dude... Where do you find this? I’ve only heard the opening title track and it sounds phenomenal! I mean I have an idea too and it’s why weren’t these guys used in as many movies as Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen In Love”. It’s so upbeat and motivating while still being so laidback. That’s why the whole school dance thing couldn’t be more perfect. Definitely throwing this on when I’m by myself at work tonight.
But respect for The Cure and Talking Heads topping your list, my favourite part of the 80s is the sea of post-punk classics. Although, if Remain In Light isn’t somewhere close to the top, can you really say that you’re doing it right?
Along with post-punk, I think that’s when my country was at its best during that decade. We were never bad, naturally, but there was just hit after hit after hit after... you get the picture. And the two aforementioned things often overlapped, that’s why I want submit forward:
It’s not our best post-punk release of the decade, I mean we had Nick Cave kicking about with Tender Prey. As well as the fact that I’m a biased Brisbane boy with a “deep history” to The Go-Betweens. But I feel like Heyday doesn’t get as much attention as Starfish but it’s wilder and a little more on the psychedelic side, which of course I dig. So if you want to go down under, this is what I recommend. Providing you haven’t already heard it.
Then on the topic of psychedelia, I’m really hoping to see some good old XTC on your chart. And if so or if not, I can’t lie and say that I’d love to see this show up just that little bit more:
They of course did much better albums but this record is a slice of heaven. I love it so, so much. They really sound like the band that would lay out the blueprint for themselves. Anyway, hope you’re having a good one and I hope I have helped. _________________ Some RYM paraphernalia:
It’s not our best post-punk release of the decade, I mean we had Nick Cave kicking about with Tender Prey. As well as the fact that I’m a biased Brisbane boy with a “deep history” to The Go-Betweens. But I feel like Heyday doesn’t get as much attention as Starfish but it’s wilder and a little more on the psychedelic side, which of course I dig. So if you want to go down under, this is what I recommend. Providing you haven’t already heard it.
This is probably the only 80s The Church album I'm not familiar with, and I'm not sure why I've never listened (probably was unavailable on spotify the last time I binged on the band). They're such an overlooked band. Seance and Of Skins & Heart are also both treasures. _________________ http://jonnyleather.com
Then we played like 10 of our own songs and people didn’t know the difference. We all just looked at each other, and go, ‘[Forget] this, we’re gonna do our own songs. I think this is gonna work.’” - Ken Deans, drummer of The Heats
The Setting: It all started at a school dance. They were just going to play some basic rock covers. BUT, they got that itch... "What if?", they thought. So they played one original. And then another. And the teens couldn’t get enough. After a cover story in the local rag, Heatlemania unofficially broke out across Seattle and The Heaters, as they were then called, became the hottest band in town.
But, “We [weren’t] punk enough for the punk crowd, and we [weren’t] pop enough for the Top 40 crowd,” states drummer Ken Deans. Not able to score a major recording contract they were stuck as a regional wonder kind. And a different "What If?" emerged. “What if” they had been based in LA, New York, or London? Could they have competed with the big boys?
The Listen: You had better believe it! These boys could play. Simply one of the best power pop albums of the 80s, this is a true and blue lost classic. If you dig early Beatles, The Posies, and The Figgs, you may just fall in love all over again.
The Verdict. Don’t you just love hidden gems? Sure it’s a little dusty, but give it a spit & shine and a chance, and this little record will make you dance!
Rating: 😈😈😈😈😈
This album is already on my wishlist for a bit of time and I think it's about time to actually give it a spin.
It’s not our best post-punk release of the decade, I mean we had Nick Cave kicking about with Tender Prey. As well as the fact that I’m a biased Brisbane boy with a “deep history” to The Go-Betweens. But I feel like Heyday doesn’t get as much attention as Starfish but it’s wilder and a little more on the psychedelic side, which of course I dig. So if you want to go down under, this is what I recommend. Providing you haven’t already heard it.
This is probably the only 80s The Church album I'm not familiar with, and I'm not sure why I've never listened (probably was unavailable on spotify the last time I binged on the band). They're such an overlooked band. Seance and Of Skins & Heart are also both treasures.
Seance was the first album of theirs I heard, weirdly. It was probably the cover that drew me (I’d still say it’s their best looking one), I thought I was going to get a darker version of The Cure or something. Needless to say, I didn’t get that exactly but goddamn it’s a fantastic album. In fact, all their albums from Of Skins & Heart to 1992’s Priest = Aura are, and they all offer something unique to the last. Even in saying that none of their studio albums are bad, 1996’s Magician Among the Spirits & 2002’s After Everything Now This are sure to be enjoyed by any type of fan. The latter of which reminds of the way The Go-Betweens matured their style with The Friends of Rachel Worth. I’m surprised you weren’t able to listen to Heyday though, I’ve been under the impression that it’s their popular record second only to Starfish. Unless it’s a licensing issue, which I get because it happens a lot here in Australia. I mean I waited years to hear the two Brian Eno & Robert Fripp collaborations mentioned earlier. If you can get a hold of Heyday, don’t pass it up. It’s the beautifully unkempt moment when they’re between their early stuff and when they’re starting to streamline their sound. And one of their best too, if not the best. I’ll keep my ears out to see if I can sort something out for you. I just want as many people as possible hearing them, they’re essential jangle pop. _________________ Some RYM paraphernalia:
Dude... Where do you find this? I’ve only heard the opening title track and it sounds phenomenal! I mean I have an idea too and it’s why weren’t these guys used in as many movies as Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen In Love”. It’s so upbeat and motivating while still being so laidback. That’s why the whole school dance thing couldn’t be more perfect. Definitely throwing this on when I’m by myself at work tonight.
Stole it from Gowi's 1980 year chart. She underrates it though! xp
Komorebi-D wrote:
But respect for The Cure and Talking Heads topping your list, my favourite part of the 80s is the sea of post-punk classics. Although, if Remain In Light isn’t somewhere close to the top, can you really say that you’re doing it right?
Exactly! Remain In Light has to be the odds on favorite, right? Joy Division's Closer is probably the most serious challenger for the throne along with me just saying fuck it, going with my heart and anointing Seventeen Seconds record supreme.
So psyched to delve into The Church now. They're one of my biggest blindspots!
Dude... Where do you find this? I’ve only heard the opening title track and it sounds phenomenal! I mean I have an idea too and it’s why weren’t these guys used in as many movies as Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen In Love”. It’s so upbeat and motivating while still being so laidback. That’s why the whole school dance thing couldn’t be more perfect. Definitely throwing this on when I’m by myself at work tonight.
Stole it from Gowi's 1980 year chart. She underrates it though! xp
Komorebi-D wrote:
But respect for The Cure and Talking Heads topping your list, my favourite part of the 80s is the sea of post-punk classics. Although, if Remain In Light isn’t somewhere close to the top, can you really say that you’re doing it right?
Exactly! Remain In Light has to be the odds on favorite, right? Joy Division's Closer is probably the most serious challenger for the throne along with me just saying fuck it, going with my heart and anointing Seventeen Seconds record supreme.
So psyched to delve into The Church now. They're one of my biggest blindspots!
Oh true! Well she has some great taste!
And yeah, it’s totally the odds on favourite. But putting Seventeen Seconds was a stroke of genius as far as I’m concerned. I’d probably put the obvious one you mentioned, Closer, or even Prince’s Dirty Mind but that album in the Cure’s catalog is so undersold. It’s usually seen as the bridge away from post-punk being the main focus to something more gothic, which is expand on better over the next few albums. But the change is so massive, that they’re almost recognisable and a different band from their debut. It isn’t trying to be goth, it’s dripping in it. _________________ Some RYM paraphernalia:
[Martin] made it sound like somebody strangling a cat, and to my mind, absolutely killed the song. I was so annoyed with him and went in and gave him a piece of my mind but he just turned around and told me to fuck off. – Peter Hook, bassist for Joy Division on Martin Hammet’s production on "Atrocity Exhibition"
The Setting: Unfathomable pain. Ian was dead. Hung in his kitchen on the eve of their American tour. Bernard, Peter & Stephan are left bereft wondering how they could have missed the signs. Searching for answers that would never arrive. Two months later the album Closer is released.
The Listen: And somehow it was captured. All that inner pain. I do not know how it was captured. Like some kind of ghost. But it was. The Beatles may have sang a great tune about weeping guitars, but, by God, Bernard’s guitar wept and wailed to the high heavens. Like a strangled cat. Like barbwire. The drums haunt & stalk. Circling around the procession like a slow brooding tempest threatening rain. Meanwhile Ian had no more tears to shed. His tears and blood had long since drained away. Pooled at his feet and reflecting back at him until he saw no way forward.
The Verdict. More a crypt than an album, Ian continues to live in its epically darkened grooves. Providing comfort that he also knows and shares our pain. Forever.
1980 Essentials (Thus Far)😈😈😈😈😈 1. Joy Division - Closer (post-Punk, Goth)
2. Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Art Punk, Post-Punk)
3. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (Post-Punk, Goth)
4. Circle Jerks - Group Sex (Hardcore, Punk)
5. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (Metal, NWOBHM)
6. The Heats - Have An Idea (Power Pop)
7. Diana Ross - Diana (Pop, R&B)
8. Merle Haggard - Back To The Barrooms (Country)
9. Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain (Hardcore, Punk)
HMs
1. Judas Priest - British Steel (NWOBHM, Metal)
2. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Hardcore, Punk)
3. Paul McCartney - II (Art Pop)
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