Re: [bomp] Re: Bands You Listened To Religiously, But Hate Today

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Mark Owen <markojerry@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > >   Early Smiths and Cure are in the same
> > > category for me.  Groups I still like a lot and
> > may
> > > actually throw on from time to time would be
> Echo
> > > and
> > > the Bunnymen, Siouxsie (esp. the McGeoch years),
> > and
> > > New Order up through Blue Monday.
> > 
> > Teardrop Explodes also? Psychedelic Furs? Although
> I
> > wouldn't consider either of those (nor the
> Bunnymen)
> > to be "cliche 80s". For that matter I wouldn't
> even
> > consider early Siouxsie to be "cliche 80s"
> > 
> 
> I knew we'd hit some classification snags, I was
> just
> thinking of British acts some of my friends were
> into
> in the mid-late 80s (high school/early college years
> for me).   Bob Smith was a Banshee, so there are
> some
> definite ties among some of those groups. 
> I never really listened to much Teardrop Explodes,

By the mid 80s Copey'd already gone solo and done
World Shut Your Mouth and Fried. 

> I'm
> not a big P Furs fan either,

I'm a big fan of the first 2 

 but they both have
> their
> merits.  Can I toss in the Monochrome Set though? 
> The
> Lester Square-era stuff is great 

Used to read about them in Trouser Press, but didn't
hear too many of their songs. From how I remember
them, I'd compare them to XTC or ,anachronistically,
to Super Furry Animals (and yes, I know it's the other
way around, but SFA do remind me a lot of some UK
stuff of that era) 


(plus there's an
> Adam
> and the Ants/Bow Wow Wow tie-in).
> 
> Hmm, now Youth Brigade is more of a typical 80s band
> that I used to listen to, 

Never liked 'em. But then one doesn't expect much of
an Oi band from Beverly Hills. 

even though I never had
> their album. 

You're missing nothing. 

 I'd probably give it a listen if I
> heard
> it today, but it wouldn't make it into medium
> rotation.

I thought they stunk at the time, and I doubt I would
reappraise it as I have with so much from that era.
Generally, the 80s stuff that I didn't like then but
which I like now was stuff that didn't seem "hard"
enough back in the day to my teenaged self. 




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