I got Sirius satellite radio several months ago and discovered a channel "First Wave." Basically, it consists of a bunch of stuff I used to listen to on KROQ during the seminal period of music in LA - specfically, the early 80s. It was on that station that I heard Fun Boy Three, English Beat, Specials, Go-Go's (WAY before they hit it big), X, the Cure, etc. The list goes on and on and that list was played on that station.
Anyway, I have recently come to appreciate music that came out in late 1970s/early 1980s way more than I did when it was 'new.' Examples include but are not limited to Cheap Trick ("Live and Budokan"), AC/DC ("Back in Black"), the Bangles (back when they were The Bangs and way before that horrible "Walk Like an Egyptian" - specifically, their out-of-print first four song EP is classic) and The Knack ("Get the Knack"). And don't get me started on Led Zeppelin. Good stuff.
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Oh man. . . Rodney on the ROQ! Don't forget the Sex Pistols, Blondie, Runaways, Black Flag, Talking Heads. . . Now Henry Rollins has a talk show, DJ Bonebrake a MySpace, and the Knack drummer is dead. Not to mention most of the Ramones. Here's what's depressing: one day in the 70s my parents had a party in which, for some inexplicable reason, 50s music was played (and, embarrassingly, danced to by people related to me). Songs with titles like Earth Angel, Venus, Woolly-Bully, like that. My siblings and I found this ancient and completely irrelevant music hilarious. Now we're that far away from that music you mentioned, and I'm not laughing. Hmmm. Wait til my niece and nephew are old enough for me to tell them: "THAT's not music. Let me tell you what real music was. . ."
Off to find my Blondie cassettes, polka dot hairband and red plastic earrings now.
Ms C
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