Lame 80s pop teen horror

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My favourite track of all time - it just edges 'Damnation Alley' into second place - is 'Devil's Answer'.....

Mark


> ** Original Subject: Re: Lame 80s pop teen horror
> ** Original Sender: Tom Clark <tclark at PETRONET.NET>
> ** Original Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 02:45:42 +0100

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>
> Atomic Rooster were alright.  I particulary liked the last album which
> included David Gilmour on a couple of tracks.....I cannot recall the name of
> the album,though since at the time (18 years ago!!!) , I was out of weed and
> money and sold some of my albums....would be nice to find it again,
> though....
>
> ----- Original Message -----From: "Tim" <ma-paharper at IOPENER.NET>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Lame 80s pop teen horror
>
>
> > John H. McCartney wrote:
> >  >
> >  > I think that here on this side of the pond we fared somewhat
> >  > better, depending on your point of view of course. Yes there
> >  > was an enormous load of crap pop, but the majority of the
> >  > UK/Euro fashion bands never gained a toehold over here. The
> >  > vast wateland of US radio & MTV was pretty much the exclusive
> >  > territory of crap hair-metal bands.
> >  >
> >  > There were actually some of the 80's pop bands that had some
> >  > talent and some good songs. Men Without Hats was indeed great,
> >  > and had more depth than just Safety Dance (which had the massive
> >  > coolness to have a Maypole and dwarves in their video),
> > hey,and don't forget the great vesion of the ~brady bunch theme~done
> > by weird al yankovic to the tune of ~safety dance~!!
> > tim
> >
> >
> >  early OMD
> >  > was brilliant, even the dreaded Duran Duran had a couple of cool
> >  > tracks, such as Union of the Snake and Girls On Film. Ultravox
> >  > was pretty good, even New Order had their moments.
> >  >
> >  > On the other hand, there were truly inumerable "bands" that
> >  > were abominations upon the Earth - Spandau Ballet was excrement;
> >  > Haircut 100, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Hayzee Fantayzee and others of
> >  > their ilk existed primarily as fashion statements. I do particularily
> >  > loathe Culture Club, but a personal most-despised band of the time
> >  > is Dexy's Midnight Runs, er, Runners. 'Come On Eileen' gets me all
> >  > choked up, like the way Jimi died.....
> >  > scorch
> >
> > Dexy's...yeah they sucked...hard to believe Vincent Crane from Atomic
> Rooster
> > joined up with them for a while...(and someone better remember A.R.
> besides me!!
> > tim
> >

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