Of course! I can't remember where I first read about some of these bands, but I've been working my way through them the past few months and still keeping my out for a few more. Kind of a mixture of 60s psychedelic folk rock (like the Byrds) with Post-Punk/New Wave. I guess a lot of these bands are contemporaries of early R.E.M., but a little more sonically adventurous IMO (those guitar sounds!). A lot of the bands never really got their due. The Bangles were the only ones to really make it big. Anyway, here are a few of the highlights below and some more info. Days of Wine and Roses by The Dream Syndicate (this is kind of the defining album of the scene) Spoiler Emergency Third Rail Power Trip by Rain Parade (members from this group became Opal, who later became Mazzy Star in the 90s) Spoiler Sixteen Tambourines by The Three O'Clock Spoiler Happy Nightmare Baby by Opal Spoiler
Yeah, this is all great. Thanks for posting. I thought I had mined the 80’s pretty well, but I haven’t heard any of these bands.
Totally ridiculously good! Saw the Mothers at the Catacombs in 1968. Ditto! The sound quality was much better at the club, or maybe not!
Spoiler: track list Shocking Blue (with Mariska Veres) - At Home (1969) CD version (1989) 00:00 Boll Weevil 02:40 I'll Write Your Name Through The Fire 05:38 Acka Raga 08:45 Love Machine 12:05 I'm A Woman 15:07 Venus 18:14 California Here I Come 21:30 Poor Boy 24:00 Long And Lonesome Road 26:49 Love Buzz 30:34 The Butterfly And I 34:37 Harley Davidson 37:17 Fireball Of Love 40:19 Hot Sand 42:57 Wild Wind
debut album (1968 pre-Mariska) Spoiler: track list 0:00 Love Is In The Air 2:38 Ooh Wee There's Music In Me 5:14 What You Gonna Do 7:34 Whisky Don't Wash My Brains 8:35 Little Maggie 11:23 Jail My Second Home 13:51 What's Wrong Bertha 16:17 League Of Angels 18:28 Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu 20:29 That's Allright 22:53 Crazy Drunken Man Dreams 25:51 Beggarman 28:22 Hold Me, Hug Me, Rock Me 30:23 Where My Baby's Gone 35:28 Lusi Brown Is Back In Town 38:22 Fix Your Hair Darling
Coming Home - Pusha T ft. Lauryn Hill and produced by Kanye West It's Lauryn's first song in years, Rolling Stone wrote about it as well. How Pusha T Secured the First Lauryn Hill Feature in Years Rapper discusses his new track “Coming Home,” his new criminal justice reform initiative, and teaching Kanye West what “charcuterie” means Ben Perry/Shutterstock; Grant Pollard/Invision/AP/Shutterstock 1511 days, 36,264 hours, 2,175,840 minutes, and 130,550,400 seconds passed from the last time Ms. Lauryn Hill released recorded music, until the release of “Coming Home” on Wednesday. Pusha Tstill seems in disbelief that the elusive Hill said “yes” to giving him a feature. Sonically, “Coming Home” is the antithesis of the sinister and nihilistic coke raps that the Daytona rapper has spent the past two decades turning into high art. Built on a cacophony of bright whistles and a pitched-up vocal sample, the Kanye West, Mike Dean, and Charlie Heat-produced song is by far the most uplifting song in his decade-spanning discography. Hearing Hill sing, “When love is real, you can do anything” after Pusha T spent the bulk of 2018 becoming hip-hop’s greatest anti-hero seems almost too outlandish to be true. Kim Kardashian Teases Track List for New Kanye West Album 'Jesus Is King' Pusha T, Lauryn Hill Unite on Kanye West-Produced New Song 'Coming Home' But from the minute Pusha heard the instrumental, he knew “Coming Home” deserved something he’s not used to giving. “I remember having the beat and was like, ‘Man, I think this is bigger than what Pusha T really does. What he’s known to do,'” he says over the phone. “I felt like the track itself had a feel good music. It had that feeling to it. I was like ‘This needs to have a bit of a message to it.’” Over three verses, Pusha T maps the effects of mass incarceration on the black community while striving to uplift the people still behind bars. The song’s release coincides with the announcement of the “Third Strike Coming Home Campaign,” an initiative “to free people serving life in prison today under yesterday’s outdated 3 Strikes Drug Law,” according to a press release. In partnership with Brittany K. Barnett’s Buried Alive Project and MiAngel Cody’s The Decarceration Collective, Pusha T is looking to help prisoners serving life sentences for federal drug crimes. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pusha-t-lauryn-hill-coming-home-interview-877915/
It's been more than thirty years. More than half of the members should have decayed into a very stable band called Zirconium 90. I've been listening to Pixies - Doolittle and Surfer Rosa for about a week on loop