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Favorite Punk, Alternative and New Wave CD's.

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:17 PM

OPPYH


Quite a while ago I posted my favorite Metal discs.

Here are my favorite Punk, and New Wave CD's:



-The Cars^^^^CANDY-O. Just the essential sound for the Cars.
Basically traditional rock and roll meets synth. Great mix.

-Blondie^^^^EAT THE BEAT. 1979 was a great year for Music. One of my favorite albums.

-Black Flag^^^^ WASTED AGAIN. A perfect compilation of Black Flag's career.

-Sugar Cubes^^^^HERE TODAY, TOMORROW, NEXT WEEK. Befor
Bjork went solo and thought she could conquer the world, she was just a sweet girl from Iceland making great albums.

-Nirvana^^^BLEACH. Did Nirvana sell out with Smells like teen spirit? No, but record labels can make you a mega star if you make catchy music. Pure, and simple.
Bleach was a fantastically gritty debut album. No polish. When I heard it I knew Cobain was troubled just by listening to aching vocals. Great stuff.

-Drunk Injuns^^^^FROM WHERE THE SUN NOW STANDS, I WILL FIGHT NO MORE, FOREVER. Skate rock deserves its place in history(early 80's). Sadly, this is one of the few(good) albums that is available on CD from the entire genre. Unless you're into tape trading, this is about as good as you can get, but I'm still hoping The Black Athletes "Die Laughing" makes it to CD someday.


-Sonic Youth^^^^GOO. Great album? In my opinion, yes.

-Meat Puppets^^^^MIRAGE. My absolute favorite band of all time. It was hard to pick my favorite album. Mirage incorporates everything the Meat Puppets are best at: Humor, sadness, amazing country style guitar picking.
MY DESERT ISLAND ALBUM, if ever there was one.

-Ramones^^^^ALL THAT STUFF AND MORE vol.1
I love the Ramones. Always have. When I hear their music I want to eat a Big, Mac, and Fries, smoke cigarettes(I dont smoke) and skip school(I'm 36 and don't attend school). Weird but true. It's hard to pick a favorite studio album. This has many songs, and not a bad one on it. Very good compilation, I always recommend to friends curious about the Ramones.


-Flock of Seagulls^^^A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS. From 1982 this was already the twilight of the New Wave scene. very solid album.

-Berlin^^^^PLEASURE VICTIM. Is it possible to use too much MOOG synthesizer? Apparently not. Another great album from 82.

-The Breeders^^^POD. Kim Deal you are awesome. Very great album.

-WEEN^^^^CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE. Crazy stuff. The fact that they are just making with the funny doesn't change the fact they are very talented musicians. They can(and have) emulated practically every style of music known to man.


-Siouxie and the Banshees^^^TWICE UPON A TIME THE SINGLES.


-Scarce^^^^RED.
Near the end of "Grunge", this great little EP was released.





Alright there you are. Now please list your favorites. I need some new material to listen to. Thanks.


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Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:47 PM

KINGEICHOLZ


And what does this have to do with Firefly?

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 2:00 PM

RIVERLOVE


Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:
Quite a while ago I posted my favorite Metal discs.

Here are my favorite Punk, and New Wave CD's:

-The Cars^^^^CANDY-O. Just the essential sound for the Cars.
Basically traditional rock and roll meets synth. Great mix.

And the album out at the same time, Get The Knack by The Knack. Both albums helped people survive during a time when disco reigned.


Quote:

-Blondie^^^^EAT THE BEAT. 1979 was a great year for Music. One of my favorite albums.
A masterpiece!


Quote:

-Ramones^^^^ALL THAT STUFF AND MORE vol.1
I love the Ramones. Always have. When I hear their music I want to eat a Big, Mac, and Fries, smoke cigarettes(I dont smoke) and skip school(I'm 36 and don't attend school). Weird but true. It's hard to pick a favorite studio album. This has many songs, and not a bad one on it. Very good compilation, I always recommend to friends curious about the Ramones.


I became addicted to The Ramones in the 70's. Gabba gabba hey.


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Sunday, January 10, 2010 2:19 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by KingEICHOLZ:
And what does this have to do with Firefly?



I feel it brings the TROLLS out.

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:02 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


The Sex Pistols, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols"

The Buzzcocks, "Singles Going Steady"

Elvis Costello & The Attractions, "My Aim Is True" and "Armed Forces"

The Clash, "London Calling" and "Sandinista"

Talking Heads, "More Songs About Buildings and Food", "Fear of Music", and "Remain In Light".

As a single, The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star" was prophetic, to say the least.

The Cure, "The Top" and "The Head on The Door"

Joy Division, "Unknown Pleasures" and "Closer"

Iggy Pop & The Stooges, "The Stooges" and "Raw Power"

New Order, "Power, Corruption, and Lies"

That should pretty well cover the punk, new wave, and even post-punk days, but there's so many more that should be essential...

I guess if we're including the grunge stuff, I'd add Alice In Chains' "Dirt" and Pearl Jam's "Ten".


Oh, and Candy-O and Blondie are perfect.



Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010 4:07 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
That should pretty well cover the punk, new wave, and even post-punk days, but there's so many more that should be essential...



Yeah, I know. It's a pretty big field, and as for your list, I'd love to get into The Talking Heads, and Joy Division. I just kind of scratched the surface with those two, but I really like what I've heard.

Your line about The Buggles "Video killed the Radio star". Amen brother. How would the music biz be in the world today if image didn't coincide with the talent. It would be a change for the better in my opinion.
Sometimes I just want to alienate myself from the current music altogether. But for me that's an impossible task!

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 4:15 PM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


Quote:

Originally posted by OPPYH:
Quite a while ago I posted my favorite Metal discs.

Here are my favorite Punk, and New Wave CD's:

-The Cars^^^^CANDY-O. Just the essential sound for the Cars.
Basically traditional rock and roll meets synth. Great mix.

-Blondie^^^^EAT THE BEAT. 1979 was a great year for Music. One of my favorite albums.

-Black Flag^^^^ WASTED AGAIN. A perfect compilation of Black Flag's career.

-Sugar Cubes^^^^HERE TODAY, TOMORROW, NEXT WEEK. Befor
Bjork went solo and thought she could conquer the world, she was just a sweet girl from Iceland making great albums.

-Nirvana^^^BLEACH. Did Nirvana sell out with Smells like teen spirit? No, but record labels can make you a mega star if you make catchy music. Pure, and simple.
Bleach was a fantastically gritty debut album. No polish. When I heard it I knew Cobain was troubled just by listening to aching vocals. Great stuff.

-Drunk Injuns^^^^FROM WHERE THE SUN NOW STANDS, I WILL FIGHT NO MORE, FOREVER. Skate rock deserves its place in history(early 80's). Sadly, this is one of the few(good) albums that is available on CD from the entire genre. Unless you're into tape trading, this is about as good as you can get, but I'm still hoping The Black Athletes "Die Laughing" makes it to CD someday.

-Sonic Youth^^^^GOO. Great album? In my opinion, yes.

-Meat Puppets^^^^MIRAGE. My absolute favorite band of all time. It was hard to pick my favorite album. Mirage incorporates everything the Meat Puppets are best at: Humor, sadness, amazing country style guitar picking.
MY DESERT ISLAND ALBUM, if ever there was one.

-Ramones^^^^ALL THAT STUFF AND MORE vol.1
I love the Ramones. Always have. When I hear their music I want to eat a Big, Mac, and Fries, smoke cigarettes(I dont smoke) and skip school(I'm 36 and don't attend school). Weird but true. It's hard to pick a favorite studio album. This has many songs, and not a bad one on it. Very good compilation, I always recommend to friends curious about the Ramones.


-Flock of Seagulls^^^A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS. From 1982 this was already the twilight of the New Wave scene. very solid album.

-Berlin^^^^PLEASURE VICTIM. Is it possible to use too much MOOG synthesizer? Apparently not. Another great album from 82.

-The Breeders^^^POD. Kim Deal you are awesome. Very great album.

-WEEN^^^^CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE. Crazy stuff. The fact that they are just making with the funny doesn't change the fact they are very talented musicians. They can(and have) emulate practically every style of music known to man.

-Siouxie and the Banshees^^^TWICE UPON A TIME THE SINGLES.

-Scarce^^^^RED.
Near the end of "Grunge", this great little EP was released.

Alright there you are. Now please list your favorites. I need some new material to listen to. Thanks.




Great list - does that take me back!

Drunk Injuns, missed them - anything like The Residents?

Some not listed...

XTC - everything

Gang of Four - "Songs of the Free"

Pretenders - "Pretenders"

Big Country - "The Crossing"

The Romantics - "The Romantics"

Yaz - "Upstairs at Erics"

The Jam - everything

The Undertones - "Teenage Kicks"

Split Enz - "True Colours"

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Junk Culture"

Lene Lovich - "Stateless"

The Beat - "I Just Can't Stop It" (ska)

The Human League - "Dare"

The The - "Soul Mining"

Dave Edmunds - "Repeat When Necessary"

Squeeze - "Argybargy"

Pixies - "Doolittle" (early Kim Deal)

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 4:47 PM

KINGEICHOLZ


Ok i'll guess i'll join in.Most of the bands on my list didn't make it big here in the U.S. but made it big in England so You might not have heard of them.

Transvision Vamp- Velveteen

The Primitives-The Primitives

Voice Of The Beehive- Let It Bee

Lush-Lovelive

Blown To Smithereens -best of the Smithereens

Veruca Salt-American Thighs

The Cramps -Smell of female

Garbage-2.0

Bangles all over the place

Texas-Southside

Flamin'Groovies-One Night Stands

Berlin-pleasure victim











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Sunday, January 10, 2010 8:23 PM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by pizmobeach:


Great list - does that take me back!

Drunk Injuns, missed them - anything like The Residents?



A little closer to The Descendants in musical style.
The Residents are pretty cool. Sometimes haunting melodies.


I also like Human League, and I can't believe I forgot to mention The Pixies.
They are pretty much the idea of Alternative rock.

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Monday, January 11, 2010 3:13 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Let's not forget The Replacements and early REM in the Alternative genre, since they both pretty much co-invented that movement. :)

As for Talking Heads, the three I listed are probably the cream of the crop for New Wave/Art Rock. Remain In Light is still the quintessential 80s art-rock album, in my opinion. Not a bad song on the whole record, and the one big hit ("Once In A Lifetime") is probably the weakest offering on it. The other stuff ranges from danceable Afro-Caribbean beats ("Crosseyed & Painless", "The Great Curve") to bizarre internalized self-reflection ("Seen and Not Seen") to heavy and dark ("The Overload") and more. It also highlights "guest member" Adrian Belew's golden years as an experimental guitarist, tying in nicely with King Crimson's "Discipline" and "Three of a Perfect Pair" albums of the same era.

I'd definitely put it on my list of Essential Albums. Oddly, though, I don't currently own it. :( I've owned it on vinyl, cassette, and CD, but don't have a copy right now. I think I'm off to the iTunes store... :)

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Monday, January 11, 2010 3:15 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


"Pretenders" and "Pretenders II"... Lordy, does that take me back! I remember just being jaw-droppingly in awe of James Honeyman-Scott's guitar playing. We lost him far too soon.

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Monday, January 11, 2010 4:51 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Let's not forget The Replacements and early REM in the Alternative genre, since they both pretty much co-invented that movement. :)



Yessir - U2 ("War") too. Hard to believe they started that far back. Kind of like the Police ("Outlandos d'Amour") and Eurythmics ("Sweet Dreams Are Made of This") - their later, more mainstream pop work tends to over shadow their early music. Annie Lennox - amazing pipes.

Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:

I think I'm off to the iTunes store... :)



Yeah, thx Oppyh! I stayed up 'til 1am looking up the old stuff... haven't listened to some of those tracks in ages.

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Monday, January 11, 2010 5:16 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


No kidding - threads like these usually send me either to the iTunes store, or looking through my old albums, or they'll have me looking into stuff I might have missed, which is always welcome.

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Monday, January 11, 2010 7:22 AM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
No kidding - threads like these usually send me either to the iTunes store, or looking through my old albums, or they'll have me looking into stuff I might have missed, which is always welcome.



Thats the idea, for me anyway. revitalize your musical roots.

Also, I'm looking forward to seeking out new(old) stuff. Great suggestions from you guys.

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Monday, January 11, 2010 7:29 AM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by pizmobeach:


Yessir - U2 ("War") too. Hard to believe they started that far back. Kind of like the Police ("Outlandos d'Amour") and Eurythmics ("Sweet Dreams Are Made of This") - their later, more mainstream pop work tends to over shadow their early music. Annie Lennox - amazing pipes.



That was the problem with most New Wave bands of the late 70's early 80's. I'd say at least half went commercial pop to get bigger audiences(although never in a million years would I consider Annie Lennox commercial). What a weird time the 80's were for music. All these import synth bands that were huge over here. A-Ha, Nena(German) Taco(Dutch).


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Monday, January 11, 2010 1:36 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


That's the great thing about iTunes, though, and the digital age - you can check out a song or two from a band or artist, and if you like it, you can check out more without shelling out for the whole album.

I've discovered bands I completely missed during the 80s and 90s - bands like The The, who I missed even though I loved The Smiths, and should have been aware of Johnny Marr's association with that other band. But a few songs has me taking a harder look at other stuff of theirs.

Ditto Big Audio Dynamite and Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - later outgrowths of The Clash that pretty much slipped by me. And The Lightning Seeds - how'd I miss them? Their stuff wasn't all great, but how could I have missed "Pure"?

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Monday, January 11, 2010 1:57 PM

NCBROWNCOAT


Lots of memories coming back with all the bands and artists mentioned.

To bring this back a bit to Firefly...I listened to the incomparable Marion Call Saturday morning (from 12 am-3 am EST) from Alaska via the interwebs.

She has an amazing album inspired by Firefly out (and is very much a geek like us) but she also did an amazing acoustic punk song with an unusual punk instrument...the mandolin.



BTW her followers, Browncoats and others are called Zombie Cheerleaders and "Out for Blood" is their unofficial song.



http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/








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Monday, January 11, 2010 5:18 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


I was never into Punk that much, more of a classic rock guy, especially those groups that incorporated a little bit of blues/country/folk hybridization. I think I've kept an open mind about new musical styles but not everything appealed to me. I am an old coot after all.

Not really sure how to differentiate New Wave and Alternative. I liked The Police, The Cars, The Pretenders, REM. Then there was Grunge with Nirvana, Alice in Chains, NIN. Does Pearl Jam fit into that?

I guess there is one bona fide Punk group that I did like. Anyone else care for X, with John Doe and Exene Cervenka? I didn't read the whole thread so someone might have already mentioned them.



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Monday, January 11, 2010 6:55 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


X is definitely in the mix.

Speaking of touches of country in your alternative music, I heard the sad news over the holidays that Vic Chesnutt had taken his life, dying on Christmas Day. The world is a lonelier place without him.

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