Lame 80s pop teen horror

[Tom Clark]

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
>