I just watched this video on Yahoo! Music and does it ever take me back to 1982. I remember seeing that video infrequently and it being an “event” when it came on. My brother bought the album, it was an EP, I think. And I bought the next album, “Trio and Error”. I actually like “Anna letmeinletmeout” better, but they don’t have that one.
Ah, the 80s! I spent my time catching up on the “cool” classic rock and I ignored all the stuff that was happening at the time (well, the stuff I saw MTV occasionally- radio was and is a black hole around here) and now I look back and just wonder at all the cool stuff I missed. And yes I think Trio is cool. Interesting at least. I vaguely remember REM (that my friends saw play in small clubs in 85, 86, 87 and 88!), Replacements and I have no idea what else.
Anyway, thank you Yahoo!Music for having that Trio video!
What else should I look for? (They don’t have much, but they do have some ).
Ah, 80s college radio! That was the stuff! A sweet refuge from stupid-ass hair metal!
Hüsker Dü, The Cure, REM, The Replacements, The Smiths, The Church, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elvis Costello, The Pixies, The Pogues, Pere Ubu, X, Talking Heads, Camper Van Beethoven, Violent Femmes, The Dead Milkmen, XTC, They Might Be Giants, 10,000 Maniacs, Guadalcanal Diary, Cowboy Junkies, Let’s Active…
Except for REM. But were they around in the '80s? There were a few there that I suspect nobody heard of until th '90s - were they all just growing phenomenons in the '80s? 10,000 Maniacs?
(And let’s face it, TMBG never got the play it should have. Long live the Johns!)
I first saw REM in 1983, when I was 13 years old. I became aware of them in '82, when Chronic Town was released, and by that time Radio Free Europe was an MTV staple.
I see. Thanks. It stands to reason many bands are around long before you hear of them in the afforementioned “mainstream” (no matter how much they stink), but I wasn’t certain.
The first time I ever heard Da Da Da was about 1989 when a friend put it on a mix tape for me. He also did a cover version where he hid a tape recorder in his sweater at a party and went around trying to get people to quote lines from the song and then he spliced them together, added a Casio keyboard track, and voila.
But the thing was, I thought the original was some ultra-obscure song that my friends had discovered and nobody else in the world would have ever heard of. When it showed up on a Volkswagen commercial I damn near fell out of my chair.
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