OH GOD THEY BROKE OUT OF THE WARSAW GHETTO ALERT THE PANZERS

She sings from her diaphragm, this is not true. Now, if she pulled a Glenn Danzig, James Hetfield, Brent Hinds, Wayne Static... (yea, there's a list) and screamed out shit improperly (from the throat), yea, there would be some pretty nasty years ahead. But Angela (and most contemporary growler/screamers) knows how this works.

I wonder if the inevitable scarring is going to make it hard for her to have children later.

Between Mr. W and myself, we have a pretty small CD collection, and we are sort of heavy on the 1960s and 1970s. This thread made me decide to organize it by decade (yes, I am a librarian, why do you ask?) and I have discovered that at some point in the '80s, one or the other of us was willing to lay down cash monies for:

Multiple albums from the Talking Heads (starting in the 1970s, through and including David Byrne's Rei Momo in 1989),Tracy Chapman,Oingo Boingo, the B-52s, and lots and lots of U2, including the very first CD I ever owned, a gift from my college BF.

Impulse buys or deliberate?
The Fixx

Paul Simon's Graceland

Chris Isaak (I don't care, yum, plus I saw him live and it was a high-energy rockabilly good show)

Bronski Beat (I thought disco had died?)

Fine Young Cannibals (that was not mine)

A Grateful Dead album ("In the Dark") God damn I'm old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOaXTg3nAuY
A Sinead O'Connor album
The Smiths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkvPnjb9hs
Elvis Costello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31WZO75xyj4
and
The Traveling Wilburys (Vol. I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s9dmuAKvU

It pre-dated CDs, and by the time they came out I was over it, but my all-time favorite band in high school (early 1980s) was Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y64T-kYQ2B8
Teehee!

Are you listing awesome music or shameful music? I can't tell.

Pop quiz: how many non-vocal instruments are used in the typical rock band? Express your answer in the form of a percentage.

I don't know! (reply is to Kezrain)

Also I'm not sure why half of them embedded and half didn't.... I didn't mean to embed like 20 things, was just going to link

Counting percussion as one or like 8?

So what you're saying is...we would've been better off if Scott Stapp was a screamer?

Are we talking about 80s music? Is OZ 4.0 still listening to everything we post? God, I hope so. Probably some NSFW in here.

I count percussion as 80.

Eleventeen.

Apparently, there's more to it than you'd think -- here's Angela Gossow (from Arch Enemy) conducting a workshop on screaming safely (apparently for a group of musicologists and the like, according to one of the comments):

Ooh, and Ted Nugent.

Holy shit, Lum is a KLF fan? MY BROTHER! What time is love?

MY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Holy shit. I'd be playing that set with three sticks IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

Any of those tracks objectively piss all over anything written at any other time ever.

I saw Chris Isaak live a few years ago and he fucking ruled. Yes, he's more of a greatest hits artist than a get all his albums artist, but that's ok too.

Also:

Well, shit, now. I didn't know we had people hip to anticon and collaborators in here. Check this out.

Jesus built my hotrod. It's a love affair.

Bozzio?

A lot of the good stuff has been covered, by the 80's was awesome - it's when I discovered music for real. It's when I discovered that I wasn't "mainstream". It's when I made friends with Marc, one year my junior but already the owner of more than a 1000 albums. I owe that guy a lot. It's when MTV didn't yet suck and also when it arrived at our shores.

When I did college radio the show before mine was an 80's show run by a guy 6 years younger than me, and listening to his show you might mistakenly thing OZ 4.0 was right, because he played all the hits... including the awful cheesy German and Italian stuff. Yeah, yeah, 99 Luftballons is ironic good, but it's not good good. I took over his show one friday, and played all the alternative stuff - some of it already covered above.



One of the first bands to mix rock and dance - God how I loved ZTT.




We had days of bringing music to class in high school - I remember playing the 10 minutes 12" remix of Dead or Alives You Spin Me Round and then going straight to this:


Oh, yes. The glory of the twelve inch...

Fuck you post limit!

I was debating about including Faith No More in my post Hanzii, but went with the Iron Maiden instead. Glad someone else brought that one into play.

Yeah, I think OZ learned his lesson.


... the lesson being, don't go into a room full of old farts and tell them their formative years sucked.

Hell, I was a toddler in the 80s, I still appreciate the fact that a lot of good music came out of it. Grunge in the 90s killed a lot of my favorite things about 80s rock, so despite all the cool new stuff in the 90s, it still holds a bitter taste for me.

Faith No More opened for Billy Idol when I went to see him in approx. 1990 (he was just healed up from his motorcycle accident). It was awesome~!

Just saw this typography art, described thusly:

This is real love. The love story poster from typographyshop.com

The poster tells a love story, from hopeful beginning through falling in love and the expression of its passion, the appearance of trouble and doubt, the breakup and its lonely aftermath. Told entirely through song titles from the 1980s.

If you like typography so much like I do, you have to buy some nice posters in this shop.

Where were we?

Oh, yes, new waving in style. Just wanted to clarify by "function of age," I was referencing an assumption I was (probably unfairly) making, which is that agewise, the 80's is for a lot of you folks are what the late 60's and early 70's were for me (btw, I'm not unaware that the 70's have disco to answer for).

In the 60's and 70's, there was very little separation between music in general and what was played on AM radio. I grew up listening to the good stuff on my transistor.

This. This exact model, among others.




The 80's appear to be when that separation really took hold, and I was not yet savvy enough to go much beyond what radio continued to offer. It appears that I missed the good stuff. I've graduated since then, and the bulk of my music collection is from the 90's and forward and definitely not Top of the Pops material

In any event, apart from The Smiths, The Cure and Talking Heads, who are already in my collection. I haven't heard many specific examples here that would change my mind, and I do blame the 80's for rap. However, our man Nute set an example for me today. To wit, I shall endeavor in good faith to educate myself before speaking on such matters again.

tl;dr -- 80's music: I'm going in. Hope for my safe return.

Hey Guys! Guys! Guys! GUYS!

Check this out!

Play this song -


While watching this video (HD and full Screen for full effect):


your welcome

That's a cool looking resource.

On the other hand


If you can't appreciate cheesy italo disco what can you do?

Who makes all these youtubes of songs where all the video is is images of the the subject of the title of the song? They are fucking atrocious. Primitive Man in Johan Osterman's post and Human Cannonball in BlueJackalope's post, specifically. Who puts any amount of time into these dumb-as-fuck videos? Primitive Man is especially egregious in its terrible eye-gougingly bad images. Just use album art, goddamnit.

I demand Lum create a new user title for the cool people: JAMM

Well, we are Justified and Ancient. You can't really dispute that fact.

And we like to roam the land.