Could somebody recommend me some vintage 80s jangle-rock (besides REM)?

And were already mentioned in this thread 4 years ago. Carry on...

jangle-pop!

here are two of my favorite songs ever. i think these are jangle-pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv96lj-YM7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EA

Despite being a fan of Shack, I didn't listen to the full Pale Fountains albums until this week. Not bad!

The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street (Virgin, 1984)
The Pale Fountains - …From Across The Kitchen Table (Virgin, 1985)

Also Ian Broudie post-Wild Swans/pre-Lightning Seeds:

Care - Diamonds & Emeralds (Camden, 1984)

A friend was listening to the Shrimp Boat box set, which made me think that a label like Captured Tracks needs to put out box sets of The Jazz Butcher and Game Theory.

Flying Nun in general. The Clean, The Bats, The Verlaines, Bird Nest Roys, Look Blue Go Purple, Straightjacket Fits, THE Chills etc etc

Coincidentally REM big fans I THINK. Seem to remember they called The Chills the best band in the world.

The June Brides
Wolfhounds (will vouch for early stuff at least)
Razorcuts
Sea Urchins
Start (anyone know more about this Kansas band? I'm mildly obsessed with this one track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmIXWE0e8k )

Yeah, I just ordered the Captured Tracks box set of The Bats that came out a few weeks ago.

http://www.capturedtracks.com/shop/featured-flying-nun-releases/fnctb-001-the-bats-vol-1-3cd-cassette-tote-option-available/
http://www.capturedtracks.com/captured13/wp-content/uploads/FNCTB001-BATS-FAKEOUT_CD-300x300.jpg

723 entries of jangle pop on RYM:

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Highest ranking newish album is Real Estate's Days at 97. Ones I don't have are Jacobites, The Sundays, Polaris, Håkan Hellström and Trashcan Sinatras.

Cleaners From Venus for lo-fi UK jangle

probably the Kimberly Rew solo album? I should get that some day

Hmm, I've never thought of The Sundays as jangle, but I guess they technically are?

Omg. Ever since discogs dot com became uncooperative I've been needing a new reference....thanks for those 728 pages !!

Game Theory.

The first album by The Loud Family is my favorite by Scott Miller.

The Stars of Heaven - "Rain On The Sea"....vintage 80s country-ish jangle

i second the Long Ryders mention way upthread too

The Sex Clark Five (who seem to have had a reunion album last year, on Spotify, but I'm just listening to it now so no idea if it's good).

This was always a favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzXlIcjVFLE

Contemporary jangle pop distinguished by a female version of Stipe.

Eternal Summers - Gold and Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmNrBaLoHc

the dentists.

the method actors. ga indie jangle OGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egVtHfhWqrw

what exactly makes nicole a female version of stipe?

Was Jefferson Airplane much of an influential touchstone for any of these 80s jangle groups? I know the Velvet Underground is always stated, but listening back to old JA, I got to say sonically their first couple LPs sound in line with these 80s groups.

The method actors

The Nields

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are kind of in there between early Go-Betweens, The Clean, other antipodals (and they seem like they probably like Television's "Days", T's Byrdsiest ever, even achieve the harmonies, atypically enough). Neighbor Courtney Barnett (who also might fit, though the one w Kurt Vile not rec) has observed that Melbourne doesn't have no beach, but RBCF make their own (other neighbors Dick Diver, who also might fit) honored their sister city on Melbourne Florida/ Anyway 2017's The French PressEP is a really nnniiiice and driving place to start w Coastals (they've got older stuff on here too) https://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/

Sleep Good's "Teen Sprite."

(Earl: I'd say so, or at least they should be--and the Charlatans, and Beau Brummells.)

If you want some really great undersung 60s jangle check out Darby Slick's raga guitar on the live Great Society set. That's Grace's brother-in-law in her pre JA band.
for 80s stuff does Savage Republic's monotone guitar count as jangle? I think that is the sound you get from it anyway.
& the Abecedarians also depend on droning jangle I think.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are kind of in there

Yes yes yes! This is my favorite guitar band to emerge in God knows how many years. They are fantastic.

Additionally, as stated upthread, please check out Winter Hours. We know how to jangle here in NJ and they had the sound down. Hyacinth Girl is a lost classic. They should have been more popular, and unfortunately they had a tragic ending.

Maybe I'll try them again---seemed like, back when their vids were occasionally on 120 Minutes of MTV, that the lead vocals were too Murmur-y for me---I still liked Stipe at that point, but even then one was enough.
Aztec Camera's High Land, Hard Rain was refreshing, and I think would have been even if it weren't so against the grain/trends of early 80s. Other AZ albums of the 80s, also 1990's Stray were okay-to-good, and certainly more quality over quantity, although Roddy Frame could sometimes sound like---a better Barry Manilow? Dunno, I'm not big on a lot of earnest young Brit male voxxes. But that guitar, those tunes, yow. (The guitar was sometimes down in the mix, but the tunes could feel it).

Speaking of 80s trends, you get Steve Lillywhite's DRUM SOUND--hipster/post-punk/HEY MTV---with robust jangle and more of those supple tunes on Marshall Crenshaw's Field Day, and for me the (sufficiently blended)contrast works even better because of supporting his earnest young American male vox, always blander than Frame's, or too consistently subtle for me.

The Ocean Blue had their first 3 albums reissued recently, and they contain a lot of jangle rock and 80s production.

Speaking of supple tunes and guitars, got those w scruffy, take-it-or-leave-it voice and words on Freedy Johnston's Can You Fly, although that's from '92---The Trouble Tree was pretty good too, from 1990, '89? Dunno if he did any in the 80s.

First Dumptruck album holds up great. Subsequent albums blend in with all the other 80s bands too much for me. I ought to revisit them though I suppose.

Yes first Dumptruck is a fine example.

i never heard that first one, though i had the second one for a little while. it was ok. doubt i've heard them since the 80s, i'm curious to check though.

ha i was just thinking that i didn't remember them as that jangly, so i opened "walk into mirrors" on youtube and it had that one guitar tone i remembered really well as sorta characteristic. but then...yup you're right a jangle part. huh.

First fear of men album, sounds like classic cranberries

Check out the Feelies side-projects - especially the Yung Wu record.

― Marty McFly, Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:02 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Keep seeing this thread in new answers and wondering if Yung Wu was mentioned yet.

Anyway, that Yung Wu record is great.

Dumptruck's "Going Nowhere" is an all-time favourite...I guess that's jangle; maybe a little darker and more downbeat.

I still enjoy hearing tracks from Miracle Legion's first "The Backyard" pop up on playlists. They had a great live show back in the day. Saw at least one double-bill with them and Dumptruck on the New England indie circuit.

One of the quintessential 80s jangle songs...Vulgar Boatmen Drive Somewhere.

^this

THE WAKE is some good 80s jangle...very influential on recent indie stuff like Real Estate and Beach Fossils

The Wake's Here Comes Everybody is one of the best (and most overlooked) jangle records ever, personally.

First two Dumptrucks are good dark jangle. For the Country would be my pick of their three initial albums, though it's more Neil Young than R.E.M.

And, finally, it's a very pleasant surprise to see an Ocean Blue mention by someone besides me. Those first three albums are definitely personal classics.

One of my favorite jangle records ever is an Ocean Blue-affiliated album by the band Riverside. Their first album, titled One, was produced by Steve Lau and was released in 1992, but still fits right in with this topic.

No Smithereens on this whole thread!

Because the Smithereens were cold garbage.

Let’s Active - Every Dog Has Its Day has aged well.

Finally heard 28th Day for the first time this week. So good!!!

Oh yes. And from there, go explore Barbara Manning's solo catalog, starting with "Lately I Keep Scissors".

Great name! Conjurs thin cheap jackets or people with too much intestinal air.

― Gorge, Friday, July 25, 2008 2:03 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ctrl-f'd 'too much' hoping to find a Too Much Joy reference and this is how I'm rewarded.