The lost late eighties college rock interzone

post-birdman interzone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXW-n0OY1xY

hey guys remember the died pretty

This is really more on the post-punk side of things, but I remember a friend buying this album mostly on the basis of the title, and all of us being disappointed by what it ended up sounding like:

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, June 28, 2012 12:12 PM (2 hours ago)

aw man I loved 9353 sooo much

9353 Appreciation Thread

an acquired taste to be sure tho

hey guys remember CHRISTMAS

inexplicably one of my favorite videos of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_xq8HsHDdA

hey guys remember the died pretty

no! i remember that their free dirt got a lot of positive press, but i never found a copy during the window of my active interest, and the follow-ups were always compared unfavorably to it, so they remained a mystery to me. just listened to a few tracks - not bad, similar to the gurus in the combination of jangle and garage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QesuVI-diqE

Never really got into that stripe of oz band, but I do have a huge soft spot for the Saints' Just Like Fire Would

Anyhow, it was the Rembrandts who ensured that jangly college rock could never again return.

hey guys remember CHRISTMAS

weird, i was talking about them on the CVB vs. Go4 thread yesterday. the christmas song i'd like to post, "everything you know is wrong", doesn't seem to be on youtube >:[

Never saw that Christmas video before - hilarious!

"I saw tad at the revival in philly"

i saw tad open for gwar there!

― scott seward, Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:47 PM

so yeah, 1989, tad booked two shows that night in philly, early at the revival with gwar and late at the khyber. the revival was all ages so, being 18, I ended up there. pretty sure the serial killers opened (incidentally their former drummer replaced james lo in live skull). I remember standing in the audience next to slymenstra from gwar without her makeup on, she was absolutely stunning and I kept having to remind myself not to stare at her. I'm sorry if I creeped you out, slymenstra. during tad I jumped in the pit and promptly fell down.

a couple days later at maxwells in hoboken I ended up interviewing tad (and his openers, some band called nirvana), he told me that after their set at the revival he was tired and decided to blow off the khyber show. then the guy from the khyber showed up at the revival and was like "what the hell are you doing, I was gonna pay you $150!" so tad hightailed it over to the khyber, played 4 songs, and got his $150.

the next night I was the ritz in NYC for the laughing hyenas/mudhoney/sonic youth show. it sounds a lot more amazing than it was. I kinda felt like stuff had wrapped up in '86 and at that point everybody was running on fumes. or laying the groundwork for grunge with their intelligent hard rock, bleh.

Anyhow, it was the Rembrandts who ensured that jangly college rock could never again return.

It has not been jangly college rock's day, their week, their month, or even their year.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6cevqpKm81qzpiyuo1_400.jpg

ripped this from a billboard issue on google books. You may have to squint, but it's worth it.

Never saw that Christmas video before - hilarious!

yeah, me either! great song too. <3<3<3

wish in excelsior dayglo had been half as well produced as ultra prophets...

Pedantic aside: wasn't it just referred to as "Revival" and not "The Revival." I only ever heard it called Revival (or "Club Revival" in event announcements).

"incidentally their former drummer replaced james lo in live skull)"

rich hutchins! he was in ruin too. and little gentlemen. and of cabbages and kings for a bit too. my friend julie was friends with him. my friend julie played violin on little gentlemen's cover of ultravox's the wild, the beautiful, and the damned on one of their albums in the 80's. they were goth punks.

yeah, i always called it Revival. hang out with the dudes from executive slacks and stuff. still think that Ex Slacks should get more credit for their industrial rock. they did it before ministry or nine inch nails.

aw yeah executive slacks! somebody post "the bus" video.

ruin! I think I still have their album.

executive slacks, 1984. as time went on it got harder to distinguish them from other electro goth beat merchants but that debut LP where they sound like early wall of voodoo covering the first swans EP is some of my favorite shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AV7LcUM2RM

and yeah us rubes from jersey always called it "the revival"... even in print

sorry philly, hope you at least got to see some good NJ shows in the 80s at the city gardens and the maxwells

rich hutchins! he was in ruin too. and little gentlemen. and of cabbages and kings for a bit too. my friend julie was friends with him. my friend julie played violin on little gentlemen's cover of ultravox's the wild, the beautiful, and the damned on one of their albums in the 80's. they were goth punks.

― scott seward, Thursday, June 28, 2012 4:25 PM (48 minutes ago)

he was such a goddamned animal on the drums. james lo is in my top 5 alltime drummers, rich had big shoes to fill when he joined live skull, but he committed himself honorably. the albums don't do his drum sound justice, either. he mashed those things so hard you could see the whole kit shaking when he played.

ok, I'm going now

*switches off interzone light*

Yeah, that was some band. The big change is sound was the guitars - I think they used Rolands in the early days, but switched to Marshalls.

They Might Be Giants (although they kept on truckin' along and made some $$$ doing tunes for TV etc.)

I often wonder how rich they are now because of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Thursday, June 28, 2012 12:08 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Malcolm In the Middle theme song to was also TMBG.

At the same time all this was going on you also had the Wax Trax records coming out too.

I'm tempted to poll the top ten of croup's screenshot

TMBG fans are a loyal lot

I'm tempted to poll the top ten of croup's screenshot

at least make it 20, get siouxsie and squeeze in there

30 gets you some random guy voting for dire straits

xpost on Christmas. One of the more annoying things is that there used to be some really nice live videos of the band up on youtube, and they vanished without a trace. Really, really wish I'd copied them at the time...

i have the third christmas album on matador at the store and i've never listened to it. found the first album on vinyl for a buck this year and i was happy. used to have the tape.

this thread is disappointingly devoid of free jazz vibraphone

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513AgmoH8VL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

the flip of the "stupid kids" 12" had a cover of "ring my bell"

I'm tempted to poll the top ten of croup's screenshot

at least make it 20, get siouxsie and squeeze in there

Yeah, "The Globe" craps on everything else on that list from a majestic height

Relevant:

http://avc.lu/Og2H8j

And the comments are, well, comments.

Good article!

some of my favorites of these types of bands are on the 80s edition of "poptopia." i don't know their full catalogs very well, but these are mostly good songs...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fR_ULmpoM8I/Tt_4IbNirJI/AAAAAAAAUJk/g4MM-t6MtQk/s1600/Poptopia80s-Back.jpg

(excluding the romantics, utopia, the db's, marshall crenshaw and the bangles, i guess, because those were not really "college rock" bands.. i meant the bands besides those .. i dunno if the plimsouls count for this either but that one song is pretty amazing)

knew translator would be in there somewhere

Mo Better Booze Collapse

Haven't thought of Jason and the Scorchers in years. They played my Grad Night at Disneyland along with the Dazz Band, Krash, Matthew Wilder, Dwight Twilley and Sparks. Quite a lineup.

The mind reels at Sparks joining Dazz Band on stage for a version of "Let it Whip."

What a dream!

that really happened? Dazz Band, Krash, Matthew Wilder, Dwight Twilley and Sparks
?

Surprised that Blake Babies are nowhere to be found on this thread

Picked up a record collection the other day with a bunch of Interzone stuff in it: Fetchin Bones, ScreamingTribesmen, Concrete Blonde, Voice of the Beehive, Lava Hay, the deservedly maligned Hoodoo Gurus. Yeah, lots of that stuff hasn't aged well. It's been a fun nostalgia trip, though.

Deservedly maligned? Hoodoo Gurus are the only one of those bandsI still listen to regularly, and I owned/own many of them. I never get tired of Stoneage Romeos.

Yeah Hoodoo Gurus have aged way better than almost all of the bands from that time.

I think major label alternative from the period ends up being on odd grab bag that doesn't necessarily represent the whole scene very well.