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

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hahah i'm trying to draw a mental picture of a band jangling like fuck. STRUM THOSE RICKENBACKERS BOYOS!

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...
revive

did you find anything you like from these suggestions?

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Feelies & Petty seconded.. Can't think of all those still missing here..

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

the embarassment

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Los Lobos and the Meat Puppets -- it's hard to find bands that don't jangle less unless you're in the heavy metal or punk rock genres. oh wait... Ha ha.

?

Up On the Sun jangles more than anything REM ever did. Human Television fits a bit. though they're 00s

― dan. (dan.), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

oxford collapse too

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Yes, this thread was very helpful. I went on a big Feelies kick as a result.. I can't do the Connells, though, they bug me. And I wanted to like the Rain Parade more than I actually do.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

please go get the silos cuba and vote for it in the 80s poll!!

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

The Smiths?

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe no one's mentioned the Smiths!
-- Melinda Mess-injure (mozh...), July 14th, 2005 1:10 AM.
Or are The Smiths too obvious?
-- Melinda Mess-injure (mozh...), July 14th, 2005 1:11 AM.

Nobody replied, in complete shame as so many worship Mozzer & Marr.

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

only takes one listen to "This Charming Man"...

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

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

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― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

(show all messages dammit)

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

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

Also, from Boston, Men & Volts, who alternated between doing a weird Beefheartian thing and really interested pop songs. 21-645 (who had a couple of 45s) are fantastic as well.

Also worth checking out are the Bird Nest Roys and the amazing Verlaines, both from New Zealand and on the Flying Nun label, of course.

The website www.littlehits.com has some amazing stuff, and a new song is added every day...check it!

― Marty McFly, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

grant hart's solo record on SST and the "2541" EP.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Don Dixon solo
Velvet Elvis (produced by Easter)- s/t
Lloyd Cole & The Comotions - Rattlesnakes
The Smalls

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

10,000 Maniacs - Hope Chest & Wishing Chair

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

The Church, circa '82. They don't come much janglier than Almost With You.

― Palomino (Palomino), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Wire Train (or any 415 Records band)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

My goodness, everybody's been so nice with their jangle-rock suggestions. I'd be jangling for the next ten years, but for my current obsession with Glen Campbell The Capitol Years, 1965-1977.

The sad part is, that's a 2 cd, 46 song monstrosity, and I can still name about fifteen great songs that I can't believe aren't on it. How the hell can you have a Glen Campbell best-of without Roll Me Easy? Geez Louise!

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

The Wygals were an excellent choice.

If you can dig up anything by mid-80's NC band One Plus Two I'd highly recommend it.

I love the Reivers though the production on their Capitol records may sabotage the overall sound. There are moments of brilliance buried in there, worth searching out. "Saturday" and "End of the Day" still give me chills.

Early Hoodoo Gurus? Mighty Lemon Drops?

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Blue Aeroplanes, round the Swagger era & after...

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Biff Bang Pow!
Brilliant Corners
Caretaker Race
The Flatmates
The Bodines
The Corn Dollies
The Waltones

Almost everything on C86.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

If you like Vulgar Boatmen then check out some later period Gizmos stuff, they share members. There were also two transitional bands called The Satellites and Right To Left that Dale and Shadow were in, but they're Indiana obscurities with only self-released cassettes.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000B5IOWK.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― late adopter, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

if 1988 counts as the '80s, then "there she goes" by the la's.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

what the hell was the name of that American band who were on Sarah records? Jangly as hell, pudding bowl fringes, went on to be Velvet Crush, I think.

The Sunflowers?
no, wait - the Springfields. Them, anyway. None more jangly.

― bham, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

How about some Galaxie 500? "The Other Side" is a great song.

― Noz, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

If you like Vulgar Boatmen then check out some later period Gizmos stuff

sleeve, would you happen to be able to share this (or the other stuff you mention)? i had an old gizmo's nth generation tape a loooong time ago, but it's gone and this is impossible to find now. as for the other bands you mention, i've never heard of 'em and would love to give a listen.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

The Chills, have they been mentioned yet?
Miracle Legion and Men And Volts seconded
Camper Van Beethoven jangled occasionally
Opal / Mazzy Star?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Hootie and the Blowfish

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Hootie and the Blowfish

OTM, actually. Funny enough, the covers album, Scattered, Smothered and Covered, includes covers of songs by a bunch of people mentioned (or who should have been mentioned) on this thread:

The Smiths
R.E.M.
The Silos
54-40
Vic Chestnut
Reivers
Don Dixon

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

The first Gigolo Aunts LP on Coyote was all about the jangle. Every municipality had an REM proxy band. Jersey/West Village offered Winter Hours, they were pretty alright.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Pale

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

The Hannibals
Map of the World

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

The Great Plains, if you can handle the crazyness

― Jonathan DD, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Hootie and the Blowfish
OTM, actually.

except that they completely fail at being a vintage '80s band!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Anybody mention The Mice? Whole lotta good, fast janglin' going on there. Their two records were issued on one cd last year called Almost Forever Scooter. The Numero label's Yellow Pills power pop comp would do ya too. Also check Wanna Meet The Scruffs by The Scruffs, esp. the song "I'm a Failure".
I saw the Windbreakers mentioned before. Can Electric Landlady still be found on cd? I'd love to get my hands on it.


― Bren (Bren), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Ok, upon further review, Yellow Pills not a jangle fest. There were a few tracks on the first disc that I was thinking of...still good, though.

― Bren (Bren), Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

The Bluebells.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

i recommends the UK band Hurrah! Their 'sound of philadelphia' comp on rev-ola is jangly wonderment. although their later work isn't quite as good

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's "Walking On Your Hands" jangles harshly.

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Oh! And the Windbreakers, as well. I used to have Terminal and Run, which were both cool

The Windbreakers. Wow, these guys are good.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 July 2008 18:00 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Gorge, Friday, 25 July 2008 18:03 (seventeen years ago)

Hands down the best power pop ever to come out of Mississippi. Not that there's much competition.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 25 July 2008 18:11 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

wasn't sure where to put this, but has anyone heard Arrogance w/Don Dixon? I came across their name in the liner notes to a teenline comp years ago, but still haven't heard them. anyone?

― you cant be neutral on throwing momma off a moving train (artdamages), Saturday, 30 January 2010 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

not from the 80's exactly, but imperial teen are great and jangly. gravity talks by green on red is a good record, but i never thought of them as jangly. too much velvets in their sound for that, imo

― pobrecito (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:37 (sixteen years ago)

hmm maybe i'll find a better thread for my arrogance query. according to allmusic they went from byrdsjangle/early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock to more rocking powerpop?

― you cant be neutral on throwing momma off a moving train (artdamages), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:32 (sixteen years ago)

Have a look on Youtube - search: arrogance don dixon

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

oh yeah...thanks. wow, this is garbage.

― you cant be neutral on throwing momma off a moving train (artdamages), Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:20 (sixteen years ago)

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