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

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.

1978 but you'd be missing out if you never heard this. one of my all-time favourite 7". B-side is excellent too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nml0v-GlHw

"Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever"

never heard them. thanks. just added a video to the aussie jangle/guitar playlist i made yesterday. based on a lot of names i got off of ilm a couple of years ago from someone here.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4uJu4UGWv-Rn0YA53IvBEQTcxQ2E0u1n

all 21st century stuff though. not 80s.

Wygals, "Sleep With Angels." I think that's the title.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, July 13, 2005
RIP, Rickey! He was a good music mag/paper writer, good ilxor too. The Wygals-related Individuals were one of those Hoboken bands, in fact I think they were among the Hoboken 3 (play on name of Frankie Sinatra's noob vocal group), with the dB's and Bongos. Fields/Aquamarine was the twofer reissue this century. Best track: "Asleep in your bed/I'm drunk in the fields/(Janet Wygal chimes in)I walk by your houuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse."

I like this live version too, though the sound is rougher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLXNPfjZVg

"Wygals-inclusive," I might as well have said, since Doug & Janet were both Individuals.

"Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever"

Oh man, Sick Bug is a good song but they have better. Try The French Press, or my favorite of all, Heard You're Moving. Or maybe Write Back. Holy mackerel they are so good.

man, one of my favorite hometown bands, Primitons, got a small reissue a couple of years back, I know TWAS was a fan as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9kVlsdIsQw

chuck warner put out the first primitons EP so it is everywhere around here.

we are throbbing lobster-heavy in western mass.

Primitons and The Ho-Ho Men were both descendants of Jim Bob And The Leisure Suits, though I don't remember how well any of them would fit any notion of jangle.

well the ep was produced by Mitch Easter, which is like definition of jangle, right? haha.
this is a fun thread.

like a lot of these comps it's certainly not all essential stuff but there's some good stuff

https://capturedtracks.com/captured-tracks-announces-strum-thrum-the-american-jangle-underground-1983-1987/