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

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

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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!

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!

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?

Almost everything on C86.

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

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.

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

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

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

The Windbreakers. Wow, these guys are good.

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

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

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?

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

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?

Have a look on Youtube - search: arrogance don dixon

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

It was educational anyhow.

Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine & Roses
The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
The Silos - Cuba & self titled The Silos (which I think was their 3rd record)
The Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once
The Go Betweens - Before Hollywood
Camper Van Beethoven - II & III, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Robyn Hitchcock- Globe of Frogs
The Church - Heyday
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms & Only Life
Pylon - Chomp & Gyrate

The guitar-skronk of Dream Syndicate and Gang of Four-isms of Pylon, though I love both, don't really jangle to me. One pretty jangly LP I've pulled out several times recently is "Greenhouse" by Absolute Grey (1984,) which has lots of that strummy Rickenbacker sound of early 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