80's Alternative Music

Hi ZZB; well...forgive me for disagreeing; Peter Gabriel was soft from mainstream success with "So" onwards, but the preceding two LPs, "Peter Gabriel 3" and "Peter Gabriel 4" (aka "Security") were far from soft. Very dark and brooding; although sure, relatively mainstream as against 80s post-Punk/Goth. I never really cared for any of this (it tried too hard!); and preferred the music it sprung from made in the 60s and 70s. Mind you, I don't listen to any of it today. Indie Kid is someone who likes Independent music; I s'pose you could say the band that kickstarted it all were the Smiths.

What is an 'Indie kid'? Peter Gabriel definitely wrote some beautiful songs, but I was never into him at all. Way too soft for my tastes. Aztec Camera was pretty soft too but I really loved the song 'Cartoon'... I'm pretty bummed to have lost it, although I rarely if ever listen to any of that stuff anymore - I keep it in a folder called 'relics' on my computer. I think probably Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love' and the Eurythmics 'Love is a Stranger' were about as close to mainstream as I ever got. Well, I did like U2 for awhile, but I got sick of them pretty fast. Henry Rollins from 'Black Flag' did a thing called 'I Hate U2' that was pretty funny.

But see, you'd know that about Peter Gabriel because you were into Peter Gabriel. When I hear his name I think of one of my all time favorite movies; The Three Musketeers. But it's Bryan Adams who does 'All for Love' (I LOVE that song) with Sting and Rod Stewart, not Peter Gabriel. I was never into the Smiths. I had a roommate who was, but I always thought Morrissey was a pretentious snob, and gosh, what a 'suffering' artist. And I don't have a clue who Roddy Frame is!

Not lost; just VERY busy. I lost a major insurance contract with a P&C company and no longer had the money to keep my office open; so, I had to close my office, move as much as possible to a small corner of my home and donate the rest to a local charity, get new business cards printed, and try to get a small part-time office set up at home for servicing my health and life insurance clients. I am also looking for a job with some other company to help pay the bills and all of this just before and during the holidays. So, I should be around a little more now.

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Madam Knowitall!!! I had given up expecting to ever run into you around here. Yeah, Christmas music. My grown kids came up to spend Thanksgiving with me and also to go to the dentist up here in the mountain (where it's much cheaper.) Sitting in the dentists office they had a country station playing in the waiting room. I just don't understand how anyone can listen to any radio station. The country music was bad enough, but the radio announcers!!!! Jeez, how do people stand it?!? And the commercials. I was ready to run out of their tearing my hair out. It was an incredible relief when the Christmas music came on! Of course they had a sort of nasal twang to them...

It was my pleasure! I love Aztec Camera dearly...

And good evening to you Williamjisir! It made me smile too, to include that little personal message to you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Well, it doesn't seem like there are too many mylotters who share any of my interests, or my views of life! Oh well. I was walking down the street in a neighborhood where I was living a few years ago, and a family had moved or something and left a whole pile of stuff by the curb for garbage collection. I noticed a couple of crates of old 78 records. They were all Chinese records, and since I like all kinds of music, I went home and got my car and came back to collect them. I am still not finished listening to them all in order to find the ones that I like. I can't tell you the names of any of them because they're all written in Chinese, but since they're very old records I doubt that your favorite, Terrisa Deng, will be in there! Thank you for your support and encouragement Williamjisir!

Hello again, my dear zigzag buddha. I really had a good laugh at the personal message, which aroused my great interest. hehehe. I am glad that you helped save the old Chinese records from being damaged in the curb for garbage. You are so nice a friend to the old records, for which they would say thank you to you for your saving them. I thank you very much as well. I am sure that there must be Terrisa Deng's music in the records there. I hope that you will enjoy Chinese music and learn some Chinese so that you will be able to sing the songs in Chinese. My American colleagues working with me are learnig Chinese as well. They have learnt Chinese for one year or so before they came to work in China and now their Chinese level is improving as they have the atmosphere to learn Chinese while talking with Chinese people. Looking forward to your Chinese singing voice some day. Your friend, Williamjisir.

I can't believe all these comments sitting here that I was totally unaware of! Anyway, it's not likely I will be learning Chinese! I feel down right retarded when it comes to learning a foreign tongue! I really envy those who speak more than their own language! My kids are taking some web design classes at a community college and have thrown in some Russian as well (my son wanted to take German, my daughter wanted to take French, so they compromised on Russian, since they wanted to hang together.) I do know how to say 'Ciao' though!

I actually don't listen to them much anymore as I prefer more soothing music now, unless I'm wanting to dance. But I will tell you the names of my favorite songs by them when I was... Sisters of Mercy - Nine While Nine Aztec Camera - Cartoon Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies (there is a video of this on YouTube) But almost anything you can find from any of them is good.

Correction: Aztec Camera 'Good Morning Britain'. There's a video of that on YouTube.

Thank you! I believe their songs are awesom and will enjoy them later.

I think every generation contributes something to the pot, but it might be a little while before the 80's gets topped... not only in quality but quantity! I'll sit down and try to list my favorites and the list just goes on and on, like there is no ending to it! I see you live in L.A. What ever happened to KROQ? They were already getting pretty commercial by the time I left, I imagine they've slipped entirely over the line by now. What area do you live in? I carried on a love affair with Hollywood for the majority of my life. Here's what it took to get me outta there... brown skies and nasty air, the traffic on the 101 (it used to be that if you avoided it during rush hour, which was about 4 to 6 or 7, then it was fine. But rush hour kept getting extended in both directions until eventually I couldn't even get on it at 2AM without it being bumper to bumper), then added to that was one too many earthquakes - I figured it wouldn't be too long before California joined Atlantis at the bottom of the sea - but it was a broken heart that finally got my bags packed and my a$$ in gear. The best place I ever lived there, and I lived in some great places, was a big A-frame house right behind the Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd. It had a big 'Eye of Horus' on the corner of the house. We painted the pool solar blue and kept it heated to 'spa' at all times. A midnight swim under the stars, which were mostly outshone by the lights from the Sunset Strip, with a light drizzling rain, steam rising off the water, felt so deliciously decadent. But I ramble. So do you live in Hollywood, or somewhere in L.A. County?

Hehehe! Fancy meeting you here! I had noticed that we seemed to have much more in common than I would have suspected at first. And now music gets added to the list! Depeche Mode's 'Just Can't Get Enough' is still my favorite dancing song. Once I heard a song called 'Vanessa Vacillating' and I really liked it. Somehow I got it in my head that it was by Siouxie but I could never find it. While writing this I got the idea to do a search for the song title rather than the band name. Duh. Sure enough YouTube has a video of the song. It's by Slow Children if you want to listen to it. (I can't cut and paste yet, sorry!) Also check out the video of Aztec Camera doing 'Good Morning Britain'. I am in love! What about the Pixies? Do you like them?