all this good stuff we never got in the states… went to a club in Sheffield two nights ago, where they were playing 80s music. half of the songs were “oh yeah, i remember this”, and the other half were… well, they were 80’s sounding, but it was like i’d had a lobotomy and they’d extracted half the tracks from my brain so i’d never heard them before. Like a portion of my childhood was missing–except it wasn’t.
my cousin’s boyfriend here in bath, now, is giving me a musical tour of everything i’ve missed.
- Stone Roses (predecessors to nearly every band that i like…why oh why had i not heard of them ’til now)
- LTJ Bukem (he’s amazing…NEED to get some of his stuff before i go back to the states
- The Kinks (ok, i’ve heard them, but nothing beyond their classic “you’ve got me going”)
- Feeder (like Oasis only quite good)
- The Darkness (these guys should have been from the 80s… “I believe in a thing called love” is hilariously, embarassingly, like something we woulda listened to back in the day… a Queen for the new era)
- from the stateside of things: Johnny Cash’s remix of DM’s Personal Jesus