So there was this record shop in Sacramento called The Beat. That’s where I found out about Red Box.
Home of the Brave by Laurie Anderson is one of the best concert films from the 1980s that you’re going to find. She was an early adopter of a lot of technology that we take granted in today’s music performances.
I’m a big fan of the live version. I think the guitars get a bit buried in a lot of the studio versions of Thin Lizzy’s music that really gets spotlighted in the live versions. I do prefer their live work.
Bruce Cockburn released “If I Had A Rocket Launcher” back in 1984, and I somehow missed it for almost 40 years.
The dB’s have always been underappreciated. They had some great songs in the 1980s but never became that well known. One of those songs is “Amplifier”.
I somehow missed this song in 1988. It wasn’t until the 2010 Keith Richards remaster of “Take It So Hard” was in the wild before I really caught it.
In 1987, Jennifer Warnes released an album of Leonard Cohen songs entitled Famous Blue Raincoat. At the time, I remembered Warnes from a 1977 hit, but I was just starting to get into Leonard Cohen.
Have you ever heard the song “Let’s Have A War” by Fear? (I wish it didn’t fit as part of a soundtrack of our time’s news cycle, but it does.)
Well then, you probably aren’t a giant fan of the cult classic movie “Repo Man” in the mid 1980s.
I lived in Sacramento in the late 1980s and I don’t ever remember hearing of Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers back then. In 1991 we moved to Pennsylvania and all of a sudden they were on the radio. I know they were from Pennsylvania but they deserved better exposure than that.
You *might* know Garland’s version of Wild in the Streets, or 96 Tears, but Mystery Kids was always my favorite.