Further riffing on what I stole--shamelessly--from Badger
So it got me thinking...because earlier this year, around New Year's, our pal C. in San Francisco emailed me a list of VERY cool music, which sent me on a listening binge that lasted until Epiphany. So, here is a list (in order of how they pop into my head) of music artists whom I like that I am sure nobody else likes and/or has ever heard of. Yes, I mangled that sentence, I know. Bugger off.
- Agent Orange
- Adrian Belew
- Wall of Voodoo
- Violent Femmes
- Josie Cotton
- The Selecter
- Madness
- Haircut 100
- Talk Talk
- XTC
- They Might Be Giants
- MIA
- Rockpile
- Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit
- The Rockats
- The Reverend Horton Heat
- New Order
- Erasure
- Camouflage
- When In Rome
- Martin Briley
- Ebn Ozn
- Donald Fagen
- Bow Wow Wow
- Bananarama
- Kaja Goo Goo
- The Smiths
- Bronski Beat
- Flock of Seagulls
- 7 Seconds
- X
- EMF
- Divinyls
- English Beat
- The Cure
- The Church
- The Call
- The Alarm
- Dead or Alive
- Smithereens
- Gin Blossoms
- Yaz
- Devo
- The Babies
- ABC
More later.
-J.
Comments
I agree that the original list was woefully incomplete, particularly in the punk category.
So yeah, that list was really lame. Because none of my semi-intelligent bands were on it. Just the dumb ones. Plus there was like, zero Purcell, Rossini, or Mozart.
--P.
How right thou art. We were, indeed, waxing nostalgic on the keytar and Oingo Boingo suggested itself to you.
I must confess to being pleasantly surprised to see you among the partisans of Echo and the Bunnymen. Squeeze, Tom Waits, et cetera, that I could see, though.
hrrrrrumph.
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