http://youtube.com/v/DX0WiCJEnUA #8 in my “Bands/Artists from the 90s Whom I Miss Most” list For those of us who saw them live, nothing needs to be explained. Not for kids.

http://youtube.com/v/imZN26YwhM0 #9 in my “Bands/Artists from the 90s Whom I Miss Most” list. I recall tenuous connections to MBV and Aphex Twin for these guys, could be wrong.

http://youtube.com/v/jzGRcPA4A1Q #10 in my “Bands/Artists from the 90s Whom I Miss Most” list. I think one of these guys is in SunO))) now “Bear Catching Fish” was a stunner of an album, but Slint got all the press

until I saw this. Someday, I’ll recall all the shows I’ve seen there.

http://youtube.com/v/IFvKGDplH24 #9 in the “You Had Them All Wrong” 80s bands’ list. SBMs were best known for the non-hit wonder, “Wild Blue Yonder,” but their full-length stateside debut is stellar all the way through. I never got to see them live, nor did I care for anything they did after this, but I did see […]

http://youtube.com/v/yTvgKFbelkw In an 80s documentary on the Fairlight, he said: “I’m certain the third world is going to have an increasing influence on our culture; and in music, a very vigorous hybrid will be produced, which is based on this non-european influence, and new technology, which is going to get cheap, and this facility will […]

http://youtube.com/v/JlRobLl4pGA #7 in the “you had them all wrong” 80s bands list. Sure, CH wrote perfect but airless pop on their debut. Yet a few songs hinted darker streams flowed through Neil Finn, and he let loose with the darkness on their subsequent and best album, “Temple of Low Men.” Not your average pop by […]

http://youtube.com/v/VseqOCfUlyI #6 in the “You Had them All Wrong” 80s list. Forgive me – their debut sounded as if Elizabeth Fraser had joined the Comsat Angels. All went downhill afterward.

http://youtube.com/v/sET1lhBMNiU #5 In the “You Had Them All Wrong” 80s bands list: Not because I like it, because I don’t — I never liked Ministry — but because it’s hilarious to think Al Jourgenson (sic?) so successfully fooled so many into buying his tough-guy image and sound for later Ministry albums. Knowing this video first, […]

http://youtube.com/v/LcZmSu9s2KU #4 In the “You Had Them all Wrong” list of 80s bands Many bands tried to rewrite Beatles’ songs; most went back to pumping gas. PS rewrites “Hey Jude,” and theirs is the better song; a gorgeous, romantic breakup song both piquant and shimmering (“you’re still in love/with Hayley Mills”)