A Blast from the '80s (and '90s)

Did anybody out there (Generation X, like me, probably)
groove to:

The Cure (Boys Don't Cry!)

The Smithereens

The Sisters of Mercy (Mother Russia, Mother Russia! :D)??

Just curious to see if I'm not all alone out there.

Hi there Harrison,
Never heard of any of those groups LOL I think I was in the midst of kids or grandkids at the time, and more into car pools and homework , but I think INXS and Bonnie Tyler, AC/DC and of course AEROSMITH ring a bell for me. I think I might have been on a different wave length than you ;)

Charo thats ok.... I am from Generation X the last year of it in fact.. and I've never heard of them... except the Cure and the smithereens which I didn't listen to. I listened to the cure (only a few songs).. LOL so your not the only one..... but Yes definatly Inxs, aerosmith..Ac/dc which were all my fav... Aerosmith and ac/dc still are ..... is definatly Generation X groups... :)

Originally posted by Harrison
Did anybody out there (Generation X, like me, probably)
groove to:

The Cure (Boys Don't Cry!)

Yep -- although personally I think their best album was Disintegration (Fascination Street, Pictures Of You, etc). I still have that on CD in my car.

Smiths not so much.

The Sisters of Mercy (Mother Russia, Mother Russia! :D)??

Rain down, down, down... oh yes. I hung onto that CD as well (Floodland). Andrew Eldrich is a friggin' genius IMHO. I love Driven Like the Snow. And Temple of Love of course, even though that's on a different album.

I like to pull out these CDs and play them for my ym.

Affecting crotchety old woman accent: See dearie, back in the 80s we old-timers used to listen to these peppy little numbers. It really got our ginger up, dontcha know! ;)

I also liked Depeche Mode, New Order, the Eurythmics... man, now I'm dating myself here....

Having said that, I like modern stuff as well, but my taste runs toward the industrial/club/dark wave end. Assemblage 23, Stromkern, Evanescence, Zeromancer, etc. are the logical extentions of the whole goth movement in the 80s, IMO.

What really gets me is that the older tunes are now getting recycled in advertisements. I was at a movie theatre one night and an HP digicam ad came on. The first few bars of the music they used sounded awfully familiar. Then I realized it was "Pictures of You"! I gave this little bark of laughter and my ym looked puzzled -- of course he didn't know what the tune was! I had to explain it to him after the movie. Was so surreal. :rolleyes:

Rain down, down, down... oh yes. I hung onto that CD as well (Floodland). Andrew Eldrich is a friggin' genius IMHO. I love Driven Like the Snow.

--- ScarletHawke

Awesome! I must be hanging out with the right crowd if there's a Sisters of Mercy fan around. :D

Danika: Cool! :)