BOS Simple Minds, Missing Persons, The The, Roxy Music
for the most part, this was right in my wheelhouse back in the day, except for
You Dropped the Bomb On Me: I didn't know how cool this song was until years later, when I becames more secure in my musical tastes
Uncertain Smile - this is not the cut from the
Soul Mining album (1983), which I like better, this must be the original 82 release of the song? originally titled "Cold Spell Ahead"?
The The - (1982–1987)
The The's next single was a variation on "Cold Spell Ahead", an early version of "Uncertain Smile". Produced in New York by Mike Thorne; it reached #68 UK. This version is different from the more familiar album version, and featured sax and flute by session player Crispin Cioe rather than (as on the album version) the piano of Squeeze's Jools Holland. (from wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The)
btw, Johnny Marr played w The The when I saw them in 1990 at the Warfield. Score!
"I just know they're going to be the new Eagles -- Here they are, the waitresses!" -
When I saw ZZTop last fall, one of the opening bands was The Eagles of Death Metal:
"Despite the name, Eagles of Death Metal are not a death metal band. Jesse Hughes said that a friend was trying to introduce Josh Homme to the death metal genre. When he played a song by the Polish band Vader and made a claim that the song was death metal, Homme called them "The Eagles of Death Metal"."(from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_of_death_metal)
(the other opening band at Bone Bash II was 38 Special .. uh, score?
Missing Persons to me combined rock and new wave, a la The Cars. great hooks, although Dale's later brush with the law in re: animal abuse removes some glitter.
This is not your older stoner brother's King Crimson! the add'n of Tony Levin (U of Rochester Eastman School of Music grad) Bill Buford, and Adrian Belew gave KC new "prog legs". I never really got into AB's voice however. My fave song from this incarnation was
Sleepless.
oh, Roxy...! BOS in perpetuity.
Asia - Soul Survivor was a better song, IMHO.
Quarterflash? blargh!
