"The 80's were shite...I want a refund" - Rob Gretton

Actually, there was a brief period from 1979-1982, that music really came on leaps-and-bounds.
Bands were throwing off the Punk shackle and experimenting, guitars were hitting synths, sequencers against drummers, soundscapes, some real ART.
Then the bollocks New Romantic/Nu-wave crap hit and it all went friggin shoulder-pads.
As usual, it was the London based art school gobshites that kicked it all off.
While the Northern UK was belting out Cabaret Voltaire, New Order, Section 25 etc etc, the South gave us Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones and Bleeding Visage.
There was DAF in Europe, Severed Heads in Oz, even Canada and the U.S. had some sterling electronic acts coming through.

But the whole thing was pissed on by the likes of Midge Ure and his band of fluffy shirted girly-men.

Aaah well.

Threlly...your posts are fuckin great man!!!!! I always get a laugh and chuckle out of you british boys sense of humour

:lol:

I just love the word "gobshite" I do.

I'd also like to add that New Zealand had the whole Flying Nun thing going on in the 80s with one small independent label producing some of the best music of the decade anywhere in the world.

Quite right too

Fucking Billy Currie jogging behind his keyboard....bastard.

Look at you NOW Currie, not so clever-clever now eh ?
You big crap fat man-mountain you, eh, Numan wouldn't look at you twice now.
Won't be jogging behind your CS-80 now, it'd bloody snap....