Tag: eighties

• Tunesday: The Minutemen, Corona

  If you kids ever wonder why we olden shits scoff at your Beeber and all that empty Disney crap, it’s because the music we played to make the double-hung windows shake was unimaginably awesome. You know nothing about the 1980s–Patti Labell and Duran Duran?  I never once saw a girl wearing leg warmers on the…

  JunkChuck

  May 31, 2016

  Tunesday, Uncategorized, video

  1980s, corona, d boon, eighties, minutemen, punk, Tunesday

• Friday Morning Rock and Roll Idols: The Traveling Wilburys

  25 years ago I snobbishly failed to appreciate how really, really great this was. Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Bob Dylan…

  JunkChuck

  May 16, 2014

  Uncategorized

  1980s, Bob Dylan, eighties, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, traveling, wilburys

• Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idols: The Reivers

  Man, I loved these guys.  If a band ever deserved to be rich and famous, it was The Reivers The Reivers: In Your Eyes

  JunkChuck

  April 25, 2014

  Uncategorized

  1980s, alternative, austin, eighties, jangle, longaker, reivers, rock, roll, twang

• Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idols: Husker Du

  The best live bad, maybe ever…Diane, Hate Paper Doll, and Green Eyes.

  JunkChuck

  April 18, 2014

  video

  1980s, diane, du, eighties, green eyes, grunge, husker, idols, punk, rock, roll

• Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: Violent Femmes

  Like a lot of these videos, this is more brillance from the eighties, which weren’t at all like cheese-eating high schools kids who watch cable replays of  “Pretty In Pink” think they were like.  The Violent Femmes were a taut little Indie band from Wisconsin who wrote short, sweet, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sly little…

  JunkChuck

  March 28, 2014

  Uncategorized

  1980s, alternative, daddy, eighties, femmes, gone, gone gone, guitar, milwaukee, modern, music, progressive, punk, rock, roll, violent, wisonsin