R.I.P. Wally George - Beyond Tiki

D donhonyc Tiki Socialite The Quiet EAST Village Joined: Jan 13, 2003 Posts: 1196	D donhonyc Posted posted on Mon, Oct 13, 2003 10:15 PM No doubt....lotta good sounds back in those 80s. All the SST bands: Black Flag, early Sonic Youth, etc. Dead Kennedys, X, Fear, The Germs, Clash..the list goes on Yeah alot going on back in the day. Van Halen (Dave era only), Cheap Trick (before all the power ballads), U2 (pre-Joshua Tree), and The Cars are also on the list! Now this is totally open to debate, but for me the 80s was probably the last time there was actually an active 'underground' in music, and in other forms of art and cultcha as well. I think the end of the underground, at least with rock music, ended after the whole Seattle-Grunge thing was over. There is no more music underground, nor do I think there ever will be again. Great musical undergrounds of the latter part of the 20th Century: '60s-garage/hippies/blues revival via rock and psychedelia, Fillmore East, etc., 70s-punk, 80s-punk & hardcore, 90s-grunge. MTV has done such damage to music as a culture or a movement or whatever over the last 20 years, that there can never be an active underground in music again. A few good bands pop up here and there, like your White Stripes, Hives, yadda yadda. But as I said in another posting here..... 'Rock is Dead.....long Live Rock'

No doubt....lotta good sounds back in those 80s. All the SST bands: Black Flag, early Sonic Youth, etc. Dead Kennedys, X, Fear, The Germs, Clash..the list goes on Yeah alot going on back in the day. Van Halen (Dave era only), Cheap Trick (before all the power ballads), U2 (pre-Joshua Tree), and The Cars are also on the list!

Now this is totally open to debate, but for me the 80s was probably the last time there was actually an active 'underground' in music, and in other forms of art and cultcha as well. I think the end of the underground, at least with rock music, ended after the whole Seattle-Grunge thing was over. There is no more music underground, nor do I think there ever will be again.

Great musical undergrounds of the latter part of the 20th Century: '60s-garage/hippies/blues revival via rock and psychedelia, Fillmore East, etc., 70s-punk, 80s-punk & hardcore, 90s-grunge.

MTV has done such damage to music as a culture or a movement or whatever over the last 20 years, that there can never be an active underground in music again. A few good bands pop up here and there, like your White Stripes, Hives, yadda yadda. But as I said in another posting here.....

'Rock is Dead.....long Live Rock'

Post #55016 by donhonyc on Mon, Oct 13, 2003 10:15 PM