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episode date - August 11, 2010
It’s not easy to cobble much sense out of the music scene in the summer of 1980, at least nothing that would be cohesive. All that the punk movement ultimately managed to do was to disenfranchise a large number of music fans, then cause another splinter group to develop that made it more difficult for radio programmers to find common ground with their listening audience.
The old school rockers wanted nothing to do with ‘new wave’, and vice versa, so the fragmentation of the popular music scene continued its rift. The result was a lot of good music that remained semi-peripheral, because there was no general audience to appreciate it, only small segments of clubbers, trendy types and college radio d.j.’s who jumped on anything that seemed to represent something new.
Looking back it’s a shame, because much of the album tracks from this era seem quite commercially viable, but back in 1980, some of this stuff seemed anti-commercial, if not outright dangerous.
Songs from this show include;
1) Let My Love Open the Door – Pete Townshend
2) The Empire Strikes Back (severely edited) – Meco (as a ‘Bad Hit’)
3) Bad Reputation – Joan Jett
4) Hells Bells – AC/DC
5) Monkeys – Echo & the Bunnymen
6) Rescue – Echo & the Bunnymen
7) Isolation – Joy Division
8) Mirror in the Bathroom – The English Beat
9) Best Friend – The English Beat
10) Ashtray Heart – Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
11) Complications – Killing Joke
12) Tyler – UB40
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