from the "I need to say it" department:

BIG COUNTRY are still the best!

Stuart Adamson is an amazing talent, and few musicians, rock or otherwise, have sent me into such a state of elation over the years.

Relatively few people are still talking about them or listening to them. Indeed, the height of their fame was late 1983/early 1984. But the music holds up, and the band are still active, as individuals and as a unit. Big Country were never snotty nor trendy, just consistent in their output of solid, singable rock music. {Ok, so I had more than a few complaints over "RPR" and the J. Geils production era...}

Very trendy now to slag off the '80s as a decade for ridicule, but there were select bands worthy of praise then and now! Don't forget nor overlook

Another of my '80's objects of worship,

Echo & the Bunnymen

They're back! But more than a bit weakened I fear. Nevertheless, still among the eternal greats. And oh how I adored Ian's slagging of Big Country...and most everyone else (hee!) Hypnotic music.

Big Country sound like someone being chased on horseback. The Bunnymen sound like plaster falling off the walls. Sounds that get you moving!

Are any of these '90's bands near as "magical" as these two from the '80's??? Depends where you are at this point in your life maybe, but the answer is probably "no." (Despite what the '90's bands like to say!)
At this point I shall pay a one line tribute to many other uplifting guitar (and even guitar-synth!) bands of the '80s--let us never forget the jubilant works of U2, the Alarm, Simple Minds, the Chameleons, the Smiths, Adam and the Ants, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Ultravox...most anything Steve Lillywhite got his hands on...(ok, our bask is over!) But please recall that '80's music had a distinct sound very much its own. Nearly all the '90's picks on my list are "throwbacks" to the '60's and '70's. Ah, in the end it's all what makes your brain happy...

Ok, get on with reading those '90's picks

Or choose to relive the '80's and forget the '90's and go back to the main page of chuckles.

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