Originally posted by educatedfilm

Anyway, that's my humble oppinion.. (anyway, what about the other more intresting syle of playing in the 80's, yeah, I'm talking about "blondie", "Talking heads" and the slightly depressing yet fasinating "Joy Division"?... New wave?... I love that.. that a prime example of an era with geat song writing combined with great melodies, but even then there was the crap... By the way what ever happened to the "specials"?)

There were a lot of GREAT bands from the 80s that never got the accolades and respect they deserved, The two that jump out to me are Living Color and Kings X. Bands that were way ahead of their time. Also , bands like the Fixx, Eurythmics, Big Country. It's too bad really, some great , great stuff.

Living color is playing a reunion tour currently. They just played in my town. Of course I didn't hear about it until the next day...Arghh!!!