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SPEAKING OF MUSIC...

OK, fine, I'll admit it: I like '80s music.

It was transformative experience this morning when I was listening to "Man, It's So Loud in Here" from They Night Be Giants' most recent album Mink Car (recently acquired, half price, shazam). The '80s aesthetic is great, but it took well into the '90s for the aesthetic (synthesizer, drum machine) to be divorced from those awful '80s bands that thought it up.

All right. I salute them for pioneering the style, but I still refuse to pretend I like OMD and Erasure. Their songs are crap, pure and simple. I have more respect for New Order, the Pet Shop Boys, and Depeche Mode, but it really took for bands that aren't '80s-linked (TMBG, the Magnetic Fields, and so on) to adopt the style that I now see how cool it can really be. They brought their own lyrical and melodic sense to the synthesizer frame and brought it home. Awesome, boy.
peachy as always, Mike at 1:42 PM