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This post was modified because the author believes that the negativity of the original post gave the "Hello I blog Now" blog a bad image. Positive thoughts make people positively positive!
1)Talking HeadsThis one is pretty self explanatory. The Talking Heads are fucking awesome. Although they formed in the late 1970s the bulk of their material is from the 1980s and its a pretty sick library of music. I'm not sure which album I'd recommend first but you can't go wrong with "Fear of Music" or "Little Creatures". Of course
Phish phans would say listen to "Remain in the Light" dude...
Phish covered that shit on Halloween man so it has to be good.
And the DVD of "Stop Making Sense" is in the top two all time of music DVDs...the Bands "The Last
Waltz" is some sweet
shiz too.
Here is a sweet '80s pic of the Talking Heads

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2)Camper Van BeethovenIf you think
CVB's only two songs are "Take the Skinheads Bowling" and their sweet cover of "Pictures of Matchstick Men" then you are an ignorant donkey lover.
CVB's first album "Telephone Free Landslide Victory" is one my top 10 albums of all time. This album is a raw sounding mix of ska, punk, country and Eastern European folk. That description sounds like I'm trying to be funny but that is what this album is. Oh man, I'm going to listen to it while I finish this post........
ooooh damn this shit is good.
One thing I really like about
CVB is their focus on the music. Many of their songs are instrumentals and they splendidly mix violin, banjos, and organs with traditional rock instruments making some really nice sounding music. They wrote damn good lyrics too, some funny some weird but all good.
I also highly
recommend their album "Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart". And yes, their album names have 4 words in them, so what dude?
Here is a nice black and white.......

I do think the Cure and the Smiths deserve honorable mention but they aren't so good that they need a fucking write up. Oh yea and REM too.