[Music] RTS Presents: Eights
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jon_chaissonSo it's 2008...that time of decade again.
I have a personal affinity for music that's come out in the eighth year of the decade...partly because of 1988, of course (I'll go into that in a few minutes), but it just seems like all the music I really like has come out at this point in time.
So, to begin, let's go into why I like 1988 so much.
For those of you who don't know me already (or read my Radio Radio posts), 1987-1989 were my junior and senior years in high school. It was a time when I stopped worrying about trying to fit in socially (or at least fitting in with the 'in crowd' as it were) and decided to do my own thing as an individual. It was also about the time I started hanging with people more on my wavelength (such as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
head58). At the same time, living in a small town in central Massachusetts wasn't all that exciting, so the aural escape of college radio--at that point, the polar opposite of watered-down pop and harmless, comical metal--was definitely a great change of pace. A lot of what came out was met with plenty of "oooh, cool...!" moments.
So basically, at least for me, it was a very positive time, even during some frustrating and/or depressing moments. Added to the fact that it was during this time that I'd started seriously thinking of what I wanted my future to be. When a person listens to music, some can't help but equate the song to a specific time or place, and for me, alt.rock circa 1988 always brings me back to that mindset. It's a happy, fun time.
So it being 2008, I can only wonder what great music will come this year.
A few lists of eights...
1988
Big Audio Dynamite, Tighten Up Vol. 88
Big Pig, Bonk
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
Camouflage, Sounds and Images
Camper Van Beethoven, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Tender Prey
The Church, Starfish
Ciccone Youth, The Whitey Album
Cocteau Twins, Blue Bell Knoll
Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Sessions
Crowded House, Temple of Low Men
Dinosaur Jr, Bug
Duran Duran, Big Thing!
Erasure, The Innocents
The Fall, The Frenz Experiment
The Fall, I Am Kurious Oranj
The Feelies, Only Life
Front 242, Front By Front!
The Go-Betweens, 16 Lovers Lane
The Godfathers, Birth School Work Death
Ofra Haza, Shaday
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, Globe of Frogs
Information Society, Information Society
Joe Jackson, Live 1980/86
Jane's Addiction, Nothing's Shocking
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Barbed Wire Kisses
Joy Division, Substance
Laibach, Let It Be
Living Colour, Vivid
The Mighty Lemon Drops, World Without End
Ministry, The Land of Rape and Honey
Morrissey, Viva Hate
Peter Murphy, Love Hysteria
My Bloody Valentine, Isn't Anything
Pink Floyd, The Delicate Sound of Thunder
Pixies, Surfer Rosa
The Primitives, Lovely
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This and Nothing
REM, Eponymous
REM, Green
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Peepshow
The Smithereens, Green Thoughts
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
Soul Asylum, Hang Time
She's Having a Baby soundtrack
The Sugarcubes, Life's Too Good
That Petrol Emotion, End of the Millennium Psychosis Blues
They Might Be Giants, Lincoln
Ultra Vivid Scene, Ultra Vivid Scene
U2, Rattle and Hum
Various Artists, Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father
Various Artists, Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films
Voice of the Beehive, Let It Bee
The Waterboys, Fisherman's Blues
Wire, A Bell is a Cup Until It is Struck
The Wonder Stuff, The Eight-Legged Groove Machine
...and a few other eights...
1968
The Beatles, The Beatles
The Bee Gees, Horizontal
The Bee Gees, Idea
Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills
Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison
Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen
Cream, Wheels on Fire
The Doors, Waiting for the Sun
The Firesign Theatre, Waiting for the Electician Or Someone Like Him
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland
The Kinks, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
The Monkees, Head
The Monkees, The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
Pink Floyd, A Saucerful of Secrets
The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel, The Graduate soundtrack
The Small Faces, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
The Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat
The Who, Magic Bus
1978
ABBA, The Album
Alan Parsons Project, Pyramid
Big Star, Third/Sister Lovers
Blondie, Parallel Lines
Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
Kate Bush, Lionheart
The Cars, The Cars
Cheap Trick, Heaven Tonight
Elvis Costello & the Attractions, This Year's Model
Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Dire Straits, Dire Straits
Grease soundtrack
The Jam, All Mod Cons
Billy Joel, 52nd Street
Joy Division, An Ideal for Living EP
KISS, Double Platinum
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, You're Gonna Get It!
The Police, Outlandos D'Amour
Ramones, Road to Ruin
The Rolling Stones, Some Girls
The Rutles, The Rutles
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Stranger In Town
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band soundtrack (yeah, I know, but couldn't resist)
Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Scream
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Darkness on the Edge of Town
Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food
Van Halen, Van Halen
Joe Walsh, But Seriously, Folks...
The Who, Who Are You
Wings, London Town
Wire, Chairs Missing
1998
Air, Moon Safari
Annie Christian, Twilight
theaudience, theaudience
Barenaked Ladies, Stunt
Baxter, Baxter
Beastie Boys, Hello Nasty
Beck, Mutations
Belle & Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap
Belle & Sebastian, This Is Just a Modern Rock Song EP
Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Music
Cake, Prolonging the Magic
Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets
Death Cab for Cutie, Something About Airplanes
Depeche Mode, The Singles 81>85
Depeche Mode, The Singles 86>98
Dishwalla, And You Think You Know What Life's About
Francis Dunnery, Let's Go Do What Happens
God Lives Underwater, Life in the So-Called Space Age
Great Expectations soundtrack
Eels, Electro-Shock Blues
Everlast, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Fastball, All the Pain Money Can Buy
Fatboy Slim, You've Come a Long Way, Baby
The Fireman (Paul McCartney), Rushes
Harvey Danger, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone
Hooverphonic, Blue Wonder Power Milk
The Hope Blister, ...smile's ok
The House of Love, The Best of the House of Love
Korn, Follow the Leader
Lenny Kravitz, 5
Madonna, Ray of Light
Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals
Massive Attack, Mezzanine
The Offspring, Americana
Pearl Jam, Yield
Placebo, Without You I'm Nothing
Propellerheads, Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Pulp, This Is Hardcore
Rammstein, Sehnsucht
Rasputina, How We Quit the Forest
Seal, Human Being
Semisonic, Feeling Strangely Fine
Elliott Smith, XO
Soul Coughing, El Oso
Stabbing Westward, Darkest Days
Sully, I Have Much to Report
Superdrag, Headtrip in Every Key
Tin Star, Thrill Kisser
U2, The Best of 1980-1990
UNKLE, Psyence Fiction
Various Artists, For the Masses: a Depeche Mode Tribute
VAST, Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Scott Weiland, 12 Bar Blues
The X-Files soundtrack
Rob Zombie, Hellbilly Deluxe
I have a personal affinity for music that's come out in the eighth year of the decade...partly because of 1988, of course (I'll go into that in a few minutes), but it just seems like all the music I really like has come out at this point in time.
So, to begin, let's go into why I like 1988 so much.
For those of you who don't know me already (or read my Radio Radio posts), 1987-1989 were my junior and senior years in high school. It was a time when I stopped worrying about trying to fit in socially (or at least fitting in with the 'in crowd' as it were) and decided to do my own thing as an individual. It was also about the time I started hanging with people more on my wavelength (such as
head58). At the same time, living in a small town in central Massachusetts wasn't all that exciting, so the aural escape of college radio--at that point, the polar opposite of watered-down pop and harmless, comical metal--was definitely a great change of pace. A lot of what came out was met with plenty of "oooh, cool...!" moments.So basically, at least for me, it was a very positive time, even during some frustrating and/or depressing moments. Added to the fact that it was during this time that I'd started seriously thinking of what I wanted my future to be. When a person listens to music, some can't help but equate the song to a specific time or place, and for me, alt.rock circa 1988 always brings me back to that mindset. It's a happy, fun time.
So it being 2008, I can only wonder what great music will come this year.
A few lists of eights...
1988
Big Audio Dynamite, Tighten Up Vol. 88
Big Pig, Bonk
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
Camouflage, Sounds and Images
Camper Van Beethoven, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Tender Prey
The Church, Starfish
Ciccone Youth, The Whitey Album
Cocteau Twins, Blue Bell Knoll
Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Sessions
Crowded House, Temple of Low Men
Dinosaur Jr, Bug
Duran Duran, Big Thing!
Erasure, The Innocents
The Fall, The Frenz Experiment
The Fall, I Am Kurious Oranj
The Feelies, Only Life
Front 242, Front By Front!
The Go-Betweens, 16 Lovers Lane
The Godfathers, Birth School Work Death
Ofra Haza, Shaday
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, Globe of Frogs
Information Society, Information Society
Joe Jackson, Live 1980/86
Jane's Addiction, Nothing's Shocking
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Barbed Wire Kisses
Joy Division, Substance
Laibach, Let It Be
Living Colour, Vivid
The Mighty Lemon Drops, World Without End
Ministry, The Land of Rape and Honey
Morrissey, Viva Hate
Peter Murphy, Love Hysteria
My Bloody Valentine, Isn't Anything
Pink Floyd, The Delicate Sound of Thunder
Pixies, Surfer Rosa
The Primitives, Lovely
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This and Nothing
REM, Eponymous
REM, Green
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Peepshow
The Smithereens, Green Thoughts
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
Soul Asylum, Hang Time
She's Having a Baby soundtrack
The Sugarcubes, Life's Too Good
That Petrol Emotion, End of the Millennium Psychosis Blues
They Might Be Giants, Lincoln
Ultra Vivid Scene, Ultra Vivid Scene
U2, Rattle and Hum
Various Artists, Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father
Various Artists, Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films
Voice of the Beehive, Let It Bee
The Waterboys, Fisherman's Blues
Wire, A Bell is a Cup Until It is Struck
The Wonder Stuff, The Eight-Legged Groove Machine
...and a few other eights...
1968
The Beatles, The Beatles
The Bee Gees, Horizontal
The Bee Gees, Idea
Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills
Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison
Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen
Cream, Wheels on Fire
The Doors, Waiting for the Sun
The Firesign Theatre, Waiting for the Electician Or Someone Like Him
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland
The Kinks, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
The Monkees, Head
The Monkees, The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
Pink Floyd, A Saucerful of Secrets
The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel, The Graduate soundtrack
The Small Faces, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
The Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat
The Who, Magic Bus
1978
ABBA, The Album
Alan Parsons Project, Pyramid
Big Star, Third/Sister Lovers
Blondie, Parallel Lines
Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
Kate Bush, Lionheart
The Cars, The Cars
Cheap Trick, Heaven Tonight
Elvis Costello & the Attractions, This Year's Model
Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Dire Straits, Dire Straits
Grease soundtrack
The Jam, All Mod Cons
Billy Joel, 52nd Street
Joy Division, An Ideal for Living EP
KISS, Double Platinum
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, You're Gonna Get It!
The Police, Outlandos D'Amour
Ramones, Road to Ruin
The Rolling Stones, Some Girls
The Rutles, The Rutles
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Stranger In Town
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band soundtrack (yeah, I know, but couldn't resist)
Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Scream
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Darkness on the Edge of Town
Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food
Van Halen, Van Halen
Joe Walsh, But Seriously, Folks...
The Who, Who Are You
Wings, London Town
Wire, Chairs Missing
1998
Air, Moon Safari
Annie Christian, Twilight
theaudience, theaudience
Barenaked Ladies, Stunt
Baxter, Baxter
Beastie Boys, Hello Nasty
Beck, Mutations
Belle & Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap
Belle & Sebastian, This Is Just a Modern Rock Song EP
Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Music
Cake, Prolonging the Magic
Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets
Death Cab for Cutie, Something About Airplanes
Depeche Mode, The Singles 81>85
Depeche Mode, The Singles 86>98
Dishwalla, And You Think You Know What Life's About
Francis Dunnery, Let's Go Do What Happens
God Lives Underwater, Life in the So-Called Space Age
Great Expectations soundtrack
Eels, Electro-Shock Blues
Everlast, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Fastball, All the Pain Money Can Buy
Fatboy Slim, You've Come a Long Way, Baby
The Fireman (Paul McCartney), Rushes
Harvey Danger, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone
Hooverphonic, Blue Wonder Power Milk
The Hope Blister, ...smile's ok
The House of Love, The Best of the House of Love
Korn, Follow the Leader
Lenny Kravitz, 5
Madonna, Ray of Light
Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals
Massive Attack, Mezzanine
The Offspring, Americana
Pearl Jam, Yield
Placebo, Without You I'm Nothing
Propellerheads, Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Pulp, This Is Hardcore
Rammstein, Sehnsucht
Rasputina, How We Quit the Forest
Seal, Human Being
Semisonic, Feeling Strangely Fine
Elliott Smith, XO
Soul Coughing, El Oso
Stabbing Westward, Darkest Days
Sully, I Have Much to Report
Superdrag, Headtrip in Every Key
Tin Star, Thrill Kisser
U2, The Best of 1980-1990
UNKLE, Psyence Fiction
Various Artists, For the Masses: a Depeche Mode Tribute
VAST, Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Scott Weiland, 12 Bar Blues
The X-Files soundtrack
Rob Zombie, Hellbilly Deluxe
