#80sAltRock

2025-10-26

Fall color, some hot tea in one of my favorite mugs purchased in 2008 at the first Starbucks store when I was in Seattle just before shipping out for my deployment to U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay and, of course, tuneage this sunny late October Sunday afternoon on deck.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sAltRock
#Document
#PikePlace
#NorthernWayOfLife

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rWH9bPLX

2025-09-30

The Monday nighty night ear worm is a beautiful late 80s cover of a 60s Velvet Underground tune.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sAltRock
#TheTrinitySession

Anyone who's ever had a dream
Anyone who's ever played a part
Anyone who's ever been lonely
And anyone who's ever split apart

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9nN3G2

2025-09-14

Acorns falling from a tree over the house rolling off the roof and onto the deck on one helluva beautiful Saturday night up nort’ The mind wanders.
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#80sAltRock
#EchoAndTheBunnymen

She'll be my mirror
Reflect what I am
Loser and winner
The king of Siam
And my Siamese twin
Alone in the river
Mirror kisses
Mirror kisses
Lips Like Sugar
Sugar kisses

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2M8hLZ2

2025-07-23

The “live” selection here on deck this evening: somewhere in my stuff are a few VHS tapes containing virtually the entire Live Aid concerts from 1985 that include the performances at Wembley in London, Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia and before all that, in Australia. One of my favorite renditions from the Australian portion is this one from INXS.
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#80sAltRock
#ShaboohShoobah

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_54KwZFu

2025-07-14

This evening’s “live” selection on deck another from The Plimsouls covered last year by The Gin Blossoms.
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#80sAltRock
#EverywhereAtOnce

Took a ride
I went downtown
The streets were empty
There was no one around
To a place that we used to know
Been all the places that we used to go
I'm at the wrong end of your looking glass
Just trying to hold on to the hands of the past and you
And there was nothing left to bring me back
I was A Million Miles Away

m.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLgFSMz

2025-07-14

Once upon a time (1983), I was introduced to The Plimsouls via that classic (?) Nic Cage flick “Valley Girl.” They were playing in a bar in a couple scenes. Then I picked up the album this tune is on at a record store on Hennepin in Minneapolis that summer.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sAltRock
#EverywhereAtOnce

m.youtube.com/watch?v=wo9qQ9lA

2025-07-12

The current ear worm here on deck when that lone loon isn’t sounding off in the distance: the U.S. and Australia, two different countries and yet with a similarity or two.
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#80sAltRock
#DieselAndDust

Mining companies
Pastoral companies
Uranium companies
Collected companies
Got more right than people
Got more say than people
Forty thousand years can make a difference to the state
of things
The Dead Heart lives here

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8aka_pHZ

2025-06-28

This one just kinda segues nicely from the Yardbirds tune here on deck.
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#80sAltRock
#MarsNeedsGuitars
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bqbImfgy

2025-03-17

On the way home from work tuneage: hope I don’t get deported because the song has the word “Mexican” in it.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#80sAltRock
#CallOfTheWest
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9

2025-03-01

A pleasant Saturday afternoon drive with some epic Echo.
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#80sAltRock
#EchoAndTheBunnymen

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2M8hLZ2

2025-02-22
2025-01-11

An ear worm as I cruise around doing the Saturday errand thing.
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#80sAltRock
#SongsToLearnAndSing

m.youtube.com/watch?v=owLR6CRs

2024-12-26

A Thursday road jam: Cyndi Lauper had a little more success with the tune in 1984 after these guys tossed it out there a few years before.
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#80sAltRock
#TheBrains

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBIbuU2

2024-05-18

Around the time of my sophomore year in high school (79-80), their third album was released. I’d heard of ‘em but at the time, was in the middle of “Led Zeppelin/Cream/Bad Company/Who/Stones/Hendrix” discovery and too busy to mess with all that new stuff. Better late than never, I reckon.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sAltRock
#Kaleidoscope

m.youtube.com/watch?v=EIcbg73j

2024-05-18

Another of those ear worms that shoulda got more love here in the States. It did when I was workin’ radio in the 80s.
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#80sAltRock
#MarsNeedsGuitars
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bqbImfgy

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