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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Heh - 80's music? When I wasn't acting like a hippie in Harvard Square, I was listening to and dancing to Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Gary Numan, Laurie Anderson (avant-garde electro-weirdness) The Police, Talking Heads, Blotto, the B-52s, the Clash, the Del Fuegos, and others. Most of these bands formed in the mid-late 1970's (1978 was a REALLY popular year for new-wave/punk/garage startups).
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Hey OBB, did you go to the Spit on Landsdowne St? What a fun place that was!
Ya, I was right between the hippie and punk eras too so I also lived both... even though the punks hated the the hippies. So I felt a little schizo at the time. But we now know that contempt was all an act...that and the anarchy thing.
Xray Spex (one of my faves from the time) hit the nail on the head in 1978 with Artificial:
X-Ray Spex - Art-I-Ficial - YouTube