Hey- Ian Curtis is in a new band called She Wants Revenge!

[Beware the Beast Man]

I heard it on Sirius today. Funny, considering he died in 1980.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. It's just his way...

Of showing Biggie and Pac who runs the posthumous music shit.

[Radical Activist]

2. I don't know who Ian is but I saw She Wants Revenge in concert.

Good band. They opened for OK GO and OK GO was kind of a let down by comparison.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Ian Curtis was the lead vocalist of Joy Division.

Which begat New Order after his suicide.

[Radical Activist]

6. Who?

Is this 80's music? I hate the 80's.

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. No, more like late 70's.

For lack of a better term, they were more of a post-punk/new wave act . Believe me, if you've heard SWR, you've heard Joy Division.

[Radical Activist]

8. I see. I said the same thing about SWR & Interpol

I also heard that She Wants Revenge got booed and called fakes in Chicago. People reminded the band that they aren't from Europe.

[tuvor]

19. You're looking in the wrong places, then.

Great music doesn't care what decade it's made in.

[Fenris]

14. No..idea... who.. Ian...Curtis...

My head just exploded. EXPLODED!

[asthmaticeog]

3. Peter Hook had a band called Revenge, IIRC.

And have you heard She Wants Revenge? They've crawled pretty far up JD's ass. Which seem to be a required move lately.

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. Between them and Interpol,

Left of Center has turned into the Joy Division tribute channel...

[asthmaticeog]

13. You know, Interpol really sounds nothing like JD.

One secret of their success is that nobody knows how shamelessly they're ripping off (and slicking up) My Dad Is Dead.

http://www.mydadisdead.com/

The first 5 albums are on the site as MP3s, free & clear for dowload. I recommend starting here:
http://www.mydadisdead.com/music/details/

or here:
http://www.mydadisdead.com/music/taller/

[tuvor]

20. You are the man with the mp3 links, asthmaticeog!

I d/l'ed that entire Minimal Ethics album yesterday. Really took me back, especially considering I'd never heard any of those bands before!

[asthmaticeog]

22. As soon as I can figure out how to rip MP3s from vinyl,

I'm going to start my own MP3 blog. There's too much excellent out-of-print shit out there not to spread the love around.

I DLed that Minimal Ethics too, but I haven't gotten around to listening yet. It's probably pretty good, huh?

[tuvor]

24. I've listened to about half of it.

Some of it's interesting, but let's just say there's a reason a lot of it didn't get further than it did.

Reminded me of some bands in Edmonton in the early 80s, like Psyche and Office (which counted Dwayne Goettel as a member).

And THEN there was this Edmonton band that this Simple Minds fixation, right down to the lead singer holding his mic like it were a cereal spoon, just like Jim Kerr!

Sorry, I'm digressing. Just a bit.

[no name no slogan]

10. I remember Revenge

the best thing about them? The album cover of "One True Passion"


The music? Eh...

[asthmaticeog]

11. It's true, they weren't good.

I wanted them to *rule*. Hook, man, I mean come on! HOOK!

[no name no slogan]

12. Well, yeah...

any band that has Hooky as the bass player immediately starts on third base, as far as I'm concerned.

Electronic were also a big disappointment, IMHO. Cripes, Johnny Friggin Marr and Barney Sumner, and the best they can come up with is warmed-over Pet Shop Boys? WHERE'S THE FUCKING GUITARS, MAN?

[asthmaticeog]

15. Well, they were *called* Electronic, after all.

"Getting Away With It": most aptly named single EVER?

[TInCanCommunications]

18. The first electronic record

Was dynamite.
Maybe because I bought it the same day I got my drivers license, so it will always bring back great memories.

[tuvor]

21. Yeah, I still have the cassette around here somewhere.

I think Hook copped the chorus from ABBA's "SOS" in "Pineapple Face".

[CanuckAmok]

23. That's not an unwelcome trend, IMHO.

I'm enjoying this 80s-derivitive sound that's making in-roads on commercial radio. It sure beats that faux-psychedelic jangly Lenny Kravitz/knee-rock/power ballad/metal-rap infusion crap that's been plaguing "modern rock" stations for the last 15 years...

[TheBaldyMan]

9. I heard a mash-up of George W Bush doing ...

'Take a Walk on the Wild Side', it was expertly done, bizarre but really funny. OK so he's only brain-dead but it similar.

[IcyPeas]

16. Listen to the Editors

singer has that ian curtis thing going on too. but they are very good regardless..... check out Munich

[Dukkha]

17. I'm seeing them Monday

my friend's band is opening for them.