Better late than never-80s acts you liked post 80s

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   Think of this as a companion piece to David's Your fave Rock albums IN the '80s, and still ok?  I did Better late than never: 90s acts got into post-90s with the same theme as this.

The idea is for you to mention/comment/list acts with music from the 80s that you only got into years after the 80s were over (you got int the 80s music years after the 80s and the bands/artists were active in the 80s).  From some of the youngsters here, that would be all from the 80s that they know.  If you knew a song, that's okay.

Optionally, if you could mention a specific album from the 80s and even a song, that would be great.

Here are 20 notable ones to start from me:

After Dinner: This Japanese band features the wonderful and lovely Haco as singer -- one of my favourite album of the 2000s, Ash in the Rainbow is a Haco collaboration.  That sound more mature and sophisticated whereas After Dinner has something of a naive art pop charm to it.  Of its two studio albums, I choose 1989's Paradise of Replica and "Ka-No-Pu-Su-No-Ha-Ko" as my choice of song off of it. 

Art Zoyd: I only discovered Art Zoyd in 2004-2005 during my great progressive music awakening.  It became what I have called my favourite band.  I love all of the 80s output (and more), but to mention just one album and track, I'm feeling Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer from 1985 right now with "Sortie 134".

Glen Branca: I only really got into his music in that few years, and I mention his here particularly for the amazing The Ascension from 1981.  The title track sounds far ahead of its time and like one of the best experimental post-rock tracks I have ever heard.  Anyway, I think it's an altogether fantastic album.

Camberwell Now: It has just the one studio album, but what an amazing slice of Avant Prog meets Art/Post Punk this is. "The Ghost Trade" is so good. This Heat, which will also be in my list, is related.

Cardiacs:  Cardiacs I knew about from friends in a punk band in the early 90s.  At a sci-fi forum I belonged to in the early 2000s a number of people were very into Cardiacs.  I was not to  keen on the circus-like antics, nor Tim Smith's vocals.  I did come around to Cardiacs when I heard "Dirty Boy" off Sing to God, which may be the greatest rock song ever, or is it "Big Ship"?  As my album pick, I will go with 1989's On Land and In the Sea and I will choose the grandiose "The Everso Closely Guarded Line" off of it. 

Cocteau Twins: I knew of CT in the 80s, but I only got into Cocteau Twins in the past few years. I remember talking to someone in 1989 about music we like. He said Cocteau Twins, and I confused it with Thompson Twins.  Shudder, the horror, the shame of it all.  I actually explored it it after rediscovering Massive Attack's mesmerising "Teardrop" with Elizabeth Fraser (the singer in Cocteau Twins).  I like all of the 80s ones, but to choose just one 80s album by CT, I will go with Treasure, and I will go with "Ivo" as my choice of track off of it.

Dead Can Dance:  Got to know this band in my early PA days, but I have been listening to it more than ever over the last few years.  I love the 80s and more albums.  I will go with  Spleen and Ideal as my album choice, and "Advent" as my choice of track off it. "The Host of Seraphim" off The Serpent's Egg is calling out to me, choose me!

Dün: This was one of the first bands I go into which I discovered thanks to PA's mp3s before I joined this site as Logan. I probably discovered Eskaton and Picchio dal Pozzo on the same day (some days are very good). Spoiler: The worms are the spice. "L'épice" is my pick.

Eskaton: Got really into this band in 2005, still love it. I love all three of its 1980s albums but 4 Visions is a masterpiece.  It's in in the Zeuhl category at PA and I got into this band before THE Zeuhl band, which is Milli Vanilli, which is in reality Magma (the fakers!).

Fabio Frizzi: A fellow PA poster who recommended to me what became many of my favourites recommended this Italian soundtrack composer to me, and then I added it to PA (after an evaluation, of course).  L'aldilà (The Beyond) while be my choice with the lovely "Suono Aperto" as my choice of track from this score for a schlocky horror film. 

Geinoh Yamashirogumi: I really got into this band in about 2010 due to hearing its first album from 1976, Osorezan which stunned me (there's a terrific live version of it too).  I then later started exploring other albums which are different and I love in their own ways. My favourite of this project's albums from the 80s is Symphonic Suite AKIRA and I adore "Requiem" off it.  I had seen and loved the anime Akira in the late 90s. 

Joy Division I have known of since the 1980s.  I was at a party about a decade ago and the discussion turned to Joy Division.  I just nodded along not really knowing more than a bit about the band (I really felt like that uncool kid, which I am anyway). I have had similar experiences with Twin Peaks and Game of Thrones where they were being talked about and raved about at parties, and it would not be years that I watched them (I became a huge Twin Peaks fan).  Anyway, it was only in the last few years that I finally listened to the Joy Division albums, and better late than never.  Great stuff.  I love Joy Division's Closer and "Decades" is the track that especially caught my attention when I first played the album.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra: I first got to know this band mid-2000s, and liked it immediately, but only more recently would I call myself a big fan.  That was due to a topic here at PA that got me exploring the music again (thank you!).  I'm going with he self-titled from 1981, or no, actually, I will go with rather more conventional Broadcasting From Home and "Air" as my choice.  By the way, my absolute favourite from them is their debut from 1976.

Siouxsie and The Banshees: Known the name for decades, but I only started exploring the music over the past five or so years.  A well-known band, and what an amazing find for me.  Sometimes it's about unearthing the obscurities, and sometimes the bleedin' obvious.  I actually have been more into Gothy things over the past few years.  "Israel" is a particular favourite track, but I am going to do "Juju" as album with "Into the Light" as my song choice from it.

Swans: I didn't get into Swans until after To Be Kind was released, which I checked out due to a post at this forum.  It was over the past four or so years that I became a big Swans fan, and in fact it was because I was exploring the music to try to convince someone here that despite hating the early albums he likely would find music to enjoy and thus he need not think of Swans as unalienable Filth (my words, not his).  My efforts were not as successful as I had hoped, but more importantly, my efforts turned me into a huge Swans fan.  While most of my Swans fave albums are in the 90s and 2010s, in the 80s Swans released one of my very favourite albums with Children of God. I love the contrasts in this album and choosing one song doesn't work because I love the ones sung by Jarboe and Gira.  Could go with the title track, or "Sex...". but "In My Garden" is what I feel at this moment.

Talk Talk:  I got into this band after joining PA.  It actually took a while for me to ally appreciate it, but especially over the last few years I have been loving Talk Talk (some of the enthusiasm of others might have rubbed off).  As my 80s choice of album, I will go with Spirit of Eden and the "The Rainbow / Eden / Desire" suite (the A side) as my choice of track.

Thinking Plague:  First heard in 2005, like a lot of music in PA.  My first album was the very highly rated IN Extremis from 1998, and I did not like it.  Still, later on I did get the Early Plague Years compilation, and a fan was born. My favourite is 1989'' In This Life (have seen it listed as 1992 too), and "Lycanthrope" is a fantastic track. If that is not the proper original release date, then I really like Moonsongs too, and love "Warheads" off it.  By the way, I have since grown to like more TP music, including 2003's A History of Madness.

This Heat: Deceit is a great album from 1981.  But so as not to deceive you, this experimental post punk album will hardly be at all tastes here.  But then none of these bands in my list will be to all tastes.  "Cenotaph" is my choice of track.

Tuxedomoon: I often have seen this experimental post-punk band compared to The Residents (And I have seen people say that it's the Residents in disguise). I love The Ghost Sonata from 1991, but from the 80s I like Desire and Holy Wars very much. I choose the lower rated (at least at RYM) Holy Wars with "The Waltz" as my pick.

Univers Zero: Some core RIO chamber Prog here.  While this band has never meant as much to me as Art Zoyd, it still has been an important band to me.  the first three albums mean the most to me (the first two being from the 70s).  I go with 1982's Ceux du dehors as my pick with "Dense" as my pick.  This was the early favourite from UZ.  These days I would be more likely to play the first two.

For some other acts not listed above that I got into post 80s without the babbling (taken from another topic of mine in year, artist, track, and album format)

1980: Terry Riley "Celestial Valley" (Shri Camel)
1980: Abus Dangereux "Le quatrième mouvement" (Le quatrième mouvement)
1980: Rahmann "Leïla" (Rahmann)
1981: Phew "Signal" (Phew)
1981: Wha-Ha-Ha "On the Floor" (Shinutokiwa Betsu)
1982: Goblin "Tenebre" (Tenebre)
1982: Von Zamla "Temporal You Are" (Zamlaranamma)
1982: Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble & Jaki Liebezeit "Twilight World" (Full Circle)
1983: Konomi Sasaki "Yukimushi" (Ninjin)
1983: Codona "Inner Organs" (Codona 3)
1983: Zanov "In Course of Time" (In Course of Time)
1983: The Chameleons "Second Skin" (Script of the Bridge)
1983: This Mortal Coil "Sixteen Days - Gathering Dust" (This Mortal Coil)
1984: Yog Sothoth "Nekrosis" (Yog Sothoth)
1984: Violent Femmes "Black Girls" (Hallowed Ground)
1984: Jean-Paul Prat "Masal" (Masal)
1985: Hellebore "Introduction végétarienne" (Il y a des jours)
1985: Present "Ersatz" (Le poison qui rend fou)
1985: The Wake "O Pamela" (Here Comes everybody)
1985: Einstürzende Neubauten "Seele brennt" (½ Mensch)
1986: The Smiths "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" (The Queen Is Dead)
1986: News From Babel "Dark Matter" (Letters Home)
1986: Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie & Simon Raymonde "She Will Destroy You" (The Moon and the Melodies)
1986: Shub-Niggurath "Incipit tragaedia" (Les morts vont vite)
1987: David Sylvian "The Boy With The Gun" (Secrets of the Beehive)
1987: Renaldo and the Loaf "Hambu Hodo" (The Elbow Is Taboo)
1987: Jane Siberry "The White Tent the Raft" (The Walking)
1987: Dinosaur "Little Furry things" (You're Living All Over Me)
1988: Zendik Farm Orgaztra "Inzanity" (Dance of the Cozmic Warriorz)
1988: The Church "Antenna" (Starfish)
1988: Miriodor "Suspicion" (Miriodor)
1988: Galaxie 500 "Flowers" (Today)
1988: The Sisters of Mercy "Dominion" (Dominion/ Untitled/ Sandstorm/ Emma)
1989: The Lounge Lizards "A Paper Bag and the Sun" (Voice of Chunk)
1989: Asylum Party "The Sabbath" (Borderline)
1989: Ziyo "Nowe Krajobrazy" (Ziyo)

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Some ones I was into in the 80s and still have music I really like (David's topic stuff):

Laurie Anderson
Bauhaus
David Bowie
Kate Bush
The Cure
Echo & the Bunnymen
Goblin
Midnight Oil
Giorgio Moroder
Gary Numan
Public Image Ltd.
Tangerine Dream (some 80s)

Love to see what acts who released you really like you only got into post 80s.

Edited by Logan - September 28 2024 at 13:29