Tag: 1980s
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Desert sounds: Meat Puppets II/Up On the Sun
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4 min read
My latest Substack instalment includes a snippet about Meat Puppets, a three-piece cowpunk band that emerged (or so it seemed) fully formed from the Arizona desert haze in the early 1980s. I first heard of the band when Kurt Cobain got founding members (and brothers) Curt and Kris Kirkwood up on stage during Nirvana’s 1993…
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I remember Australian music in the 1980s
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8 min read
This post started out as a Facebook ‘7-day music challenge’ but as part of my Rejuvenaissance (and in memory of Wa Wa Nee’s Paul Gray) I’m reposting it here, with bonus b-sides. Big thanks to Yarn Akova for inspiring me to do this!
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‘Space Invaders’ (1980)
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3 min read
Just a little Youtube number in honour of Invasion Day (previously known as Australia Day).