Classic "Alternative": Punk, Art Rock, New Wave, "whatever"...

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Devo, Pere Ubu, Chrissie Hynde, and the Dead Boys were all from Ohio from roughly this era ( mid 70's). Make of that what you will.

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Speaking of the early-mid 70's...



Todd Rundgren ( yes that Todd Rundgren )produced this album.

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This is perhaps my favorite Cyndi Lauper song. Nice back up vocals by the Bangles too.

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Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

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I always liked this one. there's something about Terre Roche's unhinged vocal meltdown combined with Robert Fripp's looping guitar lines and Peter Gabriel's funky bassline that just works for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzFsDQeTUT4

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This is perhaps my favorite Cyndi Lauper song. Nice back up vocals by the Bangles too.

Ha! I had forgotten about this song!

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Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

A friend lent me this album and Under The Pink back in the day and I was surprisingly moved by it. I think I liked Under the Pink better though

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A friend lent me this album and Under The Pink back in the day and I was surprisingly moved by it. I think I liked Under the Pink better though

I've actually cried to these albums. And I rarely do that.

Bikini Kill - For Tammy Rae

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Lowlife - Hollow Gut (1987)

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In the begining of this video, the singer gets off the Chicago El train in The Loop. I'm too lazy to double check but if my memory is correct, you can see these same buildings in the background from a similar angle in the 2nd Toby McQuire Spiderman movie during the Doc Ock train fight scene. At one point the singer is in front of The Fireside Bowl it was a big punk rock hang out in the early 90's. Then he goes to the Goldstar which was kind of a dive bar, but I've never been there.

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An older Chicago hardcore band, I had this ep on 7 inch. After they broke up I wanna say the singer became a teacher in Boston?



This from the early 80's and this is might be a weird thing to say, but the cheap ass production values of some of these old hardcore records really takes me back ( in a nostalgic way).

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More Chicago punk rock, this time with slightly better production values. The Effigies were probably the first "big" Chicago Hardcore band. The title references local politics which were usually called "Machine Politics" inferring cronyism etc, and of course the midwest/Chicago verbal accent ( da Bulls, da Bears).

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In the begining of this video, the singer gets off the Chicago El train in The Loop. I'm too lazy to double check but if my memory is correct, you can see these same buildings in the background from a similar angle in the 2nd Toby McQuire Spiderman movie during the Doc Ock train fight scene. At one point the singer is in front of The Fireside Bowl it was a big punk rock hang out in the early 90's. Then he goes to the Goldstar which was kind of a dive bar, but I've never been there.

About this...

If you go back and watch the early nineties Brandon Lee film Rapid Fire, the unit that Powers Boothe's character is in charge of is working out of The Fireside Bowl.

It's pretty good for a laugh if you remember the place at that time.

As for Gold Star Bar, it's actually pretty nice. Very mellow.