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misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: May 29, 2013 - 10:55
 
Solid confirmation that the 80's were a WASTELAND for rock and roll music. What caused it? The prevalence of powdered cocaine? The predominance of disco music? The gotterdammerung of the sexual revolution? Ronald Regan? All of these influences seem equally mind-rotting, but its hard to put a finger on...

Sawyer
(Calgary, Canada)
Posted: Apr 15, 2013 - 10:05
 
Reminds me of all the '80's vinyl stored up at my family's cottage. I miss it.  Unfortunately I've been seduced by the MP3 ease of  holding 2500 songs in the palm of your hand.

brucej76
(Tdot, Canada)
Posted: Mar 11, 2013 - 20:34
 
this ain't no disco!! this ain't no fooling around!!
 

Lichenia,
Posted: Mar 09, 2013 - 13:16
 
Disco time. I like it. {#Dancingbanana_2}
Frenk
(The Netherlands - Rotterdam)
Posted: Feb 24, 2013 - 03:58
 
memories... Seaside festival belgium '84 - 5000 + people dancing. What a feeling :)

Dav3thedog
(Canberra)
Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 20:28
 
Great 80s track!

Boy_Wonder
(Bath, back in the UK)
Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 12:27
 
Dave Allen was a friend of a friend so used to hang out in the early 80's  - pre-kids and all that sort of stuff.... cool guy and a great band!



lattalo
(Beartooths)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 16:27
 
This brings back memories of dance clubs and the 80's and it still sounds good!

GarageDragon
Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 06:14
 
80s bass and synth always sounds like a cartoon character riding a pogo stick.

Boing boing boing boing boing

kkat
(in molecular transition)
Posted: Aug 12, 2012 - 10:02
 
Shriekback is back again....with a critically praised new album (well, in 2010).  they are so cool still.

brucej76
(Tdot, Canada)
Posted: Jul 01, 2012 - 08:50
 
Wow I forgot about this band! Spent many Friday nights dancing in University pubs to this kind of music! This song stands the test of time, thanks for playing it Bill!

Easyrider
(Portugal)
Posted: Jun 23, 2012 - 11:16
 
What a gem from almost 30 years ago,wow!

lattalo
(Beartooths)
Posted: Jun 17, 2012 - 19:21
 
 tryallmusic wrote:
This came out when I was in getting my degree in architecture - late nights at studio and/or party - seemed so apropos.

Back at the all night party
We're getting clearer all the time
Refined to one shape - frozen like crystal
It has the symmetry of perfect design
One line leads to another
They cross at the corners run straight at the sides
It reads the same way in any direction
Two red circles and a thick black spine

We got all lined up
We got all lined up
We got all lined up
All lined up
All lined up

 
Some of the best 80's music and it still sounds great!  But I think Big Night Music was their best.



Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: May 30, 2012 - 11:31
 
 joe-1 wrote:
Superb gritty bass line. Can't sit still on this one.
 
I believe that's Dave Allen - previously of Gang Of Four - playing bass on this track.

Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: May 30, 2012 - 11:03
 
Great stuff. I had forgotten all about it til the first bar... this was a chill tune and still is.

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 20, 2012 - 05:24
 
The pity is that popping and slapping, so prevalent in the '80s, seems to have become a lost art.

davem
(Wishing it was Cuttyhunk)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 15:10
 
 spiritfla wrote:
 larisadeg wrote:
Shriekback! I have been trying to remember that band name for forever.  Curiosity question of the day: The theme music to Sopranos reminds me of Shriekback, did they, or anyone affiliated with them have anything to do with their soundtrack?
 
I always thought the same thing about the Soprano's theme....

 

The Soprano's theme music is by Alabama3

spiritfla
(Land O Lakes, FL (I still miss Austin))
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 12:06
 
 larisadeg wrote:
Shriekback! I have been trying to remember that band name for forever.  Curiosity question of the day: The theme music to Sopranos reminds me of Shriekback, did they, or anyone affiliated with them have anything to do with their soundtrack?
 
I always thought the same thing about the Soprano's theme....


larisadeg
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 11:27
 
Shriekback! I have been trying to remember that band name for forever.  Curiosity question of the day: The theme music to Sopranos reminds me of Shriekback, did they, or anyone affiliated with them have anything to do with their soundtrack?

Rockit
(Ottawa ON)
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 11:24
 
 Suzl wrote:

I get that.........!!!  Care to dance...... {#Dance}

 

I'll play the air bass & you can dance!

Suzl
(Boston)
Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 14:49
 
 slr242 wrote:
*classic* 

I was in mid-sentence when this came on; I started dancing instantaneously, and forgot what I'd been saying. 
 
I get that.........!!!  Care to dance...... {#Dance}


slr242
(San Francisco)
Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 20:59
 
*classic* 

I was in mid-sentence when this came on; I started dancing instantaneously, and forgot what I'd been saying. 

Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 14:03
 
I was totally into my NaNoWriMo, and this song came on and I had to pull up the shutters and yell WTF?  In a good way.  They switched my focus, which was a good thing. I think "Shriekback" is too difficult to remember or spell, but I'll make the effort, because they apparently appeal to my muse (the little bastard - if I didn't need him, I'd feed him to the fish.)

Guh - shutting up now.

BobbyCat
(Beyond)
Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 21:09
 
Oh yeah, lovely to hear Shriekback again...


joe-1
(Düsseldorf, Germany)
Posted: Jul 19, 2011 - 04:00
 
Superb gritty bass line. Can't sit still on this one.

csutto
Posted: Jul 11, 2011 - 12:23
 
An 80's tresure. My ear buds are dancing.

Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.)
Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 21:26
 
Brings back amazing memories, in more ways than one! (All Lined Up)

fatcatjb
(Sunny Sacramento)
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 21:18
 
Spreadmaster, are you a teacher?

 Spreadmaster wrote:
I had just moved to Sacramento, and I was bartending at a bar Old Sacramento in the basment when I first heard this - ( he had a DJ's demo  short LP 8 inch I think) I was hooked.  Every nite I'd tell the DJ to play it 2 or 3 times - I finally had to start flipping him a $5 bill to do it but it was worth it .... the bassline is still hypnotic after all these years.

Matt The Cat
 



Spreadmaster
Posted: May 02, 2011 - 16:39
 
I had just moved to Sacramento, and I was bartending at a bar Old Sacramento in the basment when I first heard this - ( he had a DJ's demo  short LP 8 inch I think) I was hooked.  Every nite I'd tell the DJ to play it 2 or 3 times - I finally had to start flipping him a $5 bill to do it but it was worth it .... the bassline is still hypnotic after all these years.

Matt The Cat

jackiebd
(Massachusetts)
Posted: Mar 01, 2011 - 13:21
 
Great tune. Always loved it. Dancing at Spit. Oh yeah.

mapman
(East Coast USA)
Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:48
 
Got my toe tappin......

DanFHiggins
(Mid Maryland)
Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:45
 
Still rocking after all these years!!!!

hedgie
(Pleasantville)
Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 19:34
 
 SmackDaddy wrote:


Go listen to some Gang of Four from "Entertainment" and get back to us.
 
Oh yea, I can hear the searing Andy Gill licks too.


tryallmusic
(sunny Seattle)
Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 15:30
 
This came out when I was in getting my degree in architecture - late nights at studio and/or party - seemed so apropos.

Back at the all night party
We're getting clearer all the time
Refined to one shape - frozen like crystal
It has the symmetry of perfect design
One line leads to another
They cross at the corners run straight at the sides
It reads the same way in any direction
Two red circles and a thick black spine

We got all lined up
We got all lined up
We got all lined up
All lined up
All lined up


Nurse_Jenks
Posted: Nov 08, 2010 - 20:30
 
 ziakut wrote:

Cool story. Thanks for sharing. I love hearing anecdotes of life with music as the backdrop.
 
Word.

ziakut
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Oct 08, 2010 - 09:01
 
 Welly wrote:
I used to listen to this on my Walkman on the bus to college at the crack of freakin' dawn. College was an hour and a half away by bus and we passed through farmland along the way. This song would always hit at the same spot on the journey, where we passed these big flat fields with mist hanging at about kneecap level and the sun would just be above the horizon. I will forever associate that image with this song.
 
Cool story. Thanks for sharing. I love hearing anecdotes of life with music as the backdrop.

Phlegmaticman
(270 miles south of Paradise, CA)
Posted: Sep 30, 2010 - 13:46
 
My Spine (Is the Bass Line)

Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 08:42
 
THERE ARE SO-SO MANY GREAT SHRIEKBACK SONGS..

WHY THIS ONE???

WHAT ABOUT THE "BIG NIGHT MUSIC" album?

Suzl
(Boston)
Posted: Aug 05, 2010 - 08:20
 
Just makes me wanna get up and shake my everything!!!!

jackiebd
(Massachusetts)
Posted: Jul 28, 2010 - 14:05
 
Great song has held up over the decades (yikes) since I first danced to it at Spit in Boston!

4merdj
(donde el viento se devuelve)
Posted: Jul 28, 2010 - 14:03
 
I'm just going to buy this just because it is from 1983!! Yeah BB! {#Dancingbanana_2}


Aud
(lost in lakecity)
Posted: Jun 21, 2010 - 02:02
 
This reminded me of The Suburbs (a Minnesota  band) whose music was released in the same time frame...


cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Jun 02, 2010 - 15:24
 
I am always reminded of Manhunter when Bill plays Shriekback.


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 02, 2010 - 15:23
 
First time hearing this song, or anything by Shriekback, for that matter.  I LIKE them! {#Dancingbanana}{#Good-vibes}

listen_n_sf
Posted: May 25, 2010 - 21:06
 
Wow, Shriekback twice today!

All is forgiven, re: Talking Heads 

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 31, 2010 - 06:26
 
 dionysius wrote:


Dave Allen rules the roost on that instrument, at least in this genre. Just wow.


 
Bass players rule. So do lizards.


Albert1967
(Leusden, the Netherlands)
Posted: Mar 31, 2010 - 06:23
 
 kaybee wrote:
Thanks again, RP!!!  {#Notworthy}  {#Notworthy}  {#Notworthy}
 
Forgot about this classic of my youth!

D2r
(Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 13:12
 
Sooo Sexy!

NoEnzLefttoSplit
Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 13:10
 
 Welly wrote:
I used to listen to this on my Walkman on the bus to college at the crack of freakin' dawn. College was an hour and a half away by bus and we passed through farmland along the way. This song would always hit at the same spot on the journey, where we passed these big flat fields with mist hanging at about kneecap level and the sun would just be above the horizon. I will forever associate that image with this song.
 
nice image Welly!!


ambrebalte
(Beijing)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 21:50
 
 Welly wrote:
I used to listen to this on my Walkman on the bus to college at the crack of freakin' dawn. College was an hour and a half away by bus and we passed through farmland along the way. This song would always hit at the same spot on the journey, where we passed these big flat fields with mist hanging at about kneecap level and the sun would just be above the horizon. I will forever associate that image with this song.
  
Had an hour by bus to high-school. No music in my ears though. But I can totally relate to this kind of mood and picture with the music, nice short story, thank you for the sharing