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Originally Posted by Alter 
Bach isn't a fair comparison.
It would be more accurate to ask how I found out about bands from the early 60's and the truth is that I barely knew any except for the super popular acts or a few whose names kept coming up as an influence of the bands that I listened to at the time. Keep in mind that I was a musician and dj at the time so fairly in touch with contemporary music n the mid to late 80's.
I am just impressed that Magician is so well-versed in that era..mentioning obscure acts like This Heat and so many of you young'uns seem to know the Fall and Gang of Four etc. In truth, they weren't all that popular when they were originally around. I was a Fall fan way back when and I am sure that they were not that well known outside the UK even among the cool hipsters of the time.
I just find it interesting how the landscape has changed.
It would be more accurate to ask how I found out about bands from the early 60's and the truth is that I barely knew any except for the super popular acts or a few whose names kept coming up as an influence of the bands that I listened to at the time. Keep in mind that I was a musician and dj at the time so fairly in touch with contemporary music n the mid to late 80's.
I am just impressed that Magician is so well-versed in that era..mentioning obscure acts like This Heat and so many of you young'uns seem to know the Fall and Gang of Four etc. In truth, they weren't all that popular when they were originally around. I was a Fall fan way back when and I am sure that they were not that well known outside the UK even among the cool hipsters of the time.
I just find it interesting how the landscape has changed.
But the Cure is a fair comparison and if you check the history of the lead singer you'll trace back to SB.
Once you get into one band it snowballs from there from all the comparisons made, shared spots on the rosters of record labels, musical acnowledgements, collabs, and so on.
I think I discovered This Mortal Coil, Bardo Pond (one of the best bands, period), Bablicon, Colin Newman, and Q Lazarus around the same time.
edit: actually, that's not entirely true: q lazarus, newman, and TMC were conjoined, bablicon was independent of the others, and Bardo Pond was in some remote way connected to Sonic Youth.
