Gone Fission wrote:But maybe some crossover of more mainstream-friendly punk like the Ramones, commercially successful post-punk and coat-trails ('Heads, Blondie, Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Police, and U2)
Yeah, we had some of this stuff too. But for the classics of these bands, they mostly sounded kinda fresh still then, compared to what was happening on classic rock or casey kasem top 40 radio.
The first time I tuned into our local modern rock station (if I recall correctly, they may have even referred to themselves "progressive" but had nothing to do with Yes or Rush or ELP), I got a block that consisted of Black Flag Rise Above, The Ramones Eat That Rat, Siouxsie and the Banshees Peekaboo, topped off with a cover of Helter Skelter by Mighty Sphincter. All at 4:30 in the afternoon before going into the baseball report. That was 88 or 89 and was the wildest it ever got. All the chart modern rock stuff they stuck to after that was exciting to me too, but never quite as exciting as coming home on a rainy day after school in elementary school and discovering Black Flag and the Ramones on the radio and later that night at the dinner table asking my mom and dad what was a
sphincter. I didn't hear them play the Ramones again until the mid-90s or so and at that point it was a token spin of Blitzkrieg Bop or Sheena every afternoon, not deep cut Dee Dee songs.
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