Well it's Saturday morning, perfect time for another thread.

So I have a ton of "Brit Invasion" stuff from the 60s and 90s.

What was happening in the 70s and 80s?

Basically, any band on here…

led zeppelin

pink floyd

david bowie

sorry if i got a little obscure with that last one

Metal (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Deep Purple), prog (Genesis, Jethro Tull, ELP), and Fleetwood Mac. Oh, and punk/ska.

Plus a lot of the British Invasion bands were still going strong into the '70s: Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks.

XTC
The Fall
Wire
PiL
Joy Division/New Order (at least the first NO singles + album)
Roxy Music
Brian Eno (his rock stuff obv)
King Crimson
Gong
Gentle Giant
Hawkwind
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Gang of Four
OMD (sometimes could rock)
Richard & Linda Thompson
T. Rex
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Cure
Soft Boys/Robyn Hitchcock (& the Egyptians)
The Smiths
Elvis Costello (& the Attractions)
Magazine
Buzzcocks
The Damned
Sex Pistols
Swell Maps
This Heat
Soft Machine
Caravan
Talk Talk
Mott the Hoople
The Clash
The Raincoats
The Slits
Tubeway Army/Gary Numan
Wedding Present (early stuff)
C86 comp
My Bloody Valentine (Isn't Anything, plus maybe an EP or two)
solo Beatles albums
John Cale (I guess. Maybe he was living in the US?)
Cocteau Twins
Jesus and Mary Chain (although I like them less and less, it seems)
Thin Lizzy (Irish, close enough)
Stiff Little Fingers

no way you're not already familiar with most of this

never heard of them.

But yeah I was thinking of "waves" of music, like punk boom of the late 70s.

So presumably you're trying to pick it apart and sort of dig in deeper to various genres and "movements" that happened?

The only things I've really dug into much are post-punk and Canterbury scene prog.

The Canterbury scene is pretty neat if you don't know much about it. It's not really much like some of the bigger prog acts like King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, etc. It's more ramshackle and hippy-ish. It's jazz influenced in a more genuine way, I think. Not just long meandering solos and overly heady, academic compositions, but collective improvisation that builds and moves fluidly, as a unit. A lot of the bands shared some of the same members, and musicians would move around between the different bands in the scene. There's also a kind of seediness and sense of perversion to a lot of it. Just check out some of the song and album titles, particularly with Caravan and Hatfield and the North.

It's basically:
Soft Machine (kind of the nexus of all of it - originally Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, et al.)
Gong (Daevid Allen's band after leaving Soft Machine, got really great when Steve Hillage joined)
Arzachel, Khan (Steve Hillage Bands before Gong)
Caravan
Matching Mole (Robert Wyatt)
Hatfield and the North**
National Health*
Egg*
and solo albums from Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, and Steve Hillage

*I haven't actually listened to these
**I'm not crazy about this band

Soft Machine and Gong both morphed into basically jazz fusion bands after the key founding and guiding members (Kevin Ayers & Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen & Steve Hillage) left each band. Daevid Allen reformed his own version of Gong in the late '70s called Planet Gong which existed concurrently with the other Gong (which was then led by Pierre Moerlin).

Totally not connected to this scene as far as I know, the band Officer! came along in the '80s sounding like they'd come right out of the Canterbury scene (sounding better than some of the originals, or at least Hatfield and the North). Their 1984 album Ossification is really great, and as a fan of Of Montreal, I think you'd really like it. They recorded an album called Dead Unique in 1995 that wasn't released until last year, and that's how I found out about them. It's a very good album, too.

Cool. I've heard Soft Machine (kinda ok) and Matching Mole (some stuff I really like, especially "Signed Curtain"). The rest I know nothing about.

Having said that, perverted improv jazz prog doesn't exactly sound like my cup of tea and crumpets.

Then try Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night (more rock), Arzachel (more psyche rock), and Gong - Flying Teapot (perverted improv jazz prog, but worth listening at least once) and see what you think. Also Officer! - Ossification just for a more indie, sort of skewed pop take on the above.

You might like some of the C86s type bands, ones on Creation. Think Slumberland Records.

Close Lobsters
The Pastels
Shop Assistants
Aztec Camera
The Loft
The House of Love
Jazz Butcher
Wedding Present
Felt
Vaselines
Prefab Sprout
Lloyd Cole
Razorcuts

Those aren't all C86 bands or on Creation but similar enough


And then of course stuff like:

Jesus & Mary Chain
Chameleons
Orange Juice
Josef K
Television Personalities

That's another good one. Between the C86 comp and the Scared To Get Happy box set, I think I have that covered. I'll look more into it when I start my 4th 80s mix!

With so much in the news this week I stopped by Obner, and wtf, an interesting thread about rock with very informed contributions and dialogue. Kudos.

Surprised that The Jam wasn't mentioned... and Weller's spin off The Style Council which was always a guilty pleasure. Euro-trashish blue eyed lounge soul. Also one of the greatest singers ever, Sandy Denny and the whole British Folk Rock thread: Fairport Convention, The Strawbs, Richard Thompson, Steeleye Span... some of the more popular prog bands like Genesis and King Crimson had crosswalks to the folk rockers.

I guess I didn't bring up Fairport Convention because their best stuff was released in '69. But the Sandy Denny solo stuff from the '70s is great, too.

I still need to listen to Strawbs and Steeleye Span. And Fotheringay.