BTOC Behind The Orange Curtain Doug Crandall

College Rock - Before ‘Indie’ or ‘Alternative’, College Rock was the most commonly used term for new music existing on the periphery of established trends.
The term derives from the student-run radio stations on college campuses of the 1980s, which picked up new waves much faster than the commercial channels. This was at a time when the boundaries between mainstream and underground music were far less porous than today.
Bands Featured:
The Replacements, Pixies, Hüsker Dü, The Pogues, Dead Kennedy's, Elvis Costello, The House Martins, The Stone Roses, Janes Addiction, Suzzane Vega, Camper Van Beethoven, 10,000 Maniacs, Billy Bragg, Nirvana, The Dukes of Stratosphere, The Call, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Connells, The Cult, The Colourfield, Flesh For Lulu, The Lucy Show, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
 

Power pop is a form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds. It originated in the mid-1960s as young music fans began to rebel against the emerging pretensions of rock music, and developed mainly among American musicians who came of age during the British Invasion. The genre typically incorporates melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, an energetic performance, and "happy"-sounding music underpinned by a sense of yearning, longing, or despair.
 
Bands Include: The Spongetones, Squeeze, 20/20, Nick Lowe, The Smithereens, Let's Active, The Posies, Material Issue, Gin Blossoms, The Rembrandts, Jellyfish, Dramarama, and The La's.

This week we will look Christmas in the 80’s and bands that either covered or wrote originals for the holiday season.
 
Bands Include: Billy Idol, Fishbone, The Pretenders, Band Aid, The Waitresses, U2, The Pogues, The Alarm, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Queen, WHAM!, The Ramones, The Primitives, XTC, Eurythmics, Alison Moyet, Hoodoo Gurus, Young Fresh Fellows, Odds, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, and Billy Squier.

This week we will look at 80’s bands from the Land Down Under, Australia.  Specifically the music scene of Pub Rock which would launch such Iconic Bands such as INXS and Midnight Oil. Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and still influencing contemporary Australian music in the 2000s decade. The term came from the venues where most of these bands originally played — inner-city and suburban pubs. These often noisy, hot, small and crowded venues were not always ideal as music venues and favored loud, simple songs based on drums and electric guitar riffs.
Bands Include: The Saints, Midnight Oil, INXS, IceHouse, Men at Work, The Church, Divinyls, Hoodoo Gurus, Crowded House, The Lime Spiders, and Boom Crash Opera.

Welcome to part 2 of the second US festival held 1983. This week we will continue to look at the US Festival focussed this week specifically on Day 3. Tonights show has an amazing line up of iconic bands from the 80’s. 
Bands Include: Berlin, U2, Missing Persons, The Pretenders, David Bowie, and the Hoodoo Gurus (Critical Cut Artist)

This weeks episode we will look at the famous US Festival of 1983.
 
Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple and creator of the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, believed that the 1970s were the "Me" generation. He intended the US Festivals, to encourage the 1980s to be more community-oriented and combine technology with rock music. The first was held Memorial Day weekend in May of 1983.
Join me as we look at the festival, some of the bands that played, interviews, and the music from the 1983 US Festival.
 
Bands Include: Divinyls, INXS, Wall of Voodoo, Oingo Boingo, Flock of Seagulls, The English Beat, Stray Cats, Men at Work, The Clash & Wolfgang Van Halen (Crandall's Crucial Cut)