1. After the alphabet for the inorganic rock music [1], I'd say there is too modest about music Decalogue "independent" [2] Italian 80s. [3] recently
Why is underway (albeit small) rediscovery of many musical experiences of that decade, with reprints (Spittle Records ), mail orders ( Mannequin ) and blogs ( hammock and Venus On +) who are rediscovering / saving a lot of those years. Not all good, eh, indeed. I listened parecchio materiale degli anni in questione ultimamente, e direi che la stragrande maggioranza delle cose avrebbero potuto tranquillamente rimanere nel dimenticatoio.
Ma non tutto, ovvio. Direi che sono esistite diverse fasi ben distinte nel decennio, e a volte bastava un anno di tempo per fare una enorme differenza. E quindi, ricordi di quel decennio (secondo me) in dieci punti. [4]
2 . Il primo periodo, lo chiamerei della new wave . Diciamo fino al 1980. Bologna più che altro: Gaznevada, Confusional Quartet, Stupid Sets, Rats, anche Skiantos e il mitico concerto "Bologna Rock". Insieme, c'era il Great Complotto di Pordenone. Solo che all'epoca i dischi non li ho mai trovati, ne conoscevo the existence and nothing else. [3]
3. The post punk , until 1982 or so. Florence in the foreground, with Neon, Pankow, the first diaphragm and Litifiba. And two extraordinary fanzine as Free and Rockgarage (Venice). And the first experience at the national level, Underground Life in Monza, Not Moving, Victrola, The Masque. Manifesto and summation of the period, the collection "Gathered" of Rockerilla, published in late 1982.
4. The dark until 1985/1986. Two posters: "Body Section", the second collection edited by Rockerilla the end of 1983, "Catalogue Issue" of Italian Records debut. The second road, sadly, through the "new Italian music sung in Italian, will bring the pirates to Pelù, while the former will lead the work (for me) the best period in Milan Weimar Gesang, 2 +2 = 5, Janitor of Lunacy, along with several other formations "minor" and soon to die (if you wish, which is quite in line with gender issues), say in conjunction with the release of the third compilation of Rockerilla, "Eighties Colours".
5. the period that followed garage / psychedelic then the period Stooges. [6] the dark years, during which each group that was not a direct emanation of the two currents was ignored or mocked by the "mainstream press" (Rockerilla pile. The Buscadero no, there lived in Wild West, and then the information about a country so far and less like Italy did not arrive). Of all the stuff there, I would save only NoStrange, the only real "psychedelic" pile.
6. And at that time (we got to 1986/1988) the best things are more or ignored, as the Leanan Sidhe, why do not they conform to what the press wants to hear. And so, while in England born Jesus & Mary Chain, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr. and the U.S., Sonic Youth and Flaming Lips, in Italy there Rockerilla slumps fuck with the Chesterfield Kings and the Morlocks.
7. Fortunately that was born here will then be called "indie rock", is about to be born "grunge" and the 80s are about to end. In Italy there is the Carnival of Fools and Afterhours, and are two of the best Italian bands ever. Then began the '90s, but that's another story.
8. There are also groups "out of the pile." First of all (my dearest and beloved enough) Franti. But the first CCCP, at least until "Similarities and differences" were really disruptive. Then bursts, especially the balls: at one point it seemed that they had not only invented the music sung in Italian, but the music itself and even the Italian ... It also phenomena such as Casino Royale, but it is a type of group che non mi ha mai interessato molto.
9 . Qui arrivati, e volendo fare un'estrema sintesi del periodo, chi volesse davvero ascoltare "il meglio" [7], da dove dovrebbe partire?
Secondo me:
Gaznevada - Sick Soundtrack
Neon - Obsessions
Diaframma - Altrove
Not Moving - i primi due EP: Strange Dolls e Movin Over
Weimar Gesang - No Given Path
Leanan Sidhe - Ash Groove Primroses
Carnival of Fools - Blues Get Off My Shoulder (ottimo cd antologico del 2003)
Afterhours - During Christine's Sleep
CCCP - Ortodossia II
Franti - tutto. Ma questa era fuori a mezzo :)
In aggiunta, le due compilation di Rockerilla (Gathered e Body Section) and the Great Conspiracy.
10. Everything else, just for fans and completists. [8]
The recent flowering of reprints which was mentioned at the beginning has brought to light many things that you could easily do without, too many copies of the diaphragm and Litfiba too many formations, "but I can not."
But if you have time, read as Free and Rockgarage fanzine (or Black Tribal Cabaret, Amen) I could say much more about what drives many of peridodo unfocused and too derivative. [9]
Notes and links:
[1] Then I leave for vacation, 20 days without wi-fi/internet/email. If you survive you again after August 20, happy holidays to all:)
[2] The choice of the word took me a bit 'of time, because of "indie" music and "alternative" has begun to speak after (or at the end of) the decade, and new wave music covers only the first 5 / 6 years of the 80.
As I remember at the time was instead used the phrase "independent music" to identify a bit 'all that was not the standings and Sanremo.
[3] Even as the tail post on the Weimar Gesang, and some things said here in comments.
[4] Post, quite harmless, really. For once, I believe that no one can find is polemical: I only speak Italian groups more or less good, much less known, more or less what you want. No one talks about Springsteen or Dylan, I should be safe for once ... :)
[5] were different times ... Recently reissued (along with the mythical first house of Gaznevada) by the praiseworthy Shake Edizioni . If you do not know, let us for a ride.
[6] I must mention yet another gleaning from vinyl? Of course not, and then:
Garage: Music
dead and buried but artificially raised, is going out of fashion again. The last one, hopefully
Rockerilla No. 102: In its issue of February 1989
Glorious magazine Liguria, the word appears Stooges 26 times, including 13 in an article dedicated to the Italian groups "emerging". We will complain in the future on the same pages of the lack of originality of the national scene? I hope not.
[7] In terms of musical quality, as I perceive it today, not from the standpoint of historical evidence, then the choices would be different.
[8] But surely I have forgotten someone, eh, I apologize and please leave corrections in the comments!
[9] And of course much more than my highly personal vision of music in those years.
[10] This note is not in the text, only serves to make round numbers between the Decalogue and notes ... :)
