Completely Conspicuous 322: Reeling in the Years, 1984 (Part 2)

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1984. I've also got music from Hallelujah the Hills, Feral Jenny and Red Sea. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's comics podcast The Hour Cosmic - Brian's #5 - Pretenders are very underrated - Chrissie Hynde got a late start in rock - Jay's #5 - Saw R.E.M.'s first national TV appearance on Letterman - Brian's #4 - Minutemen covered a wide range of styles - Mike Watt's interesting career - Scott Asheton, R.I.P. - James Williamson went from playing with Iggy to become a Silicon Valley exec - Jay's #4 - Van Halen inadvertently helped create hair metal - Brian's #3 - Meat Puppets created a unique sound - Most people became aware of them a decade later - Jay's #3 - Replacements' sound evolved from punk to more mature rock - Brian's #2 was his #1 when we started talking - Jay's #2 - Husker Du was coming into its own in '84 - So much good music on SST in the early to mid-'80s - Brian's #1 - Gordon Gano wrote first two Violent Femmes albums while in high school - Serious gospel undertones - Jay's #1 - Purple Rain was a masterpiece - Jay chronicled 1984 in a diary reprinted on Kumar's Blizznog - Next up: 1986   Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!   Music: Hallelujah the Hills - Pick Up an Old Phone Feral Jenny - Law & Order Red Sea - Down with the Crown   The Hallelujah the Hills song is on the album Have You Ever Done Something Evil? on Discrete Pageantry. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The Feral Jenny song is on the EP Bedrooms. Download the song for free at Bandcamp. The Red Sea song is on the EP Yardsticks for Human Intelligence. Download the song for free at Bandcamp.   The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor by Text-Enhance" href="http://compcon.libsyn.com/">Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.