The 1980s were a time of immense upheaval for popular music. Established genres like rock were thrown for a loop as music videos blew up and MTV made bands' aesthetic presence just as important as their sound
. Meanwhile, up-and-coming genres like hip-hop were laying the groundwork for their impending cultural dominance.
Many great local artists brought the sound of the '80s to Dallas, but here are five North Texas songs from the '80s you might not have heard, but should.Before post-punk made it to the assembly line of mass music distribution that was MTV in 1981, few bands in the southeastern U.S. were ahead of the curve. Luckily, Dallas boasted one of the most esoteric yet artistically proficient exports of that time before the genre even took off.
Still, a handful of bands heard the reverberations of the earthquake before it made landfall, so to speak, and The Telefones was one of them. They were alternative before the words “alternative rock” were ever used consecutively in a sentence to describe a subgenre of rock music.would equally suffice as a placement in this list, “Rocket, Rocket” is just so damn upbeat and in-your-face. Everyone should listen to it.We’re not trying to belabor the point that The D.O.C.
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