"Scenic Views" by Rubber Rodeo.
I like this a lot - a mix of 80s New Wave and Country and Western performed by art school students.
Put that way - it sounds awful - but it's also a pretty accurate description of who I was in the 80s, so the fact that I enjoy it isn't a surprise.
Bob Holmes is currently performing as part of SUSS, an ambient country band that I also like very much.
Postscript: #ReevesGabrels was playing slide #guitar in “country-pop” band #RubberRodeo after their 1986 release produced by #DavidBowie collaborator Ken Scott (#music engineer on #SpaceOddity & #TheManWhoSoldTheWorld, producer on #HunkyDory, #ZiggyStardust, #AladdinSane).
So a different and less-#1980s-bombast version of #Bowie’s #NeverLetMeDown could have happened then!
Maybe critics wouldn’t have panned it so hard; maybe he wouldn’t have reacted with five years of #TinMachine. Maybe, maybe…
"SUSS"
"SALT"
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Salt
from Ghost Box (Expanded) by SUSS
https://suss.bandcamp.com/track/salt-2
One or, I think, two members of SUSS were in a New Wave / Western band, Rubber Rodeo, out of Providence, Rhode Island. "New wave," in this instance, has more to do with The Cars, as one terrific example, and less to do with what 1980s/MTV kids call "new wave." Rubber Rodeo was quite good and it had a hit single, "The Hardest Thing."
SUSS takes the ambient country/western idea to completion. I have only heard "Ghost Box: Expanded." "Salt" is one of my favorite tracks.
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Music Museum of New England short article
https://www.mmone.org/rubber-rodeo/
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#1980smusic #ambientcountry #ambientcountrymusic #bandcamp #carsband #ghostbox #ghostboxexpanded #mmone #mtv #musicmuseumofnewengland #musicnews #nemsbk #newenglandbands #newenglandmusic #newwaverock #newyorkbands #newyorkcity #newyorkmusic #providencerhodeisland #providenceri #rhodeislandbands #rhodeislandmusic #rubberrodeo #salttrack #suss #thecars #thecarsband #thehardestthing
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from the album Ghost Box (Expanded)
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Mark Gardner
Alan Lewis