Shimmer, Jangle, Repeat: The Paisley Underground

About this episode

This episode explores The Paisley Underground, a unique music scene blending 60s psychedelia with 80s attitude.

Lace up your Beatle boots and follow the fuzzed-out trail back to one of music’s strangest, most beautiful dead ends... This week we slip sideways into The Paisley Underground — the dreamlike LA scene where ’60s psychedelia collided with ’80s attitude, creating some of the most shimmering, jangled, and criminally overlooked sounds in underground rock. Movie of the Week: The ‘Burbs (1989) Dim the lights. Some neighborhoods were never meant to feel safe... Links: Bomp! Records Girls Rock Camp Alliance The Numbers by Mathew Street Todays Tracks: Tommy Keene- Carrie Anne Young Fresh Fellows - Two Lives The Numbers - She Is Everything The Peppermint Kicks - Too Sweet (Oh Yeah!) The Barracudas- Somewhere Outside The Jimmy C - Start All Over The Gypsy Moths - And You Know I Do Eric Barlow - Burn The Three O'Clock- Stupid Einstein Rain Parade - What's She Done To Your Mind The Bangles- Talking in My Sleep Opal- Fell From The Sun The Long Ryders - Lights of Downtown The Dream Syndicate - Drinking Problem Green On Red- That's What Dreams Time Thieves - Stare at the Sun Edward Sillinsky Implosion - A Dream Ain't Perfect 65MPH - Didn't You Know? The Scientists - Frantic Romantic Seventh…

People in this episode

Host: Pop Rocks Radio

Topics covered

• Paisley Underground
• 60s psychedelia
• 80s attitude
• underground rock
• music history
• LA music scene

Keywords

• Paisley Underground
• psychedelia
• rock music
• LA music scene
• The ‘Burbs
• underground sounds
• music history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bomp! Records, Girls Rock Camp Alliance

Books & works: The ‘Burbs

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