BANDS I LISTEN TO...
by Lafe Travis Fredbjornson
(placing the most-liked bands/songs first)


Soft Cell / Marc Almond

(Favorite Songs: Little Rough Rhinestone, The Art of Falling Apart, Loving You Hating Me, Jackie, Torch, Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go?, Waifs and Strays, Stories of Johnny, City of Nights, Love Letter, Something's Gotten Ahold of My Heart, The Idol)


The Pet Shop Boys

(Favorite Songs: So Hard, I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing, Up Against It, The End of the World, In Denial, You Know Where You Went Wrong, Always On My Mind, Opportunities, The Truck-Driver And His Mate, It Couldn't Happen Here, Go West, Yesterday When I Was Mad, Somewhere, I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More, In The Night)



(Favorite Songs: Advert, End of A Century, Birthday, Chemical World, The Universal, Girls & Boys, Magic America)

 


Depeche Mode

I witnessed Depeche Mode in concert July 17th, 1991 at the Calgary Saddledome for their World Violation Tour. They were great! I was on the floor, so I could do a lot of dancing around and singing.

(Favorite Songs: The Landscape Is Changing, Shake The Disease, Stories of Old, Shouldn't Done That, If You Want, Everything Counts, My Secret Garden, Never Let Me Down Again, Halo, Leave In Silence, Tora! Tora! Tora!)


(Favorite Songs: A View To A Kill, The Seventh Stranger, Hungry Like The Wolf, Ordinary World, Planet Earth, New Moon on Monday, The Chauffeur, Rio, Union of the Snake)

 

 


Ultravox

(Favorite Songs: Love's Great Adventure, Lament, Passing Strangers, One Small Day, Vienna, The Voice)


(Favorite Songs: Blackboard Sky, Mexican Radio, Museums, Call of the West, Far Side of Crazy, Country of Man, The Grass Is Greener, Dark as a Dungeon)

If you're into Ultravox, you've got to check out JtL's Unofficial Wall of Voodoo Page


The Moody Blues

(Favorite Songs: Your Wildest Dreams, Tuesday Afternoon, The Voice, 22,000 Days, Nervous, Gemini Dream)


Culture Beat

I saw Culture Beat in concert in Calgary on March 23rd, 1994 at a club called La Jolla. They only did four songs, two of them were Mr. Vain. Mozart's Rage (a local techno group) opened for Culture Beat. Jay and Tanya are simply the coolest!

(Favorite Song: Mr. Vain)

"I know what I want and I want it now. I want you 'coz I'm Mr. Vain!"


Tears For Fears

(Favorite Songs: Mad World, Pale Shelter, Shout, Change, Head Over Heels)


The Spoons
A Canadian band !

(Favorite Songs: Old Emotions, Symmetry, Blow Away, Nova Heart, Arias & Symphonies)


DEVO

(Favorite Songs: Beautiful World, Big Mess, Whip It, Speed Racer, Planet Earth, Mongoloid, Shout, Pink Pussycat, Smart Patrol - Mr. DNA, That's Good, Jocko Homo, Snowball, Cold War, It's Not Right)


Toyah

She's the British Synth-Pop girl with multi-coloured hair. She's come from the future to save us.

(Favorite Songs: Good Morning Universe, It's A Mystery, Over Twenty-One, Demolition Men, Soul Passing Through Soul, I'll Serve You Well, I Want To Be Free, School's Out)

"Blow up your TV; Blow up your car; Without these things you don't know where you are!"


Other Bands I occassionally listen to -

Bauhaus, Gary Numan, Japan, David Bowie, Right Said Fred, Thomas Dolby, The Human League, Kraftwerk, Madness, Stump, Men Without Hats, Ivan, Rupert Hine, The Bellamy Brothers, Erasure, Boney M, The Beatles, Madonna, ABBA, Eurythmics, Eartha Kitt, Nina Hagen, Beck...


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