A couple years earlier, no way would you find the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Smiths there, or even at Musicland at the mall. My friends and I could find and buy many of these cassettes on sale for $5.99 at Target. 1986 saw early commercial stirrings of hip hop, the breakthrough of thrash metal, and most importantly for me, a whole lot of indie jangle pop and psychedelic post-punk that were often well-distributed on major labels. But every year in music is multi-faceted. It was a sort of overproduced mess of commercial blockbusters and hair metal in between the 1978-84 heyday of post-punk, and indie rock like Sonic Youth, Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. I’ve considered the mid-80s a sort of nadir for music. In September I was following The Sea of Tranquility’s daily series on favorite albums from high school. Van Dorston The first and last time over 65 indie albums cracked the charts.
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