#generation clash

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I LOVE THIS SWEATER // 2020

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Generation Clash: Top Ten (2019)

Digital Albums/CD:

1: Kiss - Dynasty (1979) 2: Love/Hate - Wasted In America (1992) 3: Weathers - Kids In The Night (2018) 4: Brasko - SEXDREAMSUPERSTAR (2019) 5: Mother May I - 33 1/3 (1999) 6: 707 - Mega Force (1982) 7: The Wolves - The Wolves (1988) 8: Greta Van Fleet - Anthem Of The Peaceful Army (2018) 9: Waterparks - FANDOM (2019) 10: The Bites - Open Your Mouth (2019)

Honorable Mentions:

1: Kik Tracee - Field Trip (1992) 2: Shotgun Messiah - Shotgun Messiah (1989) 3: Bang Tango - Psycho Cafe (1989) 4: Dan Reed Network - Slam (1989) 5: Kurt Baker - Brand New Beat (2012) 6: The Jacks - The Jacks (2019)

Vinyl:

1: Nantucket - Nantucket (1978) 2: Brian Briggs - Combat Zone (1982) 3: Aka The Max Demian Band - Take It To The Max (1979) 4: The Killer Whales - Emotional Geography (1983) 5: Trooper - Flying Colors (1979) 6: Roy Loney & The Phantom Movers - Contents Under Pressure (1981) 7: Elektrics - Current Events (1980) 8: Frankie Miller - Full House (1977) 9: The Front - The Front (1989) 10: Platinum Blonde - Contact (1987)

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Retronaut Selects: Starz - Coliseum Rock (1978)

The first two albums I'm going to dive into are going to be the two albums that expanded my mind when it comes to music taste!

The first of these two albums is Starz' 1978 masterpiece, "Coliseum Rock". 

I vividly recall sitting upstairs in our music room and I remember my dad putting on his Rykodisc edition of Coliseum Rock and I just sat there in the middle of the room and I just absorbed all of it.

I had listened to rock stuff before, but I was really starting to get into albums more than just single songs at this point in my life. I recall listening to different songs by Starz, but hearing an entire album by them changed things. It was unlike anything I'd ever heard before.

I didn't realize how much of an effect it would have on me, because once I got into them, it was a whirlwind. I was in full Starz obsession mode and it was amazing.

What really gets me about Coliseum Rock is that it's a journey. You hear all these elements of life and doing what you love and what comes with it. You get this freedom, but then real life settles in too and it's a lot to make sense of.

When I was 12 getting into this stuff, they were just a band that was unlike any other to me. I didn't really think about a lot of lyrics until I was older because I was always focused the tempo of the music over the message being conveyed.

Coliseum Rock is such an adventure and it has such an accurate title because this is music that is meant to played to a stadium full of people. There's so much to this album from how musicially fantastic it is and how real it is too.

I'll leave you with one of the many fantastic lyrics from that album, "Take it all to the top with no regrets."

Essential Tracks: Take Me, Last Night I Wrote A Letter, It’s A Riot

Listen on YouTube: Coliseum Rock

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The weirdest things can initiate a get-off-my-lawn response. Like, I hear a kid begging her grandpa for credit card information for Fortnite or something, and I catch myself (internally) grumbling about how when I was her age we didn't have any of this live-service microtransaction baloney. We played Flash browser games and whatever stuff my uncle happened to pirate, and goll-darn it, we had fun!

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Update: New Website!

Hi everyone! I wanted to let everyone know that Generation Clash has a new website! We recently celebrated our second anniversary and I thought it would be cool to upgrade our site!

You can check out it here: Generation Clash

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Retronaut Selects: Sad Cafe - Sad Cafe (1980)

I first found about Sad Cafe from Spotify. When I would research artists, I would look at the "Fans Also Like" section, and I remember Sad Cafe being one of the artists that was there!

I remember thinking that their name was cool, and I starred the Misplaced Ideals album to my Spotify library.

When I started shopping at Double Decker, I found "Misplaced Ideals" on vinyl and "Young Men Gone West" by City Boy too!

Even though I knew about Sad Cafe for a long time, I didn't actually start listening to their music until I owned it on vinyl.

I ended up getting "Politics Of Existing" from Double Decker. I got "Facades" and "Sad Cafe" from a warehouse sale!

This album is fantastic!! Sad Cafe is such an interesting band because they sound very casual but they rock too. I remember listening to this album for the first time and really enjoying it because it's so different.

Give this album a listen because it is fantastic!!

Essential Tracks: No Favours - No Way, Digital Daydream Blues, What Am I Gonna Do

Listen Here: Sad Cafe (1980)