Yessssssss. I've had this Siouxsie blast-from-the-goth past in my brain since John Richards played it earlier this week. I maintain it stands the test of time, and very well!

Golly jeepers.

PWEI is great, no doubt about it. Sure, the visuals are a little dated, but remember, Can U Dig It? is what, almost 20 years old now (yikes). Try listening to Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine ... now that stuff didn't age well at all.

Some of my favorite songs ever. I remember seeing PWEI blow Soundgraden AND NIN off the fucking stage in Toronto in '95.

Love that shit to this day.

omg. I loves, loves, loves me some PWEI. "This is the Hour ..." is in my top five all-time albums. I don't really remember them even being taken 100% seriously back in the day, and that was the point.

But as far as music I still love, with corresponding videos I can't bear to look at, Sisters of Mercy really, really take the cake.

So what indie-rock videos will look monumentally stupid in 20 years? Decemberists, of course, and probably Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

This is all great stuff.

Dana, I have a twelve inch version of "Peek A Boo" that clocks in on one specific mix as "10:00." Can you imagine such lengthy goodness? It was definitely one of my top ten favorite songs of the 80s. If you and David want to borrow that vinyl sometime for a mix just let me know. I only put it on mix tapes to people I absolutely adore ...

(For the record, Grim, I love that Sisters song, but for some reason, always preferred "My Lucretia" off the same album more. Something about that bass-line never seems old, the dramatic vocal doesn't seem forced, and there's less Jim Steinman pomp going down in the backing vocals and the drum machine sounds seem less cheap ...)

The scene that led up to PWIE is my favorite underrated genre of the 80s: Grebo. Hayzee Fantayzee as best example, some Zodiac Mindwarp singles ("Prime Mover"!), early Splodgenessabounds, the Malcolm McLaren experiments with hip hop and bluegrass and opera, even the original masterpiece of Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Some never even took that tag but someone needs to write all that contemporaneous shit up as an intuitive movement -- Brit weekly mutant fashion-politics punk pop of the Thatcher era is a lot more substantial than people assume from the hairstyles and acid hobo clothes.

Yes. Great music indeed. You can't really go wrong with Siouxsie and the Banshees or The Sisters of Mercy. I've also been listening to Echo and the Bunnymen a lot also. Has anyone heard their version of The Doors' Soul Kitchen, which is included on the grey album remaster? It is groovy as hell.