Sounds, Visuals, Words, Ideas, Concepts, Youth Cults, Failed Revolutionaries
People With Pulses, Music Heads...and NO Flakes (You Know Who You Are)!
Killing Joke, early P.I.L., Spacemen 3, Birthday Party/Bad Seeds, MBV, Gun Club, The Plasmatics, Cabaret Voltaire, The Slits, Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV, Jesus & Mary Chain (Psychocandy), 3rd Bass, EPMD, Parliament/Funkadelic, Good Dub Music (early Aswad, Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby, etc.), Skinhead Reggae/Bluebeat (1967 to 1971), The Germs, Negative Approach, Necros, Cannibal Ox, RA The Rugged Man, Good Minimal Electronics (anything Magda, M-nus, Perlon, Kompact, Playhouse, Pokerflat, etc.), Virgin Prunes, The Clash, early Cocteau Twins...holy shit...the Treasure LP...HELLO!Also, in the criminally overlooked department...A.R. Kane! There would have been no "shoegaze" movement, INCLUDING My Bloody Valentine, without this little known English band paving the way in the British press about a year prior to MBV's success.
Midnight Express, Most Documentaries, 70's Adult Films (the music is hysterical!)
There's something else besides reality TV to choose from anyway? How about hilarious court TV shows like Judge Mathis (a fellow ex-Detroiter) with idiots suing each other for as little as $20 bucks.
The Fountainhead, The Godfather, Soul Stylists, Rip It Up And Start Again, Tighten Up, Boss Sounds
My Mom and Dad (R.I.P.)