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Modern love - The Daily Camera

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It's beginning to sound an awful lot like 1989 again...

1989 also was the year Morrissey, back this summer after a seven-year hiatus, began ruling modern-rock airwaves with a string of non-album singles, including "The Last of the Famous International Playboys," "Interesting Drug" and "Ouija Board, Ouija Board..."

"That was just such a great period for music," Stewart says. "It usually takes about 15 to 20 years for re-appreciation to really kick in. We're midway through the '00s now, so now we're naturally starting to look back at that period in the '80s."

Now, as new albums from...Morrissey debut at the upper end of the Billboard charts, '80s modern rock is hard to miss...

On television, VH1 Classic last month debuted "The Alternative," a new show that airs vintage fringe videos from the likes of The The, Prefab Sprout and Siouxsie and the Banshees. And Denver, at least temporarily, has joined the growing list of cities with a "classic alternative" radio station: The playlist at Indie 5-O (1150 AM) is filled with the Talking Heads, Love and Rockets and other '80s college bands.

"We'd love to really see this kind of music come back again," says John Hayes, a KTCL veteran who launched Indie 5-O last month. "We just wanted to do something fun and play the music we wanted to hear. It seems like as soon as Nirvana hit (in 1991), a lot of the great second-tier '80s stuff like the Smiths was forgotten...

"I think it's a great thing that all these bands are back," Stewart says. "These are important bands; they're part of rock history.