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In the mid-1980's, there was no cooler place for a band to call home than Athens, GA. Of course, everybody knows that R.E.M. was leading the pack here, but there were a lot of other marginally-successful or locally-famous bands who were all really great in their own right. The Classic City's scene was documented in a film called Athens, GA. Inside/Out and this film is available for this week at Pitchfork.tv. R.E.M. performs two songs, "Swan Swan H" and "Dream (All I Have To Do)", in a chapel that they revisited last year for recording Accelerate. Back then, they were just four Southern guys with bad haircuts and there was no singer in the music biz who was more shy. I haven't seen this film in a few years (I bought the DVD when I was in Athens), but I remember being very impressed by a pair of musicians called the Flat Duo Jets. For anyone with any interest in where "alternative" music came from or where college rock started, this is essential viewing.
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