Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
I do like all music, but (un)fortunately, IMO there is no music like 80s music.

Louis Armstrong, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy, Big Bopper etc are just a few that I listen almost daily, but play me a line from nearly any 80s track and I will tell you the song, the artist, the year and most times the month :)

Black Box, ride on time signalled the end of the greatest era of music ever. IMO From an 80s child :)

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Even though I'm a 90s kid (and I do love the 90s musically, except for all the grunge stuff), the 80s is a great decade. I've been playing GTA Vice City recently (as I got the trilogy for about £10 when it was on sale a while back) and I have to say, it probably has the best soundtrack of any video game ever.
 
Ian Thumwood said:
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I am not really in to pop music but I do think that the 1980s marked the end of the point whereby a lot of it ceased to be interesting. There was an issue with a degree of over-production and reliance on the use of things such as the Fairlight system to replacing drumming which mark this music of it's time, however, I do wonder just how hard it would be in 202 for someone such as Prince to break through. You wonder if that might be too challenging for a lot of today's audiences You could easily build up a list of artists from that decade who knew what they wee doing musically and where the results might not be dependent upon chart success. For example, you would have thought that an album like Sting's "Dream of the Blue turtles" might not be possible nowadays from a mainstream artist.

As far as jazz was concerned, I think the 1980s were terrific. There were still loads of musicians playing who had started their careers in the 1930s like Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Count Basie whereas more modern players like Joe Henderson were still reaching maturity and after the deviation in to fusion, were starting to be appreciated again. At the same time, there was a generation of "New Neos" such s the Marsalis brothers who kick-started the interest in more acoustic jazz. This prompted a reaction from the avant garde whereas a new generation of jazz seemed to be ushered in with the likes of Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, etc. In Europe, labels like ECM seemed to be producing really innovative music whilst Britain's jazz community seemed to be divided over whether the likes of Courtney Pine or Andy Shepperd was better or writing letters to "Jazz Journal" complaining that the band Loose Tubes were not jazz. It was an extremely fertile era and replaying some music from this decade whilst a home, it is staggering just how much of it stands the test of time,
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Prince was a genius. He’d have broken through in any generation. His adaptability was incredible.
 
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Saints_Alive said:
R.I.P. Florian Schneider, founder member of highly influential Electronic band Kraftwerk...<rose>

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You can hear their influence on Bowie and Joy Division and the early '80s Synth Pop
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The keyboard instruments now seem seriously dated and now that the electronic keyboard are no longer as revolutionary as they kind have seemed, there isn't a lot really happening with this music. I have always wondered whether this band was listening to classical composers such as Glass, Adams and Reich who were becoming influential at the same time. It has always fascinated me how unlikely sources of music can influence a particular artist. It almost seems to me that the point of Kraftwerk was to sound as unvaried and monotonous as possible are were trying to enhance their minimalist credentials. I will have to fess up that I am fascinated by Reich as a composer and although he never had the pop / crossover appeal of Glass with his Bowie associations, there is actually a lot of complexity within the rather simple frameworks he worked within. Something like "Music for 18 musicians" is an incredible listening experience but perhaps even better visually when you see this peace performed live. My comparison "TEE" is too rigid and not enough is going on musically. Still, I think it served a point of dehumanising popular music. Reich's music from the 60s and 70s still seems radical and fascinating.

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Stand still where ever you are, but I need you to stand.

Now put your PC/Mac/mobile on 100% volume.

Go on, do it.


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Anyone who doesn't at least tap is either dead or not human :)
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Ok, ladies and Gentlemen.

Stand still where ever you are, but I need you to stand.

Now put your PC/Mac/mobile on 100% volume.

Go on, do it.


Now I want you to listen to this and respond with your reaction. Give it at least 2 minutes to report back:


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Anyone who doesn't at least tap is either dead or not human :)
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The girl with Kevin Rowland on the cover, who played Eileen in the official video, is Máire Fahey, sister of Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama.

Not many people know that.
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
If the above doesn't getting you tap at least, try now.

You need 100% volume. You need to be standing. You need an open mind. You need to be an 80s child maybe <laugh>

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I agree, but I was ruined for ever after I saw the Sensational Alex Harvey Band cover it live.
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fatletiss said:
Prince was a genius. He’d have broken through in any generation. His adaptability was incredible.
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I never loved Prince's pop stuff. Just isn't my thing. But ye gods, his catalogue is so deep and so varied and consistently top-shelf that the only way someone can dislike Prince is if they've only heard a small fraction of his stuff. Plectrumelectrum was his late-career funk rock album, and would have gotten just about no attention...and then he went on SNL playing songs from it and just wrecked shop, and shocked a tonne of people who just associate him with Purple Rain.
 
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