Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

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.

 

Prince was a genius. He’d have broken through in any generation. His adaptability was incredible.

 

Time for a bit more of my old mate Jim Ramsey with one of his own songs, accompanied by musicians in 3 different countries.

 

R.I.P. Florian Schneider, founder member of highly influential Electronic band Kraftwerk...

You can hear their influence on Bowie and Joy Division and the early '80s Synth Pop

 

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.

 

Love this 60's influenced 80's Californian band and they are still around now...

 

One for VE Day...

 

Just because I like it.

 

No1 today 37 years ago.

My favourite song of all time and something that my coffin will be carried to

This much is True...

 

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:

Anyone who doesn't at least tap is either dead or not human

 

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

 

Ok nearly midnight, so drop it down to 99%.

Stay standing.

Here we go.

Get ready.

 

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.

 

And I thought I was the 80s quizmeister

 

I agree, but I was ruined for ever after I saw the Sensational Alex Harvey Band cover it live.

 

Mind you, these guys could belt it out too:

 

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.

 

I seem to recall a more famous cover version of this Prince song

 

Speaking of cover versions here's Duran Duran covering Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel on the B side of The Reflex

 

All the way from Nashville, here's some kickass Southern Rock from Jason and his Scorchers...