Posted on 02/25/2005 2:26:21 PM PST by t_skoz
'80s refrain restrained
Bands like Duran Duran are selling lots of tickets but few albums. Nikki Sixx, bassist for the famously fast-living glam-rock outfit Motley Crüe, believes that even 24 years after their debut, his band still has a certain timeless aspect. "If you want to drop the tailgate, get some beer and go to a strip club, that's the Crüe,'' he said the other day before a rehearsal for the band's new tour. Yet Sixx's band, which just released a two-disc career anthology including 1987's "Girls, Girls, Girls'' and 1989's "Dr. Feelgood,'' is returning at a particularly apt moment. The music of the 1980s has re-entered the zeitgeist in a gigantic way. What began more than a decade ago with '80s nightclubs spread soon after through "flashback'' lunch hours across the radio dial. On television, the hits of that decade now fill the soundtracks of countless popular series, like "The O.C.,'' which chose a cover of the OMD hit "If You Leave'' for a decisive scene last season. And VH1, of course, has built a franchise on '80s exhumations, with "Big '80s'' and the wildly popular "I Love the '80s.'' All together, it's proof that the synthesizer-powered pop songs and hair-sprayed headbangers of that era still have a strange hold on the thirtysomething demographic so desirable to advertisers. The recording industry was slow to act, but over the past year and a half it has belatedly started trying to cash in on it all. Performers lost in the pop wilderness for a generation suddenly decided to get in touch with their old, often estranged mates and get the band back together in the name of art, commerce or both.
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grunge was nothing but sex pistols + the beatles on prozac, a great excuse not to wash ones self. it lacked any originality and needed no musical talent to be popular.
I'm w/you.
Variety? Grunge is variety? Gimme a break!
It's all the same whining mush-mouthed deliberately nasally white boys guitar-grinding constant-noise garbage. And alot of the '90s and today is the same garbage. Girls who "sing" like they have speech impediments, who must always be distorting their mouths to make the stupid I-lost-control speech/singing patterns.
Do you ever have black groups? Besides rap? It seems everything '90s+ is either white grungy, or black rappy. That's real variety. All 2 of them.
You probably won't get what I mean; if only I could demonstrate the stupid things they do to make those sounds. Bottom line: none of them enunciate at all, and some deliberately are distorting word formation. Drives me crazy. And goes w/their "style", too - lazy, dirty, disgusting, dregs of society.
RE: '90s+
Also, can't forget Lesbo-folk, sort of a grunge variation I suppose, but distinctly post 80s.
Oh, you mean like "Lillith Faire"? Yeeuuucccchhk.
Those women are usually also examples of the women (as well as men) who can't speak right when singing. They do the childish speech-impediment thing too. They definitely do the "lazy durgged-up airhead" thing!
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