Totally 80's Hair Attack Sandbox: "The Godd, The Bad & The Ugly!"

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[SilvieWaldorfMD]

And The Winners Are....

[Free Vulcan]

Well I’ll give you that Duran Duran appealed to a niche. Even though popular, they weren’t popular enough to really reach the masses beyond a certain segment and alot of people outside that simply aren’t going to like them, which is totally understandable.

Alot of women in rock have beautiful voices. Pat Benatar could literally seduce a man into bed with the power of her voice alone. Kate Pierson is a close second in that department.

[the invisib1e hand]

some people just don’t know when to quit.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

some people just don’t know when to quit.

[the invisib1e hand]

I think big hair and MTV go together; I hadn't really made the connection until a few posts ago (well, look, it's not like I spend too much time thinking about glam bands). And there reason that most of these bands, while here and there delivered a catchy hook, or in some cases had real talent, don't make me want to play the drums again is because...it's all too visual, too commercial, too MTV. MTV is disgusting, and what it does to good music -- my opinion, my experience -- is, at best, distracts from it.

I recall that early video by Michael Nesmith, "the talented Monkee," and it was cool and novel but it wasn't big hair and bs. The MTV thing is top 40 TV, and top 40 radio is hard enough to endure for long.

[the invisib1e hand]

That's it, compare duran duran to the Stones!

thanks for the belly laugh!

[Revolting cat!]

Favourites!

[the invisib1e hand]

This makes me think...

I was eating out tonight, and there was some U2 rip-off band being played...loud and pseudo-artsy. It was pitiful, musically; they were trying to be complicated and edgy and artsy all at once.

Listening to the juvenile accoustic guitar riffs (and totally ignoring the deep lyrics), I thought of "Tommy," and the intro to Pinball Wizard. Now that was an accoustic guitar riff. Nobody works like that anymore.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

EQUALS

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Right. Pete Townshend is a God. Ace Frehley of Kiss is better, though.

[the invisib1e hand]

we haven’t really hit on Motown, have we. But the ‘80’s wasn’t exactly the Motown Decade, was it...

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

I think that Michael and Janet Jackson, as well as Vanity, New Edition, Klymaxx and others took the “Motown Sound” to a new & different level in the 1980’s....

[the invisib1e hand]

I would only say, "small g." And Ace Frehley, better on guitar? eesshh (guess I missed it) -- BUT, it IS your thread.

And that reminds me; I don't mean to distract from the theme: 80's and Hair. It's just I found myself having to defend my Duran Duran sentiments.

Now we return to our regularly scheduled schlock.

Now, Journey was a hair band with real talent.

[the invisib1e hand]

Your're right about that -- Michael Jackson turned it all on its ear.

And mixing it up with Eddie Van Halen - that was very novel at the time.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

"Now, Journey was a hair band with real talent."

Too bad Steve Perry has such an awfully gigantic ego, though....

[the invisib1e hand]

yeah...they really can’t compete in the Hair department, either...

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

“yeah...they really can’t compete in the Hair department, either...”

And what is up with Journey drummer Steve Smith (far right)? Is he standing up or bending down? UGH.... this 80’s jeans fashion was HORRENDOUS!

[mamelukesabre]

I think you got the quote wrong. I think it was more like...

“wuz-zappenin, ha-stuf?”

[RepoGirl]

I think appreciation for quality and creativity, along with repulsion for petty commercialism, come from somewhere very objective outside ourselves.

Personal taste is personal taste. It's still entirely subjective.

So, by your logic, everything you like is creative, and of quality. Anything you don't like falls into the great abyss. I see. Interesting.

So the musical acts you list, with the exception of BB King, are rather bland, safe AM-radio fare in my opinion. My idea of bands exhibiting quality and creativity are Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Japan, Berlin-era Bowie. You are free to disagree, but I don't think you can legitimately make the claim that I don't care about such abstracts as quality and creativity -- because our ideas on what they are differ so greatly.

As far as Duran Duran goes, I thought they were, and are, quality musicians that DID make happy music for happy times. Nick Rhodes was pretty innovative with the electronic aspect of the band.

Petty Commercialism? What, are you some kind of liberal here? Get out of here with that kind of rage against the machine kind of talk, hippy.

[uglybiker]

That's what I get for swipin' a pic from somebody's myspace page.

How 'bout this?

AUTOMOBEEEEEEEL?!!!!

[the invisib1e hand]

So, by your logic, everything you like is creative, and of quality.

actually, it's the reverse.

Petty Commercialism? What, are you some kind of liberal here? Get out of here with that kind of rage against the machine kind of talk, hippy.

is the moon full or something?