Worst year for music?

Worst year for music?

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scottydoesntknow

860 posts

56 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2019
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Johnnytheboy said:
As soon as I saw this thread I thought "mid to late eighties".
Agreed. Anything Stock Aitken and Waterman is pure dirge.

Following that xfactor/Simon Cowell and his cohorts.

generationx

6,645 posts

104 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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scottydoesntknow said:
Johnnytheboy said:
As soon as I saw this thread I thought "mid to late eighties".
Agreed. Anything Stock Aitken and Waterman is pure dirge.

Following that xfactor/Simon Cowell and his cohorts.
I quite like Mel and Kim boxedin

S100HP

12,645 posts

166 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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generationx said:
I quite like Mel and Kim boxedin
I too find it respectable.

selym

9,539 posts

170 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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S100HP said:
generationx said:
I quite like Mel and Kim boxedin
I too find it respectable.
Oh well, don't worry.

irocfan

40,153 posts

189 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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Escapegoat said:
Eh?

1 George Michael Faith
2 INXS Need You Tonight
3 George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You
5 Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine
11 George Michael One More Try
17 Whitesnake Is This Love
19 Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me
21 Michael Jackson Man In The Mirror
23 Robert Palmer Simply Irresistible
27 George Michael Father Figure
30 Def Leppard Love Bites
36 Michael Jackson The Way You Make Me Feel
37 Bobby McFerrin Don't Worry, Be Happy
46 INXS Devil Inside
50 Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield What Have I Done To Deserve This?
58 Terence Trent d'Arby Sign Your Name
65 INXS New Sensation
76 Tracy Chapman Fast Car
80 Pet Shop Boys Always On My Mind
91 George Michael Kissing A Fool
95 INXS Never Tear Us Apart
96 Steve Winwood Valerie

From: Billboard - http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/top-100-songs-o...
There's definitely some good stuff there and, as an aside, a lot more rock than you seem to see these days

Fittster

20,120 posts

212 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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scottydoesntknow said:
Agreed. Anything Stock Aitken and Waterman is pure dirge.
I like roadblock.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF28Z_lr3t4

S100HP

12,645 posts

166 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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selym said:
S100HP said:
generationx said:
I quite like Mel and Kim boxedin
I too find it respectable.
Oh well, don't worry.
Thats The Way It Is and I Feel A Whole Lot Better now

boxedin

1,351 posts

125 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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Fittster said:
ha, Roadblock.
IIRC it was pushed out on a white label, so no-one would know it was a SAW track. Instead it was hyped up before being umasked as another 'pop monster' from SAW :-)

IMHO the best that SAW released were the Princess tracks.



anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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boxedin said:
ha, Roadblock.
IIRC it was pushed out on a white label, so no-one would know it was a SAW track. Instead it was hyped up before being umasked as another 'pop monster' from SAW :-)

IMHO the best that SAW released were the Princess tracks.
“Say I’m your number 1” was a pretty good pop track.


Front bottom

5,648 posts

189 months

Tuesday 26th November 2019
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I love how some posters have listed a load of tunes and are trumpeting them as being 'good'. hehe

The chart music of the late 80s was bloody awful to a young me. I was in my first job in a factory, and we were unfortunate enough to have Radio 1 piped in over the intercom all day, every day.

It bordered on traumatic.

Edited by Front bottom on Tuesday 26th November 11:28

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Tuesday 26th November 2019
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TOTP is/was never a good way to judge the state of music.

It played the stuff in the charts and, amongst the odd gem, the chart has always been (and always will be) stuffed with middle of the road dross, so that's what watching any episode of TOTP2 will deliver.

1988 - Well, my memory of that year was Jaguar winning Le Mans, so musically, who knows, but I'm pretty sure there were some decent acts around in the late 80s, same as there are every year.

You could say 'worst' year for the charts and a lot of the 2000s would figure highly for me with talentless wkers talking over other people's tracks (oh, sorry, Rap stars), but it's entirely subjectives - One man's meat and all that...

selym said:
S100HP said:
generationx said:
I quite like Mel and Kim boxedin
I too find it respectable.
Oh well, don't worry.
Mmmm - I can take or leave it...

M

Edited by marcosgt on Tuesday 26th November 12:35

irocfan

40,153 posts

189 months

Tuesday 26th November 2019
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Front bottom said:
I love how some posters have listed a load of tunes and are trumpeting them as being 'good'. hehe

The chart music of the late 80s was bloody awful to a young me. I was in my first job in a factory, and we were unfortunate enough to have Radio 1 piped in over the intercom all day, every day.

It bordered on traumatic.

Edited by Front bottom on Tuesday 26th November 11:28
TBH though I can't remember a time when R1 was any good (Tommy Vance's Friday-night rock-show aside frown )

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 26th November 2019
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I was a fan of the Collins era Genesis, thought Wind And Wuthering and Duke were great albums, then they brought out Invisible Touch and I had the misfortune to see them at Wembley on the Invisible Touch tour, playing all that mid 80s tat from that album.
See Robert Plant at the Town & Country Club(had lead singer out of It Bites as support) and that was another mid 80s disappointment.
It seemed the mid to late 80s was just a crap time for music and the start of the decline in general. Even Hounds Of Love I thought was a far cry from Kate Bush's first three albums even though like Invisble Touch for Genesis was probably her best seller.
Digital killed the music star.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 26th November 2019
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Escapegoat said:
Eh?

1 George Michael Faith
2 INXS Need You Tonight
3 George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You
5 Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine
11 George Michael One More Try
17 Whitesnake Is This Love
19 Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me
21 Michael Jackson Man In The Mirror
23 Robert Palmer Simply Irresistible
27 George Michael Father Figure
30 Def Leppard Love Bites
36 Michael Jackson The Way You Make Me Feel
37 Bobby McFerrin Don't Worry, Be Happy
46 INXS Devil Inside
50 Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield What Have I Done To Deserve This?
58 Terence Trent d'Arby Sign Your Name
65 INXS New Sensation
76 Tracy Chapman Fast Car
80 Pet Shop Boys Always On My Mind
91 George Michael Kissing A Fool
95 INXS Never Tear Us Apart
96 Steve Winwood Valerie

From: Billboard - http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/top-100-songs-o...
George Harrison's Got My Mind Set On You compared to All Things Must Pass.
Robert Palmer's Simply Irresistible compared to Sneakin Sally Through The Alley.

Evangelion

7,640 posts

177 months

Tuesday 26th November 2019
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I remember hearing someone on the radio saying tht in his opinion, 80s music was crap because everything was over-produced

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Thursday 28th November 2019
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Raygun said:
George Harrison's Got My Mind Set On You compared to All Things Must Pass.
Robert Palmer's Simply Irresistible compared to Sneakin Sally Through The Alley.
You have a point (2 in fact), but I'm sure you can do that with nearly any year.

Evangelion said:
I remember hearing someone on the radio saying that in his opinion, 80s music was crap because everything was over-produced
And...? If you knew or mentioned who it was, it might have some value to some, but someone saying music was crap is about as valuable as a Boris Johnson promise...

M

Edited by marcosgt on Thursday 28th November 11:37