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Old 12-03-2011, 12:42 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post
Really? I like Jonathan Richman's voice quite a bit.
I try not to let the vocals cloud my judgement of a band if the music and idea is good, but in this case I find the vocals a real turn-off and have never gotten into the Modern Lovers largely for that reason, luckily they only made one album and David Robinson went off to form the Cars.

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Originally Posted by Phantom Limb View Post
I think David Bowie was ahead of his time. If he put out his albums today (and updated the production), I think they would fit in perfectly. His appearance is another story...

He`s really the obvious choice for this thread really and his image was shocking and controversial for the early 1970s, today somebody with this image would probably just get laughed at for being too corny.
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