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07-20-2012 03:20 PM |
There are bands who I stopped liking due to a style change or losing the uniqueness, but I still respect them highly for at least a string of good albums and singles that make up for all the crap after that (yes, I mean U2, Simple Minds, and a couple of others from that era). Then there are bands that make me go "What was I thinking?!!!!!" only to arrive at the answer that I was a teen stuck in Small Dot, MI, and trying to find alternatives from the Styx and Journey my classmates listened to. A lot of the change into not liking a few bands by '84 was thankfully due to discovering far better music and even Hardcore Punk through a few new friends and not just getting tired and not finding anything else...in other words, evolution.
A Flock of Seagulls. Yes, them. OK, "Wishing" still is pretty damn good (their fluke good song), but I took a very brief re-visit and discovered why I seriously had to move on in music by 1984. True, they were on Bill Nelson's label for a record (possibly the only other good one they had), but once they "flew" into the Pop world and MTV/US hype, they really turned into the band that I'm certainly embarrassed to say I liked at one time in life. At least Modern English had a good album in After the Snow before they went into their ultra crap days with the guitarist trying out the Captain Hook look (the mistake that was Stop/Start...), A Flock of Seagulls don't have enough good songs to make a good full album in my opinion.
Do I have to mention Men at Work? Yeah, they knew how to play and had a couple of decent songs ("Overkill" being THE one, maybe "It's a Mistake" being the other one), but my BS detector was not working to it's fullest then. I got the singles one by one 82-3, but their quirkiness was pretty forced by the summer of my last interest in anything they did. When a fall-off from fame is with a record that does not do anything for me, such as "Everything I Need" from the Two Hearts album, I knew that I was not missing anything at all in my evolution and finding my way with my music listening.
I still need to find a Late 80's example to show that my BS detector was not fully operating at 100 percent, though. I need to really dive into my memories for the rest of the story. Expect total CHEESE!
Compared to many of the bands listed here, I liked some real crap. Some of the bands mentioned in other posts in this thread...and I mean some...are still with merit. (There are also a few "why did I listen to it?!!!" thread winners here, but you know what I mean). Maybe sounds that are best filed under Guilty Pleasures now, but trust me, there was a lot that went into the Cutout Bins with ease
I could also state a few big Top 40 songs pre-1982 that could top most of the bands listed in this thread, but I don't really want to dive into a bunch of serious crap. I put that down to childhood, and that's that.
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