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46  Classic Rock / The 80s / Re: 80's radio's influence on music on: July 12, 2010, 05:30:12 pm
I've got a stack of those 12" singles... including the Along Comes A Woman one. Nothing really special about it other than it's just a longer version of the 45" single.

They didn't even include the verse they deleted from the album version.
47  Classic Rock / Rockabilly and oldies / Re: Similarities between Rockabilly & Hair Metal on: July 12, 2010, 03:57:13 pm
K. That's why I asked for clarification on the glam rock label... because while 70s bands used make-up (KISS, Bowie) I really associate that glam look to the Poisons, Motley Crew, Whitesnake look that was the beginning of the hair band era.

A lot of the British bands really seemed to pull their rock out of the blues sound -i.e. Led Zepplin... so I've felt that a lot of rock bands tried to imitate Zepplin more than anyone else.
48  Classic Rock / The 80s / Re: 80's radio's influence on music on: July 12, 2010, 03:50:44 pm
A lot of producers starting using those as cheaper alternatives to hired guns/studio muscians... and there was a control aspect that they had with electronics that they didn't have with studio musicians.

The problem was it became the "sound" by the mid-80s because of overuse...

Then, as dance music became popular, remixes began to feature all of the tricks as a way to extend a 3 min song in 15 minutes (i.e. the remix of "Dancing In The Dark" by Bruce Springsteen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAcLVcfcPrA
49  Classic Rock / Rockabilly and oldies / Re: Similarities between Rockabilly & Hair Metal on: July 12, 2010, 02:43:57 pm
Early Bowie, Gary Glitter, New York Dolls, Slade, Sweet. It was more a look than a sound, although it can be discerned from what came before & after.

John Lennon said it best: It's just rock & roll with lipstick.

Yeah, I thought about that -especially Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust era- but I really don't find that Def Leppard really falling into that trend (and this is where the sound comes in) because Def Leppard really wasn't about the look until the mid 80s (c. Hysteria).
50  Classic Rock / Rockabilly and oldies / Re: Similarities between Rockabilly & Hair Metal on: July 12, 2010, 01:28:15 pm
So what would you catagorized glam rock?

To me, glam rock was more of the product of the 1980s, which Leppard was a part of, so the chronology is a little confusing to me.
51  Classic Rock / Rockabilly and oldies / Re: Similarities between Rockabilly & Hair Metal on: July 12, 2010, 12:08:56 pm
Funny, I noticed more southern rock/country in the Georgia Satellite's "Keep Your Hands To Yourself", than rockabilly.

But then again, the lines sort of blur with the blues as you move along the spectrum.

I can't stand anything by Poison, so I honestly cannot say if I could hear anything in their music, because as soon as the first note comes on, I scream, "Make it stop!" and change the channel...

The thing about hair bands is how they seemed to mimic the path Kiss set in the 70s... a lot of cheesy rock anthem rock themes (i.e. "Rock And Roll All Nite") then come out with the sentimental ballad a la "Beth".

Def Leppard has personnel issues that shaped a lot of their music, coupled with their producer, John "Mutt" Lange who managed to morph their sound into sounding like other bands he produced in the past -AC/DC, Foreigner, et al.

Moving on with a one armed drummer, gave their sound a more electronic sound coupled with the other technological aspects (sampling, et al) made their sound a lot different -but often imitated (i.e. Bon Jovi)- from other arena bands.
52  Classic Rock / The 80s / Re: 80's radio's influence on music on: July 12, 2010, 11:06:29 am
To me the 80s were the worst decade in the history of recorded music!

Not initially... the early 80s brought out a second British invasion which provided a lot more diversity on air than the late 70s.

I would agree as the 80s wore on and the music evolved into more drum machines and keyboards, sampling, rap, dance and hair band rock, the music got progressively worse.

But the same could be said of the disco era of the late 70s -and I like a lot of disco.
53  Classic Rock / The 80s / Re: 80's radio's influence on music on: July 11, 2010, 01:25:53 pm
Here's an 80s flashback to the dance clubs (and the days of 12" singles):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJs1lJzFW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWtkuyrMPjc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSGvqjVHik8

54  In the Ether / Silver Screen / Re: Favorite movies about music/musicians on: July 10, 2010, 05:57:56 pm
Not a very good movie, but the best song from the soundtrack, Streets Of Fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3Sa4n0rS8

(and yes, like many, I thought Dan Hartman was black because of the video)

And what, no love for Breakin' and it's "memorable" sequel, "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo?" LOL!

Certainly Prince knew how to market himself with, "Purple Rain"
55  Classic Rock / The 80s / Re: 80's radio's influence on music on: July 10, 2010, 05:40:20 pm
Thank MTV.

They made the early 80s an interesting time for music, but by the late 80s, radio became nothing but rap, techno-pop, dance music and hair band rock.

When grunge came in 1990, I was completely disinterested in new rock music.
56  In the Ether / Silver Screen / Re: Favorite movies about music/musicians on: July 09, 2010, 03:27:35 pm
What? No one mentioned "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Spinal_Tap

What a perfect parody of heavy metal/hairbands... indeed, it's part of the reason I find that entire genere so ridiculous.

I also like Mr. Holland's Opus and LOVE the Blues Brothers

Here's another film based roughly on the first few issues of Heavy Metal Magazine:

Heavy Metal (1981). Fans of the original SCTV show will recoginze many of the voices of in the cartoon... and comic book fans will recognize the artwork of Berni Wrightson (co-creator of Swamp Thing) in his legendary "Captain Sternn" sequence.

I love the B-17 story...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(film)
57  In the Ether / Silver Screen / Re: Saturday Night Fever (1977) on: July 09, 2010, 03:14:34 pm
Saturday Night Fever was part of a trifecta for John Travolta in musical/flims where the music was part of the story:

SNF (1977)
Grease (1978) -as Nick and Disney channel put it, your parents' "High School Musical"
Urban Cowboy (1980)

And all three had an enormous cultural impact on both pop music and fads.

58  Beyond the Horizon / Cornucopia / Re: Artists I hate that everyone else seems to love on: July 09, 2010, 11:32:15 am
I like some Bowie, but some I can't stand... the same with Springsteen -love "Glory Days", despise the screaming of "Born In The USA"

Talking Heads: I only like "Burning Down The House"... no idea why.

Eurythmics: Much of their music is blah... I agree, Annie Lennox has a fantasic voice, though. Best song? "What I Lie To You?" Great 60s vibe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhpu2N4rQZM

Nirvanna and the Dave Matthews Band -I NEVER got either of them... their music totally disinterests me.

Here's another band whom I find wretched, yet it has a fair amount of fans: Coldplay
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