Old songs are the best.
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Old songs are the best.
What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Tuesday Night Open Thread.
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Here’s an old song about Saturday night……………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wEWSUUsUc
I’ve been thinking about your issues with 90s music and unless I misunderstand, you’re talking about new bands in the 90s. If that’s the case then there were a scant few new bands I liked and I’d mostly agree with you. With the following exceptions:
Blues Traveler
Nirvana
Dave Matthews
Electronic
Revenge
Big Audio Dynamite
Ministry
Granted, of the above I really only still listen to Electronic and BAD.
But lots of established bands
Had good albums from the 90s in my opinion:
U2-Achtung Baby, Zooropa
The Cure-Wish, Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers
Rush-Roll the Bones
Pink Floyd-the Division Bell
New Order-Republic
Depeche Mode-Violator, Songs of Faith and Devotion
Yes-Talk
I could probably go on.
As with every decade, there are bands that suck and bands that don’t. What’s sucks to some people may not suck to others.
But I do believe that for the most part the digital age eventually ruined music. No longer do you need to work and struggle for years. Grueling touring schedules hoping a major act will pick you up. Working, struggling. Honing your talent and craft. Hoping one day for an audition with the record label.
Nowadays, the record companies don’t take risks and almost every song sounds the same. Sad.
I used to love Frankie and Deano songs. Then I waited tables in an Italian restaurant in the North End of Boston and now? I can’t take em. Well, that and every juke box in NY plays Frank’s New York song every 8 minutes from midnight to 4 am. That gets real old.
I liked the 90s stuff listed above. I’d add a couple albums each from Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Gin Blossoms and a couple others.
The biggest problem is that they’d put out a really good album and think they were Led Zeppelin. Yawn. Let me know when you’ve put out 10 great albums.
80s stuff has no meaning. Proving my contention that hallucinogens make great rock and roll, cocaine makes crappy music. That explains the crap 70s disco stuff.
So… what are today’s musician’s on?
Judging by the tepid insipidity of what I’m skipping by on the radio, I’d guess nothing stronger than a couple Tylenol washed down with bottled water.
There was a bar up in Cleveland Circle that had Summer Wind on it and my friend and I played it constantly when we were drinking there.
Back in our day, we didn’t need all those TV talent shows to give us the next new stars. The good ones OD’ed at 27, gave the newcomers a chance.
BTW, the “old collapse-o singer,” Sinatra, was about 29 at the time of the filming of The All-Star Bond Rally, which was released near the end of WWII, while Hope was 41.
Kirsty MacColl singing A New England will stand the test of time for anyone who hears it and appreciates her voice.