Musical Time Capsule
Posted by: long-time-dead on 02 August 2004
OK Guys & Gals
You have to create a Time Capsule. One album to epitomise each decade. 60s - 00s. 5 Albums in total, genre can be of your choice but typifies the decade.
Have fun !!!!
You have to create a Time Capsule. One album to epitomise each decade. 60s - 00s. 5 Albums in total, genre can be of your choice but typifies the decade.
Have fun !!!!
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by Pete
Okay, I'll bite with a selection...
Rubber Soul, Dark Side of the Moon, So, Blue Lines and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
But, like you say, there are so many different ways to go, with the above not defining anything much at all for some.
Pete.
Rubber Soul, Dark Side of the Moon, So, Blue Lines and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
But, like you say, there are so many different ways to go, with the above not defining anything much at all for some.
Pete.
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by Rasher
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie*
First & Last & Always - Sisters of Mercy
Ten - Pearl Jam - or - Siamese Twins - Smashing Pumkins
(can't decide)
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
*The 70's is bloody hard. Bauhaus & Goth came out of Ziggy - it was massively influential, but then I was listening to guitar rock like Rory Gallagher, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Free, Led Zep, which typified the 70's. We also had T Rex & other glam stuff - not to mention punk. Pink Floyd obviously massively influential & mustn't forget The Eagles & Fleetwood Mac doing the West Coast vibe. Fusion Jazz too was borm here.
I can only think that Ziggy has a nod to Rock, Guitars, Punk & Goth - which set the scene for the next decade. The 80's didn't happen at all by comparison. Amazing.
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie*
First & Last & Always - Sisters of Mercy
Ten - Pearl Jam - or - Siamese Twins - Smashing Pumkins
(can't decide)
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
*The 70's is bloody hard. Bauhaus & Goth came out of Ziggy - it was massively influential, but then I was listening to guitar rock like Rory Gallagher, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Free, Led Zep, which typified the 70's. We also had T Rex & other glam stuff - not to mention punk. Pink Floyd obviously massively influential & mustn't forget The Eagles & Fleetwood Mac doing the West Coast vibe. Fusion Jazz too was borm here.
I can only think that Ziggy has a nod to Rock, Guitars, Punk & Goth - which set the scene for the next decade. The 80's didn't happen at all by comparison. Amazing.
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by Fisbey
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Posted on: 03 August 2004 by greeny
60s: Love - Forever Changes
Typifies the emerging Folk psycadelia scene.
70s: Queen - A Night at the Opera.
Too diffult the 70's probably more of my favorite albums here than anywhere else, Do you go Rock(Zep etc), Prog(Yes, Rush), Glam(Bowie, Queen), Electronic (Neu, Kraftwork) etc.
Anyway this Queen album typifies much of the Rock/Glam/Prog aspects of the decade and is thus pretty representative.
80s: The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses.
Not really typical of the 80's but does take the influence of Acid House into Rock in a superb way, and laid the foundation for Britrock. Simply a stunning album. Just scrapes in as a 1989 release.
90s: Blur - Parklife
Says it all about Britrock.
Portishead's - Dummy gives it a good run, outside the straightforward Rock genre.
00s: Still waiting for a defining album here. Eminem is a good call, but I'm not a huge fan. I'll have a think.
On considering the above I tended to have dozens of options in the 70s and 90s, and lots of options for 60s, but for the 80s and 00s I could think of few albums deserving the honour. I'll probably have some inspiration as soon as I post this.
Typifies the emerging Folk psycadelia scene.
70s: Queen - A Night at the Opera.
Too diffult the 70's probably more of my favorite albums here than anywhere else, Do you go Rock(Zep etc), Prog(Yes, Rush), Glam(Bowie, Queen), Electronic (Neu, Kraftwork) etc.
Anyway this Queen album typifies much of the Rock/Glam/Prog aspects of the decade and is thus pretty representative.
80s: The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses.
Not really typical of the 80's but does take the influence of Acid House into Rock in a superb way, and laid the foundation for Britrock. Simply a stunning album. Just scrapes in as a 1989 release.
90s: Blur - Parklife
Says it all about Britrock.
Portishead's - Dummy gives it a good run, outside the straightforward Rock genre.
00s: Still waiting for a defining album here. Eminem is a good call, but I'm not a huge fan. I'll have a think.
On considering the above I tended to have dozens of options in the 70s and 90s, and lots of options for 60s, but for the 80s and 00s I could think of few albums deserving the honour. I'll probably have some inspiration as soon as I post this.
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by Rasher
The more I think about the 70's I realise how diverse the music was. Punk and Yes within a couple of years!
80's were really poor - OK there was Oasis, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins and Pixies as extremes, but it was all a bit phil collins wasn't it!
I'm not coming at this as a personal favorite list, just as a representitive choice. Might be easier by listing a defining album for every year, and condensing it from there.
I'm sure someone will mention something that we will all suddenly cry "Yes, of course!".
You could probably do this with just a selection of Neil Young tracks.
80's were really poor - OK there was Oasis, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins and Pixies as extremes, but it was all a bit phil collins wasn't it!
I'm not coming at this as a personal favorite list, just as a representitive choice. Might be easier by listing a defining album for every year, and condensing it from there.
I'm sure someone will mention something that we will all suddenly cry "Yes, of course!".
You could probably do this with just a selection of Neil Young tracks.
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by Fisbey
In my opinion - you couldn't get more diverse/entertaining than SAHB - first band I ever saw - don't know that I've ever enjoyed a concert as much since (not even the second time I saw them) - excellent stuff!
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by sideshowbob
60s: Cliff Richard, Congratulations
70s: Cliff Richard, Devil Woman
80s: Cliff Richard, Wired For Sound
90s: Cliff Richard, The Millenium Prayer
00s: Cliff Richard, Somewhere Over the Rainbow
-- Ian
70s: Cliff Richard, Devil Woman
80s: Cliff Richard, Wired For Sound
90s: Cliff Richard, The Millenium Prayer
00s: Cliff Richard, Somewhere Over the Rainbow
-- Ian
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by P
The Seventies were best forgotten?
There really is no hope here is there?
P - Off to the Bicycling Accountants forum where people know and care about music....
There really is no hope here is there?
P - Off to the Bicycling Accountants forum where people know and care about music....
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by Kevin-W
L-T-D
It's very difficult to pick an album that typifies a ten-year span - I think you need two or three, to bookend each decade, thus:
1960s Generally a time of optimism and experimentation, so we'd have to go for and The Fabs' With The Beatles (1963) the Fabs' Rubber Soul (65) and Revolver (66) and, oddly to represent the end of the decade, an album made in 1966, but which presages the introspection and solipsism of the decade that was to follow - Beach Boys' Pet Sounds . The Velvets’ first Lp, though recorded in 1966, of course anticipates much of the 1970s.
The 1970s were an even richer decade musically than the 60s. (Sorry Alex!), which makes choosing a standout album even more difficult.
The 1970s were a bleak and contradictory decade of social and personal collapse, seductive decadence and coke bloat, as well of intense introspection and political engagement.
The trends of implosion are best exemplified by at one end of the decade Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin' On (71) and Joy Division's awesome Unknown Pleasures (79) at the other.
The Stones' Exile On Main Street (71) and Led Zep's 1975 monster Physical Graffiti stand for the thrilling decadence and Caligulan excess. Any of Nick Drake's albums or The Durutti Column's The Return Of... (79) could exemplify introspection, Gaye's What's Goin' On,the music of The ex Pistols, Clash, The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron are superb examples of politically-engaged music; Stevie Wonder's Innervisions combines introspection with political awareness.
It’s tempting to posit the Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon as the decade’s defining album – and in some ways it is – but that honour may have to go to the same group’s The Wall . Although vastly inferior to any of the albums mentioned previously, it pretty much sums up the musical and social trends of the decade: bloated and introspective, this torturous and rather tawdry tale of personal collapse also attempts political and social comment but ultimately collapses under the weight of its own solipsism.
As any schoolboy knows, decades never end in 9s and begin with 0s – and to prove the point, the best album of the 1970s, Joy Division’s Closer was partly recorded in 1980, and released in the summer of that year.
1980s were, by and large, a godawful decade (terrible socially, not that much better musically). The pivotal record of the decade is ot an album, but a single – a 12” single, Blue Monday by New Order, which took the template of Kraftwerk’s 1970s classics and created the template for all the developments that happened with dance music and the accompanying “culture”.
If you’re looking for defining albums, then it has to be the ‘Werk’s Computer World in 1981, and 1988’s It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy, records which still resonate today.
The 1990s are easy - Nevermind by Nirvana.
As for the Noughties, well, it’s too early to tell, innit?
Kevin (The Warlocks: Caveman Rock)
It's very difficult to pick an album that typifies a ten-year span - I think you need two or three, to bookend each decade, thus:
1960s Generally a time of optimism and experimentation, so we'd have to go for and The Fabs' With The Beatles (1963) the Fabs' Rubber Soul (65) and Revolver (66) and, oddly to represent the end of the decade, an album made in 1966, but which presages the introspection and solipsism of the decade that was to follow - Beach Boys' Pet Sounds . The Velvets’ first Lp, though recorded in 1966, of course anticipates much of the 1970s.
The 1970s were an even richer decade musically than the 60s. (Sorry Alex!), which makes choosing a standout album even more difficult.
The 1970s were a bleak and contradictory decade of social and personal collapse, seductive decadence and coke bloat, as well of intense introspection and political engagement.
The trends of implosion are best exemplified by at one end of the decade Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin' On (71) and Joy Division's awesome Unknown Pleasures (79) at the other.
The Stones' Exile On Main Street (71) and Led Zep's 1975 monster Physical Graffiti stand for the thrilling decadence and Caligulan excess. Any of Nick Drake's albums or The Durutti Column's The Return Of... (79) could exemplify introspection, Gaye's What's Goin' On,the music of The ex Pistols, Clash, The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron are superb examples of politically-engaged music; Stevie Wonder's Innervisions combines introspection with political awareness.
It’s tempting to posit the Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon as the decade’s defining album – and in some ways it is – but that honour may have to go to the same group’s The Wall . Although vastly inferior to any of the albums mentioned previously, it pretty much sums up the musical and social trends of the decade: bloated and introspective, this torturous and rather tawdry tale of personal collapse also attempts political and social comment but ultimately collapses under the weight of its own solipsism.
As any schoolboy knows, decades never end in 9s and begin with 0s – and to prove the point, the best album of the 1970s, Joy Division’s Closer was partly recorded in 1980, and released in the summer of that year.
1980s were, by and large, a godawful decade (terrible socially, not that much better musically). The pivotal record of the decade is ot an album, but a single – a 12” single, Blue Monday by New Order, which took the template of Kraftwerk’s 1970s classics and created the template for all the developments that happened with dance music and the accompanying “culture”.
If you’re looking for defining albums, then it has to be the ‘Werk’s Computer World in 1981, and 1988’s It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy, records which still resonate today.
The 1990s are easy - Nevermind by Nirvana.
As for the Noughties, well, it’s too early to tell, innit?
Kevin (The Warlocks: Caveman Rock)
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by long-time-dead
Kevin
I never set out to have a definitive listing of the most socially apt (or inept) albums per decade.
What I aimed to create was everyone's favourite of the decade. Any genre, any reason.
That way we might find a great album that we didn't consider listening to.
I never set out to have a definitive listing of the most socially apt (or inept) albums per decade.
What I aimed to create was everyone's favourite of the decade. Any genre, any reason.
That way we might find a great album that we didn't consider listening to.
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by bhazen
Aftermath, the Rolling Stones; too easy to pick one by the Beatles (though they're my all-time faves)...the new remastered SACD/CD is great, supplying the reason why the 60's were the rock decade; the Stones never again matched this balance of old-school rockin' and decadent Elizabethan charm. Alternate choice: The Shadows' Greatest Hits...
USA, King Crimson; since I'm on an iconoclastic tear...almost all their great '74-era live set on one CD. Intense, Hortense.
Best...I, the Smiths; I've fudged it and picked a compilation. Somehow these guys gave me the feeling of the real English urban 80's; the soundtrack of my (too) short a time living in London. Johnny Marr was my role model as a guitarist then, and the reason why all the Britpop guitarists bought ES-335s and Epiphone Rivieras. Alternate choice: Waking Hours, Del Amitri...more urban soundtrack (Glasgow?).
Definitely Maybe, Oasis; the album of the 90's, this one urinates upon Nevermind from a great height, IMVHO. Not an opinion that makes me popular here in Seattle! The first album, however, that made me aware of encroaching middle age; I could no longer do the club thing with the same spirit: nubile young things started to look right through me...I could never drink lager anyway.
I'm at a bit of a loss for the '00s...but Hail to the Thief, Radiohead, will do for now. Their most musical venture since The Bends enchants with its sophisticated ambience and haunted singing by Thom Yorke. Enough electronica in there, too, so I can feel a bit "with it" or "groovy", as you young people say.
I just noticed that my list is a bit Anglophiliac. Deal with it, Texas Nation!
[This message was edited by bhazen on Wed 04 August 2004 at 7:02.]
USA, King Crimson; since I'm on an iconoclastic tear...almost all their great '74-era live set on one CD. Intense, Hortense.
Best...I, the Smiths; I've fudged it and picked a compilation. Somehow these guys gave me the feeling of the real English urban 80's; the soundtrack of my (too) short a time living in London. Johnny Marr was my role model as a guitarist then, and the reason why all the Britpop guitarists bought ES-335s and Epiphone Rivieras. Alternate choice: Waking Hours, Del Amitri...more urban soundtrack (Glasgow?).
Definitely Maybe, Oasis; the album of the 90's, this one urinates upon Nevermind from a great height, IMVHO. Not an opinion that makes me popular here in Seattle! The first album, however, that made me aware of encroaching middle age; I could no longer do the club thing with the same spirit: nubile young things started to look right through me...I could never drink lager anyway.
I'm at a bit of a loss for the '00s...but Hail to the Thief, Radiohead, will do for now. Their most musical venture since The Bends enchants with its sophisticated ambience and haunted singing by Thom Yorke. Enough electronica in there, too, so I can feel a bit "with it" or "groovy", as you young people say.
I just noticed that my list is a bit Anglophiliac. Deal with it, Texas Nation!
[This message was edited by bhazen on Wed 04 August 2004 at 7:02.]
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by willem
This is not at all easy.
60: White Light/White Heat - Velvet Underground, Soft Machine - Soft Machine
70: Chairs Missing - Wire, In 'Jane From Occupied Europe' - Swell Maps, Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division, Western Culture - Henry Cow, World Record - Van Der Graaf Generator, Marquee Moon - Television, Horses - Patti Smith, Voice of America - Cabaret Voltaire, Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall, The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers, Neu! - Neu!, The Only Ones - The Only Ones, New Picnic Time - Pere Ubu, Y - Popgroup, The Raincoats - The Raincoats, Cut - The Slits, And Don't The Kids Just Love It! - Television Personalities
80: Days of Wine and Roses - Dream Syndicate, Psychocandy - Jesus and Mary Chain, Mirage - Meat Puppets, Back in the DHSS - Half Man Half Biscuit
90: Magnog - Magnog, Lapsed - Bardo Pond, Jessamine - Jessamine
00: Exhaust - Exhaust, Levez vos skinny fists comme antennas to heaven - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Accent firmly on the 70-ties as you can see, but that's because I'm too young for the Sixties and too old for the 80-ties, 90-ties and 00's.
If I had to choose just one record per period I'd go for: Soft Machine, Henry Cow, HMHB, Bardo Pond and Exhaust.
willem
[This message was edited by willem on Wed 04 August 2004 at 20:20.]
60: White Light/White Heat - Velvet Underground, Soft Machine - Soft Machine
70: Chairs Missing - Wire, In 'Jane From Occupied Europe' - Swell Maps, Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division, Western Culture - Henry Cow, World Record - Van Der Graaf Generator, Marquee Moon - Television, Horses - Patti Smith, Voice of America - Cabaret Voltaire, Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall, The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers, Neu! - Neu!, The Only Ones - The Only Ones, New Picnic Time - Pere Ubu, Y - Popgroup, The Raincoats - The Raincoats, Cut - The Slits, And Don't The Kids Just Love It! - Television Personalities
80: Days of Wine and Roses - Dream Syndicate, Psychocandy - Jesus and Mary Chain, Mirage - Meat Puppets, Back in the DHSS - Half Man Half Biscuit
90: Magnog - Magnog, Lapsed - Bardo Pond, Jessamine - Jessamine
00: Exhaust - Exhaust, Levez vos skinny fists comme antennas to heaven - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Accent firmly on the 70-ties as you can see, but that's because I'm too young for the Sixties and too old for the 80-ties, 90-ties and 00's.
If I had to choose just one record per period I'd go for: Soft Machine, Henry Cow, HMHB, Bardo Pond and Exhaust.
willem
[This message was edited by willem on Wed 04 August 2004 at 20:20.]
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by Rasher
Nicely done Kevin, but I have to take issue with Nevermind. It was all too easy to go with that,and I still argue that there are only a few good tracks on it. It was were it lead to that is more important IMO - Smashing Pumpkins - Pearl Jam - Soundgarden. All more successful in producing better albums that showed the subtle side of where things went - especially with the melodic, wistful & heavy Melloncollie & the Infinite Sadness.
Good post
Good post
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by sideshowbob
Willem has the best 70s list so far, no question. On reflection, any of his choices are better than Cliff Richard.
The 80s was shit, mostly. At least, the bits I can remember mostly were.
-- Ian
The 80s was shit, mostly. At least, the bits I can remember mostly were.
-- Ian
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by matthewr
Pitchfork's Top 100 albums of the 1970s is better than most lists and a well worth reading for those who think the decade lacked good music. See here.
The 80s started with "London Calling", had "Bend Sinister", "This Nation's Saving Grace" and the first three Smiths albums in the middle and ended with The Pixies. With that in mind we can ignore the Timmy Mallett.
Matthew
The 80s started with "London Calling", had "Bend Sinister", "This Nation's Saving Grace" and the first three Smiths albums in the middle and ended with The Pixies. With that in mind we can ignore the Timmy Mallett.
Matthew
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by Paul Gravett
The 60s
Has to be an album by the Beatles; no band has epitomised their era more than they did.
Revolver or the White Album - nothing original here.
The 70s
Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' or Led Zeppelin IV sum up that decade really well.
The 80s
Not an easy one. I'm tempted to go with Eno & Byrne's 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' - a nascent fusion of funk, world & sampling. Public Enemy's 'It take's a Nation of Millions to Hold us back' is another strong contender.
The 90s
An incredibly eclectic decade but the fusion of dance with rock and the emergence of electronica are surely it's biggest music legacies. Two albums that sum this up well are 'Screamadelica' by Primal Scream and DJ Shadow's 'Endtroducing'.
The 00s
Bit too early on to come to a decision I think. I suppose the most lauded rock album of the decade so far has to be The Strokes' 'Is this it' but will it stand the test of time?
Paul
Has to be an album by the Beatles; no band has epitomised their era more than they did.
Revolver or the White Album - nothing original here.
The 70s
Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' or Led Zeppelin IV sum up that decade really well.
The 80s
Not an easy one. I'm tempted to go with Eno & Byrne's 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' - a nascent fusion of funk, world & sampling. Public Enemy's 'It take's a Nation of Millions to Hold us back' is another strong contender.
The 90s
An incredibly eclectic decade but the fusion of dance with rock and the emergence of electronica are surely it's biggest music legacies. Two albums that sum this up well are 'Screamadelica' by Primal Scream and DJ Shadow's 'Endtroducing'.
The 00s
Bit too early on to come to a decision I think. I suppose the most lauded rock album of the decade so far has to be The Strokes' 'Is this it' but will it stand the test of time?
Paul
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by bhazen
quote:
Originally posted by Paul Gravett:
Bit too early on to come to a decision I think. I suppose the most lauded rock album of the decade so far has to be The Strokes' 'Is this it' but will it stand the test of time?
No.
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by ErikL
I tend to think of things this way (perhaps completely lame to all of you):
The 80's belonged to Husker Du. And the emcee.
The 90's belonged to Stereolab. And the DJ.
The 00's will belong to... MF Doom... or The Microphones? And the Powerbook and Pro Tools?
PS- Public Enemy and Boogie Down deserve props for lifting a people up in the 80's.
The 80's belonged to Husker Du. And the emcee.
The 90's belonged to Stereolab. And the DJ.
The 00's will belong to... MF Doom... or The Microphones? And the Powerbook and Pro Tools?
PS- Public Enemy and Boogie Down deserve props for lifting a people up in the 80's.
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by bhazen
quote:
Originally posted by Ludwig:
And the Powerbook and Pro Tools?
Although I salute ProTools and the ongoing revolution in affordable recording technology as a great way for the workers to wrest control of the means of production from the weasels at the record companies, ProTools has also allowed hordes of bands/artistes that can't really play (haven't "paid their dues") to make pro-sounding albums. Musicians in "my day" (harrumph; assume pompous, condescending tone) had to actually get a tight, exciting live take in sessions; slog through the clubs for years before any chance at a "big break". Years of playing in hot, smoky rooms to dancing crowds...friends buying us drinks...after-gig parties...recreational drugs...stage-door Wendys taking care of our carnal needs...erm, well maybe it wasn't so bad!
Posted on: 04 August 2004 by P
The 60's belonged to Acid and Hashish (Sgt Peppers/The Doors/Trout Mask)
The 70's were ruled by Speed (The Ramones/Bollocks/Ziggy)
The 80's were Coked up (Remain in Light/Thriller/Purple Rain)
The 90's Ecstacy and Smack (Nevermind/Pills Thrills and Bellyache/OK Computer
The naughty OO's seem to be a combination of all of the above.
P
The 70's were ruled by Speed (The Ramones/Bollocks/Ziggy)
The 80's were Coked up (Remain in Light/Thriller/Purple Rain)
The 90's Ecstacy and Smack (Nevermind/Pills Thrills and Bellyache/OK Computer
The naughty OO's seem to be a combination of all of the above.
P
Posted on: 05 August 2004 by Rasher
quote:
Bit too early on to come to a decision I think. I suppose the most lauded rock album of the decade so far has to be The Strokes' 'Is this it' but will it stand the test of time?
The Strokes, The Thrills, The Killers surely all owe their style to late 70's Tom Petty(?)
Posted on: 05 August 2004 by Olly
What epitomises each decade for me, is if I think of that decade, not what do I remember choosing to listen to or my personal favourite, but what do I remember being in the atmosphere all around me, friends raving about, the media getting worked up about etc. So perhaps this will be a more populist list than others.
60's - don't know didn't have that awareness as only 8 at the end of the decade! Probably one a Beatles albums though, Revolver always seems to come out top. Simon & Garfunkel are the other obvious slice of 60's ether.
70's - very hard but on my own criteria (although not friends raving about) IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING DISCO!! Probably that Earth Wind & Fire album with what looked like an Inca momument on the (red) cover - the fact I can remember it c 30 years later and don't have a single disco album in my collection says something. That or Saturday bloody Night Fever. Alernatively at the very end of the decade the Police or the Jam, perhaps I don't pay enough attention to the charts anymore but weren't they the last of successive big selling No 1 singles bands?
80's - commercialsed, stadium mega-rock - Dire Straits Brothers in Arm's, Bruce Springsteen Born In the USA, U2 The Joshua Tree.
90's - Radiohead OK Computer and bloody Oasis.
00's - DTD Norah Jones or Eminem.
Olly
60's - don't know didn't have that awareness as only 8 at the end of the decade! Probably one a Beatles albums though, Revolver always seems to come out top. Simon & Garfunkel are the other obvious slice of 60's ether.
70's - very hard but on my own criteria (although not friends raving about) IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING DISCO!! Probably that Earth Wind & Fire album with what looked like an Inca momument on the (red) cover - the fact I can remember it c 30 years later and don't have a single disco album in my collection says something. That or Saturday bloody Night Fever. Alernatively at the very end of the decade the Police or the Jam, perhaps I don't pay enough attention to the charts anymore but weren't they the last of successive big selling No 1 singles bands?
80's - commercialsed, stadium mega-rock - Dire Straits Brothers in Arm's, Bruce Springsteen Born In the USA, U2 The Joshua Tree.
90's - Radiohead OK Computer and bloody Oasis.
00's - DTD Norah Jones or Eminem.
Olly
Posted on: 05 August 2004 by ErikL
quote:
Originally posted by bhazen:
ProTools has also allowed hordes of bands/artistes that can't really play (haven't "paid their dues") to make pro-sounding albums. Musicians in "my day"...
Ease up old soldier or I'll send Robinson and Gerrard after you!
Posted on: 05 August 2004 by bhazen
Ludwig, I'd reply cogently to your last post, but I left my monocle in my other pair of jodhpurs, which are at the polo ground, in the boot of my Hispano-Suiza touring coupe.
p.s. I'm also resentful of how good the younger bands look in jeans!
p.s. I'm also resentful of how good the younger bands look in jeans!