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I'd say it's provably true, by listening to their really flat vocals. Honestly, such a dull band. I don't even actively dislike them, they're too dull to feel that strongly about.
I really don't think a band would get as famous as the Pet Shop Boys if the singing was flat.
You're free to call them dull of course, but you don't appear to know the meaning of the word "flat" when it comes to singing. Or you haven't heard my mate Colin.
I don't find the PSB particularly interesting either.
I really don't think a band would get as famous as the Pet Shop Boys if the singing was flat.
You're free to call them dull of course, but you don't appear to know the meaning of the word "flat" when it comes to singing. Or you haven't heard my mate Colin.
I don't find the PSB particularly interesting either.
Well, the Stone Roses also did alright with a singer that can't really sing. You can be pretty flat and still succeed. Especially in the 80s when any old sh!te seemed to go.
Well, the Stone Roses also did alright with a singer that can't really sing. You can be pretty flat and still succeed. Especially in the 80s when any old sh!te seemed to go.
You're now trashing the 80s?! Jesus man, fck outta here.
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They were largely a write off in terms of art and culture.
Utter nonsense. The 80’s were probably the last decade where pop and art could meet. People from a more experimental background could make pop and vice versa. There is now a clear divide.
I don’t believe a band could release a song like Japan’s Ghosts and it making the top 10 in today’s musical climate.
Utter nonsense. The 80’s were probably the last decade where pop and art could meet. People from a more experimental background could make pop and vice versa. There is now a clear divide.
I don’t believe a band could release a song like Japan’s Ghosts and it making the top 10 in today’s musical climate.
I think it was probably the last decade that had mainstream protest songs. I know they're still around today but after a bit of a lull in the 70s mainstream music in the 80s produced some great pop meets politics tunes.
I think it was probably the last decade that had mainstream protest songs. I know they're still around today but after a bit of a lull in the 70s mainstream music in the 80s produced some great pop meets politics tunes.
There is an element of truth in that, perhaps the most emotive and powerful protest song of all is U2's 'Pride', and I take Glassers point about 'Ghosts' as Japan were the first band I thought of to counter Herbivore's dismissal.
But then the 1990s had Radiohead and 'Paranoid Android' on Top of the Pops. Blur's 'Country House' was as dismissive of material values as a number one can get and straight outta Goldsmiths. Ah, rap and hip hop - I think they have contributed some social commentary and innovation over the last three decades - and had much of their roots (in terms of form and what had been sampled too) in the 1980s.
Utter nonsense. The 80’s were probably the last decade where pop and art could meet. People from a more experimental background could make pop and vice versa. There is now a clear divide.
I don’t believe a band could release a song like Japan’s Ghosts and it making the top 10 in today’s musical climate.
It was a fairly awful time. Thatcher, Reagan, The Smiths, The Cosby Show. Culturally and spiritually bereft.
Don't diss the 80's dude. They were great times when nobody took themselves or anything else to seriously. Music wise, it was just fun time and anything went. Rock/Pop/ Soul, anything, it didn't matter. Everything was cool man.
Don't diss the 80's dude. They were great times when nobody took themselves or anything else to seriously. Music wise, it was just fun time and anything went. Rock/Pop/ Soul, anything, it didn't matter. Everything was cool man.
Maybe if they'd taken themselves more seriously they'd have produced some decent music. Just a thought.
Maybe if they'd taken themselves more seriously they'd have produced some decent music. Just a thought.
Anyone who dismisses a ten year stretch as not having produced decent music isn’t looking hard enough, and you never need to look very hard in the first place.
The 80s has a rich, varied and hugely influential legacy of music that will still be listened to in the 2080s.
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