Porn for BYH

I know that's true, and you can include indie bands like the Pixies, etc., but the majority of music that was heard by most people from that era is so over-produced and saccarhin. Not to mention way too synth-driven.

 

Yeah, the group of albums called Reign in Blood/Master of Puppets/Rust in Peace/Among the Living didn't exactly get a lot of airplay. Alice in Chains' debut did get some play toward the end of that period, when radio stations were falling all over each other to get some "SEATTLE!!!!" on the airwaves.

 

Well, there's this thing called the Internet. Many of us have found it quite useful.
It has created greater ease of access to music and expanded the pool of music to which we have access.
It requires a little poking around some times, but there's a lot stuff on it, a lot more stuff than you could get at Sam Goodies or through your monthly record and tape club in 1985.

 

O hai everyone! How did I miss this?

The new top 40 makes me angry. I don't WANT to hear Alan Hunter, who never shuts the fuck up, or Nina Blackwood, who has apparently been gargling glass the last 30 years, or even Mark Goodman, who seems as cool now (relatively speaking) as he did in 1984. Fuck Mel Karmazin, that cheap fucker, for getting rid of the AT40s on the 80s. The '70s editions are apparently still playing on the 70s station. Yippee. Nothing like hearing "You're No Good" to remind me of the time I crapped my diapers.

Nobody has ever been any hotter.

 

My Christmas gift to the board;

If BYH lasts 8 seconds while looking at this pic, well then I'll be shocked.


For more enjoyable Belinda pics, just do a google search in the "OFF" position.

 

REM and U2 put out a lot of good songs that got significant airplay between 1986 and 1991. Were they as popular as the hair metal crud and bad R&B? Sadly no, but they sold.

 

They weren't? Joshua Tree sold 10 million copies and Out Of Time sold four million copies. They certainly held their own against hair metal and rap.

 

Just looking at 1987-88, U2 also had two No. 1 singles and another hit that peaked at No. 3. That's more than significant airplay. Bon Jovi was the only hair metal band of the era with more than one No. 1 record.

 

Add up all the glam metal sales from Poison, Guns and Roses, Motley Crue,Ratt, Cinderella, Winger et al. plus Bell Biv Devo, Bobby Brown and other "New Jack" bands, and they dwarf the sales of the the then modern rock genre which encompassed U2, REM and the indie scene such as the Pixies, Dinosaur Jr and the rest. I think that is what Bubbler was getting at. There were beacons of good music in the late 1980s, and some of it sold albums and concerts, but the mass percentage of the record-buying product was forking over money for junk.

 

And they're not doing that still?

 

I once got in a debate with my flower child boss about the late 1960s/ early 1970s music scene. He emphatically insists the best music ever came from them. I agreed, but with the caveat that it was everywhere so people saw it. People forget for every Grateful Dead, Zeppelin, Rolling Stones record that came out then, there was an Englbert Humperdink looming around the corner. People forgot the crap.
I am sure there is a lot of great rock music being today, but it is buried behind Lady Gaga videos.

so, you are correct. Somewhere along the line, record companies went paint by numbers. Ok, rant over.

 

Somewhere along the line? Nope, it's always been that way. Look at the 1940s - for every "Sentimental Journey" at the top of the hit parade or on the radio, there was a corresponding "Mairzy Doats."

You also have to consider - what is crap? One man's crap, musically speaking, is another man's treasure. Let's look at 1969, a truly landmark year. You had the Beatles, the Stones, the Supremes, Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, etc. They were all at the top of the charts at one point or another during that year. So were "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam, "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe and "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies, which, believe it or not, was actually the No. 1 song of the entire year. But those are three great, classic records, even if they don't necessarily "compare" to the Grateful Dead or Zeppelin or what was happening at Woodstock. (And, for the record, I'd rather listen to the Archies and Tommy Roe - one man's treasure. )