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Topic History of: Morrissey - Britain losing its identity
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Mart |
The only problem that time has unfortunately stamped on 80`s music is that, as technolodgy in sound was jumping about so much, is we are left with a lot of sounds on tracks that grate very badly with the root sounds with which they were recorded.
When the Human League recorded with the then breakthrough, Linn drum machine, people on the whole could not believe it was not battered but of course programmed.
When acts as diverse as Racey, used the same equipment we still had the same beat we needed at the time, it worked fine.
New Order of course broke the rules big time with the same piece of kit and made Blue Monday by recording the humanly impossible bass drum pattern at the time.
This sound lasted the decades.
However, what did not stand the test of time, is of course, massivly over-sampled orchestral stabs(yuk!), cheesy , whingy one finger tinkering on little synths, and most frightening of all, strange lyrics about, errm, nothing actually.
Did I forget the electronic tom thing?
No, I decided that they actually never existed at all.
But, as Robbie said, we have some great songs and records left from the decade(notably all the acts he mentioned), but, we also have some bloody awful records too, but so do most decades and sadly, I would say this current one more than others.
But musically, isn`t this time now, a similar lost decade? |
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robbiex |
Hi, I disagree with what you said about the 80's been a time of crap music. I think it was the golden age of pop and this was borne out by the amount of sales going on at the time. The decade spawned the likes of Duran Duran, U2, Human League, Soft Cell, Culture club, Japan, Spandau Ballet, Adam and the Ants, The Cure and many others. These bands had style and sold millions on both sides of the Atlantic. Few british artists of today can make an impression in the USA.
You could probably list a few crap bands too, as for any other era. Britain was leading this revolution and was at the forefront of music and fashion.
Here are some reasons why the 80's were better than today
No mobile phones, No X factor, great music, No Mass Immigration, No peadophiles, Much less crime, No massive house price inflation. |
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Donald |
The golden age was definitely the sixties. If you remember it you were'nt there! |
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DJones |
Part 1: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-56
When the Empire Windrush, an old troop-carrier, arrived at Tilbury on June 21, 1948, and inaugurated modern Caribbean immigration to Britain, it also supplied calypso with its best-known image |
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Mart |
blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/12/morrissey_responds.html |
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