tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post1753153754208584485..comments2024-03-29T05:20:43.450-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Sunday Night Jukebox, or, "It's Sunday at 8:30pm and, yes, I'm fucking working"FDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-32444333979806887482009-10-25T18:34:47.620-07:002009-10-25T18:34:47.620-07:00Of course, there is always some one carrying the t...Of course, there is always some one carrying the torch, but the stations rarely play the best.<br /><br />I, too, love swing, jazz and the blues. I love soulful or happy music. I don't groove on the angry or blaseĀ“ attitudes surrounding so much stuff today.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-69529164626782841352009-10-23T22:37:23.216-07:002009-10-23T22:37:23.216-07:00Lisa: I wanted to argue the point, but then I trie...Lisa: I wanted to argue the point, but then I tried to come up with a decent act that had emerged since 1990 and couldn't come up with anyone who had more than a single hit or two...<br /><br />So I guess we're looking for the Next Wave.<br /><br />I'll admit to regressing lately, listening to stuff like the Stolen Sweets and Madeline Peyroux, retro stuff that harks back to the swing and jazz and blues of the 1930s and 1940s. Maybe that says something about the state of contemporary music, too.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-14899317417274771532009-10-23T11:52:00.836-07:002009-10-23T11:52:00.836-07:00Actually, there was quite a bit of good music all ...Actually, there was quite a bit of good music all the way thru '89 (not '86). Look at the hits listed on the website eightyeightynine.com and compare the early and late eighties music.<br /><br />Although rock music didn't truly die until the early/ mid- nineties, it was beginning to become watered down by about '87. Groups like the Police, Styx, Rush, Men at Work, INXS, U2, Genesis, Duran Duran, Van Halen, Foreigner, Survivor, Journey, and Aerosmith (and also alternative groups like depeche mode, crowded house and simple minds) were virtually nonexistent (or highly watered down) by the late 80's, fast being supplanted by "light rock" or adult contemporary mavens like Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Richard Marx, Janet Jackson, George Michael, Paula Abdul etc.<br /><br />Also, some of the cool band members of the early eighties actually led the wimp-rock brigade of the late eighties (ie. Phil Collins (Genesis) Peter Cetera (Chicago) Steve Winwood, etc.) Additionally, late-80's rock was not as distinctly eighties (stylistically) as early eighties music was.<br /><br />Early eighties lite rock light rock, like Air Supply, Cristopher Cross, Survivor, Asia, Toto, Journey, The Eagles and Chicago were kind of cool and grew out of jazz and folk 70's music. Late eighties lite rock (=easy listening/adult contemporary) was merely cheesy and lame [think Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, George Michael, Paula Abdul, Whitney Houston, Richard Marx and Phil Collins], IMHO<br /><br />Powerhouses like Michael Jackson and Madonna lost steam by the late 80's. Some of the cool rock held on 'til at least '89, but it was quickly wimping out, and creating the vacuum which made room for the ascendency of Grunge and Rap in the early nineties, at which point rock simply gave up the ghost in the early nineties.<br /><br />We haven't seen decent rock since.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-4864887533835926352009-10-23T11:43:24.392-07:002009-10-23T11:43:24.392-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-61227838401339414892009-10-19T21:41:42.129-07:002009-10-19T21:41:42.129-07:00I'm glad you liked Arden. She has a lovely, p...I'm glad you liked Arden. She has a lovely, pliant, and winsome voice. And the song itself is plaintive without being self-pitying.<br /><br />But my question would be...what happened in 1986?FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-52930127023859058552009-10-19T17:04:23.237-07:002009-10-19T17:04:23.237-07:00p.s. -- I think the '80's had some great m...p.s. -- I think the '80's had some great music (mixed in with a lot of piffle), right up through about '86.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-88513930223520402882009-10-19T17:02:09.399-07:002009-10-19T17:02:09.399-07:00I'm afraid I must have bypassed some of the ly...I'm afraid I must have bypassed some of the lyrics from the 80's, and thank you for exposing me to a lovely and wistful tune in "Insensitive".Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.com