fatlever wrote:you can't drop a cliffhanger like that and then leave w/out more info. what do you have against clapton? he only became annoying when he did the accoustic crap in the early 90s. and who didnt love the can't slow down album by lionel richie? now if you want to trash dancing on the ceiling, that's fair game. don't tell me you also hated hall and oates, michael jackson, phil collins, the police, prince, huey lewis and all the other pop giants from the early to mid 80s?
were you an 80s metal head? dio, motley crue, whitesnake, poison, guns & roses?
or into all the depressing alternative music like the cure?
or maybe the harcore punk bands like black flag and agent orange?
or 80s hip hop like run dmc, beastie boys, dougie fresh
(this reminds me of an 80s junior high cafeteria where everyone sat together based on the music they liked. at one table you had all the metal heads who wore denim jackets and acid washed jeans. next to them you had the hip hop/break dancing kids who dressed like extras from electric boogalo 2. on the other side you had the punk rock kids with mohawks, black leather jackets with studs, combat boots, in the corner not talking to anyone where the depressed, suicidal kids who listened to the cure and looked like edward scissorhands minus the scissors. in the center of the cafeteria were the slutty girls who were all trying to dress like madonna. and of course the preppy kids who only listened to REM.)
come clean vorbis.
i cant wait to hear from the other guys in their late 30s and 40s who grew up in the 80s.
in the 80s i was Gaston County trailer park boy getting music any way i could under nice but stern Christian parents. but first to the specifics - i think Clapton is a master technician with no soul. I am all about some Cream but put him on his own and he's adrift. thoroughly unsatisfying. notice how many of his hits were somebody else's songs? he needs serious handholding to make good music.
in my screenplay lionel richie is satan. the video takes place in hell, and there is a horrible blackface routine during the hey jambo jambo part. should give you an idea of how i feel about that. that song gives me a chill in my spine. it's irrational but i've learned not to ignore those feelings by now. lionel richie is still stupid rich and massively popular in the most random corners of the globe.
I also think that The Police, well, namely Sting, narrowly edges out U2 (pun intended) as the most overrated band of the 1980s and 1990s. I think Sting is a creep and almost none of Police's songs have aged well. instant dial-changer if one of their songs comes on the radio station i'm listening to.
as for what I liked in the 1980s, I was seriously conflicted. on one hand I was crazy for Michael Jackson like almost everybody else, but I also loved the Beach Boys and Hank Williams Sr. and Merle Haggard and Run DMC and whatever else I could find a way to hear without my parents making me return the tape to the store (true story). once I got a little older and had my license I secretly purchased and snuck my entire music collection into the house without telling my parents.
as for what I heard from my parents, my mom listened to Lite 102.9 every morning in the car on the way to school. so I got DeBarge, George Benson, Phil Collins, Huey Lewis Back To The Future soundtrack, and the Big Chill soundtrack from her. my dad (and I swear this is absolutely true) had an old truck with a tape deck. the week he bought the truck he also bought a tape single of That'll Be The Day by Buddy Holly. he put the tape in the tape deck, it got stuck, and he never fixed it in the 10+ years he owned the truck. so with that old tape deck, he could never listen to anything else, radio included since the tape was inserted. so I probably heard that song at least 100 times growing up.
so in the end, I hated the adult contemporary soft rock **** (I've since fallen retroactively and unironically in love with it though) but loved the Motown stuff and had a conflicted history with the country stuff. I've since evolved majorly, but that was my stuff in the 1980s, to answer your question.
