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Subject: What I miss
I read the posts below...and I think what I miss most about the 80's (mostly pre-86) is bands that could write, play, and sing...Record companies would go to clubs see a band, and get excited..it was about turning paople on to some cool music, and of course selling some records...Now they just create bands from good looking embryos with boob jobs, or collections of non-threatening milk-toast boy bands. every other week we hear about Britney Spears getting caught lip-synching when her tape machine screws up, it happened to the Backstreet boys in my City...But nobody cares! that puts us about a heartbeat away from what Milli-vanilli did being O.K. It's pretty hard to compare let's say 98 degrees to Talk-talk, or the Psychadelic furs...it's heart-breaking. It's money all the way now.
Subject: Re: What I miss
: I read the posts below...and I think what I
: miss most about the 80's (mostly pre-86) is
: bands that could write, play, and
: sing...Record companies would go to clubs
: see a band, and get excited..it was about
: turning paople on to some cool music, and of
: course selling some records...Now they just
: create bands from good looking embryos with
: boob jobs, or collections of non-threatening
: milk-toast boy bands. every other week we
: hear about Britney Spears getting caught
: lip-synching when her tape machine screws
: up, it happened to the Backstreet boys in my
: City...But nobody cares! that puts us about
: a heartbeat away from what Milli-vanilli did
: being O.K. It's pretty hard to compare let's
: say 98 degrees to Talk-talk, or the
: Psychadelic furs...it's heart-breaking. It's
: money all the way now.
Whoa! Somebody (I forget who) actually had the audacity of comparing The Backstreet Boys to The Beatles and Duran Duran on an eMpTyV show. Can you believe that? I mean, most of the songs these artists sing nowadays they don't write and compose - heck! they don't even play instruments! Just give me full-time training at half-danced, half-jumped choreography, hours of make-up and thousands in wardrobe, a few singing lessons, a state of the art sound studio, and the millions upon millions in marketing and Tarzan Boy can take this country by storm (hehehe...). Ole!
Tarzan Boy