Comments on: Great Music Circa 1979

By: FOARP

FOARP — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:26:51 +0000

Abacab was a great album, the prog-rocky stuff on Three Sides Live was alright too. As for Collins – well, I won’t vouch for any of his tunes except In The Air Tonight, but I think he deserves respect for that tune alone, Michael Mann did it perfect justice in Miami Vice (PS – watch Collateral), and the Cadbury’s advert – bizarre as it was – nailed it as well. Boy George was still MCing here in Brighton right up until he got sent down for assault and false imprisonment, but I can’t swear that I’ve heard any of Culture Club’s stuff except for Karma Chameleon.

Right now, after about a year of listening the hell out of Radiohead’s In Rainbows and Arcade Fire, and then a winter’s worth of Joy Division (which I’m amazed I survived) I’ve been giving the Chromatics a listen, this is probably their best stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwnsS8UG08Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUQaocQCMTs&feature=related

All very early 80′s I know, but in as much as I hear anything inventive nowadays it’s mostly in that direction – but I guess that just shows how old I’m getting!

PS – You get my email?

By: Rhodo Zeb

Rhodo Zeb — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:24:23 +0000

I grew up when Phil Collins was in his prime. With the exception of the tune you linked to, which is a really wonderful song, everything else was basically shite, crap pop for the 13 year old set.

Now music is always like that, the stuff I think is great you might not find particularly interesting. And part of my feelings about Phil is based on being clubbed over the head with his stuff for years by MTV. Collins had a hit on heavy rotation on MTV throughout my time in high school (that was back when there was MTV and VH1 and nothing else), and I mean at any given time.

Basically if it was popular I hated it. Eventually I no longer continued to follow Gabriel, around the time ‘So’ came out. Red Rain? Big Time? Eh. So that is the price an artist pays for getting big. More people love you, but some people hate you, just because.

Some of those songs hold up. I am not a big fan, but in the few instances I have come across Culture Club music in say the past 10 years, I have been fairly impressed at how well they have held up, just for instance.

Yeah, ‘In the Air Tonight’ is a great song, but you have to realize all the lousy tunes that off-set it. Sussudio? One More Night? Against All Odds? Big, big eh. And that doesn’t even get into the stuff that Genesis was doing at the time, stuff like ‘Illegal Alien’. Uh, I shudder to remember that stuff.

What other stuff from Phil do you like? I don’t think I have heard anything he did after perhaps 92. Have you ever explored any of the early Genesis? There is some wild stuff in the early albums from 1972-1975.

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By: FOARP

FOARP — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:22:09 +0000

Damn, well here’s the link anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F0vq-0jUhc

By: FOARP

FOARP — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:21:34 +0000

Good tunes, although I’ve always been more into Phil Colins’ stuff:

(PS – don’t know if you can embed stuff in comments, hope the above works)