Nineteen Eighty-Won
Posted on | October 14, 2008 at 7:24 am | Comments Off
Pet Peeve of the Day: My musical hero Scott Miller thinks that 1981 wasn’t a very good year for music. He especially singles out the “new romantic” movement, saying it was all about hair and fashion and “thin, washy synthesizers”. So I guess Scott’s not a Duran Duran fan. Their first album came out in 1981. Though I admire Scott greatly, anyone who does not appreciate “Planet Earth”, “Girls on Film” or “Friends of Mine” definitely has a screw loose. Just listen to John Taylor’s bass playing. 1981 also saw the release of the following seminal (to me) albums, none of which Scott mentioned:
Blue Öyster Cult’s Fire of Unknown Origin
The Cure’s Faith
Icehouse’s first album
King Crimson’s Discipline
The Moody Blues’ Long Distance Voyager
Bill Nelson’s Quit Dreaming and Get On The Beam
OMD’s Architecture & Morality
Pete Shelley’s Homosapien
Simple Minds’ Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
Jim Steinman’s Bad For Good
Al Stewart’s 24 Carrots
The Stranglers’ The Gospel According to The Meninblack
The Teardrop Explodes’ Wilder
The Tubes’ Completion Backwards Principle
U2’s October
Ultravox’s Rage In Eden
I’m sure there were many more. And, oh yeah, there was also an album called Of Skins & Heart from a little known (at the time) Australian band called The Church, which featured this hit:
(Note that the aliasing in the video is not due to the crappy YouTube compression. That’s really part of the video.)
Ah well, at least Scott did include Nash the Slash on his list.
Sorry for resorting to an embedded YouTube video and a list of albums. I swore to myself I’d never do that. But I ain’t got time for anything more substantial right now.
Latre.
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