Re: [bomp] Re: Bands You Listened To Religiously, But Hate Today

["Mark Robinson" <wytches@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK...the 80's.

Heaven 17 - I am not sure what I was thinking.  Maybe some of the early stuff as the BEF, but that blue-eyed soul posturing with a poorly sampled horn section got stale fast.

Thompson Twins  I have no excuse.  I throw myself on mercy of the court.  Maybe it was the snappy tunes, effective use of percussion, dynamic layering of synthesizers or perhaps it was the hair.  Ill take hair for two hundred.

Ministry - First album was about a vacuous as possible.  I remember some goofy thing about "Being An Effigy".  To be honest the later stuff just grew tiring.  The whole bass/guitar grind fell into the disco/rap trap.  No future for the genre.

Bowie  Face it, in the eighties he sucked.  I saw him for the Glass Spider Tour and am not sure if I was more embarrassed to have shelled out the shekels or for Bowie descending from a large glowing spider that looked more like a translucent purple squid.  I thought the stuff in the nineties got back on track but never saw him live again.  My god, that album Tonight is unlistenable.  

Simple Minds  EEEEEK.  I just dont know.  Heaven 17 and Simple Minds.  It has not stood the test of time.  Maybe it was like Reuniteback then you could swill the stuff and get a vicious buzz, but it doesnt age well, tastes like crap and cost ya a ton of brain cells which you can ill afford.

Depeche Mode  By 1985 I would cringe whenever I heard a bass sequencer and the hand-clap-whip-snap on the 1st beat and the ever-present deadpan vocals.   And yet, I can still listen to Gary Numan.  Maybe the Reunite gouged away more brain cells than I thought.  

As for eighties groups that I still listen to.  Smiths, Gang Of Four, New Order, Cure, OMD.



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