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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 6, 2022 17:28:12 GMT -5
I'm listening to a Stax Records playlist in honor of the late Jim Stewart.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2022 16:52:07 GMT -5
King Crimson in double trio form circa mid-90s playing Red...
-M
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Post by Duragizer on Dec 13, 2022 5:21:56 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2022 23:41:21 GMT -5
On the Zoom call last weekend, I was yet again pronouncing my love for 80's hair metal, and I think someone made the comment they used to listen to that stuff, but then they grew up. I personally despise the notion of growing up, that doesn't seem very fun, so I've opted out.
With that, I give you the band Europe. It's pop, it's bubble gum, there's Aquanet by the case, but one thing the band was never short on was guitar talent. Coming off of the success of their now triple platinum selling album The Final Countdown (with hit single of the same name) in 1986, hotshot guitar player John Norum left the band. Those were big shoes to fill, and for their next album Out of This World in 1988, they enlisted the massively talented Kee Marcello. Marcello certainly had the chops, and carried on with the band into the early 90's with one additional album until the entire scene imploded. John Norum eventually returned to the band about 20 years ago and they've toured as a classic act ever since (which you can do when you sell millions of records in your prime).
Here is the first track and hit single released from the 1988 album with Kee on guitar...harmonized vocals, rocking guitars, all the bubble gum and hairspray. It's good for your soul, trust me.
Mr. Norum kept busy as well, releasing his first solo album Total Control in 1987. Here's the opening track with John handling both vocals and guitar chores. You be the judge (like anyone is going to watch/listen to these lol) of who brought it more, John or his old band.
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Post by Duragizer on Dec 22, 2022 22:29:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2022 10:24:19 GMT -5
On the Zoom call last weekend, I was yet again pronouncing my love for 80's hair metal, and I think someone made the comment they used to listen to that stuff, but then they grew up. I personally despise the notion of growing up, that doesn't seem very fun, so I've opted out. Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun. Mellencamp is hardly ever in my rotation, but funnily enough, this does count as "listening to now" since I played it yesterday. I know his hits, and a little Mellencamp goes a long way, but he seems like he would have some unknown deep cuts that rock hard. (I know this song is not a deep cut, and that it's a cover) I must be doing the opposite of growing up. I'm appreciating some hair metal these days which the teen-age me scoffed at. Please nobody go back to 1987 and tell me that I'm not changing the station when they play "Living On A Prayer".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2022 10:32:35 GMT -5
On the Zoom call last weekend, I was yet again pronouncing my love for 80's hair metal, and I think someone made the comment they used to listen to that stuff, but then they grew up. I personally despise the notion of growing up, that doesn't seem very fun, so I've opted out. Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun. Mellencamp is hardly ever in my rotation, but funnily enough, this does count as "listening to now" since I played it yesterday. I know his hits, and a little Mellencamp goes a long way, but he seems like he would have some unknown deep cuts that rock hard. (I know this song is not a deep cut, and that it's a cover) I must be doing the opposite of growing up. I'm appreciating some hair metal these days which the teen-age me scoffed at. Please nobody go back to 1987 and tell me that I'm not changing the station when they play "Living On A Prayer". And if you are in the car when that Bon Jovi tune plays, can you NOT sing along to the chorus at the top of your lungs? Love the whole post, and that Mellencamp song (or "John Cougar Mellencamp" as he was at the time) totally takes me back to 1983, great song.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2022 11:08:50 GMT -5
My artist discovery of the year, Gamazda:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2022 21:47:14 GMT -5
A little 90s era Crim...
-M
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Post by Duragizer on Dec 27, 2022 20:00:12 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 31, 2022 8:58:44 GMT -5
I think this'll make Rags happy. So a 1978 Fisher Price record player came in that was in decent shape, wanted something to test it, so I pulled a 45 out from the floor and plopped it in. Later turned out to be the single for Duran Duran's Notorious, "Meet El Presidente" and "Vertigo (Do The Demolition)"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2023 10:54:12 GMT -5
I heard this in one of the trailers for the movie with the new creepy doll, M3GAN....starting off 2023 with this
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Post by Duragizer on Jan 4, 2023 23:49:37 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 6, 2023 13:40:51 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 19, 2023 12:47:35 GMT -5
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