> Bryan Ferry inventing the Eighties
one of my kids thought Ferry's In Your Mind was from the IndieSleeze era! He invented the mid 2000s too!
― bendy, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:20 (two years ago)
Yeah it looks like it could have been a DFA release or something
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:22 (two years ago)
Judas Priest definitely embraced the late 80s. Iron Maiden stuck to their path, though.
https://mikeladano.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/scan_20170326-5.jpg
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:23 (two years ago)
with hair like that you don't need to 'go 80s'
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:27 (two years ago)
rob halford's grunge years were not as pretty...
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:27 (two years ago)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51LpNU5qAWL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
Foghat - Tight Shoes
― peace, man, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:28 (two years ago)
just in case you missed the 90s...
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/34wAAOSwto5cxOSn/s-l1200.webp
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:28 (two years ago)
but that's for a different thread...
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 18:29 (two years ago)
UFO put out a 1990s cover in the 1980s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Misdemeanor_albumcover.jpg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:30 (two years ago)
they're about to kick off a mean hacky sack sesh
xxp
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:31 (two years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/JohnnyCashRainbow.jpg
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:31 (two years ago)
xpost
FIGHT (like a brave)
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:33 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/kYngQpSJafppghbIN5GdkLKYot-sYd0nnkilC3YLIwQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5ODQ2/NjItMTM1Mzg1Nzgx/Mi03OTM3LmpwZWc.jpeg
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:33 (two years ago)
Popol Vuh also seemed to stick to their style outside of City Raga.
I dunno, this cover screams "80s New Age" at me quite loudly. I guess that's a different strand of 80s-ness though!
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71gKAvCZ0hL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Monday, 29 January 2024 18:44 (two years ago)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_No_Angel_(album)#/media/File%3AGregg_Allman_Band_I_Am_No_Angel.jpg
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:03 (two years ago)
Peter Gabriel avoided this aesthetic imo
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:04 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/2HDJjt_60GmNuHszFL2M--J3Bk_ng3pyaVoHuoLQoqM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgyOTUz/Ni0xNTQxODU5MzU1/LTM1MDAuanBlZw.jpeg
― llurk, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:08 (two years ago)
Roger Dean? Sorry, I don't know her.
https://merchbar.imgix.net/albums/releases/18554857.jpeg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:22 (two years ago)
The cover for David Gilmour's About Face doesn't announce itself as "I'm in the 80s" but the video for "Blue Light" is pure uncut 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS61CyzFlxQ
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:25 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/FqwFB9Q.jpeg
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 05:05 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/3CcKzgd.jpeg
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 05:07 (two years ago)
at this point I'm kind of wondering what 60s/70s bands *didn't* do this
Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter & Leonard Cohen's Various Positions or I'm Your Man don't really scream "It's the '80s!" to me.
― Valentijn, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 09:42 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/yLsizzVA9vtrps48Yc-91dVvmvOOk8mp-0g0sP1s-tM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcwMTA1/NS0xMjYwNjQ1Mzc0/LmpwZWc.jpeg
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:10 (two years ago)
also one for the yawnsomely literal cover art thread #onethread
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:33 (two years ago)
lol indeed
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:40 (two years ago)
Omg the jack bruce one is so good
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:46 (two years ago)
The Byrds as Yuppie Stockbrokers is killing me
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:14 (two years ago)
This whole thread is great but I think my favourite is the Barclay James Harvest one, I'd struggle to name a less futuristic band.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:18 (two years ago)
"Blue Light" is one of the worst things recorded by a boomer.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:21 (two years ago)
Tell you what, there weren't many soul and R&B acts/artists who didn't dive headfirst into the 80s.
https://i.discogs.com/JdHq_mqWkpvaqiPGwYLuKPyYqyvFxPDP7rckKJpWQa0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:589/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NTU4/MzctMTQzMTI0MDk5/OC0yOTQ5LmpwZWc.jpeg
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:42 (two years ago)
soul/r&b groups traditionally good at pivoting to whatever was hip/happening at the time. which is why it was funnier when trad folk rock artists pretended to be down with robots.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:48 (two years ago)
yep
https://i.imgur.com/oiSeJYG.jpg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:51 (two years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/4Hw0sKuKPmyOoAeQUjD7I8knh9HBXFjeq6mai90B6Xs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNjI2/NzgtMTU5MjI4NDAy/MC0zNjQyLmpwZWc.jpeg
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:57 (two years ago)
thank u Crosby, Stills & Nash for being allies
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:24 (two years ago)
Isn't Donny doing more of a '50s rocker thing there? Unless he's imitating the Stray Cats, which would be very '80s.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:50 (two years ago)
I'd call it more of a George Michael/ Faith thing.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:51 (two years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Blondie_-_The_Hunter.jpg
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:52 (two years ago)
to be fair, they did help invent the 80s.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:53 (two years ago)
(xposts) Forgot about that--album came out in '89, so George Michael, definitely.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:54 (two years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Vangelis_See_You_Later.jpg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:56 (two years ago)
the boy got shirt
https://i.ibb.co/zRLdLzp/R-2213072-1378658741-4692.jpg
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:59 (two years ago)
uh oh let's try again
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:00 (two years ago)
Paul Anka as Robert Fripp in a Manet painting.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:01 (two years ago)
Bob Seger pretty much avoided this. The only thing 80s about his covers is the hairstyles on Like a Rock.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:03 (two years ago)
Another for the Windham Hill lookalike category
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/813Y02efaiL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:09 (two years ago)
Robert Plant's best solo album too:
https://i.imgur.com/K4ECav3.jpg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:12 (two years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Somewhere_In_Afrika.jpg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:25 (two years ago)
Heart are not a typical case. they were sooooo 70s in the 70s. ren faire led zep folk rock riffs and then in the 80s they put out two awkward albums that nobody listened to and that nobody really listens to now and then they just blew the 80s UP with two albums that were beyond massive and that helped define 80s AOR/Pop/Rock/MTV.
when i think of other people who did that - who seemed on the ropes in the early 80s and then just ended up on the radio forever with their later 80s work - i think of...steve winwood? though his early 80s records had some hits. i mean i guess clapton too. behind the sun was the first real *eighties* clapton record that people actually listened to and wanted to hear.
i was a big fan of heart's 80s pop glam turn. steve and clapton i will curse till death for their beer bloat rock blockers.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:29 (two years ago)
Aerosmith!
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:32 (two years ago)
Also Kiss
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:33 (two years ago)