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)
Maybe Cheap Trick, but I don't know how beloved those late 80s hits are these days.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:33 (two years ago)
(on the other hand you have someone like peter gabriel who was making 80s music in the 70s and who should have been an old prog fogey but who stayed relevant from his Genesis days until So - an album that also helped define 80s pop - and probably beyond. though i have never listened to anything past SO i don't think...)
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:34 (two years ago)
The Moody Blues and Chicago came back big too
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:37 (two years ago)
So is my textbook example of how to gracefully marry your personal quirks + contemporary sounds and production.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:37 (two years ago)
This isn't crazy but I think they were going for an Eddie and the Cruisers look
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/SteppenwolfParadox.jpg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:57 (two years ago)
gross
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:01 (two years ago)
It's funny that Gabriel (as Alfred mentioned) avoided an 80s cover when his albums were far better suited for paranoia+technology cover art than most. (I guess Security fits as security-cam video.)
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:06 (two years ago)
Well he didn't release much between 82-86, just the Birdy soundtrack.
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:27 (two years ago)
well, there was this...
https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/be3a4996f38b16554e50cb9c267877d8/1804154/peter-gabriel-jerry-goldsmith-out-out-gizmo-Cover-Art.jpg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:30 (two years ago)
the mogwai lies down on broadway
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:34 (two years ago)
Shock the Mogwai
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:35 (two years ago)
Oh Gizmo, Gizmo, because Gizmo
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:39 (two years ago)
I've always liked that Manfred Mann cover.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:44 (two years ago)
Steve Cropper looks like he's joined Reef or Terrorvision
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:48 (two years ago)
Hall and Oates also made the shift, by doing the awkward transitional records in the late 70s. George Harrison's arc would be closer to Heart.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:16 (two years ago)
Paul Simon, too.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:17 (two years ago)
Seeing Doctor Casino's name immediately made think of the Dog!
https://i.postimg.cc/zGVBVwF0/dog.jpg
Maybe they're trying for a Bow Wow Wow-type thing there.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:05 (two years ago)
... Bow Wow Wow meets the Residents.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:15 (two years ago)
Kenny should've done a Miami Vice cameo. (Produced by Robin Gibb.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_That_See_in_the_Dark#/media/File:Kenny_Rogers-Eyes_That_See.jpg
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 00:37 (two years ago)